[BB] 2010 Game Hint #1

[joeweber]

If you enjoy analyzing this clue to death … you might be an engineer.

If you find yourself thinking about this clue more than eight hours a day…you might be an engineer.

If you like taking someone’s idea apart piece by piece to build up your own idea…you might be and engineer.

If you think your idea is better than every one else…you might be an engineer.

If you use calculations to prove you right…you might be an engineer.

If you think nothing will work until you download the program…you got to be a programmer.

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by joeweber

If you enjoy analyzing this clue to death … you might be an engineer.

If you find yourself thinking about this clue more than eight hours a day…you might be an engineer.

If you like taking someone’s idea apart piece by piece to build up your own idea…you might be and engineer.

If you think your idea is better than every one else…you might be an engineer.

If you use calculations to prove you right…you might be an engineer.

If you think nothing will work until you download the program…you got to be a programmer.

Can we spotlight this entire post? Pleaseeeee?

[MikePres]

thinking Safety FIRST - i don't think that the robots will be the ones running on up side down roller coaster tracks. I think it's too dangerous and a pain in the neck to attach and disattach six 50kg metal monsters from a track in the air before and after every game.

Instead, if we are already talking about hanging track, maybe they'll be part of some kind of frame above the field and some kind of baskets are hanged and scattered under that frame. thus, robots on ground will try scoring in their alliance baskets and turn over foe alliance baskets... it's like "Aim High" i guess just more chaotic...

[terryo]

Please take these anniversaries at face value-
I just googled up 2010 historic anniversaries, but didn't verify the validity of the data.
Shame on me

[ALIBI]

Maybe it is just coincidence, but, has anyone else noticed that there are parallel aluminum bars, tracks, whatever, that look similar to the clue photograph in the picture of Bill on Bill's Blog?

[JB987]

Guess it's time for me to jump in... So we now have 3 related threads out there with some interesting ideas. Jane's recent addition to one of them points us toward an Exploratorium web page with some interesting links, especially the one that relates to auroras and references changing "green and red lights across the sky". What if the "rails" in this clue were used to support lighted targets/baskets/whatevers that our bots would have to track via camera to increase chances of scoring? The rails and lexan would be more than capable of supporting suspended targets above the field. Or perhaps the "targets" when contacted would open gates that otherwise block movement from one side of the field? Then again, all may not be as it seems, right?

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by ALIBI

Maybe it is just coincidence, but, has anyone else noticed that there are parallel aluminum bars, tracks, whatever, that look similar to the clue photograph in the picture of Bill on Bill's Blog?

Those are handrails for the stairway behind him.

Originally Posted by JB987

What if the "rails" in this clue were used to support lighted targets/baskets/whatevers that our bots would have to track via camera to increase chances of scoring?

Moving lighted targets!

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[jamie_1930]

Talking this over with a friend a got a thought that I had earlier. My thought for the game would be that the piece is oriented as is (possibly with different dimensions, to go along with the "Everything is not what it seems" theme) and the lexan bracket is attatched to another field piece that you would shoot balls into similiar to aim high but with a moving goal

[rcmolloy]

Roller Coasters huh? With the Thompson info I have a big thinking that this will be this years theme. If so my team is lucky cause I am a actual enthusiast lol. If not, we should be fine haha. I really don't know about the device only that it will be adjustable. That's probably it.

[mjgarg5]

Originally Posted by James Tonthat

The design of the piece suggests that it wouldn't be robust enough to be a field piece, in my opinion.

ya but look how terrible last years game pieces were

[the man]

Maybe it has nothing to do with the pic and more to do with what it is or represents, like last years "moon" fish.

[sNeff]

Originally Posted by the man

Maybe it has nothing to do with the pic and more to do with what it is or represents, like last years "moon" fish.

Do you have something better than "H is for Hydro"?

I seriously like that they're giving us a CAD render this year, and hope that they do the same thing in the future. It's kept us quite a bit more grounded than the free-associating with the fish last year...

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by the man

Maybe it has nothing to do with the pic and more to do with what it is or represents, like last years "moon" fish.

I'd buy it if anyone had any idea what this thing was.

[the man]

It can not be roller coaster rails, what would the metal studs at the end of each pole be?

[RoboMaster]

Hmm, this hint was posted on a holiday (Christmas Eve). How much do you want to bet another one will be released today or tomorrow because of New Year's?