Video of This Year's Highest Scoring Robots

[gblake]

Watching you guys (1986) in the video and thinking about your question (what are the little things that...) reminded me of something that came up during the demo year for the Tetrix equipment.

When you can't see something easily from the driver station (like a soccer ball hiding behind a Breakaway Bump), a complicated, expensive, hard to implement and hard to debug solution is a digital video camera beaming pictures to a driver. Another complicated one is using a camera and computer-vision software to detect soccer ball shapes on the field.

However, within the limited confines of the field, an elegant, simpler alternative might be a simple, shiny, flat piece of metal (a mirror).

If you come across some elegant solutions to that hidden ball problem, or to lining up with the tunnel (to drive through), or to attaching to the tower (for a hang); I would love to get a peek at your notes once you finish trolling through this year's videos.

Blake