[FRC Blog] - NASA Grants and Something New for 2015

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

What I meant was, we won't see the CIMs disappear. There's too deep of an investment in them for there to be a major shift away from them. Imagine teams being told that all their CIMs were illegal, and the new motors were XX, available from YY. How would that play out?

I'd hope the 2.5" CIM motors would not go away barring a major size change. They are motors that you can abuse all day long and won't smoke. Honestly, it's the single biggest contributor to having most every robot driving most matches. CIMs are NEAR indestructible and I <3 them for it.

[Mr V]

I'm not sure why everyone keeps saying that the field won't change in size due to the Andymark field. The bigger issue is that FIRST and the other district already own a bunch of the current field perimeters. So they won't make a drastic change because of that, not because of a field that is not yet approved (at least publicly). One thing they asked AndyMark to change about their initial field was how the sides connected to the driver's station so that it was consistent with the FIRST pieces. I believe they did that so they can change the field size and/or shape like they did the last two seasons.

[Nemo]

I'm relieved to see this blog, because I'm pretty sure it means that 2015 will finally see wheels disallowed from FRC competition. FRC drive train design has gotten stale after many years of robot after robot that uses wheels to get around, and wheels have also found their way into a lot of manipulators. Here's looking forward to a new era of creativity and innovation.

[JesseK]

So long as they're not nervous about a 2009-esque floor surface combined with 2009-esque wheels, we're probably fine in 2015...

[Maldridge422]

In the wake of Aerial Assist, perhaps an overhaul of the penalty/foul system? Changes to how fouls are assessed against individual teams as opposed to alliances? Or maybe new classes of fouls that don't quite fit the yellow/red card system?

[mrnoble]

Originally Posted by Nemo

I'm relieved to see this blog, because I'm pretty sure it means that 2015 will finally see wheels disallowed from FRC competition. FRC drive train design has gotten stale after many years of robot after robot that uses wheels to get around, and wheels have also found their way into a lot of manipulators. Here's looking forward to a new era of creativity and innovation.

I take it you're not serious.

[Aren Siekmeier]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

I take it you're not serious.

I think he's serious.

Sure, it'd be a huge change. But it could also be really cool.

I like to think they won't allow anything round on the robot

[mrnoble]

triangle "wheels" only!

[mrnoble]

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/36127

[Nemo]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

I take it you're not serious.

Not serious. Dry humor.