[FRC Blog] The 2017 FRC Season Teaser and More!

[tjf]

http://www.firstinspires.org/robotic...easer-and-more

Originally Posted by Frank Merrick

The 2017 FRC Season Teaser

is coming.*


Science Fiction Predicting Future Gadgets

I was watching a very old episode of Doctor Who recently and started thinking about the extent to which science fiction can predict consumer items we pretty much take for granted now.

Check out the ‘iPads’ in this still from the classic 1968 sci-fi movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.


From 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film also apparently predicted our preference for staring at mobile screens rather than talking to each other.

Or check out these ‘Beats’ headphones on Cybermen from Doctor Who. Can you imagine the bass you’d get out of these things? A few minutes with these and your grey matter would be reduced to parfait, no joke.


Cybermen from Doctor Who: Rockin’ some serious Beats since 1966

Makes me wonder what we’re seeing in today’s science fiction that 50 years from now we (well, not me, but maybe some of you) will look back at and say “oh, yeah….”


Frank

*As everyone knows, there are three scientifically objective levels of greatness:

1. Not great

2. Pizza great

3. Pizza and Wings great

This teaser is going be Pizza and Wings great. With a side of Fried Pickle Chips.

[frcguy]

Start up the rumor mill...

Maybe we'll have a sci-fi element this year?

[Peyton Yeung]

Lunacy 2.0?

[bearbot]

I believe that this year bring backs the FIRST logo . Pizzas are cut in triangle or into squares. Fried pickle chips are usually round. Makes perfect sense having the logo make it back into the game. Wings are similar to Elipse which could bring footballs or rugby balls as game pieces

[D.Allred]

Originally Posted by frcguy

Start up the rumor mill...

Maybe we'll have a sci-fi element this year?

Yep. We'll be staring at screens instead of the field. (Oops. Already did that in for Stronghold!)

[tjf]

Personally, I think they'll try and have a Space game without the pitfalls of Lunacy (long before my time, but I've heard regolith thrown around.)

Best of luck to Frank and the GDC. Hype boosters now at ~15.01%.

[Drakxii]

Sci-Fi... Greasy food... Lunacy 2.0?

[Basel A]

Pizza and Wings sounds like what I'd order for a sports-watching party. The football game finally arrives?

Also I'm incredibly surprised Frank didn't include "this is not a game hint" about the sci-fi stuff, so maybe that is a game hint.

[Rangel(kf7fdb)]

Football on Regolith?

[Jon Stratis]

The first section, before all the sci-fi stuff, is rather interesting. The header is "The 2017 FRC Season Teaser", with content "is coming". It seems to me that the actual teaser might be the words "is coming". As in "Winter is coming". Winter = cold = ice... a hockey game! I'm thinking a Lunacy/Breakaway cross... trying to control and shoot a ball, while driving on regolith, without being able to extend past the frame perimeter (except briefly) or draw the ball in past the frame perimeter... that would be some challenge!

[notmattlythgoe]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

The first section, before all the sci-fi stuff, is rather interesting. The header is "The 2017 FRC Season Teaser", with content "is coming". It seems to me that the actual teaser might be the words "is coming". As in "Winter is coming". Winter = cold = ice... a hockey game! I'm thinking a Lunacy/Breakaway cross... trying to control and shoot a ball, while driving on regolith, without being able to extend past the frame perimeter (except briefly) or draw the ball in past the frame perimeter... that would be some challenge!

The teaser last year was a video, not a hint.

[waialua359]

The driver station view window will be completely covered with a black cloth.
You have to use your tablet/computer and rely on your human player to help you score.

[Sperkowsky]

So I am thinking its going to be a Wild West game.

[Rangel(kf7fdb)]

Originally Posted by waialua359

The game field will be completely covered with a black cloth.
You have to use your tablet/computer and rely on your human player to help you score.

How about a holo lens? I believe at some point Microsoft promised something to do with the holo lens for FIRST at the 2015 championships or something like that. Not too sure what they talked about specifically though.

[frcguy]

Originally Posted by Rangel(kf7fdb)

How about a holo lens? I believe at some point Microsoft promised something to do with the holo lens for FIRST at the 2015 championships or something like that. Not too sure what they talked about specifically though.

Microsoft, I'm begging you, please have a Hololens for each drive coach...