White Paper Discuss: 1992 FRC Manual

[geeknerd99]

"If a projectile is used, it must have a frontal area greater than 10 square inches"...
And you can't spray oil all over the opponent's robots, and you can operate the robot by having it react to the corn, the walls and the air, and after competition, your robot becomes property of FIRST. So much for off-season events .

Given the smaller size of the robots, I'd say that Maize Craze was more like non-destructive Battlebots than today's FIRST robotics. But good find though, since I've only seen a few pictures of Maize Craze and knew only that it involved a playing field of corn.

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Yeah... I've been wonder if there was a copy out there and how long it would take to get put on here. What else could you do with a t-shirt? Wait... never mind... I retract my previous statement and realized this is FIRST and we can do anything with anything.

[Adam Richards]

10. Gaining traction by use of adhesives, or by abraiding or breaking the surface of the field is not permitted.

Uhh... The surface of the field for the 1992 game was 1.5" of unpopped corn kernels. It'd be pretty hard NOT to break the surface of the field.

3. For safety reasons, rubber bands may not be used as an energy accumulator.

What about small furry animals?

A few other things I noticed:

1. There's no specification as to what exactly "the Small Parts Catalog" is. It could be a catalog from a pet store named Small Parts...

2. There's no barring of any other power supplies for the robot, assuming they are not on the robot.

[RogerR]

Originally Posted by Adam Richards

...1. There's no specification as to what exactly "the Small Parts Catalog" is. It could be a catalog from a pet store named Small Parts..

i believe that they meant this company's catalog . do they still include the small parts catalog in the kits, and if not, when did they stop including them?