pic: Game hint

[Qbranch]

So here's what I'm thinking:

CMOS image sensors pick up into the infrared spectrum REALLY WELL. So, anything that ouputs any infrared will appear rediculously bright white on a monochrome or color CMOS image sensor. I think it might even work for CCD devices. Just try pointing your favoirite handy-dandy camera/camcorder at a television remote and push a button.

So... that gets you to a target... then when you're in front of it the decoder can tell you what it is. Sounds like a great extended autonomous to me.

Wow I can hardly wait now!

-q

[Tom Bottiglieri]

I would love to see robots talking to each other this season, but it's probably safer to assume these things will be getting signals from the field.

Can't wait to get my hands on one.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by johnr

did it come in a box? game piece?
what was packing material?
any printing on inside of shpping box?

It was in a padded envelope. The three items pictured were the only things in the envelope.

[BanksKid]

Originally Posted by iCurtis

I don't think so. Going off Bongle's earlier post referencing Dave Verbrugge's joke from 2006, perhaps this will allow teams to replicate some field condition. I.E the field will change the color of the lights randomly every X seconds. This will allow teams to replicate this at home.

there would be no point in some IR device when changing a light every X seconds could be accomplished be a simple randomizer circuit (which isnt exactly simple) but you get the idea.

[hipsterjr]

does this mean I can stop staring at the "Woodies's game hint @ Atlanta " thread? There has been almost 30 post per hour on here
This is defiantly legit, but the question is now where do we go from here?

[edthegeek]

My musings on this.
A series of IR "keys" would be given to each team. 4 keys, one per LED. The keys are unique to each team.
The interaction with the field would go as follows. There are four stations that contain whatever game piece we will be playing with this year.We use our four keys to unlock one of these stations, one per station. The stations then release the game pieces and a set number of points are awarded to a team for unlocking a station.
This also releases game elements that can be used by either alliance to score (makes alliances balance threats and opportunities). The alternate strategy is totally shutting out the other alliance from reaching a station, thus preventing them from scoring anything, and then unlocking a station yourself.
This uses the relatively short distance of IR to its advantage. It forces teams to actually get close to the station instead of trying to unlock a station from long distance.

[Nuttyman54]

I get it! It's how they're solving the radio issues. We're driving the robots with TV remotes. You know...enter 32 into the channel changer to drive forward...Just imagine:

"32-98-101-13-7-20-57-32! No, 64! Volume up! VOLUME UP!"

-The previous has been posted for Methane of Team 190

[geeknerd99]

Human player couch potatoes?

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by geeknerd99

Human player couch potatoes?

This is one of the funniest things I've ever read on CD. Awesome!

[synth3tk]

I don't have a detailed whatever made up, but maybe based off of Capture-The-Flag? I don't know. I'm just all fizzled up inside now!

[BanksKid]

Originally Posted by dlavery

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH!!!!!

you would.......

any way on a slightly more important note it would seem that thae fact that FedEx shipping has gone from express freight to regular freight for 2008 (hey i rymed) might have something to do with them shipping 1500 of these darned things....its on the first website if anyone hasnt taken the time to read the whole page about the shipping part of the manual beign released in december/maby the change of "grade" of shipping might be why it will be released in december.............

[BornaE]

Maybe we have to build a small autonomous robot that can be signaled with 4 commands.
The next 3 weeks are gonna be bad

[Blue_Mist]

All of these ideas are great and funny, but our team hasn't gotten ours or I would definitely know about it. We reside very firmly in California. Also, I can't get to it from the page "FIRST Robotics Competition Documents and Updates," the page it claims to come from. Sorry, I don't trust this hint to be true.

[vivek16]

well, there was an email from FIRST, the link is on the first website, and a photo of it with FIRST on it...

Believe what you want but I think that this is the hint.

jm2c, vivek

EDIT: FIRST doesn't have to link it from their webpage. The url doesn't have to be provided on the page "FIRST Robotics Competition Documents and Updates," for it to be under it...

[alex1699]

well IR stuff hmmm.. thats crazy stuff the field is going to be sending are robots to do stuff i think..