pic: Game hint

[mrmummert]

1610 so far has gotten the e-mail....i've made sure our lead teacher had the shipping address right

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by d.courtney

I highly doubt that its a hoax and for mainly just one reason. If it was never in an email to the teams then sure I agree FIRST may play with us like this. But I question FIRST ever using its email blast as an accessory to a hoax. The email blasts frequently contain vital information for teams, and using it to play a prank on thousands of minds would lose credibility in its purpose.

It did not contain a prank.
All it said was very important information about updating your shipping address.
Which if you haven't by now, seems like you really should do some housekeeping as far as TIMS goes right about now teams!

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Well, thus my point. A human interpretable signal would be nigh useless for robots in autonomous mode while an IR signal would be highly useful. But in tele-op, the human drivers could easily depend on the human interpretable signals instead of their robot sensing the IR signals. So the IR sensor would be potentially useful but no longer vitally necessary in tele-op.

What if the indication is pointed out of the view of the alliance stations?

[MarySheridan]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

Well that explains the banana.

how does that explain the banana?

[njamietech]

Originally Posted by MarySheridan

how does that explain the banana?

I'm curious too.

I'm also curious as to what you did to that image.

[Branden Ghena]

I think he just inverted the colors in MS Paint and then pasted in a banana, an allusion to something by Dlavery, I don't remember exactly what.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by tawnos23

I think he just inverted the colors in MS Paint and then pasted in a banana, an allusion to something by Dlavery, I don't remember exactly what.

Dave put a banana in a "hint" for "2007" some time ago. Havabanana Productions (AKA Dave) does the game animation every year. (Actually, what Art did looks like what sanddrag tried in the official hint discussion last year.)

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by MarySheridan

how does that explain the banana?

Just an old callback!

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ght=game+hints

[Joe G.]

how does that explain the banana?

Originally Posted by IndySam

Just an old callback!

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ght=game+hints

That and this

[www.divsys.com]

Originally Posted by EricH

It may also be due to the month, or both together.

Someone, somewhere has to pay for everything. In this case, is it too much of a stretch to imagine that DEC (Digital Equipment Corp) offered to pay for these boards (with very generous donations from others), hence the name of the web page?

The IR sensor component was donated by Vishay. We (diversifiedsystems) provided the layout, engineering, bare circuit boards, all the remainder of the components, and assembled it all. This was part of our sponsorship to FIRST, and specifically to all the teams. We have some other cool things coming....

BMW AKA Ben Michael Wrightsman for those that asked.

[Chaos Marine]

hey people after looking at this picture and taking a look at the site it refers you to, this "IR learning Infared remote" makes me think about a year or two ago when Dave from Hot team started to talk about how he wants the robots to respond to more then just one color! this may be the remote they were looking for to do such a thing dont ya think??

[Ed Sparks]

A model of the 2008 IR Board is posted in the FirstCadLibrary if you want to do some "virtual tinkering".

[ahecht]

Originally Posted by Chaos Marine

hey people after looking at this picture and taking a look at the site it refers you to, this "IR learning Infared remote" makes me think about a year or two ago when Dave from Hot team started to talk about how he wants the robots to respond to more then just one color! this may be the remote they were looking for to do such a thing dont ya think??

Wow, what an original idea, no one has posted that idea before (hint: there is a "search this thread" tool).

[www.divsys.com]

Ed/Anyone,

We can post the dimension CAD if it would benefit any of you.

[geeknerd99]

...I'm done following this thread... I have some hardcore sleeping to do...