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

[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?

[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.

[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...

[tjf]

Originally Posted by frcguy

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

There was a video floating around the internet of one of the Field Crew using a Hololens (not quite sure who, sorry) to monitor field stats like robot comms status & battery for all 6 teams on the field. I can *definitely* see how it'd be cool / useful.

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by tjf

There was a video floating around the internet of one of the Field Crew using a Hololens (not quite sure who, sorry) to monitor field stats like robot comms status & battery for all 6 teams on the field. I can *definitely* see how it'd be cool / useful.

https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/s...9&postcount=46

It happened at the Gitchi Gummi Get Together last month.

[tjf]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/s...9&postcount=46

It happened at the Gitchi Gummi Get Together last month.

This was *exactly it!* Thanks so much!

[bobbysq]

HoloLens would be cool, but I don't know how much it'll be used by teams.

(hopefully it turns out better than the Kinect though)

[Doug Frisk]

Originally Posted by bobbysq

HoloLens would be cool, but I don't know how much it'll be used by teams.

(hopefully it turns out better than the Kinect though)

As cool as it would be, I can't see it happening right now. The dev units are $3000 each and I've heard the actual unit cost to build them is more. Even if they could make enough of them, the cost would be in the millions of dollars.

Maybe in 2 or 3 years when they are commodity devices.

[Doug Frisk]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/s...9&postcount=46

It happened at the Gitchi Gummi Get Together last month.

Interestingly enough, just yesterday I got Microsoft Band integration working in the Field Monitor app.

Now, in 8 circumstances it will send a vibration and display a text on the band.

- When the match Prestarts, because FTAs want to know.

Then there are 6 standard "error" messages. One for when the FMS reports a robot is E-Stopped. The other six cover Driver's station Ethernet unplugged, DS not responding, Radio not responding, RoboRIO not responding and Robot code failure.

When one of those events happens the Band does a haptic and displays something like:

Red 1 6543
Driver's Station not responding

That way, the FTA can watch the field rather than the field monitor but still be alerted immediately when there's a problem. Well, at least the FTAs that have a Microsoft Band and a Windows 10 phone or laptop.

[TAlholm]

I'd get those beats.

[FrankJ]

It is all about the Bass

[Daniel4547]

They will rework the 2005 game and use "Star" objects (really similar to Vex) to fit the sci-fi theme.

[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!