**FIRST EMAIL**/Advance Material List for the 2005 Competition Now Available!

[andy]

What startles me the most, is the SIZE of the parts not the parts themselves. I wonder if the dimensions will be different this year (smaller) because the field parts are smaller?

[Peter Matteson]

My theory:
We're going to have a moving wall in the middle of the field the field. It will rotate on a pivot and will have clearance beneath it for shorter robots like the 2003 bar.

[Swampdude]

Yes this field uses substantially less material than the 2004 BOM required.

I can see the caps acting as almost a ladder rung retainer (if the pipe were penetrating wood on both ends, then capped on the outsides)

I'll bet the box will house a battery powered portable and durable beacon for field use - or have something to do with the magnet trigger

I'll bet that 12x12 lexan is a pressure plate, possibly a base as in "baseball"

and the magnet will be used in a triggering device on that plate, wired up to something that would trip a feature?

those (2) 3x? 8' long boards seem like a pedestal thats capped with the 4x8 plywood and layered with the 1/4" to brace the penetrated PVC.

One bold prediction is the lack of large field objects might mean an abundance of game pieces. Man I hope the people who said baseballs weren't right.

I think were making some sort of basket or ladder thing on top of the very low (2 1/2" high maybe) pedestal to collect said game pieces.

this clear field is also a good indicator of 6 bots at a time, to give more playing room.

Although it's safe to assume this is enough equipment for you to build test features and not necessarily full playing field objects.

I think the chain link is just to throw us off.

BTW I just happen to have a purple piece of clear film, which I looked through at the BEHR yellow sample color on the white background, and it made no difference, it just gave everything a purple hue but i still saw yellow and white and everything else

[ahecht]

Originally Posted by Swampdude

BTW I just happen to have a purple piece of clear film, which I looked through at the BEHR yellow sample color on the white background, and it made no difference, it just gave everything a purple hue but i still saw yellow and white and everything else

That's because I am an idiot. Purple light is not the opposite of yellow paint. Yellow paint reflects red and green, purple film accepts red and blue. Therefore yellow paint will not appear black through purple film, it would appear red. Green paint would be the opposite of purple film (and blue film would be the opposite of yellow paint).

[Rich Kressly]

Sunny Summer!!!!!
A color that ugly can only mean one thing ...
Inflatable Clowns!!!!!!!!!!!
(or Lavery's painting his house)

[Barry Bonzack]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

I think with the relatively small amount of materials (in relation to previous years) that the field will be mostly flat.

if its a mostly flat field with fewer objects, would that make for more room for 6 robots on the field at the same time?