05-06-2005 18:38

Billfred

Re: White Paper Discuss: 1992 FRC Manual

I particularly loved this one item in the kit...

Thanks for posting this, Dez--it's interesting to know how far things have come in fourteen years.

(True story: The night before kickoff, Dez, Marc P., and I are sharing a room in Manchester. Dez tells me he's got the rules, flashing them in front of me. Wanting to keep the surprise, I shielded my eyes--then he tells me it's from 1992. I felt silly.)

05-06-2005 19:53

coastertux

Re: White Paper Discuss: 1992 FRC Manual

Wow! That was fascinating. This was my first year in FIRST and did not realize how far the competition has come (and how much more it costs ).

05-06-2005 20:42

Ian Curtis

Re: White Paper Discuss: 1992 FRC Manual

Wow... The "no tape for structural purposes rule" has been around since '92.

06-06-2005 15:03

Joe Lambie

Re: White Paper Discuss: 1992 FRC Manual

Wow...all I can say. I am always looking out for old games, and well they do not get much older than this. One of the more intereting things I saw was the use of corn as a part of the playing field surface. I can only imagine how that would turn out now, at the least a big mess ( but a very fun one!). Dez, thanks for posting this, and if you have anymore feel free to toss those up too .

06-06-2005 15:19

AmyPrib

Re: White Paper Discuss: 1992 FRC Manual

Ohh.. how simple Rule 35 was back yet..... aka.. intentional damage rule.

06-06-2005 16:06

Francis-134

Re: White Paper Discuss: 1992 FRC Manual

Wow thanks for posting this dude. I've been wondering if there was a copy of this floating around somewhere.

I love this: Digital Printer (do not throw away)

07-06-2005 14:25

geeknerd99

Re: White Paper Discuss: 1992 FRC Manual

"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.

07-06-2005 16:02

Jeremiah Johnson

Re: White Paper Discuss: 1992 FRC Manual

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.

11-06-2005 19:01

Adam Richards

Re: White Paper Discuss: 1992 FRC Manual

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.

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.

11-06-2005 19:36

RogerR

Re: White Paper Discuss: 1992 FRC Manual

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?