Usually around this time of year someone hears a rumor then Gary saw something he shouldn’t have, but won’t say. Then speculation begins as Dave has a field day spreading his little bits of confusing hints. I always have fun trying to tie it all together, but last year some people nailed the pyramid guesses, triple plays and 3 team alliances.
Well Dave has dropped some bombs already and we haven’t put them together yet. So lets!
If you look at this poll results you’ll see dlavery only voted for the CMU cam, is it coming back?
Igus has been added to the list of 2006 kit suppliers. Their products primarily would support the need for extension/retraction. Which could be said for any game in the past, but at least more indicative of status quo.
Well that’s all I’ve noticed lately, how about you? I’m sure a lot of you can take this pretty far down the road.
I’m going to speculate that we’re picking up colored PVC batons (red, blue yellow) using the CMU and placing them somewhere a mechanism would need to extend to. But hopefully that no fastener thing is just to mess with us.
Wow, that whole “no threaded fasteners” thing could be potentialy dangerous. I know that welding isn’t a very strong point on my team and pinning everything could become a huge hastle. Hopefuly this is just a scare tactic to make us all think of new inovative ideas before they enforce inovation on us by making such a drastic rule change.
Yet it could just as easily be a warning to us, and a security blanket for Mr. Lavery, so he can turn around after kickoff when the QA is flooded with questions as to why the rule exists, and just say “I told you so.” Nevertheless, it would be an interesting year for many teams when they have to figure out how to get everything to fit together properly… :]
I’m pretty sure about the CMU camera. I guess they will re-inroduce it. As far as the shape goes,…hm…Triangles . Cause if you look at the history of first, it was all about rectangles…then squares… and now Triangle.
I also heard a rumor about some water game…but naaaa i don’t think so.
So as of now…me and my programming team is really workin hard on autonomous and camera code.
That’s what they want you to think… That way, they can throw you a curve ball one year and you’d never expect it. I have a good feeling about the dodecagon this year.
According to their website, the CoreChart software is able to program Vex, the mini-controller, and the full-size controller. In this document they explain exactly how to program the full-size FRC controller with their software.
The CoreChart software looks like cool stuff for everyone (like me) who isn’t a guru at line-coding programming. http://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/images/smilies/4.gif Finally, teams may be able to get autonomous working before ship date!
I think yall are over-analyzing Dave’s recent posts. I don’t think they have ANYTHING to do with the game. In any case,
I WANT MY HINT!!!
I WANT MY HINT!!!
I WANT MY HINT!!!
I WANT MY HINT!!!
I WANT MY HINT!!!
I WANT MY HINT!!!
About what time is it usually given out? I think i remember viewing CD threads about it last year on my grandmother’s computer which probably indicates around thanksgiving.
A little birdy told me that FIRST is testing two minute autonomous modes right this very moment. This makes sense, seeing how FIRST is putting more and more emphasis on a stronger autonomous mode.
As far as a programming GUI is concerned, if you want to use it: go ahead. It’s the same as the scripting language that was provided this year. Sure, it makes some things easier, but I know it can’t be nearly as powerful as a smart programmer. A program will never replace good old fashioned hand coding.
I am sure many of you will be disappointed by the performance of this type of programming software, it wont let you use the FRC controller to its fullest extent.
As for two minute autonomous modes, I don’t think first will go there soon, I believe that part of FIRST is te interaction between people, robots, as well as people and their robots. A 2 minute autonomous would take away from this interaction, unless of course they made matches much longer which would lead to an entire redesign of the competition structure. This seems like far to drastic of a step right now.
How ever a fully autonomous match would be alot of fun and a huge challange perhapse it would be better offered as a sub competiton or even as an event at off season competitions. With the disappointing performances of many teams this year in auton i don’t see FIRST immersing us to that extent just yet.
