Hey guys,
I like to wear sandals/open-toed shoes or just be barefoot when doing robotics. What are the rules about this for competitions? Also wondering if there are any other clothing restrictions since I wear some alternative stuff.
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No
No chains, dangly earrings, bracelets, necklaces, baggy clothes, long sleeves, hoodie strings, untied long hair, rings, etc.
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Appropriate clothing is slightly ambiguous (is this like it doesn’t depict anything naughty or is it clothing that won’t pose a safety hazard or both?), but closed toed/heeled shoes is very straightforwardly required.
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You’ll wear closed-toed shoes at competition, and I suggest wearing them in your team’s shop too. E101. I have personally asked for people to be removed from a competition venue (and from my team’s shop when work was happening) for open-toed shoes.
You will also wear safety glasses, at least in the pits/on the field, also see E101. I strongly recommend those in your team’s shop as well.
Other than that… generally speaking, you’ll want to avoid anything that can get snagged in rotating machinery (loose and baggy clothing, strings, stuff like that). Offensive graphics are a bad idea.
At competition, you’ll probably be asked to wear your team’s uniform, whatever that happens to be.
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A typical robot battery dropped from about waist height can have more than enough force to break the bones in your foot if your foot has no protective padding. Wear closed-toed shoes.
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Brand new account…asking an obvious question. It’s not even a good troll like the energy drink post.
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I have trouble dismissing this as a troll immediately because of that - what does the OP get out of people “falling for” the post? They can smugly sit in their chair knowing someone wasted less than a minute linking the event rules they already know?
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I don’t think the typical hallmark of a troll is “well thought out and executed planning”.
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I like to wear black t-shirts with screen printed big white blocks tiled into specific but seemingly random patterns. I assume those shirts will be completely legal this year.
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Well thank goodness they picked a tag type that has very few false positives…
FWIW the FIRST appropriate clothing & PPE requirements are extremely common in similar environments. Even famously loosey-goosey Sparkfun Electronics has similar PPE requirements while in their shop, for employees and visitors alike..
akshuulllyy that would probably be fine.
What’s really bad is a white shirt with black squares, specifically black squares clustered with a nice white border around them.
My proposed team shirt design for this year was already shot down. I can’t understand why… It won’t be clearly ruled illegal until Team Update 1.
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Have they considered rebranding to the colors “black” and “retro-reflective”?
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Funnily enough our mentors specifical my designed a shirt with an april tag esque pattern in our colors that they said “wouldnt it be fun to wear this at comps”… and quickly get hit with a robot/game piece/some other random thing because they thought it was an apriltag.
I feel bad for the refs, though, because i can already see one of them getting attacked with the shirts they have…
Edit: See above for the design they made
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Let me turn it into a real question then. Are “crocs” closed-toe shoes? I have been told both yes and no.
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Toe? Yes
Heel? No
Per OSHA fining my former boss
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If your robot can’t tell the difference between squares and stripes, I pity your programmers.
Back when cameras and vision targets first became a thing, there was concern about 365 being a target. Something about green targets… and programmers who had 365 shirts would sometimes use them to help calibrate the vision systems…
I am informed offline that Crocs does make a shoe with no toe holes and an actual back. I was thinking of the, um, classic, er, design. Mea Culpa for not keeping up with the world of Croc, uh, fashion.
I have talked before about Palmetto 2016 where the shape and size of the vision target were exactly what fieldside volunteers were wearing.
In the event that referees or someone/something else is causing an issue because they are actually somehow replicating a vision target event staff will take it seriously and do what they can to fix it. I doubt a referee will give a false positive for black and white vertical stripes but if they somehow did it would be caught at Week 0.
If somehow it slipped through the cracks and was discovered at an event any person in charge of an event would go buy plain black shirts from you local Walmart/Target etc. and then make the referees wear those with a piece of duct tape with “REFEREE” written on it on their chest so they could be easily distinguished from the other volunteers.