[FRC Blog] Kit Hints?

Maybe the 3×3×60 object is an extremely tall bowling pin.

It is a Game piece. A Hockey Goal!!

Regolith is making a come back!!!

Why? It is manufactured on a roll, and the human labor to fold thousands of pieces is not trivial or cheap. With appropriate devices pieces can be cut and rolled very quickly.

But its not manufactured on a roll for each team for the amount we’d be receiving. It would have been cut from rolls of fabric.

It’s a box full of pvc tubing to make some sort of pyramid. right?

I would think that a package of items that has to be 5 feet long is something extremely rigid , because why on earth are you going to send teams home with something that cumbersome in a compact car unless you HAVE to?

The bumper thing is interesting. There have been dropped hints about what FIRST wants to change with bumpers for the 2015 season, but I think unless they just give everybody a physical pre-made bumper assembly, they’re not going to get everyone to make them correctly.

Fabric buyers in general don’t want creases. Our bumper fabric orders have always come in tubes because that’s how the industry works!

Its totally a bumper car power pole…

Since no one has posted it yet, here is the list of kickoff kit components:

2015 Kickoff Kits will consist of the following items for all teams (sizes and weights are approximate):

A) One set of items, collectively, 27 in. x 17 in. x 17 in., 60 lbs.

B) One item, 8 in. x 3 in. x 7 in., 14 lbs.

C) One set of items, collectively, 29 in. x 22 in. x 22 in., 9 lbs.

D) One set of items, collectively 3 in. x 3 in. x 60 in., 6 lbs.

2015 Kickoff Kits will include the following additional items for Rookie teams only:

E) One item, 27 in. x 17 in. x 13 in., 26 lbs.

F) One item, 8 in. x 3 in. x 7 in., 14 lbs.

Teams who did not opt out of the Drive Base Kit will also receive the following item:

G) One item, 34 in. x 6 in. x 7 in., 24 lbs.

Correlating with the 2014 kit, the 27 in. x 17 in. x ## in. items are probably totes. I’m curious what the 29 in. x 22 in. x 22 in., 9 lbs. item is: it’s large and very light.

Box of game pieces maybe?

B) One item, 8 in. x 3 in. x 7 in., 14 lbs.

Has nobody pointed this out? This thing is really heavy for it’s size.

Given that Item B has a size of 168 cubic inches, and a weight of 14 pounds, it has a density of approximately 0.083333333 pounds per cubic inch.

Looking at this site, several of my guesses are eliminated, including solid gold and human bone

B and F are obviously batteries. IIRC, they’ve been in the totes the last few years.

The 3×3×60 item is a set of items totalling in those dimensions.

Yep. One piece of red fabric, one blue.

Two 60" graduated cylinders for measuring the water.

Excellent, we can rule out B and F:

To help me visualize, I made a picture of the KoP components. I set them on a standard 48x40 pallet for scale.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-WZ5bSWRNhOVFVPenRjSXpLdkE/view?usp=sharing
Red and Blue objects are for everybody, Green objects are for Rookies, Black object is AM14U2.

6 pounds would be a lot of fabric. :ahh:

So, if this is our hint we have to look at every aspect of the post and assume it all was worded very carefully. They mentioned in their post that kickoff is 24 days away and Frank also made a post saying 24 days away directly after, I think that the “24” is important. Perhaps that the game piece is 24 inches long? It also says “One set of items, collectively” so maybe they gave us three game pieces. They allude to this component so we Know it isn’t a typo “we recommend you leave the Vespa at home”.