The first game hint has finally arrived. The game hint was posted on the FTC blog at FIRST Tech Challenge: It's (almost) game time!.
The first game hint is supposedly a bus…
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=12935&d=1345230458
What do you guys think? What kind of make/model is the bus and what can it mean?
“lift across”…? Hmm.
And whenever I see a bus, I think “under the bus”. So… Maybe robots have to go underneath something?
I’ve said this for years. Hanging.
“catching a lift”
"ring"ing phones
The car is also known as a Volkswagen Transporter.
AhHa…
From what I see on other posts, lifting, ring’ing, and transporting. Doesn’t this sound like Logo Motion?
You have to catch something perhaps?
I personally like the “under the bus” idea as I see where it comes from. And I also like the transporting idea as well. Both are great!.. well, all ideas are great but I like those two the best. But again… who knows!
Notice that there is a poster of a robot R2D2? hanging on the light post and a repair man up there too.
Here I go:
Back from “summer vacation”. They were in a Volkswagen.
Volkswagen are German.
German summer holidays include “assumption day” in which Mary ascended into heaven. You could say she “climbed there”
They “caught a lift” in the VW.
Something to do with lifting and/or climbing.
That’s what I think.
so the bus is a vw transporter and they said they caught a lift on the robobus,
so if you type in “Volkswagen Transporter robot bus” on google, http://www.collectablescorner1.com/servlet/the-3660/Matchbox-Volkswagen-Transporter-Robots/Detail comes up, maybe it has something to do with the movie robots
It is going to be all about parallel parking. Robobus got lucky! But that car in front of it… Well good luck to them on getting out without hitting anything!!
There is a new hint:
I am thinking a Logomotion (FRC 2011) Overdrive (FRC 2010) hybrid.
Kyle
I see poles that have potential to be used for climbing!
Ringing phones, now telephone wires…
If a hint says “reach across” and another “end of the long road” I would think the picture of telephone poles would represent poles on the outside of a field. Maybe you have to transport across the field rings to score them to an off-field goal that may be poles or similar to telephone poles (Each level of the spoke is a higher point level?).
overdrive was 2008, breakaway was 2010
Thr prevalance of poles seems to suggest having the robot climb up a pole like they did for FRCs logomotion.
I think they’re going to change the field size from a square to a rectangle. “Long Trips”, “Long Road”, etc.
Taking two field paremeters and combining them to make a single rectangular field with two basic sets of the field elements and playing a 3-on-3 tweaked version of the game has been an off-season idea of mine for a few years now. 