Who measured the field?

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#3

In the manual in The Arena section, it specifies that “The carpeted Playing Field is 48 feet by 24 feet” Section 3.2.1

#4

yea it says that more stuff will be posted later this week on FIRST site. kinda annoying cause i already modeled the field with my dimensions lol. o well its not robotics until i have to back and change something five times :smiley:

#5

Referance 3.2.1 Boundaries and Markings:
“The carpeted playing field is 48 feet by 24 feet, bounded by two walls and a guardrail system.”

Mike

#6

There are many field dimensions that are in the writing in Section 3: the Arena, in fact, the only measurements I could not find were the height of the movable goal bases, the dimensions of the shoot the balls drop from, the ball delivery system, and the coordinates of the IR lights, although I am probably forgetting something. I am waiting for my webmaster to post my beta version of the field in .max format. Check out our team website (Site 3 Engineering #1097)

#7

Go to the FIRST site and get the 2004 Field Layout Manual.

http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/doc_updt.htm

#8

check here 2 in a couple of days rich told me he would try and get the specs posted asap

http://nycfirst.poly.edu/

#9

yea i think first jsut posted this. its a nice blueprint form autocad with everything i think. darn u and ur speedy 3ds max. i wanted to be first one with teh model :frowning: o well FIRST inventor model ill have to shoot for :wink:

#10

Be aware these are NOT THE OFFICAL SPECS! These are the drawings for the Low Cost Field, not the offical FIRST field. “Please note:
All other official drawings mentioned in the manual will be available late next week.”

So until next week, we only have rough dimensions to work with.

Wetzel

#11

http://www2.usfirst.org/2004comp/2004_Field_layout_manual_010503.pdf

thats the document containing the 2004 field layout

#12

ive got the filed layout pdf in front of me and i do not see a dimendion for how tall the back wall is, the same wall that the human player has to shoot over. Did anyone catch that height?

Thanks
Marcus

#13

The player station wall is 7 feet tall.

Wetzel

#14

only 7, i thought it was 10

o well, just goes to show my judge of measurement

thanks
Marcus

#15

Does anyone know if the “FIELD END PANEL, BALL CORRAL” sits flush on the floor, or is it above the floor sitting on some other driver station structure? Basically, does the floor extend all the way into the ball corrall or is there a lip of some height that the balls must roll over?

#16

There is a small lip formed by a piece of angle iron.

#17

How do you support what you are saying? I need some evidence.

#18

That there is a lip was confirmed by our engineer that was at Manchester.
Unknown metal material.

Wetzel

#19

does the floor extend all the way into the ball corrall or is there a lip of some height that the balls must roll over?
my impression is that the playing field is slightly higher than the ball corrall, so that the balls roll to you and stay in the corrall. It would also be “unsafe” to be reaching for balls rolling back onto the field

#20

The floor of the play field and the floor in the ball corral are in the same plane. There is an approximately 1" x 1" length of angle aluminum running across the bottom of the ball corral opening that forms a “lip” to help prevent balls that enter the corral from popping right back out. Exact specs on the “lip” will be in the official field drawings of the competition field (ie. not the inexpensive field) to be released by FIRST shortly.

-dave

#21

I kicked it in Manchester, therefor it is.

#22