It seems to me that this glove would be far better suited to a game like "Black & White", where you actually have a "hand" to use on the screen. A glove like this could make the (slightly confusing) gesture system in Black and White a little easier to master, as well as giving you an actual feel of picking up, throwing, and other actions commonly used in the game.
I competed in this competition 2 years ago (a search in google for Trinity and 1999 can still find my picture), and thought it was a great competeion. My high school, Council Rock (also represented this year) has an excelent Technology Club, which encourages students to develop robots for both this and the Penn State Trailblazers competition. We used HandyBoards (MIT's mobile robot controler) and legos to build our robots, along with a variety of sensors and servos.
My year, we had to chose between doing the Trnity Competion and US First competition. We chose Trinity for a few reasons:
- we didnt have a corporate sponsor
- First is not autonomous robots - they are remote controlled. Also, there is usually a "human factor" - a person may be able to throw things, etc
- many teams end up just letting the large corporate sponsor do all the work
I'm quite glad we skipped First in favor of trinity. It was a very enjoyable (and challenging - read some of the rules from the website for getting bonuses) experience.
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It seems to me that this glove would be far better suited to a game like "Black & White", where you actually have a "hand" to use on the screen. A glove like this could make the (slightly confusing) gesture system in Black and White a little easier to master, as well as giving you an actual feel of picking up, throwing, and other actions commonly used in the game.
I competed in this competition 2 years ago (a search in google for Trinity and 1999 can still find my picture), and thought it was a great competeion. My high school, Council Rock (also represented this year) has an excelent Technology Club, which encourages students to develop robots for both this and the Penn State Trailblazers competition. We used HandyBoards (MIT's mobile robot controler) and legos to build our robots, along with a variety of sensors and servos.
My year, we had to chose between doing the Trnity Competion and US First competition. We chose Trinity for a few reasons:
- we didnt have a corporate sponsor
- First is not autonomous robots - they are remote controlled. Also, there is usually a "human factor" - a person may be able to throw things, etc
- many teams end up just letting the large corporate sponsor do all the work
I'm quite glad we skipped First in favor of trinity. It was a very enjoyable (and challenging - read some of the rules from the website for getting bonuses) experience.