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COMMUNITY CONTEST # 2: Discus
Discus
(d?sk?s)
n. pl. dis·cus·es
A track-and-field event in which a discus is thrown.
- Community Contest shall run from Sunday, March 21st through Sunday, April
CC2:Discus Rules, Guidelines and Judging Criteria:
GUIDELINES: The Challenge of this contest is this: to build a robot capable of
shooting a standard-size Compact Disk (CD) for the longest distance possible.
RULES:
- Only LEGO elements allowed (except the CD - you don’t need to sacrifice your precious RIS 2.0 CD! If you need a test disc, run down to your local store and get one or two free AOL CDs).
- For this contest no LEGO Remote will be allowed: the robot must be capable of shooting the CD autonomously once the program is started. No human contact or intervention is legal. You are, however, allowed to load the CD into the thrower before you activate the machine.
- Stored-energy mechanisms are allowed, but they must be started/wound/powered *after* the robot has been started (ie they must be activated and “filled” by the robot itself).
JUDGING CRITERIA: The judges will, with all possible fairness and equality,
judge the entrants to the CC1:Crevasse contest based on the following criteria
(ordered by importance):
- Distance Thrown
- Originality
- Realization/Functionality/Robustness
Thus summarizes and ends the Rules, Guidelines and Judging Criteria of the
Second Community Contest (which hereafter may be known as CC2 and/or
CC2:Discus).
The Judge Panel shall consist of five people listed at the bottom of this email.
You must include the following in your entry email:
- Description in a simple text file (no Microsoft Word or Works documents, please)
- Pictures or a CAD file (please keep each picture size under 300KB)
- Program
For this contest you may send entries to the following Hosts: Roboman8
(roboman9@btinternet. c o m), steve62 (stephan.matter@solnet. c h), Nate Pickens
(npickens@sbcglobal. n e t), Mike Thorn (webmaster@roboticsresources. c o m) and
Chris Smith (jodokast@earthlink. n e t).
I now announce that the Community Contest #2: Discus is hereby underway and
active! May the best man win, and Play Well!
(For the advanced builders, there is an extra challenge: make the shooter able
to shoot more than one CD in rapidfire style!)
Note: We know you guys are intelligent enough to think of this, but the
necessary caveats apply: Shoot this only in an open space where you won’t break
anything or hit anybody. Do not shoot towards people or animals. Etc etc etc.
(this post was made in identical fashion in the LEGO MindStorms Forums. This
contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed or probably even known about by the
LEGO Company.)
”...and see how far your free AOL CD can really fly. Just a thought really, and
firing those CD’s is a better idea than putting them in your computer :-)”
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The Winners Have Been Found!
The First Place Trophy was in the bag in the beginning by Philo, with a very
impressive shooting distance of 20 feet!
http://www14.brinkster.com/lmsf/spotlight/CC2_philo.jpg
(C&P URL’s to new browser window)
The Second Place Trophy, won by just a hair, goes to Leg0-17 and his tilting
platform!
http://www14.brinkster.com/lmsf/spotlight/CC2_leg017.jpg
The Third Place Trophy was captured with a very clever and innovative design by
ACruceSalus, with a spinning arm design!
http://www14.brinkster.com/lmsf/spotlight/CC2_acrusesalus.jpg
...and it didn’t take long to deliberate this time as to the winner of the
Honorable Mention! FranzlInventor swept that one away easily with a very unusual
and very creative springing-arm-style design, patterned directly after the human
arm!
http://www14.brinkster.com/lmsf/spotlight/CC2_Franz.jpg
Full photos of most (if not all) the entries will be available within the next
day or so in the LMSF BrickShelf folder:
http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=LMSF.
This was a great contest and I’m impressed with the turnout. We had a lot of
very interesting and creative designs for this one! I think you guys make this
challenge better and better each time.
On behalf of myself and the other Hosts, congratulations and thank you for
participating!!
-Mike
Host, LEGO MindStorms Forums
http://mindstorms.lego.com
PS: Since we were late in announcing the results, the next contest will be begun
tomorrow, on Saturday. I think perhaps you guys will like it even more than this
one. :)
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