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COMMUNITY CONTEST # 3: Stairs
Stair
(stâr)
n.
A series or flight of steps; a staircase. Often used in the plural.
- This Community Contest shall run from Saturday, May 1st through Sunday, June 2nd. You may enter a robot in this Contest up until Midnight (12:00pm) on Sunday, June 2nd. *
CC3:Stairs Rules, Guidelines and Judging Criteria:
GUIDELINES: The Challenge of this contest is this: build a bot capable of
ascending 4 stairs, then descending 4 stairs.
RULES:
- Only LEGO elements allowed.
- The bot may be driven manually, but bonus points will be given for an autonomous program.
JUDGING CRITERIA: The judges will, with all possible fairness and equality,
judge the entrants to the CC3:Stairs contest based on the following criteria
(ordered by importance):
- Efficiency (judged by climb time and stair size (vertical and horizontal)
- Creativity
- Realization/Functionality/Robustness
Programs will be judged separately.
By submitting an entry to the CC3:Stairs contest, you grant the CC Team full
rights to publish your entry documentation online for the purpose of displaying
information about entries and winners.
Thus summarizes and ends the Rules, Guidelines and Judging Criteria of the Third
Community Contest (which hereafter may be known as CC3 and/or CC3:Stairs).
The Judge Panel shall consist of all Active Hosts currently in the LEGO
MindStorms Forum at the conclusion of CC3:Stairs, save those Hosts who request
exclusion from the Panel.
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 (optional, according to rules)
For this contest you may send entries to the following Hosts: Roboman8
(roboman9@btinternet. c o m), steve62 (stephan.matter@solnet. c h), Nate883
(npickens@sbcglobal. n e t), Buachaille (webmaster@roboticsresources. c o m),
Revi (revi@gorobotics. n e t) and Littlehorn (jodokast@earthlink. n e t).
I now announce that the Community Contest #3: Stairs is hereby underway and
active! May the best man win, and Play Well!
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There I go again, messing up the dates. June 2nd is decidedly NOT a Sunday.
CORRECTION:
This Community Contest shall run from Saturday, May 1st through Tuesday, June
1st. You may enter a robot in this Contest up until Midnight (12:00pm) on
Tuesday, June 1st.
Thanks,
-Mike
PS: It occurred to me that perhaps the fact that LMSF is hosting this contest
may be viewed with some distaste, and perhaps viewed somewhat like we’re trying
to poach members here to join us there. I want to stress that this is Not the
intent of us posting this here! We just thought that perhaps others in the AFOL
circle might like to join us. If there is an issue with this, please by all
means let me know! :)
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Here is the write-up about
the robot I built for CC3:Stairs contest, that happened to win ;o)
A bit flimsy, not too pretty, but it did the job!
As the results have not been published here, I inserted the official
announcement below. Don’t forget to visit the
gallery to see all entries!
Philo
Member of
French Enthousiast LEGO User Group
Winners of CC3:Stairs
It is with great excitement that I present to you the winners of CC3:Stairs! I
apologize for it taking us so long in judging. Things are a little slower with
the absence of the great Community Contest and Project coordinator, Buachaille.
:-)
Anyway, on with the announcement...
The First Place Trophy goes to Philo, with his very nicely-constructed
stair-climber which accomplished the goal very smoothly.
The Second Place Trophy, just barely behind Philo, goes to FranzlInventor! He
also came up with a well-built stair-climber that did the job well.
The Third Place Trophy goes to Leg0-17, with his robot’s incredible speed of
about 6 seconds roundtrip!
Congratulations to the winners! This was another very close contest, with most
everyone only barely behind or ahead of another. If the winners would like their
trophies right away, email one of the Hosts. Otherwise, the trophy images can be
found in the Community Contest Brickshelf folder, along with images and
descriptions of all the participants’ robots:
http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=85252
On behalf of myself and the other Hosts, congratulations and thank you for
participating!!
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