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I got answers to a some of the questions we've been asking from Jan Beyer about
the contest.
Question: There seems to be two aspects to the competition. You mention
registration is required by February "so you can work at home", as well as an
event on the weekend in Billund. Can you give more details about this? What
will the 'at home' aspect be? What is the championship about if you can do stuff
at home beforehand?
Answer: With this we mean you will get the task/layout from the tournament in
Billund about 1-2 weeks before the tournament, so you can start to design a
robot at home but you are not allowed to take the home designed robot with you
to Billund and use this one. You have to build a new one in Billund but perhaps
you can use some ideas from the time you have try to find a solution to solve
the task at home.
Question: What programming environments will be allowed? Will computers be
provided? Or do we need to bring our own laptops? Can we bring our own
laptops/programming environments even if computers ARE provided?
Answer: All programmes will be allowed and you have to bring your own laptop.
Question: You say that we'll have a Mindstorm's set available, and it sounds
like other pieces will also be available. Can you be more specific about what
other parts might be available? Will batteries be provided? Will we have fresh
batteries available for the tournament?
Answer: You will get a standard Mindstorms Set to build your robot, but you can
also a prize for the best robot design, so there will normal LEGO Parts
available you can use for design purposes. And there will be batteries too.
All teams will get some equipment the following parts:
1 RCX, 3 motors, 2 light sensors, 2 pressure sensors and 1 rotation sensor
[I take it that this means besides the standard Mindstorms set, we get an extra
motor, extra light sensor, 2 pressure sensors (!) and a rotation sensor, plus a
variety of 'normal' bricks for decorating our robots. I wonder what the pressure
sensors will be? Normally I'd consider these to be for pneumatics, but pneumatic
parts don't come with a Mindstorms set.]
Question: On Sunday there is a 'fine tuning' session. How much rebuilding is
allowed during this time? Will access to all the parts be available? Will the
arena be available?
Answer: You can rebuild your robot as much as you want and yes, the parts will
be available and you will have access to the arena.
Question: You say you need a minimum of 6 teams. Is there a maximum? What if 20
teams register, for example? That would make time on the arena very scarce, not
to mention giving only an hour to run the tournament on Sunday.
Answer: Honestly we have not counted on that there will be register so many
teams but if there are so many interested teams we will see at this time if we
need more time or do a second event.
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David Schilling
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| David, I think by pressure sensors they mean touch sensors. Scott -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of David Schilling Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 1:41 PM To: (...) (19 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Huh. They might want to clarify/restrict that, just a bit. Unless they really mean for people to write all their code ahead of time, and bring it with them. Steve (19 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Yes, that sounds easy. But keep in mind Pitsco sells the Mindstorms set with RoboLab software. And, looking around at Lego.com, you can find LEGO's own text-based programming language, Mindscript, available for download. Most AFoLs seem to use (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.robotics)
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