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Calum Tsang wrote:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Rob Hendrix wrote:
> > Calum and gang:
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> > Are you guys going to have something like you had last year at BF?
(snip long list of mostly my ideas)
:)
> arts and normal construction. This might be a
> fun one for the kicks and giggles.
Calum, you forgot to add my best idea ever. and some day IT WILL HAPPEN!
The game:
Axle sorting.
Your robot will be given a cup of all size lengths of axles. The winning robot is the one that can sort all the axles by length into 9 (or so) hoppers.
points for accuracy, and time.
Iain took me up on this challenge once. he had a FANTASTIC sorter. combo train car thing, and light/slide reader. it was amazing to watch. (sorry. no link to video)
the hard part that we agreed on was the feed mechanism. how to you take a hand full of axles, and 1. align them 2. move them to the "length" measuerer.
At one of our lego monthly dinners iain suggested a (forgot the proper name) thing that is used in the "real world". basically a sheer plate that is one axle thick. as it slides up and down, only one axle is "fed" to a conveyor. The rest is easy.
anyone up for this??
Chris
There's no 'I' in 'team'. There's four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'.
> Calum
> PS- I'm not even touching the part about Steve. Needless to say, Steve
> brings
> excellent technical work and always displays a great show of effort. :)
P.S. I'm not touching steve either. :)
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