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Re: [rtlToronto] 2002 Demo Reel
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
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Tue, 23 Jul 2002 00:42:26 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Jeff Van Winden writes:
> > Actually, Yes, Rob Stehlik created a bot for the casim crossing.
> > unfortunatily it was unable to turn 360 degrees in the 12 " box, (the casim
> > sensors kept bumping into the walls. The robot itself worked well during
> > testing, it deployed the bridge, crossed the gap retrieved the bridge,
> > turned around deployed the bridge again... ran out of air in its pnumatic
> > system... :(
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> Problem was, Rob Stehlik was busy with work 900 km away in Toronto, so it
> was very hard to modify and make changes--it's almost always virtually
> impossible to do an event by proxy like that, you need to be there to tweak
> and modify the robot. JeffVW was kind enough to reprogram the thing and
> miss Jennifer Clark and the Spybotics presentation, but we couldn't get past
> the physical interference problem.
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> Nonetheless, Rob's robot was nothing short of spectacular in design. It was
> the only robot which actually deployed and then recovered it's own bridge.
I have just spent some considerable time digging on BrickShelf among the
usual suspect folders, and was unable to come up with any pics at all from
the Crevasse competition, so if you know where some pics might be that would
be cool ("patience! they are coming" being an acceptable answer of course)
Thanks!
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| (...) Problem was, Rob Stehlik was busy with work 900 km away in Toronto, so it was very hard to modify and make changes--it's almost always virtually impossible to do an event by proxy like that, you need to be there to tweak and modify the robot. (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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