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[rtlToronto] rtlToronto/beep1
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Hi folks,

     rtlToronto/beep1: The Sound of Music
     the Fourteenth Toronto Lego Robotics Event
     Tuesday, April 1, 2003
     Toronto Public Library, Lillian H Smith Branch
     239 College Street (E of Spadina)

Join us today for the 14th Lego Robotics Event here in beautiful sunny
Toronto, Ontario, Canada:  rtlToronto/beep1: The Sound of Music.  This design
competition is designed to encourage Lego enthusiasts to build a robot that
can make a sound in a difficult head to head competition against another
robot creation.

Specifications and rules are posted, as always, on the rtlToronto website:

http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/events/lego/lego-040103-rules.html

Hope to see you there!

Calum



Message has 6 Replies:
  Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto/beep1
 
Caulm, WOW..... I can hardly wait. I've got my bot built for this. I managed to get it down to 1 rcx. the hard part for me was the code. the programming space is just a bit too small. Right now I can get the beep sequence in 64 "nested if's" and 8 (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto/beep1
 
(...) This is GREAT! As it turns out, I'll be in town the day of the event for a job interview. I do have a program that plays "If I only Had a Brain", but I think I can modify it by minimizing the tone changes, and adjusting the duration so it will (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto/beep1
 
Well i have nothing better to do today, so I`ll make the 2 hour drive and check it out. ;) "Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:HCnoI7.Bv4@lugnet.com... (...) design (...) that (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto/beep1
 
(...) I have to make a brief detour, to get some more Batteries... It appears that my robot, which is fully opperational (for once), has an undocumented feature, AS I have been driving to work, on icy streets**** I have had to yell some profanities (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto/beep1
 
(...) No one's complained about the rules yet, which is pretty strange for an rtlToronto event. Let me start then: The competition begins at 2pm, and ends at 2:01? But each round is supposed to last 3 minutes. As for scoring, first of all, the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  WHere is everyone??? Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto/beep1
 
(...) Hey!! It's 12:45 and I'm alone here in the basement of LHS Library! My RCX is beeping away, sounding forlorn in this big room, all by itself! Where is everyone??? Dave K (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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