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Subject: 
Rock Crawling
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Date: 
Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:37:24 GMT
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We had a small gathering to test out stuff for our upcoming remote control Rock
Crawling event at Brickworld.  As usual, John showed up with a really cool
looking truck, with a roll cage & fancy front end...

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2213745

however, the roll cage was destroyed when the truck actually rolled off a cliff
:)
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2213866


The course was made of random household items, like couch cushions, bean bag
chairs, boxes & tables...
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=223980

Here's a few pictures...
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=223978

And four videos, of my truck driving around most of the course...

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Hassenplug/Contests/RockCrawling/RCVideo/dscn0966.mov
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Hassenplug/Contests/RockCrawling/RCVideo/dscn0968.mov
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Hassenplug/Contests/RockCrawling/RCVideo/dscn0969.mov
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Hassenplug/Contests/RockCrawling/RCVideo/dscn0973.mov

I also posted some info about my truck on NXTLog...
http://mindstorms.lego.com/nxtlog/ProjectDisplay.aspx?id=cb92ccd5-3448-4a13-8ee5-97edc1bfa876

This should be fun at Brickworld (http://www.brickworld.us)

Steve



Message has 5 Replies:
  Re: Rock Crawling
 
In lugnet.org.us.laflrc, Steve Hassenplug wrote: <snipage> (...) To me it seems interesting that Steve's house has more boxes of NXTs than boxes of diapers... (17 years ago, 31-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
  Re: Rock Crawling
 
(...) I am bummed that I couldn't make it down to Lafayette yesterday...looks like it was fun... Were you and John the only ones with trucks? Mine is getting close...thought I had it done a little while ago and discovered I had mounted some stuff (...) (17 years ago, 31-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
  Re: Rock Crawling
 
Steve, I just had a thought on scoring. You mentioned that you wanted to make the course tough enough so a perfect score (no penalties) would be nearly impossible. How about giving a penalty every time someone backed up? I can't remember a single (...) (17 years ago, 2-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
  Re: Rock Crawling
 
So . . . I've been lurking in your club's newsgroup lately and am wondering if this rock crawling challenge will be at BrickWorld for sure. Are there other robotics events planned? (17 years ago, 10-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
  Re: Rock Crawling
 
(...) Hi My son wanted an "real RC car" so I took the RC buggy body and made a few changes to have a final result. It is a 4x4 truck driven with 2 RC motors, and I adapted the RC steering mechanism for the front drive. It's very large, and quite (...) (17 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)

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