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On Saturday we had one of the best, and one of the funnest BrickHeap Wars
there's ever been! Besides two SMART teams, seven other teams from around the
Seattle area came and participated. There was a team from the Seattle Robotics
Society, as well as 6 FLL teams.
The challenge? To deliver five payloads to geosyncronous orbit via the space
elevator, Mindstorms style. The space elevator was a 7-foot long, 2-inch-wide
nylon ribbon, the satellite a brass ring. The payloads, golf balls.
Pre-event rules were posted here:
http://www.kenworthyfamily.net/lego/brickheap_wars.htm
The results:
points colour team
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1700 Green (SMART)
1350 Yellow (SMART)
1200 Blue (SRS)
1150 Dk Grey (Titans FLL)
750 Black (FLL team)
450 Lt Grey (Redmond Microtech FLL)
450 Red (Peninsula Power Robotics FLL)
0 Blue Grey (FLL team)
0 Orange (West Seattle Robotics Club FLL)
Pictures of the event: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=184682
Videos of the event: If you only want to download one or two, I recommend the
***d ones (CIMG1209_divx and CIMG1236_divx) -- these show the actual competition
runs between five teams. Warning, they ARE big files to download. You'll also
need the DIVX codec to see some of these videos.
0:06 1.6Mb SRS (blue team) climbing
http://zx81.isl.uiuc.edu/lego/BrickHeapWars/2006/SpaceElevator/CIMG1191.AVI
0:27 6.9Mb SRS (blue team) approaching top of ribbon
http://zx81.isl.uiuc.edu/lego/BrickHeapWars/2006/SpaceElevator/CIMG1192.AVI
0:05 1.5Mb Titans FLL (Dark Grey team) climbing
http://zx81.isl.uiuc.edu/lego/BrickHeapWars/2006/SpaceElevator/CIMG1211.AVI
0:11 2.9Mb Redmond Microtech FLL (Light Grey team) climbing
http://zx81.isl.uiuc.edu/lego/BrickHeapWars/2006/SpaceElevator/CIMG1199.AVI
0:22 5.6Mb SMART (Green team) not reaching top
http://zx81.isl.uiuc.edu/lego/BrickHeapWars/2006/SpaceElevator/CIMG1202.AVI
0:12 3.1Mb SMART (Green team) still not reaching top
http://zx81.isl.uiuc.edu/lego/BrickHeapWars/2006/SpaceElevator/CIMG1203.AVI
1:31 8.4Mb first group of 5 teams attaching to ribbon
http://zx81.isl.uiuc.edu/lego/BrickHeapWars/2006/SpaceElevator/CIMG1208_divx.avi
10:12 55.5Mb first group of 5 teams running on ribbon ***
http://zx81.isl.uiuc.edu/lego/BrickHeapWars/2006/SpaceElevator/CIMG1209_divx.avi
0:08 2.3Mb second group of teams attaching to ribbon
http://zx81.isl.uiuc.edu/lego/BrickHeapWars/2006/SpaceElevator/CIMG1226.AVI
5:51 31.9Mb second group of teams running ribbon
http://zx81.isl.uiuc.edu/lego/BrickHeapWars/2006/SpaceElevator/CIMG1227_divx.avi
7:23 40.3Mb second group of teams (part 2)
http://zx81.isl.uiuc.edu/lego/BrickHeapWars/2006/SpaceElevator/CIMG1230_divx.avi
1:55 10.4Mb first group attaching (second run)
http://zx81.isl.uiuc.edu/lego/BrickHeapWars/2006/SpaceElevator/CIMG1235_divx.avi
10:17 56.0Mb first group on their second run ***
http://zx81.isl.uiuc.edu/lego/BrickHeapWars/2006/SpaceElevator/CIMG1236_divx.avi
Note: in this last video you'll see the green team actually manage to do two
entire runs of the event in the time given! Way to go, Gus and his green team!
A very special thanks to Mark Kenworthy for all the work putting this challenge,
and especially ten colour-coordinated kits together!
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David Schilling
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On Tue, May 23, 2006 3:08 am, David Schilling wrote:
> On Saturday we had one of the best, and one of the funnest BrickHeap Wars
> there's ever been!
David,
Sounds like fun, however, I can't view any of the videos. It appears the server
won't allow me to save the videos, or even view them directly. I keep getting an
error saying "File download was cancelled by user."
> 10:17 56.0Mb first group on their second run ***
> http://zx81.isl.uiuc.edu/lego/BrickHeapWars/2006/SpaceElevator/CIMG1236_divx.avi
> A very special thanks to Mark Kenworthy for all the work putting this challenge,
> and especially ten colour-coordinated kits together!
Personally, I think this is one of the more impressive parts... :) Mark must have
spent a ton of time sorting...
Steve
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In lugnet.org.us.smart, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2006 3:08 am, David Schilling wrote:
> > On Saturday we had one of the best, and one of the funnest BrickHeap Wars
> > there's ever been!
>
> David,
>
> Sounds like fun, however, I can't view any of the videos. It appears the server
> won't allow me to save the videos, or even view them directly. I keep getting an
> error saying "File download was cancelled by user."
>
> > 10:17 56.0Mb first group on their second run ***
> > http://zx81.isl.uiuc.edu/lego/BrickHeapWars/2006/SpaceElevator/CIMG1236_divx.avi
Steve, I tried several of the videos and I had no problem openning them up in
Windows Media Player to view them. I didn't get any errors.
>
> > A very special thanks to Mark Kenworthy for all the work putting this challenge,
> > and especially ten colour-coordinated kits together!
>
> Personally, I think this is one of the more impressive parts... :) Mark must have
> spent a ton of time sorting...
>
> Steve
Mark said he spent three weekends collecting and counting parts. This was a
very impressive part of the whole competition. Mark and David did a fantastic
job of both planning and executing this competition. Thanks guys!
Gus
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There's a "Space Elevator Blog" that posted a link to our challenge.
(http://www.spaceelevatorblog.com/?p=241) If you're interested in finding out
more about the ("real") Space Elevator, you can also read about it here:
http://www.liftport.com/
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David Schilling
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