 | | Re: Brickworld Announcement - Area Attractions and baseball —Rafe Donahue
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| | | (...) Ok, thinking out loud now: Well, what about a home run derby or the like? Maybe a machine that pitches and a machine that hits... We could use those red and blue spheres that come with the nxt... Would ultrasonic sensor work for detecting the (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | | | | re: Baseball —Steve Hassenplug
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| | | | | (...) Yes, that could work. We just need someone to design a "standard" pitching machine that can toss balls a foot or two. Then, we need a "regulation" bat size. We could do the whole base-ball, but I doubt very many people could field a whole (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | | | | Re: Brickworld Announcement - Area Attractions and baseball —David Schilling
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| | | | (...) Unfortunately the ultrasonic sensor can't even detect the red and blue balls when stationary. (Unless you're REAL close: within an inch or two.) Their surface doesn't reflect much sound (perhaps something to do with the index of refraction), (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickworld Announcement - Area Attractions and baseball —Tommy Armstrong
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| | | | (...) Although a robot pitcher and robot hitter would be very very kewl, just a robot pitcher and wireless remote control hitter would be very kewl. Like those old baseball machines at the beach. One would have to anticipate the lag and the speed of (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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