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RE: Anyone been watching the Robo Olympics on BBC2 this week?
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Fri, 24 Mar 2000 19:46:09 GMT
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Yes one if the swimmer's was Lego based they had placed the RCX and the
motors inside a plastic drinks bottle. It was also one of the few which was
not radio controlled good on them.
They also had a gymnast built around the RCX but guess what ! the motors
were unbalanced and they had unpredictable levels of friction on the floor
surface so had difficulty getting the program right to stay within the set
area.
The rope climber Huw has mentioned was excellent and was the most human
like in terms of action it won the star price for achievement and they got
to go to visit NASA all expenses paid - they really deserved the prize even
though they didn't win their event.
David Walton
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Franks [SMTP:spontificus@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 5:32 PM
To: lugnet.loc.uk@lugnet.com
Subject: Re: Anyone been watching the Robo Olympics on BBC2 this week?
In lugnet.loc.uk, Huw Millington writes:
> There's been a few RCX-based entries, but none of them 100% lego: a
> rope-climber, a paddler and a floor-display gymnast.
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> Noe of them won, though :-)
I saw some of it yesterday.. is that 'Techno Games' that you're talking
about?
I found it really infuriating the way it tried to be flashy with quick
sucessive shots, meaning that I couldn't actually look at the robots, and
see
what they did - I thought I glimpsed some LEGO, but I couldn't be sure!
<grumble>It wouldn't have been hard either, with minute long interviews
with
the designers, surely a few seconds of close-up on the ROBOT wouldn't have
been
unreasonable?</grumble>
Richard
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