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(...) Thanks Rob! (...) It's your typical "Heartland of America" Monster Truck/Drag Racing/Motocross (or in this case, Awesome Cross 98) announcer call: (URL) (20 years ago, 2-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | O'Canada!
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Fellow Canadians, After seeing a large scaled Mountie in "Brickbaron's" Brickshelf folder for the Vancouver Road Show, I was compelled to build my own, but to the same scale as set 3723 (LEGO Mini-Figure Sculpture). Regrettably, his staff with a red (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.ca, lugnet.build, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.org.ca.vlc, FTX) !!
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto16 Video Available
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(...) on a (...) competition. (...) You're gonna do a drag racing robot, right?! :D "SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!"* You know what? I realised after playing with Calum's robot that I love those huge original supercar tyres. Iain *-The only time I have (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Nice job on the video Calum. I'm sorry I missed this event. I was working on a rope climber until I realized I would be out of town during the competition. Congrats Iain on your win. Your robot looked very polished. Rob (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: RTL 17 -- THE EDGE
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(...) I don't expect either of those to happen. I have a robot that has entered several line following events: (URL) this: (URL) it was able to follow a line at over 80 cm/s. Assuming the course is 400cm (or ~13 ft) the whole race would only take 5 (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: RTL 17 -- THE EDGE
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(...) I think we should do this on all our competitions anyway (the 5-second delay). It seems to allow for much "cleaner" starts and less fumbling/tripping up. (...) Kinetic Potential... Potentially Kinetic! Let us know, we wanna start building this (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: THE EDGE -- too fast
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(...) My guess is we *can't* guess, because we don't know the length of the track. :) Iain (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Really I don't think we need to see Steve in his "Drag" games. Derek (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) no where does it say it ~HAS~ to be a car. it can be any autonmous vehicle. heck if you can build a fast walker; it would be allowed. (...) let me think about this. (...) hummm, this brings up the issue of kinetics..... let me think about this (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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OHHHHhhh...hhh this looks good. do I hear anti-x times anyone??? my guess is 3 seconds. Steve, how about a link to your past drag game, so we know what to expect? (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: RTL 17 -- THE EDGE
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(...) Ah, so you'll be entering? Excellent. See ya at the finish line! (1) Iain (1) When you arrive there 5 seconds after me, or as you blow past it and smash on the floor. (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) This is great. I haven't actually done any work for this event, but my entry is almost finished! (1) Of course, I kind of lucked out, because our club did drag racing just two weeks ago: (1) (URL) I just need to work on the software. Wait, I (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) How about a Peppy Donkey? (...) :) Roman wants to know if it's okay for him to build a drag-motorcycle (instead of a car). He also wants me to ask if we can have a 5 second delay from when you press "Run" to when the competition actually (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto16 Video Available
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(...) Cool!! That was fast, I assume mostly because of your new computer. :) I tried editing some stuff the other night and gave up in a flury, because every time Premiere tries to render something, it crashes the MOMENT my PC tries to do something (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto16 Video Available
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(...) I think that's the norm. More than once I've had something built and ready to go at home, that seemed to work just fine... only to find out that in reality, something goes awry, for no reason whatsoever! But, I don't think this is common just (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I had a good time at this event. Even though my bot went completely dumb after a few successful test runs... Strange things happened.. It's like it was posessed!!! I had to re-flash the bot, then had many problems downloading my prog (IR (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Wow, Looks like a great day. I'm very disappointed that I missed it. But you wouldn't have wanted me there. I was sicker then I wanted to admit and finally started resting like I should have been earlier in the week. Derek (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | [rtlToronto] rtlToronto16 Video Available
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Hey guys, Here's a short video of the rtlToronto16 video. I have put it in two formats: (URL) (MPEG1, 17MBytes) (URL) (WMV8, 8MBytes) Enjoy! Calum PS-Send me yer photos! (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Results of RTL 16
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(...) I've found that this viewer (URL) alleviates that problem somewhat. ROSCO (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Results of RTL 16
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(...) That's correct, I tried uploading that very same archive. It would upload for a few seconds, then kick me back to the "main menu". The individual uploads didn't work out much better either. Try opening this deep-link: (URL) Try asking Kevin (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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