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First off, this competition sounds like some good, mindless fun! So I started building a drag racer over the weekend and have a few thoughts. Starting: I am wondering about starting methods. How are we going to ensure the drag racers start at the (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | 4496 Tub
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I finally opened one of the two 4496's I bought. (I know Derek bought like a skid of them.) It's a nice collection: More 2xN than 4107. Closer to the famed 3033. Lots of slopes. Some plates. A bit of grey, DGreen, LimeGreen, orange, LBlue etc... (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: NQC problem...driving me insane!
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(...) Well, actually, that code works fine (running MacNQC, a fairly recent version, with 2.0 firmware). One thing to check, code-wise, is to display SENSOR_1 on the LCD, and see what the numbers are (is it set to raw mode? Is the sensor bad (I've (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | NQC problem...driving me insane!
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Hey all, I know I must be doing something very simple wrong here - but I can't for the life of me figure it out. What I'm trying to do: Have a light sensor pointed at a surface. Pass that value off to a variable (the variable then contains the (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Racing in drag
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(...) You wouldn't need to have a line. Simple edge detection would work. As for the oval track, we had an "Indy 5.00" event early in May. The track was a white piece of paper, with a white to black gradiant printed on it. The whole thing was on a (...) (20 years ago, 3-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto16 Video Available
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(...) Yes I will. Watch out! Rob (20 years ago, 2-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Racing in drag
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(...) Naw, this sounds dumb. You would have to make lines so the robot knows where a corner is, etc. Now if we had an oval track with banked turns, that would be cool :) Rob (20 years ago, 2-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Racing in drag
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(...) do you guys hear something??? I thought I heard a sound coming from way over there.... naw, I guess I could be wrong. Chris post # 12 to getting RTl back in the swing of things. now we just need to find cow-dice. DAVE, where are you!? (20 years ago, 2-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Racing in drag
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(...) You might want to consider having two 90-degree turns, in opposite directions (so that you finish traveling in the same direction in which you started). That way both contestants (assuming there are only two at a time) will have the same (...) (20 years ago, 2-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Racing in drag
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I know how much you guy value my opinion, so I thought I'd offer a suggestion which would prevent rtl 17 from being a totally lame event. Most of the rtl events are more a question of "Can you accomplish this task?" not "How well can you accomplist (...) (20 years ago, 2-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto16 Video Available
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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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| | Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto16 Video Available
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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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| | Re: THE EDGE -- too fast
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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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| | Re: RTL 17 -- THE EDGE
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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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| | THE EDGE -- too fast
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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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