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I just received the registration letter from Frank Steele, the event co-ordinator for the Train show Nov 20 and 21. In it he mentions that he's expecting the 15' x 15 LEGO train layout as well as an 'Interactive LEGO table for kids!' Did we promise (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto15: Connect Four and rtlToronto15: Rope Climbing Photos Available
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(...) I also noticed one of the reasons Chris is having a problem with his robots. It appears he's trying to use his LEGO remote as a mouse for his laptop: (URL) bet he doesn't have the right driver loaded... (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Thanks Rob and Steve for your help! I wish I could put in a user-commenting feature, because it could give some of the builders some praise from other competitors or the public. I know you can do it, but I don't want to bother with CGI (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I'm pretty sure "Vitali's father": (URL) this [cool] robot: (URL) seemed to be a good robot, with good software, but it had one loose touch sensor, which did not always signal EOT, keeping it out of the "final four". Steve (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) (URL) and (URL) is mine :) P.S. Who's camera has that ethereal, washed out effect seen in many of the shots? Rob A. (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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saw this on 'da Boing Boing (URL) a "robot" that press's all the buttons in the correct sequence to complete the first level of Mario Brothers. neat. Chris (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto15: Connect Four and rtlToronto15: Rope Climbing Photos Available
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(...) I had this really manual way of making those old albums--little scripts in PhotoShop to make the thumbnails, a little Excel thing to generate the HTML manually. I'd put on some good music and manually go through all the photos, nodding to (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I like it well enough - and just wanted to say, welcome to somewhere around 2001 :) FrontPage?!? Gah. And here I was, thinking you're a real geek, writing HTML by hand :) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | [rtlToronto] rtlToronto15: Connect Four and rtlToronto15: Rope Climbing Photos Available
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Hi folks, Thanks to the photography of Rob Antonishen, David-Daniel Day, Mario DeFacendis, Steve Hassenplug, Ivan Louch, Derek Raycraft, and myself, here's some fabulous photos of rtlToronto15 and rtlToronto16, two robotics competitions here in (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.events)
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| | Re: Onwards to rtlToronto18...
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(...) A lot of these events is pure luck :) (...) This sounds pretty reasonable, an emphasis on towers with some for sorting and homing. Calum (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) The more I think about this the more I agree with David. It's a block stacking event. You score points if you stack blocks. Derek (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) What if we said that a 'bot could enter if it could only scan the Connect 4 board, or drop a chip anywhere and still be counted (though, so I'm told, that's what some of them did) The event is block stacking. We've done it 3 times before. If (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I didn't get to see it either. I think we were too busy running our C$ robots in the final... But, I believe it moved all the marbles onto the opponent's square, because the penalty for "wrong" marbles was bigger than the points for "right" (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Steve Hassenplug wrote: <snip> (...) Wow. That is lotsa good stuff, but great googly moogly! This whole thing started 'cause I asked to run a 'mini block stacking' competition. We went from a 'lets build a nifty block (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Ok, I can't remember, what did this robot do that was considered a loop hole in the rules? (...) True it does allow for a pure sorting robot. Maybe we don't want to allow that. I thought it allowed for a good entry level robot. But it could (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I used to be kind of against this, because I'm sick of loophole pokers (Steve, JeffE, I'm looking in your direction...) but the thing is, we have better things to do than to try and outrule everyone. That and Steve never does it anyways. He's (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I'd also be concerned that scoring this way would open the door to to "loophole bots" like Rob's (?) at RTL15 (URL) which, while I thought it exploited a clever loophole in the scoring, did somewhat disadvantage other bots that more closely (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) You mean by counting ALL the blocks of your home colo[u]r? It seems like only counting up to the wrong color would offer a big penalty for non-sorting robots. If two non-sorting robots compete, the winner will be the lucky one, who is last to (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) No, because if I build a tower without sorting the colours, and the bottom block was the opponents colour I would get nothing for it. I'm suggesting that you should get full points for the tower, but you don't get the bonus for building it all (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I can't see why not...I don't think this ever came up. (...) Isn't that just six or half of one dozen? (...) Can you though? The only person to have really found home consistently was JeffE back in rtl3/4. (...) So, you want to give people (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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