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(...) No, David brought it up. Although it may have started because I was complaining about having to fold shirts. Derek (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Since peach is running Apache (URL) and php, you should be able to very easily drop in a gallery folder: (URL) I had one set up on my home server for a while. Worked quite well and was pretty easy to set up (comes with a web based wizard to (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I'd like to do a Live3 one day...JohnG had also mentioned doing regular old car racing. As for no holds barred, sure yeah, with RC defintely, RCX driven...it'll be like the steamroller scene in Austin Powers: Slow and drawn out. Ultimately (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Uh, no. He can "expect" a kick in the pants from my foot! Where did THAT come from? I'm sick of all these damned train shows and their "expect a booth vendor" or "expect a kids play area" or "expect one of you to wake up at 5AM for an on (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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With regards to an upcoming event--think it was Calum who mentioned that a long time ago Chris and I were interested in a 'no holds barred' robot destructo event. I was just thinking about it. I'm still very much game. If others are interested, (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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