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| (...) Interesting, I guess this is what you were trying to get at at dinner about a standardized interface. Your right this makes it much more challenging, and interesting. Although it nullifies one of my ideas. Which is fine, just less explosive. (...) (21 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Remember, the the winning entry (as determined by the scoring system) used this rubber band "powered" mechanism: (URL) elevate and close the latch. I knew that some felt this was "cheap" (including myself), but honestly, it outperformed (...) (21 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) As it turns out, a fish sticker would not win a sumo compeition. While it's a good strategy to not-lose, it would also not win very many matches, and would finish in the middle of the pack. (...) My suggestion would be a minimum weight (like 1 (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) If one of the rules will be that you have to have a hole in the wall into which the bricks will be loaded, then we might need to use the RCX to actually locate the hole. I think that by making that one of the rules, it might make it a little (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) how about gravity??? see, you cant just say your bot ~NEEDS~ something just to make it a bot. you need to add a challenge that will make it easier to USE the RCX then not. For the BoP game, if you didnt want to see the tower robots, make a (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) At one time we did have an unofficial rule were you DID have to use an RCX. that has pretty much changed with Rob's "monkey bot" we have seen that cool solutions can be had without using the rcx. the best way to "force" an RCX event is to have (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) the jokes are HALF the fun of this game. Chris (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) ineresting.... but i had a closed design in mind. as steve has said, this open top hopper makes it too easy to plant a box and walk away. so your standard repitcle. should be a X by X hole in a wall, vs an open top box. i think a hole in the (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) I'm with you Derek - the object of the contests is to come up with the best and most creative solution. And the ring "bots" were definitely creative. My take on this is that the ring bots were a little too close to Jeff E's fish sticker sumo (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Well that’s true, like I said I don't mind creations like that, just heard a few people make comments such as "is that a robot?" and such at rtl 19, so thought I might suggest it. Myself I have a few ideas that don't include an RCX either, and (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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