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| (...) That was the idea--a standard card deck of encoded objects (eg, 2x8 blocks with various coloured pips). Janey suggested they be tacked to the walls of the playfield, others suggested on the ground, randomly, another idea was to put them in a (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) I have two reasons for not doing this: a) it gets boring b) it grows Hassenplugs, who dominate competitions, which also get boring.* (...) But I do think we should return to Project Y some day. Not this year. Maybe next year. Give people a (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) It's a technically difficult challenge, I agree, You're building the equivalent of a robotic tape silo on wheels--down to the barcode reader to read the tapes and the library mechanism to slot them around. But it's also boring as hell. Even (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) How about stationary bots that you would "give" real cards to? i.e feed them into a slot when they request a hit and have them scan the pips. might need a standard card deck though. Oor skip the whole building part and just have th RCX's (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| we used to run the same competition consecutively. that way we would get to learn from the first competitoin to build a better 'bot for the next one--we would glean better ways of doing something and become better 'bot builders/programmers in the (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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