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(...) If I know Dave, he will start now, and build a 14lb bot, then have to spend the entire brickfest re-making it. Besides, Steve, now that everyone will be using the inside out tyre(Tm)(Pat Pending) (C) (1) idea that I came up with, how much fun (...) (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Dave, Here's your chance to take another shot at the Tug-o-War. The rules are not exactly the same, but you should be able to take some of the things you learned, and apply them at BrickFest. (URL) rtl robot was built the day of the event, (...) (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Hobby Show November 3-5, 2006
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(...) Count me in for all three days. (...) Done. It's easily worth a few bucks to be able to enjoy a LEGO weekend like that. (...) Sounds good! :) Allan (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ham, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.general)
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| | [rtlToronto] rtlToronto21 Pictures, August Dinner
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Hey folks, Monthly Dinner: Friday, August 11th, 2006. 7PM Swiss Chalet 5487 Dundas Street West Toronto, Ontario Join us next Friday (don't be afraid of Chris...you can be disgusted with him, or me, just not afraid of him) for the August rtlToronto (...) (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Official scores from rtl21--Chris didn't win... again!!!!
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(...) One of these days we got to get us one of them there "competent" organizers. THEN, i could sit back and build, and not worry. some day.(1) Chris How far away is indiana? (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Melting (re: rtl21)
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(...) PICTURES!!!!!! Chris (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: rtl21, some post game analysis
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(...) I've also seen graph's correlating Global warming being directly related to the decrease of Pirates. Chris R21 champion (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Ow. :) Iain (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Dave's tears - R21 the results
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(...) We don't even have scales at work that go in p-p-p-p-uuunds!! What were we suposed to do. Honestly. Stupid non-metric rtlToronto. Hate. Iain (grumble @ non metric engineers) (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Right. In a true competition, helping the robot should not be allowed. However adding this rule did not penalize a "good" robot in our event. It just prevented us from stopping games mid-way and saying "that cube is not flat. You lose. Game (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I'm beginning to like this idea too.. but maybe not have the "touching" rule? Eventhough there is a simple solution in programming to guarantee a tie, that assumes perfectly functioning mechanicals... which is rarely the case. Either way, I'm (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I can play five moves in 5.2 seconds... (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Hobby Show November 3-5, 2006
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Good day! Turns out that there is an interest of Ontario LEGO builders in attending this year's Hobby Show at the International Centre in Toronto, Ontario. So here's a few prelims-- Those of you who were there last year may remember the soap opera (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ham, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Steve Hassenplug wrote: <snip> (...) I'm liking this idea--it combines the wonderfulness of 'anti-x' banter and the connect 4 logic. I'm in Dave K (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) It was actually very successful, and fun. The thing we did to avoid ties was to have the time-to-play be the tiebreaker. (each pair played two games, and each robot went first, once) At the last minute, we decided to allow people to touch (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) It's already been done by another group: (URL) not sure how successful it was...Steve? Calum (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) The problem with tic-tac-toe is we'll have a day full of ties. Now I'd love to build a tic-talc-toe playing robot. I was thinking of doing this with an NXT and design it so kids could play against it. But as a contest I can't see it working. (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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How about autonomous tic-tac-toe, since this competition is scheduled to be a little more complex, maybe we could run a tic-tac-toe game. It should be easier then connect four, so more people should be able to build for it. Vitali (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I think that may have been John's match against my robot.... oops.... It was one of the last matches... If I recall, it was a real tug-of-war, with about equal traction. Your bot was geared pretty fast, mine used one R/C motor, and 1:15 (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | rtl21, some post game analysis
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(URL) I decided yesterday to do some analysis on the number of "insufferable" throwdown posts versus actual performance. As you can see, the ratio of trashtalk to wins is about 1:1 for DaveK, and 2:1 for Chris. Winners like JohnG, Edward and Vitali (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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