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(...) HA, good luck. my place is to WIN this thing then be a sore winner and rub your nose in it. You may have a robot BUT I'm STILL waiting to see you even mention your speed. Why Bruce? (...) YOUR RIGHT!!! I'll win this contest because for the (...) (23 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Funny you mention the palm tree bot...I can clearly remember Calum's robot from the first contest I went to. As I recall, it was fast and sorted marbles like crazy (with his patented 'Sara Sort'...at the time I thought this was some kind of (...) (23 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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this is to mainly Richard, the real die-hard castle enthusiast in our local group... I'm sure the others in the group will find it a light read!! :) Well I got my latest Shop @ Home shipments, and proceeded to work on castle design I implemented a (...) (23 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Actually, I should say, the most complex Lego robotics design competition, _we've_ ever staged :) Somewhere, someone, probably has an competition where RCXes have to perform triple lutzes and quad salchows. Oh, great, I can see it now: rtl11: (...) (23 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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rtlToronto10: Project X Lego Robotics Event Saturday, February 23rd, 2002 10AM Competitors / 1PM Audience Lillian H Smith Branch, Toronto Public Library 239 College Street, Toronto (W of St George, E of Spadina) Hi folks, We're little more than a (...) (23 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca.on) !
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(...) Bruce this is just the kind of thinking I like to hear. With ideas like this I am SURE to take FIRST place. you and your temperature sensor can have 8th or 9th. just ahead of Calum and his Official lego palm tree robot. -- Chris I can see (...) (23 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Dave...Dave...Dave What the heck is wrong with touch sensors?? I'd use a temperature sensor if I thought it would help. With that kind of thinking, you better get used to the concept of 3rd place (at best!)...Matthias and I will be taking (...) (23 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Benjamin Medinets wrote: > (...) Is Ottawa far enough away? My parents are friendly to lego addicts (my mother even bought an RIS!), so you could come stay here :) (23 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Derek Raycraft wrote: > (...) Well, NQC isn't. I dont think it optimises code like that. (23 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) OK, first off, I really was trying to be discreet and i only told Dave. if other over heard than that is not announcing. second, since we are now all in the open, I am down to 26.6. lastly, Bruce made an observation that Calum and i hashed (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) hang of (...) Semaphore is the key. (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) From what I've seen threading in C is nasty. At least Java was written with multi-threading in mind. Its still not pretty but I think I'm getting the hang of it. Remember everyone, bring a print out of your source code next Saturday. I'd (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Hmmm.... I'm having the same problems in LegOS. You see, my robot is currently working, but if I want to speed it up, then I have to control the motors better with multitasking and motor pulsing. I have a mechanical solutionn to the accuracy (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) If you don't mind the precision of a tree stump, sure... Calum (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) My bot can do it in 25 seconds with new batteries. May be I should look into gear up my Y or try to use LegOS. So what's the problem with touch sensors? To me they are simple and obvious solutions. (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Well if its a good compiler, v = v + 1; v += 1; v++; v -= -1; s = 1; v += s; would all be equivalent. Derek (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Well if I can figure out all the multi-threading issues, I might actually get my bot to move. :-) Threading is something I haven't dealt with much in Java. Its very interesting, and I'm gradually getting it working. If it wasn't for wanting to (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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variable++ is probably even better for a simple increment (variable-- for decrement). Of course, the compiler may recognize this and translate "++" and "+=1" as the same. (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Well, my mom wasn't too impressed by a few boxes, that I brought home from my post office box... :-) I had my "modest" order from shop @ home (which contained several bulk packs of grey bricks, in different sizes (and shapes), and the Blacksmith (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Over at the last rtlToronto dinner meeting, Chris announced he's down to 27.6 seconds. Derek later mentioned he's estimating a ~20 second completion time for his design if everything works out. Of course, Calum's Topiary Garden(X) will (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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