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Matt, Some good questions here. I'd add the following: a hospital or similar venue almost certainly has a contract to a vending machine operator. We'd be in violation of any such contract if we vend thing for cash. I'm not sold on the most-cash-wins (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) AHHH...HHH MY EYES!!!!!!` AHHHHHHH (sorry i could not resist) :) -- Chris (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Yeah, careful there - he went through all the footage on my tapes too and gave me crap for the stuff I had on there! Iain (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Hmmm. I suppose you could borrow the tape, but the recordings prior to the RTL stuff include me at the beach and nobody should have to endure that... I'll try making a CDRom first. Matthias Jetleb (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) This is what happens when you decide that the Grade 1 reading skills were an unnecessary step in life... When I was developing the robot earlier in the week, I built one of the flags. Now, I knew it used the large Mindstorms wheel rim at one (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I've decided to go against every fiber of my being and not wait until the last minute before starting on the Vending Machines game. In tossing around some ideas I've come up with a few questions: In no particular order, here they are: 1) If one (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Thanks for the personal guided tour of chris-land(tm). Sure glad I loaded up on Prozak first..... Matthias Jetleb (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) And I figured as much-building a consistent arm is as tough of a challenge as a bridge crosser. Some deflected a lot, like Bruce and Chris' (well mostly Chris') while others worked out good ways of resolving it: Doug Carlson used a double (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I know, it's relatively easy, isn't it? :) (...) Actually, if I could borrow the DV tape at some point, I can just cap it directly in. I could also take Microsoft DV AVI on CDRom too. (...) Yes. There are several limits: Windows 95/98/ME have (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Rob...Rob...Rob...Somewhat presumptuous don’t you think? (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I agree! The great thing about this event was that it was simple enough to attract many robot builders, but it was spectacular enough to entertain the croud. I especially liked the surprising outcomes like when Bruces robot reached the flag (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) But YOU are the Hardware genius... (...) Looks amazing! The construction looks nice and solid. I bet it had very little side to side deflection. I never thought about actuating a baby gate with a linear drive. (...) Hmmmm. It certainly would (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Matt, I'm going to let you in on a little secret that I had only shared with Calum. so anyone else reading this should stop right now. Matt, lets take a walk in Chris land. Don't worry, its a mostly harmless place. post project X. we came up (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Many thanks to all who participated, spectated, or organized. It was a fun event to participate in. What really surprised me was that we had designs from each of the three major categories and each category finished in the top three - I really (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) WHAT!!!!!????!!! -- Chris (22 years ago, 19-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Hey Jeff: I just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to (carefully) drive my camcorder through the crowd, and around the foyer for that great over-the-dash POV footage from the Supercar. I appreciate you taking the time and effort. Oh, and by (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Sorry, I got sidetracked on a "rant against Chris" theme. What I was actually going to do, aside from praising the winners and thanking the organizers was to respend to the request for photos. I didn't take any photos, but would you want me to (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(URL) per our discussions at the bar post-rtl11) Iain (22 years ago, 18-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I had so much fun yesterday. Throwing something together with Calum is what I like the most - I think we've done that for like 3 or 4 competitions now where at the last minute he'll come up with some core mechanical hardware and I'll code it on-site (...) (22 years ago, 18-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I was over at the Bahen Centre tonight (the new home for the Interactive Media Lab) and was looking at some old magazines we were throwing out. Anyways, I found an old copy of the Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) from (...) (22 years ago, 18-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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