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(...) And Rapid Duck Assembly™!! :D Iain (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Dan, at the last dinner (which you missed) :) derek pointed out that any marking is pointless cause you don't know from which angle the robot is reading the mark. at a simple "T" a read stripe means turn left.... BUT if the robot reads that (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Calum, lets just leave it at a "maze" and mark a correct path. with all the T's and Y's they could very well lead to a finish, but we have one "proper way" lets not encourage the multi-path. if a multi path works out in the building of the (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Forgot the smiley. :) (...) I think the joints are going to be very hard. The only thing I could think of doing, was have the robot somehow open on one side... and have all the drive wheels rotatable so that you could either a) drive your (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I *think* that's Iain's way of saying "the different path requirement is not really a good idea" but I'm not sure. :-) I'm still wondering about the joint question... didn't most of the bots at BF have rigid guidewheels that would be (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Oh! Oh! And while it's doing that, it has to play the most accurate rendition possible of "What a Girl Wants". Iain (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) : thumbs up : Sounds good! That's what I was hoping. (...) Will Robert be coming with a robot that starts on it's corner, rotated 45 degrees in all planes? ;) (I still think his "hammer" robot is the scariest robot we've seen yet!) (...) ! I (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Or, make it an 'out and back' race, where each robot would have to take a different path on the 'back' portion. JohnG, GMLTC (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) (hope you don't mind a lurker commenting :) Wouldn't you have to mark the "correct" way on each joint, and have different markers for the two sides to follow? One robot would follow the "red" markings, while the other follows the "blue"? That (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) any brick good or bad, in or out of a robot is counted in the [ shape. this also means that if your robot has bricks in it, and the robot is IN THE PIT, then those Do NOT count. (...) yes. the rule was that the back of your robot had to touch (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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