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Re: Fed UP with rtl
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Date: 
Mon, 19 Jul 2004 13:38:53 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang wrote:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
> > It's been rather dissapointing that over the last couple years at Brickfest, the
> > ONLY Mindstorms event anyone from rtl ever entered was the one event they
> > hosted.  (sorry, I should also count Rob's crevas crossing robot, which he
> > entered via proxy)  So, in the five Mindstorms events that weren't hosted by
> > rtl, there was exactly one entry from the "robot guys" in Toronto.
> > 
> > Seems the events at Brickfest were always "too easy".
> 
> Ah, nothing like flaming Steve with a complete lack of sleep!
> 
> I think the issue with BrickFest was that no one ever goes except for the crowd
> that does non-robot stuff, ie, Derek, JeffVW, JeffE, DaveK etc.  It just happens
> the train/models/events crowd is the same as the BF crowd, and the exact
> opposite of the Rob etc crowd.


No, I guess I don't know who in the group does robots, and who doesn't.  I
actually assumed Derek did robots, because at rtl 15, he was the only person
from Toronto who had a robot that could actually play Connect-Four.  (Even if it
was littered with train parts.)  :)  And, he had a pretty cool flex-axle driven
pipe racer at Brickfest last year.

And Jeff VW ran (or tried to run) Rob's robot at Brickfest.  I guess that really
doesn't make him a robot person, but it does make him a nice guy.  :)

And, last year, there were the other guys that entered the pipe racers event;
Dave A. and John G.  Are you saying they're not robot guys?  I've seen Dave's
book, and several of John's robots.  Good stuff.

For a while, I thought you were a robot builder, Calum.  But, come to think of
it, I've seen more successful robots built by Chris than by you.  :o

> You'd probably realize that if for the fact you've always been an outsider
> looking in. :)

I'm ok with that.  In fact, I think I prefer it that way.  I enjoy coming up
there every once in a while and showing you rtl guys how to build robots.

Steve



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(...) Ah, nothing like flaming Steve with a complete lack of sleep! I think the issue with BrickFest was that no one ever goes except for the crowd that does non-robot stuff, ie, Derek, JeffVW, JeffE, DaveK etc. It just happens the (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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