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Re: rtlToronto/Ropeway1
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Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:06:27 GMT
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Shouldn't you people be heading to dinner about now!  Especially you Ian!

Iain Henry wrote:

> Well, a couple of things have to be decided:
> 
> -Do we have a standard rope? (difficult to organize)

Yes, same rope as rope climbers.

> -Do we allow each entrant to bring and string their own rope? (time consuming at
> game day)

No.

> You're right on consideration for sag.  Unless each contestant makes their robot
> fairly intelligent with regard to how far down to go before capturing some rice
> (hard) I don't know how we could take that into account.  I picture everyone
> frantically recoding rotation sensor counts on game day based on distances.

Give a reasonable range.  Something 2 long power cords could easily
cover in case someone wants to use a sensor.

> This is also one of those contests that would be very difficult to practice for
> at home.  Rope climbing was like that, to some extent (I hung a 1 m section of
> rope dangling across my Swiffer in my tiny kitchen).

Agreed.


Derek (Oh crap I should be heading to dinner)



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