 | | Re: rtl 19 'Sumo on a stick' pictures —Calum Tsang
| | | | (...) Well, there's a balance here. If we say, you have to use a motor, it rules out a number of interesting little "shrapnel-bots" which use a strategy that is simply to obstruct. If you say, have a certain size, then you rule out other methods, (...) (19 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: rtl 19 'Sumo on a stick' pictures —Greg Hyland
| | | | | (...) So, yeah... we did it without too many restrictions and we had some interesting things. I wasn't smart enough to come up with a simple non-powered ring mechanism that latches on to the middle bolt and mucks things up for big strong bots, so (...) (19 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: rtl 19 'Sumo on a stick' pictures —Calum Tsang
| | | | | (...) I get ya. Well, if we did it, I want to do it as a sub contest, eg, on the side the way we did marbles last time with DaveK. I think that went really well and Chris kept the parts to the BoP balance. If we are aiming for a "tougher" (eg, PX, (...) (19 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: rtl 19 'Sumo on a stick' pictures —Greg Hyland
| | | | | (...) Oog! I'm not saying that we should do a tougher competition, either (I thought we had some good ideas at dinner that night), but rather maybe competitions with a few more rules or requirements. Although I didn't enter (so who am I to (...) (19 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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