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Re: Mating Game - moc up
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Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:33:52 GMT
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On Tue, September 20, 2005 9:14 am, Derek Raycraft wrote:
so your standard repitcle. should be a X by X hole in a wall, vs an open
top box.

...
Interesting, I guess this is what you were trying to get at at dinner
about a standardized interface.

...

We could say you have to position the opening of this box at a certain
height, the rest is up to you.


So, you want to defined the exact input area, which, pretty much defines the output.

Can you also tell us where the wheels & motors go?

Here's my suggestion: leave the top of the input open.  If someone wants to enter a
box into a robot competition, go for it.  Then, the goal is to build a fully
autonomous robot that out preforms a box.

Steve



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  Re: Mating Game - moc up
 
(...) Like that. I'd even go so far as to say the playfield should come with 1 box sitting somewhere in the middle to act as a "control" that performance can be measured against. -Rob A> (19 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  Re: Mating Game - moc up
 
(...) no. if your input is a hole 10 studs, By 10 bricks (just for arguments sake) and needs to be 5 bricks off the ground...then your input device can be ANY size smaller than that. you ONLY have to deliver a 2x4 maybe i wast clear on the input (...) (19 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  Re: Mating Game - moc up
 
(...) Oh, I can tell you where you can put them. :-) (...) So everyone enters a 1 foot square open topped box. Does any block that gets jammed into your robot count? The "bin" we keep talking about, what is it, and how do you define that a block is (...) (19 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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  Re: Mating Game - moc up
 
(...) Interesting, I guess this is what you were trying to get at at dinner about a standardized interface. Your right this makes it much more challenging, and interesting. Although it nullifies one of my ideas. Which is fine, just less explosive. (...) (19 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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