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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> (21 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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 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. (...) (21 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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