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Re: Talking point: beacon light on or off while robot in motion
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Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:01:19 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, David Koudys wrote:

Besides adding rules where no rules are needed or warranted, you're makoing me
use up a very valuable motor port!  I can see me doing this competition with 1
RCX--2 motor outputs for movement and one output for the block moving.

Adding this rule makes it 4 outputs.  But that's just me.

Erm, why would you need another output port for the light? I'm no robot builder,
but I think I see how to do a light without using another output port. (even if
you use a 2 motor or differential drive)

I might be missing something of course.



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  Re: Talking point: beacon light on or off while robot in motion
 
(...) (URL) light will be powered only when the robot is stopped." ROSCO (19 years ago, 30-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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(...) Far be it for me to disagree, but here's the thing... If it were me, I'd make the note that we're being a little too finicky on these rulesets. rtl competition rules were always framed to allow maximum freedom for what you wanted to build, (...) (19 years ago, 30-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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