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Re: ...was - my robot works
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Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:53:46 GMT
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At 08:20 AM 10/11/07, Derek Raycraft wrote:
> > > -If the new goal is not the "wall" then how will we determine "angle"
> > > and highest?
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> > Mark 1 eyeball, general concensus, I guess. How do folks feel about
> > using
> > velocity (at the bottom of the arc) to judge the winner? In other
> > words, the
> > best swinger is the fastest moving one at the end of X minutes?
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> It really shouldn't be that hard to judge which one is swinging
> higher. There are lots of methods I can think of to do this. Bring
> a long stick and hold it beside the arc of the swing. Put a mark on
> it the higher the robot goes. Have a mark for each robot.
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> One suggestion I had was the first robot the break the plane of the
> sawhorse legs wins. That's very easy to judge.
If it were me, this is how I'd want to do it. Assuming there are
"legs" holding the bar, simply put a rope from one leg to another,
about half way down. The goal would be to make the robot's rope
touch the marker rope.
Steve
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| (...) Steve's idea very much sounds like that "wall" we originally talked about hitting. Derek is right, the higher up you go the easier it seems to swing. With some re-codeing, I can get my bot to swing at any height, and so far the bottom of the (...) (17 years ago, 11-Oct-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) I thought the idea was we'd try the robots at different lengths of rope to see how they perform. I think it's important that competing robots use the same length of rope. Otherwise I'm tying my robot as close to the top as I can. Shorter the (...) (17 years ago, 11-Oct-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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