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(URL) is fantastic! Back in the 70's, the French Aerotrain (air suspension high speed experimental train) reached speeds of something like 380 km/h. For a year or two in the middle of that project, they also experimented with a low-speed system (...) (16 years ago, 17-Jan-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Can game - can you handle carpeting?
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(...) Oooof. This turns out to be harder than I thought. :) My robot moves around fine on the concrete floor of my condo. I have a short-pile carpet rug from IKEA in my "living room" - tried it out on that - epic fail! Just a heads-up from people (...) (16 years ago, 17-Jan-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) My thoughts were about 6 to 10 cans, depending on how many can show up... Here is a question for the lot of you, what is the best way to lift a heavy object (I already have a gripper and I was thinking of lifting my can straight up. My gripper (...) (16 years ago, 17-Jan-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) ...no problem, Guareff. ;) (...) No can. :( I didn't want to attract attention going into the room carrying some canned foods. But I think it's safe to say they won't budge at all. (...) Interesting idea! I didn't know this was a possibility (...) (16 years ago, 16-Jan-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I was at the local TRU in Hamilton (for stroller purchases for our baby :) ) and I noted (and bought) two ExoForce sets--the fortress and the sensai tower--both half off(ish)-- 41 dollars and 34 dollars respectively. There were about a half dozen of (...) (16 years ago, 14-Jan-09, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Thanks for checking it out Iian, We did decide to go with walls, so no worries there, I am curious if you brought a can with you or not to test the sliding factor??... Oh also, we did discuss that we may not actually wrap the cans in paper to (...) (16 years ago, 12-Jan-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Agreed; but admitedly you don't know what my strategy was... I visited the library today to check out the floor surface. Are you guys really doing the black-tape for the "walls"? Be aware that the floor is all different colours, a patchwork of (...) (16 years ago, 11-Jan-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) yopu still need to figure out which one's heavier and only hold onto the heaviest at the end of the 3 minutes Dave K (16 years ago, 10-Jan-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Argh. I just wasted my entire evening then, building a robot that would have qualified based on the webpage, but now not. Grr. ...I guess that's my punishment or Karma for not showing up. :) -Iain (16 years ago, 10-Jan-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Over dinner (missed you, Iain!) we agreed that the usual 8' x 8' wood border, which is painted white fwiw, will be there. If the boards fit in my Subie, I will pick them up from Dave next weekend. And then I will work out how to get the boards (...) (16 years ago, 10-Jan-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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