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Subject: 
Re: RC robosoccer
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Date: 
Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:32:39 GMT
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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message
news:GptCLA.LtE@lugnet.com...

How about two people per team, each team gets two robots as you say: A
goalie and a player.  The ball could be a tennis ball, and the goal an • 3033
tub on it's side.

Not meaning to chew, but I thikn a ping pong ball or another smooth-type
ball would be much easier/more practical to use. A tenis ball is very fuzzy,
and thus doesn't lend itself very nicely to being dragged or kicked with a
mechansim (mechanism will want to "ride up" over the ball because it's
furry).

    Iain



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  Re: RC robosoccer
 
(...) That's really cute! I already have a 4 port USB hub ($12 DLink, on sale!) just for such a game. Yes, we should do this! It would be a fun, simple, breath of fresh air. Something a little silly and purely for sport, not for any real technical (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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