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Subject: 
entertaining spectators
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Date: 
Wed, 23 Jan 2002 04:20:59 GMT
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I've been thinking....

It doesn't happen often, so I thought I'd tell everyone about it...

Given that Project X is mainly a "competitors" game, and not really
all that interesting from a spectator's point of view, I thought it
might be a good idea to try to do something to entertain them while
matches are being set up. I'm wondering those who have completed their
robots in plenty of time could undertake the task of programming their
robots to just move blocks around randomly in kind of a "demo" mode.
Granted, several robots might be undergoing last minute adjustments,
but I should think there would be at least a couple that would be
available to be left running "in the background" so as to give
whatever audience shows up something to look at while a bunch of Lego
geeks tinker between matches.

Matthias Jetleb



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: entertaining spectators
 
(...) I *may* bring a quick caster or 2 and my mini arena for them to bounce around in. Whoever else wants to bring a 'bot with wheels and such, (even my R2 unit may make an appearance...) we could just throw them in the arena and see what happens. (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  Re: entertaining spectators
 
(...) I actually thought about doing this a while ago, and it was surprisingly a lot more work. for my robot at least, it would mean a whole second program, and I have actually used up 95% of all the 6100 bytes available on my rcx. So I agree that a (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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