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Re: remember the 1/n rule?
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Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:12:35 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Rob Stehlik writes:
> "In my mind a robot that needs 2 rcx to make one tower is only half as
> good as a robot that can do the same tower in 1 rcx."
Whoever said that was clearly wrong...Coding complexity increases with the
number of RCXs...a good robot is much more than just an extra motor or an
extra sensor. Should we change the scoring to be based on number of ports
used? This would lead us to create 'robots' that are merely machines
because we would try to avoid processing power. If we were to limit the
processing power then we should limit everyone to the same components (ie
the contents of one Mindstorms box). And if we did that then we as a group
would never grow.
I think we should remember the overall spirit of our contests..."The general
spirit, or principle, of the contest is to build innovative autonomous
(thinking, self controlling) robots which perform a task"
> Just teasing, but there should be some kind of penalty. The dual RCXer's
> have six sensors and six motors to play with. Maybe we could have a
> 'heavyweight' and a 'flyweight' category :)
...No changing the rules 1 week away from the competition
Bruce
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| (...) Sorry. I just wanted to bug you dual RCX users. I guess I succeeded in bothering Bruce :) I wasn't trying to change the rules. I'm surprised Chris didn't jump on this, since he is the one who said it :) (...) Yes, probably very true. I have (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| I remember in the good old days when we encouraged the use of one RCX. This quote is taken from rtlToronto's 12th post on lugnet: "In my mind a robot that needs 2 rcx to make one tower is only half as good as a robot that can do the same tower in 1 (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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