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Re: The least you could do!
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Mon, 25 Feb 2002 03:03:26 GMT
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> Come on guys! Those of us who lurk at your news group are dying to know
who
> won this battle of the bots. Was it Rob again? Another battery box
wonder?
Well, it certainly had a number of battery boxes, as a matter of fact Rob
had as many battery boxes as Chris RCXs :))
> Ivan perfected a "magazine" gripper that would store internally the bad
> blocks and place were needed.
I beleive this is what Chris intended to say: Ivan "perfected" a magazine
gripper - considering I finished my xBot 5 minutes (literraly) before the
competition.
I'm really surprised that no one else tried to implement something similar.
Except maybe for Bruce - appearently his bot could lift up two blocks.
> Rob, (the Winner) had a string drive X/Y and a pneumatic gripper. it
> was very light and VERY fast. IIRC with new batteries he had 15s for
> the anti-x. it used 2 RCXen
If I remember correctly Rob used only one RCX for the entire bot. 2 outputs
for the x and y axis and the 3rd for that super cool 2 pneumatic valve
switch.
And in case someone is interested, here are the final scores:
1. Rob 645pts
2. Chris 565pts
3. Phil 545pts
4. Ka-On 510pts
5. Dave 500pts
6. Mario/Calum 460pts
7. John 380pts
8. Trevyn 280pts
9. Ivan 270pts
10. Derek 140pts
11. Matthias 80pts
12. Tony/Jennifer 20pts
Even though I expected a bit higher scoring I'm still very happy that my bot
worked at all, since it is my most difficult project yet. I just wish I had
more time for tweaking and debugging, as my biggest problem certainly was
unreliability due to lack of play-testing (mainly the software that I wrote
some time between Friday evening and Saturday morning) . Must say I greatly
underestimated the complexity of the task, so let us learn on out mistakes
:))
Awesome event guys! Kudos!
Ivan
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| (...) Thanks Ivan for a more "indepth" results of the competition. What about Bruce..... I must agree with (and congradulate) Chris that he definitely has "smacking" rights. I am sorry I couldn't come to the event, but it was very nice down there in (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
| | | Re: The least you could do!
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| (...) We thought about this for a while, but decided against it, for this reason: If you run a couple of the possibilities through, the magazine is more useful with a large board where there's a big distance between where blocks are and where (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
| | | Re: The least you could do!
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| (...) So the age old rtlToronto(tm) robot challenge event problem... Do we do this one again for rtlToronto(tm) 11? Ideas for rtlTornto(tm) 11 that I have heard or I would like to see: The maze following 'bot that I came up with a few months back... (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) OK OK OK. since you asked so nicely. ;) Lets see if i can remember the entire day. First we had an amazing turnout. we had about 12 working robots that entered. I think we had about 4 or so others that with a bit more software, or one more (...) (23 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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