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Re: The least you could do!
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Mon, 25 Feb 2002 03:50:39 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Ivan Louch writes:
> > 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?
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> Well, it certainly had a number of battery boxes, as a matter of fact Rob
> had as many battery boxes as Chris RCXs :))
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> > Ivan perfected a "magazine" gripper that would store internally the bad
> > blocks and place were needed.
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> 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.
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> > 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
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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
> :))
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> Awesome event guys! Kudos!
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> Ivan
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 Virginia. (temperature reached 65 on Friday but was considerably cooler
on Saturday and today (Sunday). Shooting Automatic Weapons (with live
ammo) off is a blast. :) (Even if it is with the "evil army")
Who took home the "free" lego shirt at the competition??
Just some random thoughts and queries....
Ben
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