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    rtlToronto 11 —W. Paul Nicholson
   Hey there everyone, Long time lurker, first time poster... I have not seen any discussion lately about finalizing the rules for the proposed "Capture the Flag" event. Any developments to report? (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
   
        Re: rtlToronto 11 —Chris Magno
   (...) HI, welcome to the group. :) Geesh. If I had know that my laziness in posting "rules" to games would draw people out then I can sit and lurk forever.... well, not really. ;) Soon, I will get off my lazy butt and "finalize" the rules. I guess (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
   
        Re: rtlToronto 11 —David Koudys
     (...) 12 inch gap with a 12 inch cubed robot *and* multiple RCX's and you've got a deal That is all ;) Dave (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: rtlToronto 11 —Iain Hendry
      (...) Make it 300 mm, and you've got an even sweeter deal. ;) Iain (I'm serious) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: rtlToronto 11 —Benjamin Medinets
     (...) <beaucoup de snippage> (...) mmmm.... that sounds great. One further stipulation about the size/gap... the 'bot must fit inside the gap. No overhang or nothing....just to make the contest interesting. Ben (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
   
        Re: rtlToronto 11 —Rob Stehlik
     8 inch robot. 24 inch gap. Maybe thats exaggerating, but it would certainly be more interesting to watch. I don't want to see prefab 12 inch bridges as Chris suggested. That would be dead boring. At least make the gap bigger than the robot so some (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: rtlToronto 11 —John Guerquin
      Since we're all putting in our 2 cents about the dimensions, here goes: 12 inch robot, 20 or 24 inch gap Has anybody actually tried to build a robot yet??? This theoretical debate is interesting and all, but until someone actually tries to build (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
     
          Re: rtlToronto 11 —Derek Raycraft
       (...) I haven't built a prototype for this, but from trying to build a soccer robot, an 8 inch cube robot is probably too small. In an 8 inch cube the RCX takes up a large portion of the space. I think we should stick with our usual 12 inch cube. I (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
     
          Re: rtlToronto 11 —Chris Magno
      (...) I have. after 2 hours of messin' around, the easiest soloution for me, (and to keep it in ONE RCX) was to creat a A/C robot, and have it push a premade bridge to the gap. even then it was still intersting, and I had not even gotten to the part (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: rtlToronto 11 —Iain Hendry
     "Rob Stehlik" <Robbby31@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Gv3AG9.KxJ@lugnet.com... (...) (200 mm robot. 600 mm gap.) (...) it I got the impression Phil had taken over running it...? Iain (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: rtlToronto 11 —Benjamin Medinets
     (...) call me American...but I still prefer to go by the imperial system. (even though metric is much easier system to use...) lego-wise, 32 bricks studs is approx. equal to 10 inches, which is roughly means that each inch is approx. 3.2 brick studs (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: rtlToronto 11 —Iain Hendry
     "Benjamin Medinets" <bmedinets@excite.com> wrote in message news:Gv3LqA.2op@lugnet.com... (...) Uh, so what? Canada's been Metric since the mid 60's...? (...) Yeah, exactly. If you want to get right down to it, why don't we measure things in studs? (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: rtlToronto 11 —Benjamin Medinets
     (...) <beaucoup de snipage (lots of snipage)> :) Actually, I have seen parts of the US with either solely Metric or Hybrid Imperial/Metric. (One such occasion was around Louisville, KY - Hwy I-71 - just south of Cincinnati, OH) Ben (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: rtlToronto 11 —Iain Hendry
     "Benjamin Medinets" <bmedinets@excite.com> wrote in message news:Gv3wBA.19G@lugnet.com... (...) I-71 - (...) That's because, to the best of my knowledge, the United States has also offically adopted SI. It's just not been enforced at all. Iain (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
   
        Re: rtlToronto 11 —W. Paul Nicholson
   In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno writes: <snip> (...) <snip> If there are going to be two events, "dragsters", and "capture the flag", then let the dragster event be considered the easy one, similar to "sumo" in previous years. For the (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
   
        Re: rtlToronto 11 —James Powell
    (...) -I'd suggest a high contrast tape around the edge-or a high contrast (white) table topping material. I've been trying on a low contrast material (a red tablecloth), and had problems with robot driving off edge I'd also suggest that this be (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
   
        Re: rtlToronto 11 —W. Paul Nicholson
   In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, James Powell writes: <snip> (...) A tablecloth or any other type of covering is going to cause problems with bots not getting traction, etc., a hard surface is preferable. As far as edge detection goes, I have been (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 

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