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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 something, we won't
really know how easy/difficult it will be to build an
X inch long robot to cross a Y inch long gap.
I'm thinking of just a rough prototype, probably not even
motor/RCX operated.
John
In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Rob Stehlik writes:
> 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
> type of bridge building has to be done. I suppose the other factor is
> actually finding the flag. That will add some challenge to the event. Can we
> have the flags on two stacked hubs to make it easier to detect with bumpers,
> etc?
> Oh yeah, whatever happened to the dragster idea? Iain? Dave? Do you think it
> will happen? If so, you must specify the number of motors allowed, and the
> type of batteries (alkaline). Otherwise people might get fancy with Nicad or
> Nimh packs.
> Rob
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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