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Re: 10024 - Red Baron
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Date: 
Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:26:30 GMT
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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message
news:H78y2D.LvE@lugnet.com...


This is going downhill fast.

rtlToronto: Going downhill fast.

Build a working LEGO Intamin AG Giant-Drop* for hamsters?  Whoever can drop
the furthest without killing it wins?

    Iain

* - Drop Zone



Message has 4 Replies:
  Re: 10024 - Red Baron
 
(...) "Early tests show 25 feet is too far..." :) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  Stupid Lego Projects was Re: 10024 - Red Baron
 
(...) When I was younger (I think Grade 3), I built some really dumb projects. One of them, was a fish feeder. I had surmised that fish would follow something that dispensed food so I built a small 4x4 box out of 4x1 Technic beams and hung it from a (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  rtlToronto X: Going Downhill Fast
 
(...) Hmmm... you know how people suggest basic, vanilla line-following as a robotics event? How about offroad line-following? rtlToronto: Steeplechase A simple way to start would involve painting or taping a black line on standard brown corrugated (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  Re: 10024 - Red Baron
 
(...) Hmmm. Why does this bring the proposed trebuchet(sp?) contest back to mind? Seems to me we left of contemplating a fun, but not too dangerous projectile. Hamster Pros: - hey, they're rodents after all - they're fairly soft (assuming they don't (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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  Re: 10024 - Red Baron
 
(...) It was fun in concept, sort of like unloading a full lab of new workstations. Then it disappeared the the minute my back hit the ground with several pieces in between. Sort of like after the third or fourth machine and you realize there's 43 (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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