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Re: 3T
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Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:08:32 GMT
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On Sat, December 10, 2005 8:45 pm, Brian Davis wrote:
> In lugnet.org.us.laflrc, Bryan wrote (through Steve Hassenplug):
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> > Question: What clearance is there for the robot when it is playing?
> > If this isn't defined, I would like to push for an 8 stud
> > clearance
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> 8 studs on the left and right edges should be possible (although a lot larger
> than I'd thought about)
Eight studs from the last cube should be ok. Right now, the board already has four,
so another four would be all right.
I have mine built within the four stud area, but I know some of you guys will need
the extra space.
> Steve wrote:
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> > See if this page answers your questions:
> > http://www.laflrc.org/3T/
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> Steve, as details get hammered out, can we keep them on this page?
I'll talk with our marketing department.
> On the "how's it going" front, I have a neat nearly studless
> magazine/dispenser... but things bounce too much, and roughly 1/10th of the
> cubes "placed" end up not flat but skewed onto one edge of the cells. Result -
> I've gone to a much trickier solution (but, hey, I like it better anyway... if I
> can get it working). So another request for a clarification: I vote either the
> cubes must be deposited flat in their cells, or perhaps allow fudging (humans
> can "flatten" a slightly misplaced cube, perhaps for a slight time penalty).
Yes. Cubes bounce when you drop them from one cube high.
After some discussion this weekend, our current plan is to have the first round of
3T competition at our meeting the third Sunday in January. At that time, "helping"
will be allowed.
Steve
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| (...) Ok, if that works for Bryan and the rest. Of course, after you posted... (...) ...you *know* that I'm going to try to minimize the footprint as much as possible. Sigh... I'm already keeping it to a single RCX. Sure, what's another constraint (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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| In lugnet.org.us.laflrc, Bryan wrote (through Steve Hassenplug): (...) I've been assuming that everything outside the 27x27 area on the opponent side ("top") and the left side are OOB. I'm willing to relax that, as it makes some things very tricky (...) (19 years ago, 11-Dec-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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