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NEIRG & Stock Class Sumo
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Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:34:55 GMT
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Well - I spent a couple of hours Saturday with my nephew and his new Mindstorms
kit he got for Xmas. We directed our attention toward the SEIRG stock class
Sumo on Feb 25 at Science Central in Fort Wayne.
I am proud to say that my nephew came up with a robot on his own. Of course, he
was looking at Flash (my open class Sumo) sitting on the dining room table. So,
he made his a spinner (like Flash). The interesting thing he came up with was
his version of hinging the front bumper/plow/rake.
He created a vertical hinge about 4 bricks up from the surface and a wide front
end. The neat thing the veritcal hinge provides him is the ability to have the
robot spin either direction. Now, I am now sure how good the rest of the
operation is, but his robot held its own against the stock class Sumo I created
in the same time frame.
I would love to see some kids invade the stock class competition in February (ie
- Matt, Ben, Austin...heck even Andrew and Kerby are still kids :) if they can
be here) and show some of the adults how it is done. I am working on another
nephew besides Austin to get a robot together.
It has been interesting to watch my nephew come up the learning curve on his
technic blocks...he is starting to figure out that pinning is better than just
pushing blocks together...that is a good first step :)
Bryan
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| (...) I'm planning on line following (probably with Trellis again - I've yet to radically improve the design, I might need to start from scratch) and the Maze (because I *know* I can do better than my one other attempt). And I really should enter a (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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