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Re: Trash Day event information
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lugnet.org.us.lrgoaa
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Sat, 6 Mar 2004 02:15:20 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.lrgoaa, Titus Gabriel Petrut wrote:
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I was thinking if there is a way to change the position of the top handle to
be oriented not left-right but front-rear.
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I was thinking that maybe the rules should allow the builder to place the cans
however they like as long as they are on the pads. This way if a design requires
the axle based handles to be on the sides rather than the front, the builder
could make sure they were. This would also address your need to change the
direction of the handle, unless of course you need the handle to go front back
and have the railings on the sides.
This also reminds me that we mentioned having the handle off-center to allow for
easier dumping if a robot was designed to pick up the can by the handle. Do we
still want to look at that?
Maybe you (and anyone else coming to the next meeting) could mock up other ideas
for the cans?
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And yes, the landing pad should be at least 1 stud wider.
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Only 1? This might be tough to tile, better count on 2 studs wider. Speaking of
tiles, I think we only need tiles on the outer studs of the pad and do not need
them to cover all of the studs. Specifically the 4 x 4 area in the center
doesn’t need tiles at all. This will help spread the tiles around the route
better (I only have so many).
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I will bring my first robot to the meeting and we’ll
talk more about that over there. Right now I’m working on the line following
part, seeing, grabbing and dumping are solved. So, we’ll have a continuous
black line in the middle of the street?
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I thought this is what we had decided on after Josh posted his images of the
straightaway and their painted sewer drain. The black tape down the center of
the street will make the navigation much easier.
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What will be the curve radius? Can you see if is close to the test pad?
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At first it looked like it was a tighter radius on the road plates, but when I
placed one directly on the 45 degree markings in the one corner, it ends up
being basically the same radius on both the road plates and the test pad. See
these images: 
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I’m gonna use that to test the robot and
I’ll make the sensor autocalibrate.
Gabe
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I hope to have my grabbing/lifting/dumping mechanism ready by the meeting as
well.
Jona
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Sorry, I moved all of the images. To see the trash pad prototype (URL) here>, to see the trach can prototype (URL) here>, and to see the road plate compared to the test pad, (URL) click here>. Also, I have been updating the rules some this (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.org.us.lrgoaa, FTX)
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| (...) I was thinking if there is a way to change the position of the top handle to be oriented not left-right but front-rear. And yes, the landing pad should be at least 1 stud wider. I will bring my first robot to the meeting and we'll talk more (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.org.us.lrgoaa, FTX)
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