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Re: Battle Bots?
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 20 Jan 2000 04:21:25 GMT
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I tried to organize one in the Los Angeles area. Even had rules set up
per Nate Burgess. See URL: http://www.azimuthmedia.com/RobotArena/
No one signed up. Would be willing to try again though.
Dave
Patrick Hayes wrote:
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> > BUT when i put the idea forward many of the people involved basically
> > said that they did not want to enter a RCX battle bot type event for
> > fear of having their very expensive RCX broken. or for that matter any
> > lego broken. in one pic you can see a pic of an all lego multi-battery
> > box hammer.
>
> They complained about maybe having a ten-cent chunk of plastic break? Come
> on, people, they're Legos! People who do _real_ BattleBots often spend
> $5-10,000 of their own money and ridiculous amounts of time on a single
> robot, and they _know_ that most of it will be broken. I hope to
> participate in it myself, price be damned (assuming my wife doesn't disagree
> ;-) It's coming up with a good design and finding time to build it that's
> proven to be the hardest part). RCX is practically free when it comes to
> robotics. After all, it's a cheaper variation on what fischerTechnik has
> long been: a way to prototype robots in a _disposable_ way. That's why I
> love them.
>
> Patrick Hayes
> Programmer, inventor, composer, and mad scientist ;-)
>
> Insert flames here:
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| (...) They complained about maybe having a ten-cent chunk of plastic break? Come on, people, they're Legos! People who do _real_ BattleBots often spend $5-10,000 of their own money and ridiculous amounts of time on a single robot, and they _know_ (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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