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Re: Battle Bots?
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:43:53 GMT
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Maybe these people are using RCX because they can't afford to spend
$5-10,000 of their own money on a robot? And maybe they can't afford to
smash up $100+ of kit in a 90 second scrap.
--
Mark R
www.markrendle.co.uk
Patrick Hayes <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message
news:006901bf62fb$e702d8a0$91a6ecd0@blkadder...
> > 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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