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Re: Dragster race
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 11 Feb 2000 02:01:28 GMT
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Mario,
Very cool. One question: were any other sensors (e.g. a touch sensor)
allowed?
-- Michael (designs rushing through his brain)
Mario Ferrari wrote:
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> Our third Italian Legofest featured a funny dragster race. In brief, the
> dragster had to be built using just Lego parts (except batteries), use up to
> 3 motors, 1 light sensor, and run at its best on a 5m distance delimited by
> black tape. The main constraint was that it had to stop in 20cm after the
> finishing line, otherwise the run would have been declared null.
>
> I personally thought this challenge was even too simple and not so
> "robotic", but it deserved some unexpected difficulty and taught us many
> interesting things:
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> - How to time the performance with a resolution of 1/100s using the built-in
> 1/10s RCX timers.
> - How to stop a vehicle that's running at 1.6m/s (5.3ft/s) in just 20cm
> (less than 8in).
> - What kind of batteries give better results.
>
> You can find some detail, pictures and NQC code at the ItLUG site:
> http://www.itlug.org, follow the link to the Events page and from there to
> the Legofest III, Dragster race (text both in Italian and English).
>
> If you have any further question not answered on the web page I'll be glad
> to help.
>
> Mario
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> Web page: http://www.geocities.com/~marioferrari
> LUGNET member page: http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/?m=22
> Proud member of ItLUG: http://www.itlug.org
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| (...) Yes, touch sensor were allowed. Temperature sensors as well :-)) But no rotation sensors. Mario (...) the (...) up to (...) by (...) the (...) built-in (...) to (...) glad (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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