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Rope Climbing and Can Crushing at BrickBots.Com
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:51:18 GMT
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Hello All,
On Friday February 9th, 2001 the Rope Climbing Contest at BrickBots.Com
finished with three completed entries and one standout winner!
The contest objective was to build a LEGO robot to go up and down a length
of rope as quickly as possible. Extra points were given for hand over hand
climbing, and one brave builder decided to give it a try.
Congratulation to Mac for submitting the winning entry with 88.13 points!
http://brickbots.com/entryview.asp?eid=41
Rope Climbing Contest Details and complete list of entries:
http://brickbots.com/pastview.asp?cid=21
Today a new contest starts! Here is your chance to extract your revenge on
all those empty soda cans:
Can Crushing
Start Date: 2/12/01
End Date: 2/26/01
Description:
Crush three (3) soda cans as quickly and completely as possible using only
LEGO power.
Score Type: Time
Complete rules:
http://brickbots.com/rules.asp?cid=29
As always, entries for past contests are welcome (there are several to
challenge you) and there are proposed contests that will start in the next
few days. Visit http://brickbots.com to comment on upcoming contests or to
propose your own! The last contest, and the current one, are more
enginering challenges, but there are some interesting control problems
proposed as well, so check them out.
Thanks to everyone who participated, and good building!
Rich
Rich at brickbots dot com
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Rope Climbing and Can Crushing at BrickBots.Com
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| Doesn't a machine that does nothing score perfectly? If so, my entry is an RCX sitting next to three cans. It finishes the instant it starts. You have a formula time * height * bonus = score, with small being better. So a robot that does no crushing (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Rope Climbing and Can Crushing at BrickBots.Com
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| (...) I don't have the time to work on this, but I see a relatively simple way to do this that might work well. Build a column to stack all 3 cans into. Place 3 "spikes" roughly dead center at each can, the RCX powers a bar that moves the spikes in (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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