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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 (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | 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)
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(...) I'd better submit my model (which is one 2x1 plate and nothing else) it scores 2 points...and may yet win if nobody succeeds in crushing a can and everyone needs more than an RIS set to attempt it! (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi There, Hmm, you found the loophole! Okay, the rules have been changed to indicate that all cans must be crushed at least 50%. This should prevent the instant win, but still keep the formula as it was. The updated formula is a good one, but since (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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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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(...) [SNIP] (...) Good idea, but the rules specify that the robot can not start with a store of human provided potential energy (Aside from the batteries in the RCX if you want to be technical). The large weight waiting to drop would be a bunch of (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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