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Subject: 
Re: Report on BrickHeap Wars: Robot Challenge #1
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickswest
Date: 
Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:31:06 GMT
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David Schilling wrote:
> 
> BrickHeap Wars: Robot Challenge #1 was held on February 18th, and lasted
> three hours.  All materials were provided, bricks, sensors, RCXs, computers,
> etc.  People just had to show up in teams to participate.  The actual object
> of the competition wasn't revealed until the start of the competition.
> 
> This was an awesome competition!  Everyone had a lot of fun, and while there
> were a few hitches, pretty much everything worked out.  The biggest
> complaint was that there wasn't enough time to build and program the robots.


Wow, that must have been a truly exciting event. Just reading the report
made me feel I was there.
Now, if only I were really there :-)
--
C S Soh

CSSoh's Lego Pneumatics
http://www.geocities.com/cssoh1
... where air is power!



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  Report on BrickHeap Wars: Robot Challenge #1
 
Ever since my brother forced me to watch an episode of Junk Yard Wars last year, I've been wanting to do something similar as a robot competition. BricksWest was finally an opportunity to try. I modified the concept slightly, to allow using LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickswest)

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