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Re: Newbie has an idea - Nascar style racing?
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:42:26 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@(avoidspam)airmail.net>
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Rob Limbaugh wrote:
> Here is a drawing of what I was thinking of:
> http://www.abs-robotics.com/ideas/track.jpg
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> Printing the layout on paper would be expensive for a home user that does not refill their own cartridges. Paper won't
> stay down unless taped, and it could be torn easily with a brick
corner during a crash.
I guess so - but it's easily repaired and highly reproducible.
> But... paint non-adhesive white linoleum tiles a different color (or shade) for their function. Tiles
> and paint are cheap and universally available. They are pretty
easy to line up against each other, too.
Yes - but getting it reproducible would be tricky. If I use slightly
different shades of grey paint - or shinier paint than you do - then
my robots may not do well on your track. That kind of thing matters
in competitions.
Painting a bunch of concentric shapes in a dozen shades of grey paint
isn't very easy to do either.
> Incidentally, this won't solve collision problems. A forward facing
> light sensor won't solve side collisions or wheel touching. Besides,
> collisions are a good thing... it makes a builder have to trade weight
> for structural integrity and ads an element of excitement to any race.
Yes - but if there is no way for a robot to avoid a collision, it
takes a lot of skill out of the race - everything ends up being a bit
of a lottery. It's no fun if I'm way out in the lead and smack into
the back of a slow robot. Unless you want to turn this into robotic
Sumo, it's not going to be a very skillful competition.
> Perhaps the Spybot bricks would be more suitable to racing if the
> multitude of IR sensors in them can be used to detect light levels.
Yes - but with the sensors and the motors all built into one solid
lump, won't all the robots be pretty much identical?
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| (...) does not refill their own cartridges. Paper won't (...) Partially why it is expensive. The fact that it is easily damaged makes maintennance that much more expensive. Not to mention constant replacing of paper track would eat up valuable event (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hi Steve, (...) not refill their own cartridges. (...) brick corner during a crash. Here in Italy, Mario Ferrari printed a beautiful (but very expensive) track that we regularly use for our Gran-PRIS competitions. It's 200x250 cm wide with borders (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Here is a drawing of what I was thinking of: (URL) the layout on paper would be expensive for a home user that does not refill their own cartridges. Paper won't stay down unless taped, and it could be torn easily with a brick corner during a crash. (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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