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Announcing a robot competition for BrickFest PDX... Robo Waiter: Line tracking while carrying mini-soccer balls ---...--- Build a Robotic Waiter that can carry a tray full of mini Lego soccer balls (or equivalently, basket balls) around a track. (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics.events) !!
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Hi, I'm new to this list. I was just wondering if anyone out there knows if there is a mac version of the vision command image recognition software? I'm running robolab and wanted to add the camera. Or is it possible to use robolab itself with a (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Robo Waiter - a BrickFest PDX Robot competition
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(...) David, I have a public question about the competition. Will the robot need to know when and where the starting line (and therefore stopping line) be located? Or will the robot simply need to carren he course following the line? What (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: Robo Waiter - a BrickFest PDX Robot competition
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This is by no means an Official reply, but I know David is mad at his computer, and e-mail, so he may not reply right away. :) (...) There will (most likely) not be a start/finish line that the robot will be able to see. (...) Normally, with Line (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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(...) Hi. I don't know anything about the mac questions, but assuming this question is actually related to the competition which I announced (and which your post was in reply to) perhaps I might point out that the competition rules say you can only (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Robo Waiter - a BrickFest PDX Robot competition
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(...) As Steve pointed out, (Thanks Steve!) the starting line will not be something that your robot will really be able to notice. I'll use a thin red line, which your light sensor probably won't be able to detect. But us humans can see it easily (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: Robo Waiter - a BrickFest PDX Robot competition
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There's just 10 days before BrickFest PDX 2004 starts, and that means there's just 10 days left to build a robot for the Robo Waiter competition! There are two classes for the competition: the fastest waiter, and the 'best dressed' waiter. (The same (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: Robo Waiter - a BrickFest PDX Robot competition
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A couple of people have asked for rule clarifications. To be fair to everyone competing, below is what I've sent them. This doesn't change any of the rules I posted before, and probably shouldn't change how you build or program your robot. I'll use (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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