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Re: BFDC2004 Robotics contest?
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 3 May 2004 12:17:31 GMT
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Calum Tsang wrote:

In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Rob Hendrix wrote:
Calum and gang:

Are you guys going to have something like you had last year at BF?

(snip long list of mostly my ideas)

:)

arts and normal construction.  This might be a
fun one for the kicks and giggles.

Calum, you forgot to add my best idea ever. and some day IT WILL HAPPEN!

The game:

Axle sorting.

Your robot will be given a cup of all size lengths of axles.  The winning robot is the one that can sort all the axles by length into 9 (or so) hoppers.

points for accuracy, and time.

Iain took me up on this challenge once. he had a FANTASTIC sorter.  combo train car thing, and light/slide reader. it was amazing to watch. (sorry. no link to video)

the hard part that we agreed on was the feed mechanism.  how to you take a hand full of axles, and 1. align them 2. move them to the "length" measuerer.

At one of our lego monthly dinners iain suggested a (forgot the proper name) thing that is used in the "real world".  basically a sheer plate that is one axle thick.  as it slides up and down, only one axle is "fed" to a conveyor.  The rest is easy.

anyone up for this??

Chris
There's no 'I' in 'team'.  There's four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'.



  Calum
  PS- I'm not even touching the part about Steve.  Needless to say, Steve
  brings
  excellent technical work and always displays a great show of effort. :)

P.S. I'm not touching steve either.  :)



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(...) name) thing that is used in the "real world". basically a sheer plate that is one axle thick. as it slides up and down, only one axle is "fed" to a conveyor. The rest is easy. Stepfeeder :) Vibratory bowlfeeders are more common but stepfeeders (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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(...) I'm not really sure. John Barnes asked about it too, but we were pretty noncommittal. I wasn't really planning to do a new contest, unless people REALLY wanted one. I guess we could try doing rope climbers or something there. This time all (...) (21 years ago, 3-May-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest)

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