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Re: It's awfully quiet in here
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:38:24 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Brian Davis wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics, Mike Walters wrote:
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> > The final days of the MDP selection process has turned
> > the robotics board into a ghost town.
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> Well, I'm mostly quiet because I'm just coming back from a set of robot games
> in Northern Indiana, where I was only able to enter two robots... and one of
> them didn't run at all due to a dead (& I mean DEAD) RCX. So anybody want to
> help out with some info here? It's a 1.0, and if I plug it in it will power up,
> but the moment I pull the plug, dead. The impact was on the left rear corner,
> and flattened the ABS slightly.
> So my conclusion is I screwed up something in the battery power section, but
> *not* (at least obviously) in the motherboard or AC adaptor. Any ideas? Do I
> open it (and if so, how)?
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> As to the games, I took third in line-following, but I hate that stupid
> bloody NEIRG maze - even if my robot had been working, it wouldn't have done
> well. But the LafLRC 3T robots (they play Tic-Tac-Toe) were a really big hit
> with kids and adults alike, and LEGO sumo was fun for all. A LOT of kids in the
> stock RIS class, and some very nice entries in the LEGO open class, although I
> missed most of it, watching kids play with the Tic-Tac-Toe 'bots.
Brian, the battery clips are soldered onto the RCX's main board. A good solid
jolt might have managed to unsolder one of them, or crack the corner of the
board.
JB
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| (...) Well, I'm mostly quiet because I'm just coming back from a set of robot games in Northern Indiana, where I was only able to enter two robots... and one of them didn't run at all due to a dead (& I mean DEAD) RCX. So anybody want to help out (...) (19 years ago, 27-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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