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Fw: Alternative Mindstorm Robotwars
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 14 Jan 1999 20:17:55 GMT
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Tom Rowton <trowton@broadcast.com/stopspam/>
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Mark Tarrabain wrote:
> > 1. IEEE Micro-mouse equivalent
> > - by placing the bot at the center of a maze, bot that is able to
> > navigate out the maze in the shortest time will be the winner.
If you don't define the rules more explicitly, you'll get some smart-aleck
like myself that will make a robot that 'elevates' itself or walks on stilts
to circumvent the maze.
Unless 'ingenuity' is being rewarded, you could end up with lots of loophole
abuse.
trowt
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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 | | RE: Alternative Mindstorm Robotwars
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| (...) :) How about a tracked robot where the tracks are long enough that the robot can just perch across the tops of the walls and roll it's way out to the edge. Or we could resurrect that frog, I launches itself off at an angle and lands outside (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Fw: Alternative Mindstorm Robotwars
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| (...) Unless there was a roof on the maze. Ooh! Ooh! Evil idea! Make the maze VERTICAL! And have a 3-D maze for more advanced programmers... Daniel "Dan'l" Miller Senior, School of Aeronautics and danielmi@ecn.purdue.edu Astronautics, Purdue, (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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