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Re: Fw: Alternative Mindstorm Robotwars
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Fri, 15 Jan 1999 00:15:24 GMT
Original-From: 
Daniel Miller <danielmi@ecn.%nospam%purdue.edu>
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On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Tom Rowton wrote:

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.

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, Indiana
                "Stadtluft macht frei." - German proverb

--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics



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  Re: Fw: Alternative Mindstorm Robotwars
 
In article <Pine.SOL.4.05.99011....purdue.ed u>, Daniel Miller <danielmi@ecn.purdue.edu> writes (...) I saw a 2-D and 3-D maze competition advertised recently but it wasn't what I thought it was. By 2-D they mean following lines on the floor, and by (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Fw: Alternative Mindstorm Robotwars
 
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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