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Subject: 
Fw: Fw: Alternative Mindstorm Robotwars
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 18 Jan 1999 14:29:53 GMT
Original-From: 
Tom Rowton <trowton@broadcast!StopSpam!.com>
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It would be a non-trivial task for a lego bot to throw one of those...the
one's I've seen are about 5" in diameter and made a fairly heavy duty
plastic...add to that the (small) weight of a hamster or gerbil, and I don't
think it would be _near_ as easy as lobbing a ping-pong ball.

Still, I would be interested in seeing just how strong a lobber could be
made from a mindstorms kit, staying as pure as possible.

trowt
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Hardie <pete.hardie@dvsg.sciatl.com>
To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
Date: Monday, January 18, 1999 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Alternative Mindstorm Robotwars


Tom Rowton wrote:
> 
> So just get one of those small hamster balls, where you put the animal
> inside it and the animal can move about 'freely', so the bot would still
> have to herd it, thus being harder than herding a plain ball, but saving • the
> pet and owner from any traumatic experience....

Good idea!

Just make sure you don't let in any of the ping-pong retreival bots in,
especially those that throw the balls.....


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