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    Re: Contest —David Ungaro
   Good point - there were only 2 motors. It would be better if it were multiple cans as well. The scoring system on that Dallas contest web page ((URL) looked pretty good to me. It is an interesting problem to drive the bot and pick up the can with (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Contest —Alan G. Smith
     It isn't actually that tough to do it with two motors. I can think of two ways off of the top of my head. 1) Motor I - Drives both treads forwards, only drives one backwards Motor II - grabbing the can 2) Motor I - Drives left tread forwards, (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
    
         Re: Contest: two motor idea —Rod Paananen
      Alan Do you have a schematic or diagram of your ideas? What type of gearing would you have to allow two separate gear movements forward and back? Does anybody else have any configurations they've come up with to accomplish the same task? I'm (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
    
         Re: Contest: two motor idea —Jonathan Knudsen
     Michael Powell's directional transmission shows one way to do different things based on the direction of the motor: (URL) this helps, Jonathan -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Contest —Laurentino Martins
   (...) Yes! Forget the limitation rules, or at least make the limits on the number of parts a lot higher. To build a bot to meets that challenge is already difficult enough, don't make it even more difficult or very few people will ever make it to (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Contest —Dan McCabe
     Actually, I believe that the original poster suggested that here be a bonus or award for achieving the goal while limiting their entry to only a single RIS. Based on the ideas that have been flowing in, it sounds doable to achieve the result with a (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Contest —Laurentino Martins
   First, I don't have the time to participate right now, since I have a daytime job and LEGO is only for weekends and holidays, but I'd like to participate somehow! q:-) How long did you say was the time limit to build this bot? Second, I don't have a (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Contest —Mark Tarrabain
      (...) I don't anticipate having the time to participate myself either. I have some ideas on how to go about it though, which I've already posted. (...) The Cybermaster does not appear to be robust enough to handle this sort of challenge. I'm not (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events)
   
        Re: Contest —Laurentino Martins
   (...) It isn't! That's the real challenge!! :-) (...) I don't know if you intend to use the standard firmware, but in the CyberMaster I don't even have that choice. The CyberMaster and the PC were made to work as one. For one thing, without floating (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics)
 

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