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Re: Contest
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 24 Feb 1999 06:20:45 GMT
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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 single RIS and get a bonus in the process. But that shouldn't stop you from
boosting the RIS with additional parts (say motors) if that decreases your time enough to perhaps compensate for a loss of the PURE-RIS bonus.

Cheers,
danm

Laurentino Martins wrote:

At 19:20 23-02-1999 Tuesday , you wrote:
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, backwards operates grabber
  Motor II - Drives right tread frowards, backwards operates something
else.

Unfortunately both of these methods keep you from backing up straight, but
that can be worked around.

Any other ideas?

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 the end (if any).
Give us room, let us use what we like the way we like and know!
The final points might reflect the number of parts, but don't make the number of parts a *must* for participating.

Only my two Euros... :-)

Laurentino Martins

[mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt]
[http://www.terravista.pt/Enseada/2808/]

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(...) 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)

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