[Dprglist] Please review & comment - Proposed Line Following Course Layouts - Advanced and Novice

[Carl Ott]

Thanks...

Interesting question on practice - we haven't talked about that.

what is concern for using the same course for practice and competition?

Carl

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:16 AM, James LeRoy via DPRGlist <
dprglist at lists.dprg.org> wrote:

> Both courses look good to me.  Great job!
>
> I wouldn't expect to be able to practice on the competition courses, so by
> any chance will we have any banner style practice courses?
>
> -James
>
> On 8/23/2018 7:15 AM, DPRG Competitions via DPRGlist wrote:
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> As mentioned in recent monthly meetings,
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> DPRG will print Advanced and Novice line following courses on banner
> material for this falls contests.
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> *Pro:*  This style of course is much lighter and easier to make,
> replicate and handle than the traditional linoleum tile and tape courses.
> Seems a bargain at $1.47 / sq ft.
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>
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> *Con:*  Layouts are fixed - to change the course requires printing a new
> one. OR, printing ‘tiles’ on banner requires minimum of 2’ x 2’ squares,
> then kludgy process to join with tape to rearrange.
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>
> Please take a look at the proposed courses and speak up if you think
> adjustments should be made.  We’d like to print fairly soon, to let people
> start to practice for the upcoming 13 Oct Roborama Showcase at Dev Fest
> weekend.
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> And if you’re interested to compete on 13 Oct, be sure to check logistics
> and register here
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> https://www.meetup.com/Build-More-Robots-with-DPRG/events/253899798/
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> Reminder, these courses are intended to serve rules defined here:
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> https://dprgblog.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/line_following_v20171111.pdf
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> Both courses are designed to fit within the 7’ x 10’ can-can arena, so
> that we can be space efficient if/as needed.
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> The advanced course is estimated around 417 inches, just over the 400 inch
> rule definition – close enough:
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> The novice course comes is estimated right at 300 inches:
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>
> Carl
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> DPRG VP & Roborama Wrangler
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> Ps. The recently printed Challenge line following course is still in good
> shape – no need to reprint that one yet.  We need more people to go for it
> and help wear it out with their robots….
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