[Dprglist] Saturday

[Pat Caron]

I agree, Roborama was excellent.
Thanks to all who made this possible for us remote participants!

...Pat

On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 2:50 PM David P. Anderson via DPRGlist <
dprglist at lists.dprg.org> wrote:

> I'll second Harold's comment: Saturday was a lot of fun.  Great to see
> everyone.
>
> Carl can you post the results for the spinning robot demo?  I think rcat
> did pretty well on the second run and also the triangle.
>
> I was having some trouble with my rate gyro, which is pretty temperature
> sensitive, in that hot room.  Later I realized I had not disabled the
> virtual bumper and that was causing some problems.  Trouble shooting at
> a contest is always fraught.
>
> Also lots of comments about the non-flatness of the floor.  At first I
> blew it off, thinking maybe it just wasn't level.  But then Michael's
> robot had a laser pointing forward/down at the floor and the spot kept
> getting closer to and further from the front of the robot as it moved.
> When I queried why it was doing that, someone pointed out that it was
> the floor!   It really is massively uneven and lumpy.
>
> Maybe we need to find a different room to run our contests?   We could
> use Michael's robot for testing...
>
> cheers!
>
> dpa
>
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