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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">John,<br>
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Inventive as always. I worked on something sort of like that a
few years ago with a leaf blower, though never really got it to
work very well --- it was not sufficiently advanced at the
elemental skill of, ya know, finding the cans:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.geology.smu.edu/dpa-www/robo/rcat/gopro7648.mpg">http://www.geology.smu.edu/dpa-www/robo/rcat/gopro7648.mpg</a><br>
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I think if it can be improved to find the cans as well as SR04,
that it can shoot them through the goal pretty accurately. We
could go head to head. <br>
<br>
There's always next year!<br>
<br>
cheers,<br>
dpa<br>
<br>
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On 01/01/2017 09:55 PM, John Swindle wrote:<br>
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<div>Do you think Six Can can be completed faster if the robot
kicks cans through the goal instead of carrying the cans?<br>
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If you think kicking could provide a quicker run: Does anyone
have a push solenoid you could give or sell to me? I have many
pull solenoids, any of which I would trade with. When I tried
to drill through the end frames of a couple of my pull
solenoids, to convert them from pull to push, I cut into some
of the wiring, so I assume I should acquire solenoids
specifically constructed as push instead of trying to convert
a pull to a push.<br>
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A rule clarification question: The cans need to go underneath
the horizontal bar, and can't just be tossed over the goal,
right?<br>
<br>
Another rule clarification: If a can rolls or bounces back
into the arena after properly going out of the arena through
the goal, does that can score?<br>
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I don't really care to build mechanical stuff, but the idea of
flinging stuff accurately over some distance makes me smirk,
so I'd like to try it. And it gives me an excuse to include
echolocation into the audio localizer for a small arena.<br>
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So, should I build a club robot platform? Or does someone have
a platform I should acquire? Or would someone like to put a
kicker on his/her robot, so long as the navigation was
restricted to sound only? I think the "kicker" would shove the
cans, not cause the cans to lift off the floor.<br>
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Happy New Year to you all!<br>
<br>
John Swindle<br>
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