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Originally Posted by Don Wright
Very nice job.
Please don't take my question as any kind of attack or jab at your accomplishment. I think what you have done is awesome. But, is it legal?
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Yeah - me and another mentor wondered the same thing. In fact, from what I can tell (being a mechanical kind of guy anyway), it's not legal. So it went a little something like this (paraphrased for humor of course...)
Mentors: Hey, I don't think that's legal.
Students: But it's gonna be cool
Mentors: Really - look at rule R69
Students: But it might change... we should ask FIRST
Mentors: Don't bet on it
Students: Yeah... it's gonna be cool... we should do it
Mentors: Oh fine - but we are still going to do a regular control for next year
Students: YEAH - lets do it
Mentors: I have no idea how or if that's going to work
Students: Look - it's working
Mentors: Holy ^#&*@#* - How'd ya do that?
So... they went on their merry way.
- They didn't have a programmer for the pic
-- So they made their own
- They didn't have software to download the program into the pic
-- So they wrote their own
- The robot was not around, going to demos
-- They followed the robot to a weekend demo, and worked out the bugs in the middle of a festival (Thanks 470).