Posted by Anthony Xu at 02/26/2001 12:52 PM EST
Student on team #188, Blizzard, from Woburn Collegiate Institute and Ontario Power Generation.
In Reply to: question...
Posted by Anton Abaya on 02/24/2001 4:01 PM EST:
Yes, you're right, we did have a ball underneath the ramp for our video. The reason for that was because of speed. Balancing by ourselves is unreliable and takes a relatively long time so we would definitely work best with a ramp robot such as the one your team has.
Anthony.
: saw the video guys and i'm impressed. sexy robot that is
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: so here's my question:
: when u balance by yourselves, how long does it take u to do it? in the video u guys did it in a second, but i see that you guys slipped a ball underneath the bridge ....am i right? or was that just a shadow?
: (we're a wedging bot) and i'm trying to think how usefull we'll be for those balancing bots...
: we wedge something beneathe the bridge, and as soon as the balancing bot is balance, we slide out and leave.
: -anton