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Originally Posted by RyanCahoon
Dude!
Nice job on such short time. Any more info on the competition? What was the prompt specifically?
While the recent revisions to NASA's mandate are somewhat disappointing, a field that inspires a $30 million high profile competition (that you reference yourself) doesn't particularly forgotten to me, though.
--Ryan |
The video prompt, specifically, was:
"The Team must submit a video of between one and three minutes in length in which the Team members discuss the Team’s thoughts on the primary reason or reasons for lunar exploration, including their expectations for the most important discovery to be made by future missions conducted by Google Lunar X PRIZE teams and government funded lunar missions."
In addition to this, Phase I of the Moonbots competition required a proposal for a robot that would be used in the FLL-like robot competition in Phase II, as well as a team photo, blog, and website.
The top twenty teams will go on to Phase II where they will build their robot and compete with it. They must document the build with video, pictures, and a blog. The robot can be programed in either NXT or Labview, and requires a little bit more thought then FLL because the feild has may things that will disrupt the location and the direction the robot is pointing (Meaning point-and-shoot tactics often seen in FLL challenges just won't work. The robot has to be able to know where it is).
Grand prize is a trip to Denmark to see the LEGO factory. And it's a fantaaastic way to spend off season. XD
More on Moonbots here:
http://moonbots.org/
...and while I'm at it, a shamless plug for my teams video essay. xD
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