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Unread 22-01-2011, 12:15
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Re: Do minibots need to stay at the top of the pole?

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Based on <R92> the only materials you could use to jettison something to the top are rubber bands or surgical tubing. So i think a sling shot type mechanism might be possible.
You cannot have any device with "Stored energy" in your mini bot, this does not include the battery, but eliminates springs and rubber bands and whatnot. This is what my mentor told me so I hope this helps.
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Unread 22-01-2011, 20:26
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Re: Do minibots need to stay at the top of the pole?

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You cannot have any device with "Stored energy" in your mini bot, this does not include the battery, but eliminates springs and rubber bands and whatnot. This is what my mentor told me so I hope this helps.
Rubber bands are on the allowed list of materials. However, slingshot-ing a robot up the pole is not allowed (Team Update 1).
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Unread 24-01-2011, 09:41
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Re: Do minibots need to stay at the top of the pole?

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You cannot have any device with "Stored energy" in your mini bot, this does not include the battery, but eliminates springs and rubber bands and whatnot. This is what my mentor told me so I hope this helps.
Darknight,
That is an incorrect interpretation of the rule... Vertical motion on the minibot can come from the battery and motors only.
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<G19> After DEPLOYMENT, MINIBOTS must remain completely autonomous and move up the POST solely through electric energy provided after DEPLOYMENT by the permitted, unaltered battery and converted to mechanical energy by the permitted unaltered motors (and associated, appropriate circuitry).
The allowed parts list can be used for other things.

If the switches at the top of the post are in fact wired in series, activating any switch should trigger the response. It would be the way I would design/wire it to give the quickest response to minibot contact.
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Re: Do minibots need to stay at the top of the pole?

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Maybe. Another interpretation could be that DEPLOYMENT ends when the MINIBOT loses contact with the HOSTBOT. It's not defined in the rules.
This is in the rules...?

I read the definition of Deployment to mean that the "deployment" ends when you are no longer in contact with the minibot.

DEPLOYMENT – the act of positioning a MINIBOT on a TOWER. DEPLOYMENT starts when the MINIBOT breaks the vertical projection of the TOWER BASE circumference. DEPLOYMENT ends when the HOSTBOT is no longer in contact with the MINIBOT. (Related form, DEPLOY, verb)

<G19> MINIBOTS must remain completely autonomous and move up the POST solely through electric energy provided after DEPLOYMENT by the permitted, unaltered battery and converted to mechanical energy by the permitted unaltered motors (and associated, appropriate circuitry).

Thus G19 says you cannot transfer electric energy from your minibot battery into your motors until "deployment" is complete...."deployment" is not complete until you are no longer touching your minibot. We're spending quite a bit of time and energy making sure we are no longer touching minibot when the juice starts flowing......have I read too much into this?

Does G22 really mean that after you trip the switch, and your mini comes down, that it cannot touch your hostbot with incurring a penalty?

<G22> HOSTBOTS may not contact their ALLIANCE‟S MINIBOT once any part of it has climbed above the DEPLOYMENT LINE.
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Re: Do minibots need to stay at the top of the pole?

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This is in the rules...?

I read the definition of Deployment to mean that the "deployment" ends when you are no longer in contact with the minibot.

DEPLOYMENT – the act of positioning a MINIBOT on a TOWER. DEPLOYMENT starts when the MINIBOT breaks the vertical projection of the TOWER BASE circumference. DEPLOYMENT ends when the HOSTBOT is no longer in contact with the MINIBOT. (Related form, DEPLOY, verb)

<G19> MINIBOTS must remain completely autonomous and move up the POST solely through electric energy provided after DEPLOYMENT by the permitted, unaltered battery and converted to mechanical energy by the permitted unaltered motors (and associated, appropriate circuitry).

Thus G19 says you cannot transfer electric energy from your minibot battery into your motors until "deployment" is complete...."deployment" is not complete until you are no longer touching your minibot. We're spending quite a bit of time and energy making sure we are no longer touching minibot when the juice starts flowing......have I read too much into this?

Does G22 really mean that after you trip the switch, and your mini comes down, that it cannot touch your hostbot with incurring a penalty?

<G22> HOSTBOTS may not contact their ALLIANCE‟S MINIBOT once any part of it has climbed above the DEPLOYMENT LINE.
Suggest you shoot this one to Q and A asap! And share the outcome on CD for those who don't check the Q and A religiously...
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