pledged 2. If all goes well may change that to 3
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp8hvyjZWHs

Hey dudes, once again huge thanks to everyone who's already pledged.. looks good! Just a bit of an update I've been spamming the living hell out of everyone I can think of that may be vaguely interested in the event, most importantly in the sponsorship end. If anyone knows of a company/group/media network whatever that would be interested, please by all means send them to robotcombat.pozible.com.au ! If you don't want to... just PM me their details and i'll shoot one off. Never know if you don't ask...

Please check the old thread for some 'planning' stuffs. Keeping this thread fairly clean from random chatter if I can.
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Updated first page with some early tedious details, pls read and review...
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Thanks for the update!

Everything is looking good, rules, safety and judging look like you've spent a bit of time working on it all and everything seems fair (IMO). Counting down the days till this event!
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Suggestions wrt running event.

All bots *must* have some kind of on/off switch or be able to go from "charging" to "ready" in under 30 seconds.

The whole plugging batteries in, applying tape, doing up bolts thing just before the match slows things down too much for a public event.

Also we could pinch the timer + buzzer setup from the main arena for the event perhaps rather than relying on shouting about tapouts etc.

We need a named umpire for each match, perhaps with a funny hat, this person probably shouldn't be a judge if we can avoid it. Its their job to do things like countouts, arena unsticks, etc and the guidelines for that should be well defined.
I'm happy to do it mostly but I hope to be competing at the event.
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All very good suggestion. Definatley have to reinforce the '30sec till ready' rule, with ants, plugging the battery in direct is fine with me but it really should be quick, like I had for nyant.

I have some funky arcade buttons we can rig to a latching relay for tapping out buzzer/driver ready etc. Timer we'll probably use the PC.

I defo need to find a dedicated umpire... still working on that, I'd rather you compete jake! So need like, that guy in the robotsuit from early robogames...
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Yeah Jake build a robot already.

He'll I'll build u an ant if u want. Just give me details
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Any chance we can get Russel involved?
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<Patrician|Away> what does your robot do, sam
<bovril> it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls

Fly in to Syd Friday @ 4:30. Fly out Sunday 7:05.

Paid now to build robots.
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Twisted Constructions
http://www.botbitz.com

You get paid to build robots?
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<Patrician|Away> what does your robot do, sam
<bovril> it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls

Well yes but that is another matter. (Not combat robots)

"Paid, now to build robots." Would have been a better statement. Real question is how many to bring 1,2,3,....6....

Steve
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Twisted Constructions
http://www.botbitz.com

Good point, we want as many antweights as physically possible! Come on guys, they take like 2 days to make... I should know nyant was just chucked together and took out the event.

Need moar pledges, you know who you are.
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Haha it takes me much longer than that for me to build an ant, but im 'special'.

I had a few cool ideas just now tho that i will try so i dont front with just Canyonero again
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<Patrician|Away> what does your robot do, sam
<bovril> it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls

Is Canyonero back in one piece?

uhh, its still in the car somewhere i think it was running OK in the melee until the battery got unplugged, so should still be good to go as is
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<bovril> it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls