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Spockie-Tech
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Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Originally posted by Giant Robo:
I`m looking forward to seeing how these wireless cams on bots go because I have dreamt of an off road comp. I think it would be terrifying fun, such like; "wait, theres one coming at you from behind!!! Get out of there!
This sort of thing sounds great to me as well.. a "First Person" view from the robots point-of-view would be awesome. we would need to get our Radio control systems working a bit better than they presently are to be able to roam around a decent-size junkyard at long range, and the camera-link adds another radio-link to sort out, but this makes it into a sort of "tank-wars" and with the first-person viewpoint combined with some over-head "gods-eye" footage from a camera mounted up in the trees or something would make some fantastic TV footage.
I think theres a lot of future in this direction (in addition to the traditional robot wars style), our major hassle and expense at the moment is trying to build polycarb boxes for these things to fight in so people can watch them at close range without getting hurt. If we (eventually) go off-road outside, then you just need a big enough area that flying debris cant hit the next door neighbour (A country scrap yard or similair), and the drivers can sit safely in their armoured box and remote view the action. Get it all on Tape from a few view points, and edit it down for TV. could be a whole new show.
anyway, enough future-dreaming for now, good to see theres lot of other people interested in evolving "outside the box" so to speak , so we can be thinking in that direction long-term, but right now, our proposed first step is the "King of the Hill" comp. It sounds like most people like it, so I might see about drawing up some plans for a suggested "hill" that we could place, and get them posted for comments/criticism. Might have to wait until after the looming event of course, since we're pretty busy right now, but if anyone else has any thoughts along those lines, keep them coming.
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