Author Topic: Here is a little challenge: Get Creative Kiddies!  (Read 7674 times)

Offline JoeBlo

Re: Here is a little challenge: Get Creative Kiddies!
« Reply #60 on: December 04, 2009, 10:04:06 PM »
the original High Roller I made had small teeth on hinges pointing down for wedge defense, it was only small, your execution of the design was probably better having it sweep for wedges

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Re: Here is a little challenge: Get Creative Kiddies!
« Reply #61 on: December 05, 2009, 07:00:20 AM »
I've never seen a bot like yours before so it might be entirely original, but it's still a shell spinner and S32 stated "entirely new robot type"

Yes, that was the main idea. I did, however add Subset of a previous bot type in as well, so a HS/VS/FS (the ONLY HS variant NOT made by ACAMS) is acceptible as well.
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Re: Here is a little challenge: Get Creative Kiddies!
« Reply #62 on: December 05, 2009, 10:42:04 AM »
Per Naryar's comment on the voting page, I had no idea that my design had been done before.  I kinda presumed that it might have been attempted, but I didn't have anything to refer to or check.



I've never seen a bot like yours before so it might be entirely original, but it's still a shell spinner and S32 stated "entirely new robot type"

The design is surprisingly effective and I would be willing to bet that a DSL master could make it work waaay better than I have (i.e. more powerful/faster)

A challenge appears ???

Sounds good - I'll try building a bot like that in the future.


Go for it. I would be very curious to how amazing a bot you could build under that concept of a spinning wedge sweeper. And you are right... I should have focused on making an entirely new bot type.  Man, this game has been out for so long it is very hard to think of something that has not been done before.

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Re: Here is a little challenge: Get Creative Kiddies!
« Reply #63 on: December 05, 2009, 02:18:53 PM »
Post above, JD.
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Re: Here is a little challenge: Get Creative Kiddies!
« Reply #64 on: December 05, 2009, 02:51:04 PM »
I wish I'd entered. I've come up with a little concept.
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