I just wanted to thank Jenny, Shane, Jerry, Rick and everyone else involved, for putting together another great NEIRG. It was great fun. Also, thanks to Steve...
Tracy, Another lite sumo! That's great. I'll have competition in every class. Two of our high school students have entered adult heavy sumo! I think that ...
Just mailed my almost late registration in this morning. Alex and I are bringing 4 bots. 2 - mini sumo 1 - line follower 1 - lite sumo although there is a lot...
Rick, Could you tell me the school name and maybe a contact that of the person that brings a bus-load of students to NEIRG? Alex is getting involved in his...
Tracy, Thanks for the offer, but I won't be going to UPEC. I noticed last week that they still had some openings and thought seriously about attending, but ...
Rick, Just wanted to let you know that Alex and I are going to the Propeller Expo in Chicago this Saturday. If you are interested, you are more than welcome...
Tracy, You make it sound very exciting. The most exciting sumo contest in years. I can hardly wait to watch the video. I'm hoping that, by leaving ExSpurt...
Rick, OK. I only saw the last few rounds, but ExSpurt came in first, a student robot came in second, and Blackout third. I did see ExSpurt and Blackout...
Tracy, I do want to know how it turned out. It has been anywhere from a few days to a few weeks before they post the videos. I understand that the A/V...
Rick, I saw the last few rounds including the finals. Do you know how it turned out? I don't want to spoil it if you want to wait on the video which may be...
Tracy, I did not watch the live broadcast and it will probably be several days before the video is posted. Do you know how the contest turned out? I did write...
Rick, I hope Blackout made it to Cedar Falls OK. I didn't have time to go to UPS so I don't have a tracking number. I'll have to check in tomorrow to see...
HI Tracy, ExSpurt spent the weekend in Davenport, Iowa, before continuing on to Cedar Falls. I often wonder what the little guy is thinking about. I did not ...
Rick, I mailed my mini sumo over to the University of Northern Iowa ship-in last week. I was just curious, are you going to make the trip to Cedar Falls in...
Rick, Ah yes. It was taking 59 ms per cycle due to a rogue debug command running every loop! Removal of that one statement brought the cycle down to 43...
Tracy, I had to look up my code to see what was going on. For Expressway, the main loop just has one Branch statement and two serial out commands (at 9.6kbits)...
Rick, Can you tell me an easy way I can measure how long it takes for a BS2 program to cycle? I am thinking about this because Scooter is occasionally flat out...
Steve, Initially, I'd like to keep the basic line following contest as task oriented. The robot completes the task and wins. It doesn't have to do the task...
Shane, The playing surface is small...32 x 40 inches. Perhaps this year we could just set it in the Factory and let people run on it all day. Late in the day...
Hello, folks. I'm catching up on the conversation, and I'm open to some new ideas, personally. One thing we need to know, as this is discussed: The Travelling...
Another thought would be to take your original event, line follow for 2 minutes in the factory. Take the "winners" (those that completed the course) and have...
Steve, You really got me thinking. One of the problems with NEIRG is the lack of time for all of the events. I never liked the idea of running some events in...
Rick, Here's my thought. The biggest problem with line following events, is the speed of the robots. The fast ones are the best to watch, but you only get to...
Tracy, Thanks for the comments. One of our high schoolers did run a BOE-Bot on a sample course a week ago, but I didn't time it. I will time one Wednesday...
Rick, It looks good! I would make one small suggestion and that is putting something about the two minute time limit in the Description paragraph. In the...
Tracy, Here is the first draft of the basic line following contest. Any comments? Rick Basic Line Following Concept The present NEIRG line following contest...
Thank you again for that, Rick. I do look forward to this new, kinder version of line following. Hopefully it'll serve to garner more interest in these events....
Tracy, No changes for 2010. The line following will be the same. But, I should be writing new rules for a much simplified line following contest to be...
I see the 2010 NEIRG is set for February 20th which is right around the corner. Are there any significant changes for 2010? Is the line following going to be...
