Robot Olympic Challenges - now with delay! (win prize!)

fritsl's picture
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Challenge ends: 
2011-08-24 00:

Sponserod by Casca and he's upcoming laser-cut-robo-parts-shop: cascabots.com

LMR's (delayed) 2008 Olympic challenges!

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How to participate:

Enter a robot the usual way (Front page of LMR, top left). Write a comment on this very page, below here. In that comment you should link to your robots page, and if not obvious, let us know which LMR-Olympic discipline it is participating in.

Examples:

  • Make a running robot - Enter the robot, write a comment below, including a link to your robot, and write that you enter it as a participant in the discipline "Marathon".
  • Make a robot that detects a ball flying towards it, and tries to hit it - enter it as a ping-pong-participant.
  • Make a robot that looks really stupid with a silk band - enter it as gymnastics..

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The prize: 

First of all - like the OG - what you win is glory. Long lasting street credibility!

Also, the prize will be the TankBot chassis


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winner may choose between either one of these
http://cascabots.com/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=4
or http://cascabots.com/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=5

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Who will win:

Like the human-based games, the challenge will end at August 24, 2008. At that time we will see on this page, who has entered participating robots.

Out of these robots, the one(s) with highest vote(s) in average will win!

NEW: Delay.. We will wait for at least 2 robots participating, and the IRL OG has finished. Then we will ask if any more are on their way, and only when that is not the case, we will move on to the ceremony :)

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Small print:

  • Doping is allowed! (over-powering motors and code-hacking)
  • Dedicated robots are the best, but of course you may enter an existing / pre-made robot in the contest too. If you at least make a special video of it where it displays it's ability at a dicipline.
  • If in doubt of anything, the ref makes up the rules as we go along.
  • Remember to buy lots of cool laser cut stuff from our sponsor! It is extremely cheap and nice work!
  • It is only possible to enter your own / self made robots.
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Casca's picture

Thank you to Fritsl

Thank you to Fritsl for doing this and generously allowing me to participate! Also for this website and all of the participants. I stand in awe every time I come here and see the inventiveness  and creativity displayed on this site.

TheOther1's picture

In case anyone else is as

In case anyone else is as dense as I am and finds the little symbols are not overly obvious:

2008 Olympics Sports Listing

fritsl's picture

Oh! It is Water Polo! I take

Oh! It is Water Polo! I take my hat off for the first one to enter a Water Polo Robot :D
Chris the Carpenter's picture

Doping...

 Now THIS is a contest I can get behind...

I do my best robot work on dope!!

(That's a joke by the way, I used to be a hoodlum... alas, now I am a real grown-up) :( 

www.rocketbrandcustom.com baby!!

Casca's picture

OK gents, I have the site up

OK gents, I have the site up and running!! This is a temporary URL

 http://www.dragongraphicscorp.com/cube3/index.php

 

but please use it until the cascabots.com URL stuff is resolved.

If you encounter any issues, please email me at fennelld@cfl.rr.com

 

 

Casca's picture

CascaBots website

The cascabots website is operating under it's permanete URL at www.cascabots.com

 

for any issues, please contact me at casca@cascabots.com

Casca's picture

Olympic challange bots

Who's going to be the first to enter their Olympic challanger?
maneuver's picture

Robot Paralympics

OK, it's Friday, and I might be under some influence, and I know that this might be a little bit politically uncorrect, but here it goes:

 

Considering how slow I work, and how poorly my robots perform. Could the Robot Olympic Committee please consider following the olympic tradition of arranging the Robot Paralympic three weeks after the closing of the official Olympic Games?

 

/ vzz-clck-"Maneuver"

webmaster's picture

Hmm.. Yes. I think we will

Hmm.. Yes. I think we will move the deadline like this; At least 2 participants must be in the games!

At any time have joined in, we will ask around if any more are on their way - and if not, we will find the winner! If more are comming, we will wait for them :)

BaseOverApex's picture

Deadlines...

The deadline is just too short! Olympic athletes train for YEARS and give up their full time jobs and have sponsorship deals and stuff. How am I supposed to create a team of cycling robots in 3 weeks and feed my kids at the same time?
webmaster's picture

What? What is the deadline?

What? What is the deadline?
BaseOverApex's picture

Corssed Wires

I had the impression the deadline was chnged from Aug 24th to "however long it takes for the creation of two similar robots".
fritsl's picture

We will wait for at least 2

We will wait for at least 2 robots participating, and the IRL OG has finished. Then we will ask if any more are on their way, and only when that is not the case, we will move on to the ceremony :)

http://letsmakerobots.com/nod

 My contestant for the Marathan event, representing the USA

http://letsmakerobots.com/node/1860

maneuver's picture

 Representing USA???Those

 Representing USA???

Those pic's are from Japan!

 

/ vzz-clck-"Maneuver"

fritsl's picture

Country-issue overruled!But

Country-issue overruled!

But hey - Maneuver has got another point - that LEGO walker is really not something "You have done yourself"?

neutronfluxlabs's picture

Entries in Development

Currently Building Entries for the LMR Olympic Challenge. 

am i allowed make more than one entry for different olympic games?

-Wes

www.NeutronFluxLabs.com 

fritsl's picture

More than one entry?Yes,

More than one entry?

Yes, absolutely.

Chriskid's picture

thats what she said!!!!

thats what she said!!!!
fritsl's picture

rofl! Best twss so far! :D

rofl! Best twss so far! :D
BaseOverApex's picture

I don't get it...

Do you see what I DID there? TWSS. Heh heh heh! "I don't get it." ROFL. I kill me. I really do.
neutronfluxlabs's picture

.. Competitors

Since  Robot_Overlord Didn't actually *have* a robot he *built* and was just gunning at free stuff am i currently the only one building to compete at this time?

Oh BTW i think my bot will be in the "Shooting" Discpline of the Games.

 

fritsl's picture

I think I heard of

I think I heard of competitors.. but you will have a very good chance!!
BaseOverApex's picture

Hmmm... Shooting?

Could it do THIS well? These boyos are the best!
Nick's picture

I got my progect.

 I got my progect, but im sort of having problems uploading it from my cell phone.

(Me pulling my hair out,) Now i got to do it with my parents camera!

and they keep saying "ohh no, i dont have time!" while theyr reading the newspaper!

I hate still living with parents. :-(

 

 

 

SWITZERLAND: LAND OF THE COWS!!!

fritsl's picture

You hate living with

You hate living with parents, you hate Switzerland! You will have to wait till you get 16, then buy a guitar, and hitch hike to England to be a rockstar!

:D

PS: Read "Best Practice", front page.

Nick's picture

sorry.

Sorry about my sig, ill keep it in mind :)

 

 

/Nick

RobotGrrl's picture

I want to enter this... I'm

I want to enter this... I'm just confused about some parts

Why will there only be two contestants (if more don't enter) :S

Why does it say: "Challenge ends: 2011-08-24 00" When it's going to end probably a few years before that?!

Thanks...

RobotGrrl

webmaster's picture

Q: Why will there only be

Q: Why will there only be two contestants (if more don't enter) :S

A: What it all means is that we are not going to have a winner if only one participates. We need at least 2. If more than 2 want to enter, it will be more than 2.

Q: Why does it say: "Challenge ends: 2011-08-24 00" When it's going to end probably a few years before that?!

A: Because we made this website ourselves, and so it has a few.. areas that can be developed over time :) It ends once we have a winner.

UltraCan's picture

I enter and I am Ready ! My robot is finished :)

An Epee Bot ! You better run away before it hurts you with its blade ! haha !

:)

 

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