Robot Olympic Challenges - now with delay! (win prize!)
2008-08-03 18:36
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
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.


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.
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
Oh! It is Water Polo! I take
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!!
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
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
Olympic challange bots
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"
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 :)
Deadlines...
What? What is the deadline?
Corssed Wires
We will wait for at least 2
http://letsmakerobots.com/nod
My contestant for the Marathan event, representing the USA
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/1860
Representing USA???Those
Representing USA???
Those pic's are from Japan!
/ vzz-clck-"Maneuver"
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"?
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
More than one entry?Yes,
More than one entry?
Yes, absolutely.
thats what she said!!!!
rofl! Best twss so far! :D
I don't get it...
.. 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.
I think I heard of
Hmmm... Shooting?
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!!!
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.
sorry.
Sorry about my sig, ill keep it in mind :)
/Nick
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
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.
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 !
:)