Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #10487
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: CIRCITZ@aol.com
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 08:52:42 -0500
Subject: Re: FYI: ANN: fire-fighting robot contest at Penn State (3-25)
> Is there an official website with the rules and regs that you could post
for
> us to look at. This sounds like it could be interesting!
> Dan
>
> << I'm only an hour or so away from that competition. I'm seriously
thinking
> of
> creating a BEAM and CPU TEAM of robots to conquer the course. I read in
the
> info page that a team of robots is allowed this year. So I was thinking,
> why not use 4 smaller bots to jet off really fast to the 4 rooms in the
> course. The only function they would have is to find the candle, emit an
RF
> beacon, that triggers the bigger CPU bot to respond and put out the fire.
>
> >>
>
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