Halloween is upon us, and it looks like everyone is testing out their costumes. For instance, the trees are dressing up (or down?) as Naked Trees, and all the leaves are dressing up as Multicoloured Dead Leaves. It's all very exciting. But we've keeping our heads down and churning out some great stuff to show […]
Sumovore Captures 1st at NAIT
Dave Hrynkiw
October 16, 2004
From the BEAM mailing list, we're happy to report that Tom Gray managed to win 1st at the NAIT robotics challenge in Edmonton!:
"Thanks again to all who endured my wails and made helpful suggestions earlier this year when I couldn't get my BS2 brained Sumovore to run. "
"Grant M. of Solarbotics finally traced the problem to a loose resistor lead. I got my bot going in time to enter the NAIT robotic challenge this morning, where it won first place."
"Thanks also to Craig Limber for strategy and programming tips; they paid off!"
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