anyway, i'm glad the robotics competition's over, except now the holidays are coming to an end too and i have not done my homework D: surprising? i think not.
anyway, we didn't actually win anything from the competition (except a gold medal for teamwork but that doesn't count) but since it was our first time and we were using a set with missing parts, i'd say it wasnt too bad. the first mission was extremely frustrating, because we could have gotten the full 25 points, if not for some minor glitches. after the competition we borrowed the playing field for a rerun (without changing anything), and the robot ran fine. pity that.
the second mission... was a goner. there was really no way we were going to even complete half of it. basically the scenario was: a volcano erupted. people ran away screaming. some important governing organisation wants to check if there are any people still in need of rescue and so they want to send robots to check because the terrain is not safe for humans. that was mission 1, which was to programme your robot to navigate the playing field, passing through the check point, then returning to home base. after that, they found that there were no people stranded. they did one last check and sent a plane. the pilot lost control of the plane and ejected himself before the plane went crashing to the earth. so... now we had to rescue that stupid pilot, which made things a lot harder cause we had to drag him back.
in the end, only one team managed to save the pilot, that team being the one from hwachong -.- but screw the stupid lego man with no hat. he deserved all the crushing, rolling over and general torture he received from malfunctioning robots (and our team)
anyway, time for pictures because i'm too lazy to type and i wanna get back to my book.
see that thing in the middle? it's a light bulb, try turning him on ;)
"do i look chio?" - the funny facilitator in the striped polo tee
the poor pilot who had to climb his way out of the (makeshift) volcano after (evil) NY girls threw him in :D
and our robot from hell, which we named murphy (and completely wonked out on us during the second mission, but i guess we were asking for it by naming him that)all in all, not a bad holiday i guess. back to my book now. (and i've decided to name my ipod kvothe after the main character in the book :D)
