Hey, BattleBots is planning having an 'open' category this time around where they'll try to match up similar robots that don't really belong in the standard competition. So build a couple bots like that and enter them.
Several bots competed in both UK RW and BB. Big Brother and Razer come to mind. Neither did particularly well, both having been optimized for the different environment of the UK arena.
It's a tournament, and often you really need to save your bot for the next round, even if you win. Plus most of the better robots aren't that easy to destroy.
>I remember one particularly deadly battlebot, it had a spinning steel blade on top, >like an inverted lawn mower. It would just cut the opponents to pieces.
I signed up for an account with them a couple years back and they socked me with several hundred dollars in fees within the first month. Good riddance.
Actually, while KDE has long had the option to put the menu bar at the top of the screen, the last time I used KDE, if you move your mouse to the very top of the screen, you would still click above the menu, not activating it.
Must have been a long while ago, as the KDE menu bar works exactly how you want it, with an infinitely tall target.
I've been using polyethylene armor on my fighting robots for years. It's extremely tough, lightweight, and relatively cheap. There was a fashion for using polycarbonate (Lexan) on fighting robots for a while, and while it looks cool (it's clear), it just can't take impact like UHMW polyethylene.
People in this thread keep mentioning the spread of malaria due to a warmer world. For those who don't know: malaria was common in the US and Europe up until just this century. Mosquito control has stopped it.
I'm using: Show InOut: adds a column to the thread pane which shows whether you or someone else wrote the message. This is useful if you want both incoming and outgoing messages in the same folder Mnenhy: Among other things, allows you to have different columns shown in the thread pane, depending upon which folder you're viewing. GMailUI: Among other things, improved searching of your folders.
I'm a merchant and have set up service with Google Checkout. They've been pretty good to me so far and I've had no customer complaints. There were some integration problems in the beginning, but we've worked through those.
I love the fact that they temporarily dropped all fees as a promotion. PayPal still has more features, but Google's slowly adding more.
And what about gun control laws in America? It's harder to get a gun now than it has been at any prior point in time, yet gun crime is generally trending upward and has been for a long time.
Are you sure about that? Read this:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/guns.htm
If you want a simple logfile analyzer, use AWStats, as mentioned earlier here.
Google Analytics is a little more sophisticated tool that requires you to embed a little bit of their code on every one of your pages. Also free to use.
I just had a need for this very thing. I've been looking for an implementation of the Minkowski sum in Java. And Google had it. So if you need to implement a particular algorithm that someone else might have already implemented, this is the way to find it.
I can't find any of the software with my name on it that's on SourceForge, though.
I didn't want to mention it, but since you brought it up, waterjet cutting makes use of a high pressure stream of water and abrasive particles to machine a part. It's effective on almost any material, including plastic, metal, wood, and stone. It's a very versatile technique that offers low setup cost.
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Hey, BattleBots is planning having an 'open' category this time around where they'll try to match up similar robots that don't really belong in the standard competition. So build a couple bots like that and enter them.
HypnoDisc really isn't that powerful compared to American spinners like Nightmare, Megabyte, and Phrizbee/Shrederator.
Several bots competed in both UK RW and BB. Big Brother and Razer come to mind. Neither did particularly well, both having been optimized for the different environment of the UK arena.
The robots fight using kinetic energy.
You don't actually think that it's practical to have robots that fight with lasers, do you?
It's a tournament, and often you really need to save your bot for the next round, even if you win. Plus most of the better robots aren't that easy to destroy.
>I remember one particularly deadly battlebot, it had a spinning steel blade on top,
>like an inverted lawn mower. It would just cut the opponents to pieces.
You're probably thinking of Hazard: http://www.teamdelta.com/hazard/hazard-main.htm
The rules don't actually prohibit autonomous bots. Just build your machine with a remote start and stop and bring it to the event.
Why is it that someone always feels the need to say this on EVERY SINGLE BattleBots related thread?
At this point, it's a dead horse. E-mail if you want details.
I signed up for an account with them a couple years back and they socked me with several hundred dollars in fees within the first month. Good riddance.
Must have been a long while ago, as the KDE menu bar works exactly how you want it, with an infinitely tall target.
Oops. Here's the real link: http://www.tinyplanet.com/robots.php
I've been using polyethylene armor on my fighting robots for years. It's extremely tough, lightweight, and relatively cheap. There was a fashion for using polycarbonate (Lexan) on fighting robots for a while, and while it looks cool (it's clear), it just can't take impact like UHMW polyethylene.
People in this thread keep mentioning the spread of malaria due to a warmer world. For those who don't know: malaria was common in the US and Europe up until just this century. Mosquito control has stopped it.
I'm using:
Show InOut: adds a column to the thread pane which shows whether you or someone else wrote the message. This is useful if you want both incoming and outgoing messages in the same folder
Mnenhy: Among other things, allows you to have different columns shown in the thread pane, depending upon which folder you're viewing.
GMailUI: Among other things, improved searching of your folders.
Objects that are extremely regular and have right angles are usually considered to be artificial in origin.
I'm a merchant and have set up service with Google Checkout. They've been pretty good to me so far and I've had no customer complaints. There were some integration problems in the beginning, but we've worked through those.
I love the fact that they temporarily dropped all fees as a promotion. PayPal still has more features, but Google's slowly adding more.
And what about gun control laws in America? It's harder to get a gun now than it has been at any prior point in time, yet gun crime is generally trending upward and has been for a long time. Are you sure about that? Read this: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/guns.htm
I missed an important number in your post: the cost of the large tract of land that this will sit on.
Take a look at the videos that demonstrate Netbeans 'Matisse' GUI builder. I use it all the time, and find it quite handy:
http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/matisse.html
Theorore Gray (of wooden periodic table fame) also says that Polonium 210 is used in antistatic brushes for film negatives
Anyone interested in creating their own self-repairing robot in a virtual world might want to check the Yobotics Simulation Construction Set.
Google Analytics is a little more sophisticated tool that requires you to embed a little bit of their code on every one of your pages. Also free to use.
For totally custom reporting, move your log data to the database following the guide I wrote earlier this year.
I can't find any of the software with my name on it that's on SourceForge, though.
I didn't want to mention it, but since you brought it up, waterjet cutting makes use of a high pressure stream of water and abrasive particles to machine a part. It's effective on almost any material, including plastic, metal, wood, and stone. It's a very versatile technique that offers low setup cost.