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Last Tuesday I was at a robotics meeting/competition. We did the average “table-top” game: keep your bot on the table the longest. If you hit an object, you loose points, and you gain points my going over a black line.

Update: I just uploaded a new version that lets you tweak values… download it again!
After a rather long wait, I finally got the 3d box working. While it was just for me to learnt the basics, it’s still useful for teaching purposes. Also, rather than a “spinning” box, as I attempted to make, I got […]

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After the failure of the counter-weight last week, the connection b/w the throwing arm and the ‘rock box’ has been re-enforced to withstand the stresses of 400 pounds of rocks. This required […]

This is more math then I’ve ever dealt with in any program I’ve ever written! I’ll post soon about the whole project, plus a tutorial, but for the moment I’ll leave you with this sample peice of code that draws the front face of the box (’LineThree()’ is a function I wrote to graph a […]