----------------------------------- MyPistolsIn3D Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:20 pm McMaster Olympics ----------------------------------- Anyone going to McMasters science olympics? If so, are you doing the programming event? Lego robots, should be fun. ----------------------------------- Genesis Mon Oct 18, 2004 8:17 pm ----------------------------------- I'm going. No programming though. My school's too cheap to buy Lego Robots for me to learn how to program them. I wanted to do that though. ----------------------------------- Pickles Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:58 pm ----------------------------------- oh ill be there.. hooray for tracksuits ----------------------------------- Tony Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:21 pm ----------------------------------- My school's too cheap to buy Lego Robots for me to learn how to program them. you generally program them in C or Java anyways... so if you're familiar with LEGO and one of the languages above, its very easy to pick up on the consepts. do I have to be a part of a highschool team for this? ----------------------------------- Pickles Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:27 pm ----------------------------------- its not even Java or or C i dont believe, its using something called RoboLab atleast thats the software they said that is included in each of sets.. where its just like icons to show what to do.. ie you insert an icon that tells it to turn on and it does that.. it said it was meant for kids like 8 and up so we figure we can figure it out.. This is just speculation, and a bit of hope, cause if its in C we are royally screwed, and if its in java we have 1 guy that knows that watered down holtsoft java.. and thats about it. :) ----------------------------------- Genesis Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:27 pm ----------------------------------- Oh really. Cool. Well it's too late now, we didn't register for that event. :( do I have to be a part of a highschool team for this? Ya you do. ----------------------------------- Tony Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:49 pm ----------------------------------- Pickles : LEGO mindstorm is for 12+, but yeah, they got their own drag & drop logic blocks visual design entironment. Though you can imagine how useless that is... here I'm suppost to program my robot in C for the project, but I want to try to convince my TAs to let me install java on the unit instead... I'll be talking to them tomorrow about it ----------------------------------- Pickles Tue Oct 19, 2004 6:16 pm ----------------------------------- ahhh, you were talking bout the old real ones.. gotcha How are you liking mechatronics? it seems to be an interesting program. How many hours of hw do you have? ----------------------------------- zylum Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:57 pm ----------------------------------- I'm going to be there too ;) if you need to find my team it's cald team Michael (me) and its got 3 ppl in it ----------------------------------- Tony Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:22 pm ----------------------------------- How are you liking mechatronics? it seems to be an interesting program. How many hours of hw do you have? I think I need to make a FAQ page about my degree program :? in a nutshell, its awesome! I get about 5 hours of work / week, all done wednesday night. But you got to keep in mind that we have 30 hours of lectures (with some tutorials mixed in) / week as well. ----------------------------------- rizzix Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:22 pm ----------------------------------- http://lejos.sf.net yep u can use java to program the mindstorm ----------------------------------- Pickles Wed Oct 20, 2004 7:54 pm ----------------------------------- Lets hope mother nature holds off on the rain ----------------------------------- MyPistolsIn3D Thu Oct 21, 2004 5:12 pm ----------------------------------- Go team Cheat! Man we got destroyed. But at least we lost with style. ----------------------------------- zylum Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:05 pm ----------------------------------- my team won software engineering thanks to me even though i thought the even was a pile of crap with almost nothing to do with programming... also a team from my school won the spiral something event... it was the wone where you had to build a protein molecule and take a chem test or something ----------------------------------- Genesis Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:20 pm ----------------------------------- We didn't win anything either. Although I wasn't very impressed with the judgind system they had. For my mechanical transporter, their target wasn't even centered with the ramp, and the guy wouldn't let me move it. And the ramp was kinda warped at the bottom and sent the car a bit off track. So we ended up perfectly in line with the target, but a few centimeteres to the right. And in the photonics challenge (which was worth it just to wear the white suit) I think we should've gotten at least top three. Our shape was really complex, we hit every target in the most difficult way possible, had an awesome poem, and aced the test. But I think the chick judging our table was a little slow, she even spilled liquid nitrogen all over our thing. Also our teacher clearly won the challenge! (Or at least came second, although I checked everyone elses thing and it looked like we won.) But somehow ended up in fifth! The girl beside her who's crane thing snapped and fell over got a higher place! :evil: I think they read the list in reverse. Oh well though. Good times. :) ----------------------------------- MyPistolsIn3D Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:28 pm ----------------------------------- Screw ur teacher. GO WELLMAN! (yea, he got like last lol) ----------------------------------- AsianSensation Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:51 pm ----------------------------------- Wait, this year's events sound exactly like last years. That's no fun at all. Wait for the York Olympiad, I think their's is done with more style and heavier competition. At least the events are challenging. The only thing I remembered from McMasters olympiad (last year) was that I got free T-Shirts, both from the Engineering department and the general McMasters shirt. ----------------------------------- zylum Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:04 pm ----------------------------------- from what i've heard from people who did it last year, its almost exactly the same... we also got free t-shirts :wink: ----------------------------------- MyPistolsIn3D Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:12 pm ----------------------------------- Ya man, its the same events as last year. same t-shirts too lol. Wat school r u guys from? Me n Pickles were representing CDDHS. ----------------------------------- Pickles Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:57 pm ----------------------------------- you may have noticed me sporting the sport headband/bluejays 1993 world champions sweatshirt/bluejays glasses/insulated jean jacket.. We got destroyed in the lego robotics. we just threw a bunch of random moves in there and atually came pretty close, except it was all radical and hit the guy in the foot. ----------------------------------- AsianSensation Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:05 pm ----------------------------------- yeah, our teachers decided it wasn't worth it to go to the McMasters olympiad. We are from Vincent Massey Secondary School, so I'll see you all in York, as last year's defending champion :D ----------------------------------- zylum Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:17 pm ----------------------------------- im from Woodlands SS and i was the first guy from my team to go up and accept the congratulations for winning the lego robot thing :wink:. i was the tall white guy with the blue sweatshirt and jeans and the puma soccer shoes. ----------------------------------- Pickles Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:19 pm ----------------------------------- heh we knew we didnt win anything so we left before the awards. ----------------------------------- Genesis Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:06 pm ----------------------------------- When's York's? ----------------------------------- AsianSensation Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:01 pm ----------------------------------- it's usually in May or something, pretty late in the year. It's a fun place to meet really smart people, there are like Chemistry Olympiad team members, CCC finalists, and tons of other uber leet people. Like University of Toronto School, they sent in like 1 team of 6 people and creamz0red everyone.' There was also the Lego Robot code thingie, I wasn't part of it though, we had bugzpodder as our programmer. But from what I heard, the competition was pretty tough. So yeah, go register and we'll see you there. ----------------------------------- Genesis Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:11 pm ----------------------------------- Yeah, sounds awesome. Probably get crushed there, but it'll be worth it. ----------------------------------- MyPistolsIn3D Fri Oct 22, 2004 10:41 am ----------------------------------- We sent a team last year, got to third place. But then we got diqualified cause we cheated. The losers couldnt even cheat well. :x