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"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
  -- Daniel Webster



Monday, March 31, 2003 :::
 

The high school robotics contest I went to this weekend apparently was started by Dean Kamen, which explains why there were a couple of Segways there; I got a go on one of them. Turning, apparently, isn't done with body weight; there's a control at the left hand. I would think it would be easier to coordinate with speed if it were the same type of control; it couldn't detect you falling over in that direction, since the wheel base would make it difficult to do that, but your feet go in designated places, and it could surely detect a weight shift through those.

I don't get why the webpage seems out of date. It doesn't mention this year's contest, but I assure you there was one, and it involved pushing stacks of containers around. And thanks to a member of the team from Rochester, MI, who was quite generous with his time when he could otherwise have been worrying about the final rounds of competition. I didn't get his name, but he obviously won himself a fan for those last matches.



::: posted by dWj at 11:38 AM


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