Building a Robot Dog (with an airsoft gun)
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- guy whose back yard the scrimmages took place in
- Don't stick your camera on an arm and poke it around corners to see the opponent
- No detachable parts? It's more nuanced than this. Not leaving "mines" I think is a case of this.
Basically there's a few goals to the rules (this has been an on and off competition for about 15 years now): keep the spirit of "pilots in giant mech robots" (loosely 90s era stuff), and homogenize the competition slightly for competitiveness.
Melee is still allowed! If you walk into the other robot and trigger one of their 4 score panels, that still counts.
It's a hard competition to prep for. Numerous bespoke HW subsystems, software, budgets that grow quickly with the size/weight of your bot... and being reliable.
And more generally, yeah, having the AI manage some of those plotting needs will be fantastic in other work too; I enjoy figuring out what to plot, and don't mind wrangling and hand-refactoring said scripts... but it's so time consuming historically, and there's always the itch to urgency to get back to the "main code". (at least I learned to gradually convince peers that often plot scripts should be commitable without being polished; they're a form of documentation sometimes!)
* Z3l3nsky slaps eschluntz around a bit with a large trout
<Z3l3nsky> @eschluntz pm
That happened.
There needs to be a new word for when you're impressed, but so depressed at what is being achieved.