{"id":133,"date":"2007-05-15T19:08:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T03:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2007-05-15T19:08:31","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T03:08:31","slug":"western-canadian-robot-games-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Western Canadian Robot Games 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Western Canadian Robotics Society<\/a> held their annual event this past weekend, and I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to attend again. This year the event was held at the Aero Space Museum out near the Calgary airport.<\/p>\n

Once again, it was a great event! I captured a number of photos and short video clips (not always the best quality, sorry) here<\/a>. I haven’t had a chance to clean them up or even give them proper titles and descriptions yet, but maybe you’ll enjoy them anyways.<\/p>\n

In addition to the minisumo events there were the classic events of line following and mine sweeper. There was also a nice First Lego League demonstration. Since I was flying and had to bring my robots on the plane, I only took my two minisumos: Velox <\/em>and The Thin Man<\/a><\/em>. As you could imagine, I had to put them in my suitcase, there was no way I would be allowed on the flight with something that is basically a sharp chunk of metal.<\/p>\n

There were eight minisumos competing in the “advanced” class this year. It took six rounds to declare The Thin Man<\/em> the first place winner, while Velox <\/em>took third place. Craig Limber’s Sayonar Sucker<\/em> had an excellent day and earned second place. It helped that Dave Hylands<\/a> wasn’t attending this year, he is going to PDXBot.07<\/a> this coming weekend instead.<\/p>\n

It was a lot of fun again this year and you can be certain I’ll plan to go again next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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