[committee] Event idea?

[matches at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au]

Hi,

I know we are planning on running a lot of LANs this year, but I  
thought it might be fun to have a robotics competition.

Now you might think I am dreaming of "robot wars", with giant war  
machines with flame throwers and chain saws, but in fact had something  
a bit safer and smaller scale in mind.

Details of the sort of competitions that I think might be good are here:
http://matches.ucc.asn.au/robocomp.html

While these ideas are not as cool as robotic death machines, they are  
a lot more attainable, and reasonably fun to watch, especially the  
soccer.

The competitions are supposed to be easy enough so that people who do  
not necessary have a lot of experience can enter. Building a robot is  
not that hard (I have done it :P) if it just has to move around and  
maybe chase a bright light or something.

However, people would probably need to invest some amount of money and  
time in building stuff for this competition. This is where I can see  
it failing due to general apathy.

On the other hand it will give first/second year eng students stuff to  
do with their AVR.

Anyway let me know what you think.

tl;dr: Sam has an idea/s for a robotics competition, is it stupid?

Thanks,
Sam Moore
[SZM]
2011 Ordinary Committee Member