A variety of challenge suggestions

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Here are a variety of suggestions for potential future challenges...

Build me a mechanically operated elevator system to transport teammates one at a time to the top of a ten foot platform.

Build me an oven, capable of successfully baking a souffle.

Start me a fire using a combination of three independently mechanised maneuvers that spur one non mechanised action which sparks the fire.

How about a motorized tug of war.

Build me a bow, capable of delivering a 4 foot long arrow 100 feet to a target.

-- julius orth (jorth57751@aol.com), February 01, 2001

Answers

Build a crane capable of lifting a large mass over a high wall and placing it accurately on a target position on the other side of the wall.

Build rockets that are fired into the distance along a line. Base the score on distance traveled and subtract the distance from the target line.

Build unmaned aircraft that is scored on the length of time in flight.

Build a powered winch capable of pulling a large mass up an incline over a specified distance. Make the contest a race.

-- Jeffrey A. Woodwick (Home-Tech@webtv.net), February 01, 2001.


Build a machine that deletes all of the bad posts that come up on all of these message boards.

-- Danny Hemorrhoid (Aceflyer419@aol.com), January 26, 2002.

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