LMR 1 year old Birthday Speech!
DEAR LMR..
Happy Birthday, all LMR.
I am not going to make a long speech, because seriously; It would be emotional!
However..
End of that speech :) You can make your own below :)
Win A Measure-thingey!
This multimeter or whaever it is called, was used on making the first robot that entered LMR.
in this weekend, it is donated to a member of LMR.
But who should I send it to? Well, time to a little birthday-contest!
RULES:
Competition ends sunday evening somehow, depending on your time zone :)
The winner will be (if anyone participates, that is) the one who is making most dots on a piece of normal letter / printer-paper.
That's right; the most dots on a piece of paper!
You may NOT use a printer, nor any other pre-made machine to make the dots.
Dots should be made either by hand (take a chance and make 30 dots with a pen & participate with that, chances are that you win) - OR with any mechanical device that you make yourself.
IF (against all ods) we should be in doubt about who has made the most dots on a sheet of paper, we will have to ask some nerd in here to make an apparatous that can count the dots. So there you go, the dots has to be individual and clear enough for the dot-reader to see!
You participate by taking a picture / scan your dotted piece of paper, and enter it in a comment below.
May the best dotter win!
Please participate, for the sport of it ;) You can always re-donate the thing!
Latest stats!
LMR has Google stats on it. I would REALLY love to grant everyone the access to it, but I have not managed to find a way that Google provides free access for everyone. (PM me if you want me to make individual access for you, some in here have it already)
However, since it's birthday, I have dumped 3 stats-files for you to have fun with. See atachments to this post.
Apart from your findings, let me just comment this; It is apparent that there are 2 peaks in the early stages of the year.
These where when I released video of YDM, the first one on Google vieo, next on Youtube.
note how much it means for us that the videos have links to letsmakerobots.com! (Don't forget) We are also releasing a kit for you to print out our logo etc. More on that somewhere else.
Second comment is; Apart from the bumps, we have a steady, strong growth. Just now I am getting to the point where I am dissapointed if we do not have 2.000 visitors every day!
You can be sure that your project is seen by MANY people, and if you are helping, and making walkthroughs etc, you are really helping thousands of people.
Thank you for the first year, It was super :D
I hope you have a happy birthday-weekend!
Cheers ;)
@ Fri, 2009-02-06 17:48
WHAT!? BLURRY DOTS!?
WHAT!? BLURRY DOTS!? ARRRRRGH!
Ah well, congratulations Mitch!
I think I'll frame that piece of paper though. :P
@ Sat, 2009-02-07 01:45
Bad luck Nigma
@ Sat, 2009-02-07 03:36
Ditto, I'd like to see a
Ditto, I'd like to see a higher-res version of Nigma's. Congrats Matt. Both of you definitely put in a lot of effort :)
Dan
@ Sun, 2009-02-08 07:22
thanks
@ Fri, 2009-02-06 21:55
Thanks
@ Fri, 2009-02-06 17:58
I'm sorry, had to chose! Was
I'm sorry, had to chose! Was tempted to buy an extra, so there could be 2 winners :)
However, the rules said that a dot- reading machine should be used if doubt.. and a "string of dots" would only be considered one dot, single dots where the object :)
@ Fri, 2009-02-06 17:07
VERDICT
OK, this was a tough one!
I have recieved hi-res from Matt & Nigma, clearly the 2 leading dotters.
Where as Nigma had done some creative stuff with images etc, and possibly even had the most dots.. I have come to the conclusion that Matt's dots where much more like single dots. So if you count blurry stuff from Nigma, he wins, but this is aboout dots, so sorry Nigma.. And CONGRATIOLATIONS MATT!
mattmitch is the winner, with this entry:
Matt; Please PM / mail me your home address, and I will ship right away.
Thank you so very much to all of you participating in this :)
(And happy birthday for the last time this year)
@ Fri, 2009-02-06 20:12
Congratulations
Well done MattMitch. I already used your entry as a backdrop for my latest bot photo. i think this should join the logo kit.
Mike
@ Fri, 2009-02-06 21:53
Thanks
@ Tue, 2009-02-03 16:22
so is Frits count...
So is Frits counting all the dots ? ... lol I just imagined the poor guy sitting in front of a computer screen going " one ,two, three ,four ,five, si... O. crap! ... one two three four five..."
~Matt
@ Mon, 2009-02-02 05:54
Fritsl
Uuuuh Frits...
Frits@gmail.com doesn't seem to exist.
I sent an eMail only to have it returned with a delivery error notification...
@ Mon, 2009-02-02 09:21
oh, sorry
oh, sorry guys..fritslyneborg at gmail.com
sorry
@ Mon, 2009-02-02 16:01
SPAM INCOMING!
@ Mon, 2009-02-02 17:42
lol
@ Mon, 2009-02-02 05:54
This is an automatically
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
frits@gmail.com
Technical details of permanent failure:
The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or unnecessary spaces
@ Mon, 2009-02-02 09:03
maybe
@ Sun, 2009-02-01 21:51
I just realised I made
@ Sun, 2009-02-01 20:52
Wow, an unexpected match!I
Wow, an unexpected match!
I was expecting something like max 100 dots on a piece of paper, I kinda feel terible that I only have one price with so much efford!
mattmitch & Nigma : May I ask you to mail me your images in a higner resolution? My mail address is
frits at gmail.com
@ Sun, 2009-02-01 21:43
Hey frits
um I am getting a failure to send notice every time I email you so here it is http://drop.io/dx66vij#
Btw It is scanned at 300 dpi, I can bump it up to 600 but that makes the file over a hundred Mb AKA very hard to send to and fro accross the interwebs ...
~Matt
@ Sun, 2009-02-01 21:49
My first try was scanning it
My first try was scanning it at 7200 DPI... didn't think it was THAT excessive... until I got a 119GB (yeah GIGABYTE) file in return...
...yup.
@ Sun, 2009-02-01 21:52
LOL
mine can go up to 10,000 dpi but I have already brought my computer to its knees while scanning photos at 1000 (I wasn't gonna try that again lol )
~Matt
@ Mon, 2009-02-02 00:00
There's an option on mine
There's an option on mine that says 96,000DPI...
I wonder...
@ Sun, 2009-02-01 21:00
Fritsl, I just came back
Fritsl, I just came back RUSHING from my step-parents house because I couldn't find the damn USB cable for my camera, so I had it scanned.
I got a 90MB version and a 30MB version ASIDE from the one submited.
However, I can't go back right now since I'm waiting for an important call starting at 2PM here (starting now).
I can send it later though, in about 4 hours once I get back there (I know that emans midnight at your place... sorry), since everyone is watching the Super Bowl (I go for the wings!) Hopefully that's not too much of a wait to get the full resolution.
Thanks!
And good luck, Mitch. ;)
@ Sun, 2009-02-01 21:05
No prob, I'll just wait till
@ Sun, 2009-02-01 20:46
7 hours in the making...
7 hours in the making... don't ask me to count!
Oh and please, where there are pencil-dots, zoom in, there are a lot more than what you can see unzoomed!
@ Sun, 2009-02-01 20:46
Wow!!
@ Sun, 2009-02-01 18:42
Dotting!
@ Sun, 2009-02-01 20:41
I would be about to close
I would be about to close the competition.. but is anyone still in / making something?
Sorry for the lose rules, but freaking timezones just makes slack necessary.
@ Sun, 2009-02-01 12:34
I don't care if anyone has
@ Sun, 2009-02-01 16:52
How cute.
@ Sun, 2009-02-01 08:49
Ummmmmm...
"IF (against all ods) we should be in doubt about who has made the most dots on a sheet of paper, we will have to ask some nerd in here to make an apparatous that can count the dots. So there you go, the dots has to be individual and clear enough for the dot-reader to see!"
Aren't we all nerds? lol :P
@ Sun, 2009-02-01 06:42
Fritsl, it's 23h40 here!And
Fritsl, it's 23h40 here!
And 5h42AM in Danmark right now.
So by finishing it in the evening, you mean what time exactly?
@ Sun, 2009-02-01 09:54
approx 12 hours from this.
@ Sat, 2009-01-31 18:10
I may have been born
I may have been born yesterday ... but I've been up all night !
Mike
@ Sat, 2009-01-31 13:52
wow
@ Sat, 2009-01-31 15:06
Get some different coloured
@ Sat, 2009-01-31 12:40
3361 DOTs
3360 tiles plus one:
Here's "The Making Of":
Is it enough dots? Do I need to transfer it onto paper? Without using a printer? Ouch!
Number of tiles in the Mosaic: 3360 (Total 3360 pieces)Size (pixel): 1280x720
Average Difference of Mosaic compared to the original Image (higher values means less quality): 856437
How much can I modify every tile: 14%
Minimum distance between duplicate tiles: 1
Minimum distance between sequences: 0
Algorithm: 1
@ Sat, 2009-01-31 15:16
New Name
@rik - I hereby re-name you OddDot
Mike
@ Sat, 2009-01-31 15:20
Hey, hey wait there a minute!
@ Sat, 2009-01-31 16:45
Actually, I'm just "joining
Actually, I'm just "joining the dots" as they say in all the best murder mysteries
Mike
@ Sat, 2009-01-31 15:32
Rik says there's 3661 dots -
Rik says there's 3661 dots - and I'm not challenging him on that ! - so that's an odd number of dots --> OddDot
Mike
@ Sat, 2009-01-31 15:34
Smooth recovery :-)
@ Sat, 2009-01-31 17:32
too smooth
@ Sat, 2009-01-31 08:13
my submission
wantneed this multimeter lol after buying the parts for my robot I am broke :(@ Sat, 2009-01-31 21:37
Wow
You win, no doudbt about that!
The world's best motto: When all else fails, use a bigger hammer.
@ Sat, 2009-01-31 10:27
Wallpaper
@Matt: Could you scan that in at a reasonabbly high resolution, then it could be added to the logo kit thingy as a wallpaper for windows.
I think tht's ace. Well worth the five hours spent on it. Definately "arty". If that doesn't win I'll eat my bot - and post a picture of me doing it.
Mike
@ Sat, 2009-01-31 16:03
/sure
thanks, I have it scanned in at 300 dpi but it was a 17 mb file If you want it go here (do what you want with it I'll put it under creative commons when this contest is over:)
~Matt
@ Sat, 2009-01-31 10:03
That's impressive!
@ Sat, 2009-01-31 16:06
haha ..
Yea but thats not as fun .. and with taxes and labor laws I think I just might break out even after five hours :P
~Matt
@ Sat, 2009-01-31 08:27
wow lol
ya I think you have taken the cake with dots...
Go a head Fritsl and count em... lol :P