They revised the rules forty days ago.  Many
contestants were not notified they are no longer
eligible. Check the DARPA site.  Many claims of foul
play have been raised.  DARPA says they it is to
include only the best.  So why exclude anoyone?  Read
the fine print.  They are not going to follow through
on some semi-granted grants!  DARPA changed the rules
in some serious ways.

Doug - who works in sponsored programs at the
AgCenter.  I read these notices for a living.

Anyone interested in robtic grants write me off-list,
a cool one was just published.  It involves human
interacting with semi-autonomous robots and the effect
of the lack of human interaction due to inattention. 
Big bucks, losts of travel.  I am not at the office
today, so my answer will be sent tomorrow.  I will
keep you posted whenever a robitics RFP crosses my
desk if you are interested.

I am working on a few myself, so I have them tagged.

best of luck.

Doug


--- Mat Branyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dr. Cavanaugh?
> 
> I just started working on the project the other day,
> makeing custom
> cables and soldering.  It is really interesting
> stuff.
> 
> So far we are using linux to drive the machine :) 
> The two main
> programmers are quite fond of it.  The only problem
> we have with using
> linux is usb gamepad modules (to drive the bot
> manually) under redhat 9.
> 
> --mat
> 
> On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 08:10, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> > Oh yeah. I forgot about this. I work with one of
> the guys involved in
> > building the robot. He's a nut when it comes to
> embedded devices and
> > tweaking hardware. From what I've been told, ULL
> isn't holding anything back
> > in this competition.
> > 
> > Hmm... BRLUG presentation?
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Hebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 7:45 AM
> > Subject: [brlug-general] ULL team in DARPA
> challenge: robot vehicle from
> > LAto LV
> > 
> > 
> > > http://www.cajunbot.com
> > >
> > > The DARPA Grand Challenge
> > >
> > > The challenge :
> > > Build a ground vehicle that will travel
> completely on
> > > its own from Los Angeles to Las Vegas along a
> > > prescribed corridor.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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