In this Yahoo Finance story, Zilog announces that they are going to be supplying 8 bit hardware and software to the University of British Columbia team that is competing in the 2006 Space Elevator Games. It’s a good story and it’s interesting to read about Team Snowstar, but the story has the old date and location for this years competition; as announced on the Space Elevator Reference site, the games this year will be held from October 19th through the 22nd at Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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ya, these guys are amazing! i think the real competition is going to be between UVA, MIT and UBC for the prize money. unless something is happening with th eother teams that i dont know about, that is where i would bet. 🙂 and when they talk about 30 people on thier team, they mean 30 people that are required to work 5-15hrs per week (with a study break near finals) to build this thing. they are dedicated and are putting a lot of labor hours into it.
the question that all the teams have to deal with is beam power, tracking and reception. the climbing part is ‘easy’ – we have climbed 1500 ft so far, but hanging on a ribbon and climbing up, isnt simple. powering that moving target is hard!
take care. mjl