Challenge 5: The Furniture Factory

In this challenge, the robot will have to push a lever on the side of the furniture factory (challenge 3 must be completed first) to start the factory. The basket delivered to the factory will be pulled into the factory and will appear at the other side. If the robot does this, the team will [...]

Challenge 4: The Furniture Cleaning

In this challenge, the robot has to deliver a bottle of water and a bar of soap to the back of the house where there is a bath with some brown lego in it. For 20 points, the cleaning devices can be placed next to the bath. Instead, for 40 points, the soap and water [...]

Challenge 3: The Furniture Manufacturing

In Challenge 3, the robot has to deliver the pieces of wood from Base to the furniture factory by using a basket (points will not be awarded for design). If the robot pushes them, they will lose 25 points. If the robot completes the challenge successfully, the team will win 30 points.
This challenge is for [...]

Competition Results

On the 3rd October, a competition was revealed to win a G.L.O.L. Robotron. We can finally reveal the results!
The answer was http://glol.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/new-robot-to-be-released/ (if you don’t believe us, check it!)
The winner was Mr. Barney Norman, a teacher from the Essex School of ICT. He has received his robot and is looking forward to using it!

Registration is open!

You can now enter your team for “Furniture Phobia”! Just log onto www.georgesleagueoflego.co.uk (you’ll need to make a free user with the name of your school) and click “Register! Once you complete a short you’ll be sent a challenge mat, a Generation 4 robot (others are available, if you wish to spend a little more), [...]

Challenge 2: The Furniture Delivery

In this challenge, the robot has to collect the Lego from the back of the furniture store (you have to complete Challenge 1 first), then deliver them to the house. Then it has to play a tune to tell the family that the furniture has arrived. If the furniture is delivered successfully, the team will [...]

Challenge 1: The Furniture Store

The first challenge in the “Furniture Phobia” competition is The Furniture Store. The team will have to design a basket for the robot to push along the ground, in which pieces of Lego (representing furniture) will be put. The robot will have to push the box to the back of the furniture store. The team [...]

Apology

Due to unknown conditions, the G.L.O.L. blog has not been updated recently. The G.L.O.L management have given an apology to the public.
The blog will now be updated at least once every week. This means that we will still be the only official blog for all your G.L.O.L. needs!
The next post to be published details the World [...]

New Robot To Be Released!

A new robot, the GLOL Robotron, has been planned to be released to the public in the second quarter of 2008. This means you will be able to use it for the World Challenge 2008! However, if you find the word “GLOL” in bold somewhere in the blog, you could win one of five GLOL [...]

Bonus Points Established!

The bonus points for 2007/2008 have been established! If a GLOL 1.0, 1.5, 2,0, 2.5 or 3.0 completes any 3 challenges, a GLOL 3.5, 4.0, Generation 1,2,3 or 4 completes 4 challenges or a GLOL Robomaster completes any 5 challenges the team will get 50 bonus points. If the team is using a RCX or [...]