DarwinBot now in Soccer mode

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My DarwinBot has been reincarnated into erhhmmm something completely else.

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As it is right now (if it is indeed live at all) you get to control it. It is very very simple. Just five little commands. To get control, you must use the magic word first: control (and hit send). Now you have a limited amount of time to control the bot.

The available commands are:

=r (turn right)
=l (turn left)
=s (stop)
=f (fade LED forwards)
=b (fade LED backwards)

any illegal command will terminate your control. However I added some undocumented commands for you to find.

Here's a challenge for you: try to make it stop at exactly eleven 'o clock. See how the Internet lag is making that difficult for you.

DarwinBot's own ustream channel is here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/darwinbot

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i did it!

here is a screenshot

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Extra challenge - hints

As many people have discovered some of the hidden commands, I am upping the challenge. Make the arm stop at exactly eleven o’ clock. This means the arm is just resting against the left contact switch.

You have 0X2 possible strategies for this:
0) keep doing what pips17 did: starting and stopping in quick succession until it hits the right spot.
1) time the stop command just right and hope that the arm will come to a rest against the switch.
2) use the extra very secret hidden command (what comes after 9?).