Cookie Design Contest

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Results: Congratulations to Vlad for his lightning design that was printed the most times at the Robofest competition!

We are interested to see what you have in mind for designs of what ALICE might draw. Click on the "Entries" page to view some of the best entries so far. Please review Shriya's tutorial video.

If you need motivation here's a glimpse at the fidget spinners being given away as prizes!

Rules:

READ ALL DIRECTIONS FIRST!
Follow the design guidelines listed below.
Submit your coordinates in an email and your image to contest@smartlabsrobotics.com
We'll send a confirmation email. The first 15 good designs will get a FREE fidget spinner! (US Only or delivery at Robofest). Only one spinner per person.
We will pick the best eight designs to use at the 2017 Robofest world championship.
At the World Championship we will offer the designs to everyone and keep track of how many times each one is picked.
The winner will be the one that is picked the most!

How to make a pattern:

Step 1: Find an image. Since we're going to Florida we'll pick a Flamingo! Find yours somewhere and download it to your device.
Step 2: Go to http://www.mobilefish.com/services/record_mouse_coordinates/record_mouse_coordinates.php and upload your image by pressing the Browse button. Remember that you need to pick your file and type in the code (just to make sure you're not a Robot!).

Step 3: Start placing dots around the path that you want ALICE to follow when frosting the pattern. Try to keep it all one continuous path. Make all the points in order. Think of it as you making a connect the dots game for ALICE to draw. Also try something where the first point might be a blob. We did the outline in one pass and the feathers in a second pass.
To specify a new line just click a point in the upper left corner where the coordinates are under 20 units each. Our program takes this as a signal for a new line.

STEP 4: When you have outlined the image click the "Finalize" button. You can also DRAW the pattern.
STEP 5: Press the Select All button and copy (Ctrl C)
STEP 6: Open an email and paste the coordinates..
STEP 7: Email the image and coordinates to the Smart Cookies and we'll enter it into the contest!
Email is: contest@smartlabsrobotics.com
We will have the best eight designs at the Robofest World Championship. We will also send a free fidget spinner to the first fifteen good designs.

Good luck! :)

Here is the final pattern in Excel ready to export to the EV3 and the beginning of the G-Code file.

The G-Code file tells ALICE what to do.