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Make the next segment with a separate piece of tape.

Cut the end of each segment as straight as possible.

This long segment is made with a single piece of tape.

Make each piece as long as possible, overlapping

them at the corners and intersections. You’ll need to

pay careful attention to the corners so that they come

out as clean as possible. Any extra pieces of tape that

stick out at incorrect angles could cause a robot to

confuse, for example, corners with T-intersections.

When debugging your code, you don’t want to worry

about whether the robot was confused by the course

or just badly programmed, so make it neat!

Cuts should be made at precise right angles. Don’t

worry if you cut the tape too short; if you can’t stretch

it to fit, you can carefully peel it off and try again with

a new piece.

Here’s what the first corner of our maze looks like:

We put a long straight segment in the middle of the

maze. After learning the path, an advanced robot

could take advantage of this, accelerating briefly to

full speed, to finish the maze a fraction of a second

faster than a robot with a simpler program. This will

give you and your competitors a reason to keep

improving your code!

Note that two pieces of tape can overlap to form a four-way crossing, without any ugly cuts at the intersection:

This intersection is made with another piece, overlapping the previous one.

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