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 | | no TexLUG Austin meeting this coming Sunday 8/14
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| Folks, There will not be an Austin TexLUG meeting this coming Sunday. I'll be at BrickFest in DC this weekend, and I'm still arranging new reservations for the room at the library. Plan on our next meeting for Sunday, September 11, 2005. (I will (...) (19 years ago, 11-Aug-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx)
| | | | | TexLUG Austin 7/10 meeting report
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| Folks, Attending the 7/10 TexLUG Austin meeting were: Danny Diaz Clendon Gibson Laura Hayden James Loftus David Perdue Ed Southerland Tim Rueger and others Ed brought his latest custom minifigs in a scene from Legend of Zelda. He also showed his (...) (19 years ago, 15-Jul-05, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx)
| | | | | TexLUG Austin meeting Sunday 7/10
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| Folks, Come on by the next Austin TexLUG meeting Sunday, July 10. Bring your latest creations, or share some tips on where you've gotten good deals lately - Target is putting Lego on clearance up in Dallas, hopefully the same is true here in Austin. (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jul-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx)
| | | | | TexLUG Austin 6/12 meeting report; sumo contest results
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| Folks, Attending the 6/12 Texlug Austin meeting were: Kurt Baty David Perdue Lee Rahe Tim Rueger and many assorted others (see below) We held the first TexLUG Austin Lego Mindstorms Sumo Robotics contest. About twenty people were in attendance, from (...) (19 years ago, 15-Jun-05, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | TexLUG Austin meeting Sunday 6/12 - Sumo Contest!
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| Folks, Come on by the next Austin TexLUG meeting Sunday, June 12. We'll be holding our Lego Mindstorms Robotic Sumo Contest, so bring your 'bot(s) and we'll see whose machine reigns supreme! Or come by to cheer on the competitors and catch some ABS (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx)
| | | | | TexLUG Austin 5/8 meeting report
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| All, Attending the 5/8 Texlug Austin meeting were: Kurt Baty Ed Southerland Tim Rueger A low-key meeting this time (the weather was highly inclement, and it was Mother's Day), but we still had a fine time. Ed brought a neat minifig forestman with a (...) (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx)
| | | | | TexLUG Austin meeting Sunday 5/8
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| Folks, Come on by the next Austin TexLUG meeting this coming Sunday. (And yes, it *is* on Mother's Day. Show your Mom you love her by getting out of the house for a couple hours!) Particulars are below. If you have a creation to show, bring it. We (...) (19 years ago, 4-May-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx)
| | | | | TexLUG Austin meeting Sunday 4/10
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| Folks, Come on by the next Austin TexLUG meeting this coming Sunday (tomorrow). Particulars are below. Bring your creations and show off what you've been working on! I'll bring my pictures from the recent all-Texlug meeting, and set up my monorail (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-05, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx)
| | | | | all-TexLUG meeting 4/2-3, San Antonio
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| All, The next all-Texas TexLUG gathering will be in San Antonio the weekend of April 2. Particulars and travel info are below. See you there! ---...--- What: All-Texas TexLUG meeting When: April 2-3, 2005 4/2: Setup / socialize (all day) 4/3: Public (...) (19 years ago, 17-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx)
| | | | | Lego Robotic Sumo Contest - Sunday 6/12/05, Austin, TX
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| Folks, The Austin chapter of TexLUG is holding a Lego Robotic Sumo contest! Win valuable Lego prizes when your robot outwits and outpushes its opponents out of a circular arena! Rules, schedule, and entry details may be found here: (URL) contest (...) (19 years ago, 15-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx) !
| | | | | TexLUG Austin 3/13 meeting report
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| Folks, Attending the 3/13 Texlug Austin meeting were: David Perdue Jay Perdue Kurt Baty Tim Rueger The meeting focused on getting details set for the Sumobot contest. The contest will be held June 10, 2005, with optional test and debug sessions on (...) (19 years ago, 15-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx)
| | | | | TexLUG Austin meeting Sunday 3/13; more sumo
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| Folks, Come on by the next Austin TexLUG meeting this coming Sunday. Particulars are below. Bring your creations and show off what you've been working on! Once again, I'll be demonstrating two bots from David Perdue's sumo robotics book, with more (...) (19 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx)
| | | | | TexLUG Austin 2/13 meeting report
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| Folks, Attending the 2/13 Texlug Austin meeting were: Richard Arndt (also of the Austin Robot Group) Kurt Baty Lee Rahe Tim Rueger David Smith (in from Dallas) Ed Southerland Wade, Helen and Roger Yamada Kurt brought another of his fantastic minifig (...) (19 years ago, 17-Feb-05, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx)
| | | | | TexLUG Austin meeting Sunday 2/13; sumo demo/contest
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| Folks, Come on by the next Austin TexLUG meeting this coming Sunday. Particulars are below. Bring your creations and show off what you've been working on! I'll be demonstrating two bots from David Perdue's sumo robotics book (I'll be borrowing his (...) (19 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx)
| | | | | Austin-area Lego update
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| Folks, Here's an update on recent Austin-area Lego goings-on... On Saturday, 1/8/05, the first Central Texas FIRST Lego League competition was held. About 20 middle-school teams competed; they came from Austin, Houston, San Antonio, and as far away (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus)
| | | | | Austin TEXLUG meeting Sunday 1/9; FLL
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| Folks, Come on by the next Austin TexLUG meeting this coming Sunday. Particulars are below. Yes, this is one day after the FIRST Lego League competition in Austin. Such is the nature of the regularly-scheduled meeting: randomly- scheduled events (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx)
| | | | | TexLUG Austin meeting Sunday November 14
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| Folks, TexLUG Austin will be starting monthly meetings this month (woo-hoo!). Here are the particulars (follow the URL for a map link): Date: The second Sunday every month (next meeting 11/14/04). Time: 2:30pm-5:30pm Location: Austin Public Library, (...) (20 years ago, 7-Nov-04, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx)
| | | | | Re: New to LUGNET- My Brickshelf
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| Let me say this then, right now may be the best place to go is my MOCpages; (URL) (20 years ago, 31-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus)
| | | | | Re: New to LUGNET- My Brickshelf
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| (...) I dont suppose you could point us to which folders have something in them. I clicked three folders and they were all empty. Generally speaking, it is better to point your audience to a specific creation(s), rather than to your entire gallery. (...) (20 years ago, 31-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus)
| | | | | New to LUGNET- My Brickshelf
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| Hello, I'm new to LUGNET. I've had an account at Brickshelf and MOCpages for a while now, though. Check out my gallery, hope you like it! It's mostly .space and military. (URL) Matthew (20 years ago, 31-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus)
| | | | | TexLUG Fall 2004 Meeting Details
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| Howdy All, I've posted a few details (including directions) on our website about the upcoming fall meeting: (URL) meeting will be held at National Instruments in Austin on October 9 and 10 (Saturday and Sunday). If you have any questions, please (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.ant, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou)
| | | | | Sunday meeting - Free lunch and Master Builder talk!
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| All, If you're on the TexLUG or TexLUG-Dallas email lists, you may have already seen this. LEGOLAND California PR will be in Dallas next week for an “outside market tour”, promoting the LLC park outside of Southern California. They have offered to (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou, FTX)
| | | | | TexLUG Meeting Reminder
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| Howdy all, This is a reminder that the Fall 2003 TexLUG meeting will take place this weekend in Austin, Texas. For more details, please see (URL) this post>. In addition, the times for the meeting are as follows: Saturday, Oct. 11: 10am to 6pm (...) (21 years ago, 6-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.ant, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Meeting in San Antonio...
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| (...) Hey Chris, I'm sorry about the lack of attendance at your meeting. That seems to be a problem with a lot of the meeting we have had. I (personally) have given up on trying to make the meetings as trying to deal with my work schedule and making (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.ant, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou, lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.org.us.texlug)
| | | | | Re: Meeting in San Antonio...
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| Meeting Rundown... Attendance: Pat Mark Chris Location: UTSA - San Antonio Note: Pictures didn't turn out as well as I would have liked. The room was great! (URL) arrived around 8:15 and made several car trips to get everything ready. I started (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.ant, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou, lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.org.us.texlug)
| | | | | Re: Meeting in San Antonio...
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| Greetings, I hope some of you are getting ready to come to San Antonio. I have make one modification to the rules I ended up using poster board and electrical tape. So, the width of the line is 3/4" instead of a 1/2". It looks nice... The symbols (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.ant, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou, lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.org.us.texlug)
| | | | | Re: Meeting in San Antonio...
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| Greetings Again, As promised here is the information for the meeting. TJ has been generous enough to make a page for the meeting on the TEXLUG site. (URL) (TM) Contests ~~~~~~ We will be having two types of MindStorms (TM) contests. One, is the line (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.ant, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou, lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.org.us.texlug)
| | | | | Re: Meeting in San Antonio...
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| I got a room on campus! We are meeting in the University Room in the Business building at UTSA. Date: June 7-8th. Times: TBA. I was thinking 9-5 or 10-6 on Sat and either 9 or 10 AM until 3 PM on Sun. I will have a key for Friday night and the (...) (21 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.ant, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou, lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.org.us.texlug)
| | | | | Re: Meeting in San Antonio...
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| I have approval from IEEE (an on campus organization) to have the event. They will be our on campus sponsors. So expect a small public turn out from a few engineering students. They are interested in having a little MindStorm competition and they (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.ant, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou, lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.org.us.texlug)
| | | | | Re: Meeting in San Antonio...
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| My feelings on this are mixed; the last time I tried to give my honest opinion on a proposal for a TEXLUG event, the results were not good. That being stated, I agree with Tom (who I have actually met in person, so I know he exists!) {;-) I believe (...) (21 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.ant, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou, lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.org.us.texlug)
| | | | | Re: Meeting in San Antonio...
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| (...) Hi Chris, I'm probably the worst person to reply to your post, but I think my thoughts on it may have some merit. I think it's great you are wanting to host a meeting in San Antonio. I love to see someone willing to take on such an event. (...) (21 years ago, 5-Apr-03, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.ant, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou, lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.org.us.texlug)
| | | | | Meeting in San Antonio...
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| Greetings, After a awesome meeting experience in March. I would like to try and host a meeting here in San Antonio. I'm looking at the first weekends in June or the later weekends in July. I'm working on getting a room on or near UTSA. However, I (...) (21 years ago, 5-Apr-03, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.ant, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou, lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.org.us.texlug)
| | | | | TexLUG March 15 & 16 Meeting Updates
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| Howdy All! The date draws close! Less than two weeks away! Official times for the meeting have been chosen, and the meeting information page has been updated: (URL) meeting dates and times: Saturday, March 15, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm Sunday, March 16, (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx.bea, lugnet.loc.us.tx.ant)
| | | | | More TEXLUG Meeting Info
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| Howdy again! I've been meaning to release the October 12th meeting address and hotel information. However, I don't know the exact address yet. I'll have to ask Laura (she's out on vacation until the end of the month) and then get back to y'all with (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou, lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw)
| | | | | LEGO Building Event In Austin
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| Dear Texas AFOLs, Lego is holding a building event in Austin, and would like to invite you to participate. Brian Bowler and Jake McKee have contacted me, and asked me to pass the word along to you. Brian will be attending the event. Here are the (...) (22 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus)
| | | | | TEXLUG Meeting- Final Reminder
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| To All AFOLs In Texas, If you haven't seen the posts yet, we're having a meeting next Saturday, March 9th. The meeting will be in Austin at Jason Spangler's house, and will last from 10am to 8pm. If you haven't emailed me yet, and would like to go, (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.ant, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou)
| | | | | TEXLUG Meeting: March 9
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| Hey Texas AFOLs, We're going to have a meeting in March, and the date has been picked: Saturday, March 9th. The meeting will take place in Austin, at the house of Jason Spangler. The meeting will be from 10am to 8pm. Out of the many responses I've (...) (22 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou, lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw)
| | | | | TEXLUG Meeting & MOC Contest
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| Howdy Texas AFOLs! The first TEXLUG meeting of 2002 will take place on March 9 or March 16 (see note 1) at Jason Spangler's house in Austin, TX. Please email me (at tja@texbrick.com) with your response. I will send out more information via email (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus)
| | | | | Question on jumping bots
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| Howdy, Can anybody who's been involved in Lego groups in Austin since the early 90's shed any light on the "spring turkeys" that Jim mentions in this posting? (URL) would really appreciate hearing about these jumping robots. Any pics, DATs, or (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus)
| | | | | Re: Kohl's $10 off (a $10 purchase) card for grand opening
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| Well, no $10 off card for me, but the store nearby did have a 25% off LEGO sale. The only sets I saw above MSRP were some of the smaller $3-6 dollar sets such as the young dinos and the HP Sorting Hat (currently the only store to stock that and (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus)
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