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Hi all,
Here are some images of Castle Renaissance Fair at Brickworld Tampa 2015 Built
by GFLUG Member James B...
https://flic.kr/s/aHskihjpQ4
Robin W
GFLUG.org
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Hi All,
Here are some images from GFLUG/GFLTC Town/Train Layout at Brickworld Tampa from
last September 19-20, 2015...
https://flic.kr/s/aHskmbAZNa
Robin W.
GFLUG
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The SMART meeting for this month is canceled as there is no one available to run
it. See you in April.
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David Schilling
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Just a reminder that this Saturday we'll be meeting at Digipen for our SMART
meeting. The meeting will be from 3-5pm.
The mini-challenge we voted on was to build (or improve) robots that do
something with cubes.
See you all there!
--
David Schilling
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Our next SMART meeting is coming up soon. Next weekend, on Saturday January
25th, we'll be meeting from 3-5pm in the Descartes room at Digipen.
The mini-challenge is to build a robot that does something with cubes. You can
use any cube you like, but a standard LEGO cube made out of bricks can be seen
in this illustration:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/David/SMART/Samples/4x4x4cube.gif
I will bring some white and some black cubes, and perhaps some red or blue ones
as well.
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David Schilling
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In lugnet.org.us.sandlug, John Cooper wrote:
> Leanne,
>
> My emails to you aren't going through. Please try emailing me. Thanks.
>
> John C.
Hi John! Whoops, I think my account must have my old email address attached. Let
me fix that, and I will email you. So sorry about that!
--Leanne
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In lugnet.org.us.sandlug, John Cooper wrote:
> In lugnet.org.us.sandlug, Leanne Opaskar wrote:
> > Hi there!
> >
> > My husband and I are getting out of Lego -- we just don't have time and would
> > like to get our bricks to people who will actually use them, without the
> > headache of going through Bricklink.
> >
> > Would SANDLUG, or someone in SANDLUG, be interested in buying them from us? We
> > have several of the Modular Buildings (Cafe Corner, Green Grocer, Emporium,
> > Market Street, Fire Brigade), a Metroliner, a Super Chief, and many other nifty
> > sets, including some of the nice medieval village sets.
> >
> > We're local to San Diego and would be willing to drive to drop them off. I can
> > provide you with a complete list of the sets if anyone is interested, plus there
> > will be some odds and ends. We're hoping to get $2000 for everything, which is
> > well under what we could sell it for on Bricklink. We just don't want to go
> > through the hassle.
> >
> > I apologize for not going through your website, but if you're not a member of
> > SANDLUG, you apparently can't contact the site moderator.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > --Leanne
>
> Hi Leanne,
>
> I'm forwarding your message to the SANDLUG mailing list to see if there is any
> interest.
>
> John C.
Leanne,
My emails to you aren't going through. Please try emailing me. Thanks.
John C.
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In lugnet.org.us.sandlug, Leanne Opaskar wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> My husband and I are getting out of Lego -- we just don't have time and would
> like to get our bricks to people who will actually use them, without the
> headache of going through Bricklink.
>
> Would SANDLUG, or someone in SANDLUG, be interested in buying them from us? We
> have several of the Modular Buildings (Cafe Corner, Green Grocer, Emporium,
> Market Street, Fire Brigade), a Metroliner, a Super Chief, and many other nifty
> sets, including some of the nice medieval village sets.
>
> We're local to San Diego and would be willing to drive to drop them off. I can
> provide you with a complete list of the sets if anyone is interested, plus there
> will be some odds and ends. We're hoping to get $2000 for everything, which is
> well under what we could sell it for on Bricklink. We just don't want to go
> through the hassle.
>
> I apologize for not going through your website, but if you're not a member of
> SANDLUG, you apparently can't contact the site moderator.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --Leanne
Hi Leanne,
I'm forwarding your message to the SANDLUG mailing list to see if there is any
interest.
John C.
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Hi there!
My husband and I are getting out of Lego -- we just don't have time and would
like to get our bricks to people who will actually use them, without the
headache of going through Bricklink.
Would SANDLUG, or someone in SANDLUG, be interested in buying them from us? We
have several of the Modular Buildings (Cafe Corner, Green Grocer, Emporium,
Market Street, Fire Brigade), a Metroliner, a Super Chief, and many other nifty
sets, including some of the nice medieval village sets.
We're local to San Diego and would be willing to drive to drop them off. I can
provide you with a complete list of the sets if anyone is interested, plus there
will be some odds and ends. We're hoping to get $2000 for everything, which is
well under what we could sell it for on Bricklink. We just don't want to go
through the hassle.
I apologize for not going through your website, but if you're not a member of
SANDLUG, you apparently can't contact the site moderator.
Thanks in advance!
--Leanne
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The next SMART meeting will be in January. At our last meeting our
mini-challenge was candy manipulating robots, and we decided to continue with
the idea of manipulating objects, though this time it will be 4x4x4 LEGO cubes.
You can build your own cubes; here’s an image of what they look like:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/David/SMART/Samples/4x4x4cube.gif. I will
bring a number of black and white cubes, perhaps some blue and or red ones as
well. And if you don’t like this particular cube, you are welcome to bring any
other type of cube you would rather manipulate instead, including cubes not made
out of LEGO.
Build a tower, build a wall, stack them or flip them, sort them, or juggle them,
whatever you like.
The meeting will be on January 25th, next year. I’ll provide more details as we
get closer to that date. In the meantime, you have plenty of time to build an
awesome robot!
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David Schilling
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We had a very interesting BrickHeap Wars competition at our September meeting.
Following the meeting we voted on our mini-challenge for the October meeting
which will take place in two weeks, on October 26th. The meeting runs from
2-5pm, and we'll be meeting in the Gibran room.
The mini-challenge we picked was "Candy Bot". Build a robot that somehow makes
use of candy. Use your imagination. Robots are not limited to these ideas, but
you might do things like give candy away (it's Halloween soon after the meeting)
or sell it. Perhaps they can throw it, or if you can figure out how to, you
might use the candy as a power source.
Hope to see you soon!
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David Schilling
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We had a great second-chance sumo competition at our May SMART meeting. We voted
on building a Space Elevator ribbon climbing robot for our June meeting. The
June meeting will be on the 29th, in the Michelangelo room.
Build a robot that can climb a ribbon. The ribbon I'll be bringing is a 3" wide
woven nylon "Caution" tape that I bought at Home Depot. If you want to get some
of your own, you can get it for under $20. Look for 500’ Heavy Duty Reinforced
Caution Tape", Empire manufacturer, SKU 719-282, usually in the tool aisle at
Home Depot.
The motivation for this is that there are two space elevator competitions coming
up this summer. For the mini-challenge, anything that can climb a ribbon is
great. If you want to see the rules for the competition, you can find them at
http://www.isec.org/sec/index.php/family-science-fest.
See you at the next meeting!
--
David Schilling
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We had a great meeting in March with more robots than we've seen in a while. The
challenge was to build a sorting robot, and there were a couple of really good
ones! I was very impressed with what people came up with.
This month’s mini-challenge is to build a sumo robot. The distinguishing feature
this time is it will be 3-way sumo. That is, there will be three robots on the
ring at the same time.
Our build rules (since it’s a competition, and not entirely free build) is that
robots must weigh under 3 pounds, and may not be larger than 12”x12” at any
time. They must be built entirely out of LEGO using standard building
techniques, and you may not intentionally damage an opponent.
The arena will have a white surface with a narrow black rim. I think Mark said
his arena is a 4’ wide octagon.
That’s it. Have fun!
Mark Kenworthy will be running the meeting as I'll be out of town.
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David Schilling
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The mini-challenge for the next SMART meeting, to take place at 2pm on March
30th, at Digipen as usual, and back in the Michelangelo auditorium, is to build
a sorting robot.
You can chose which item to sort, and whatever sorting criteria you like.
Sorting by size or colour are two obvious choices. Also sorting LEGO bricks or
other pieces are obvious choices. But who says you have to pick obvious choices?
I had a conversation with someone that you could sort by smell if you wanted.
Don't have a clean t-shirt? Send your robot to the laundry pile to pick out the
least smelly shirt for you to wear today. (Or you could just do the laundry.
Ever think of that?)
Have fun! Hope to see you at the next meeting!
--
David Schilling
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We had a great meeting today! Seven teams showed up for the Build On The Spot
competition. I guess it was harder than it seemed, but everyone had a robot,
even if they didn't score too consistently.
FOUR teams tied for first place! Great job, everyone!
For next month, we'll be meeting in the same room we were in today. The
mini-challenge we voted on was to build a "Facilities Robot", a very open ended
challenge. The idea is to build a robot that you would see in some large
institution. It can be anything. A mail delivery robot, a floor cleaning robot,
a robot that runs the elevators, a robot that opens doors, a robot that serves
meals, or makes beds (if it was a hospital, for instance), a robot that takes
out the trash, whatever you can think of. Have some fun with this one.
We'll see you on February 23rd.
PS: If someone accidentally left with one of the cubes I built for today's
challenge, could you contact me directly? (Don't forget to remove the spam bot
from the email address.) I'll arrange a time to come pick it up. Thanks!
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David Schilling
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Last minute reminder about the SMART meeting this Saturday. The meeting starts
at 2pm. Since it's a Build On The Spot competition, you'll probably want as much
time as possible. I recommend arriving a couple of minutes before the meeting
starts to find the new room (we'll be meeting on the second floor in Hokusai, go
up the stairs in the lobby, down the hall to the left and in the last bend in
the hall you'll find the room. You should see Archimedes and Galileo on the
way.)
I'll announce the challenge at 2pm, sharp, and you'll have until around 4:30 to
build, program, and test your robots. Then we'll see who came up with the best
solution!
Bring an edge-tracking robot driving base, extra pieces, your laptop, and
whatever else you think you might need for the competition. Make sure your
laptop batteries are charged! I can't promise there are any outlets available in
the new room, as I've never seen it before. You might also want to make sure
your robot's batteries are fully charged!
See you in a couple of days!
--
David Schilling
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On New Year's EV3 I came up with a good challenge for our Build On The Spot
competition. I just wanted to remind everyone that it will take place in just
under 3 weeks, and look forward to seeing you all there! A line tracking driving
base would definitely be a good idea to have working before you come to the
event.
Happy New Year, everyone; I look forward to seeing you on the 26th!
--
David Schilling
In lugnet.org.us.smart, David Schilling wrote:
> Our last SMART meeting was decent, but we missed all the people who couldn't
> make it. Hope that you can all attend the next SMART meeting, this January
> (assuming the world doesn't end four days before Christmas!)
>
> At the next meeting we will have a Build On The Spot competition -- the
> challenge will be announced at 2pm sharp, and you'll have the next couple of
> hours to build and program your robot. Bring your LEGO, laptop, and lots of
> energy for the competition. Having a driving base, and perhaps some line
> tracking code might be useful, which is not to say that the actual challenge
> will involve these, though.
>
> See you in January!
>
> --
> David Schilling
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