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The next SMART meeting is less than two weeks away. On January 31st we'll be
meeting in the Redmond Regional Library at 2pm. The mini-challenge is to build a
new robot that either manipulates crates or the small Lego soccer balls or
basketballs. The standard crate is shown here:
<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/David/SMART/Samples/10x10crate.gif>
This is the most free-form mini-challenge we've ever done. **Use your
imagination!**
If you would like to see what types of robots others have built, I just posted a
rather lengthy review of the Cooperative Cybernetic Crate Contraption
<http://news.lugnet.com/org/us/smart/?n=211>. Read about the robots, download
some pictures, and even some videos of what we've already done.
There will be several possible opportunities to put your new robots on display
in the next few months, if you are interested.
This will be our third anniversary! At the meeting, after our mini-challenge,
we'll have a short discussion about possible time or location changes for our
club.
I hope to see everyone at the meeting!
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David Schilling
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Just a reminder that the next SMART meeting is only a week away. We'll be
meeting at the Redmond Regional Library at 2pm this Saturday (the 31st).
The mini-challenge is to build a robot to manipulate crates or the small Lego
soccer/basket balls. At the Lego Roadshow and NWBrickCon a number of us built a
bunch of these robots. This is a chance for everyone to get involved. If you're
looking for ideas, we had several forklifts, a train car system, a crane, and a
robot arm that moved crates around. There are many other things you could do
with crates, and other ways that they could be moved around. We also had a ball
combiner and a ball sorter, as well as a crate-dumper that manipulated
individual balls. There are a ton of other things that could be done with the
balls or ways to get balls into or out of crates. If you'd like to read more
about the robots we built previously, or see them in action, read this post:
<http://news.lugnet.com/org/us/smart/?n=211>.
The crates look something like this:
<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/David/SMART/Samples/10x10crate.gif>
This will be SMART's third anniversary. I hope to see everyone at there!
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David Schilling
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Final reminder about tomorrow's (Saturday) SMART meeting at the Redmond Regional
Library, room 2, 2pm. See previous posts about the mini-challenge.
It's our third anniversary, I hope everyone can make it!
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David Schilling
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