 | | BrickFest Bulletin: Mindstorms/Technic Contests and Events, Space Contests, Castle Contest and..
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(URL) Mindstorms/Technic Events BrickFest 2006 is fast approaching! This year, the Technic and Mindstorms Theme coordinators are pleased to announce 5 competitions. The competitions will be spread across the 3 days of BrickFest. The planned (...) (18 years ago, 20-May-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, FTX) !!
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| | Jamocklaquat to make another public appearance
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Eric Sophie's rather cool Multi-RCX Lego Mindstorms robot Jamocklaquat is currently being exhibited at The Cathedral Arts Festival in the Grace Church Van Vorst in New Jersey until June 2nd 2006. There are pictures, and an in-depth story at (2 URLs) (...) (18 years ago, 7-May-06, to lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Robotic Contest - Non Autonomous
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Robot Confidence course competition. (URL) (18 years ago, 6-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Ivy Tech Community Collge - Evansville: LEGO Robotics Competition VIII
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Competition VIII Press Release For Immediate Release! Ivy Tech State College and the Evansville Chapter 73 of The Society of Manufacturing Engineers announce the Student Robotics Challenge VIII titled "The Hustle ". In this competition autonomous (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.loc.us.in.eva, lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | 2005 Mecha Pose Contest
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We the curators of .mecha are hosting a mecha pose contest. Wassat? See it here: (URL) long and short of it is this: Take a mecha creation, new or old, and take a new pic of it. Most striking imaginative poses count. Categories are Large, Medium, (...) (19 years ago, 15-Apr-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.technic.bionicle) !!
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| | Robolab Conference - Call for Papers
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1) The Call for Presentation and Papers for the Annual ROBOLAB Conference (August 15-17th, Austin, Texas) has been extended to APRIL 1st. Please consider submitting a presentation or a paper for the conference. Details are available at the (...) (19 years ago, 16-Mar-05, to lugnet.events, lugnet.edu, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | LEGO Mindstorms competitions
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Does anybody know of LEGO Mindstorms competitions for teen-agers in Germany/Europe that don't impose any limits on the used programming language? FFL looks O.K., almost no limits (except motors, RCXs and sensors), but that's only fair. RoboCup (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.people.teens)
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| | GardenSLUG FLL
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Rebelupicus, a GardenSLUG sponsored FLL team, will be competing in the FLL tournament at Mount Olive High School, NJ, Dec. 11 2004. This is their rookie year and have worked hard this season. Good Luck Rebelupicus! Patty Van Dyke (19 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.us.gardenslug, lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | NELUG display at RI Cooks Convention
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This past weekend, the New England Lego User's Group displayed a 10'x30' train display at the RI Cooks convention in Providence. We were also accompnaied by a pair of RI First Lego League teams who are preparing for competition this coming January. (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.loc.us.ri, FTX) !
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| | First LEGO Robotics course at Tel-Aviv University
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Hi all, 2 weeks ago I finished teaching the first course of Mindstorms in Tel-Aviv University - Israel and wanted to share pictures from the entire course. (URL) Enjoy Yaron "Webrain" Dori (20 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.events, FTX) !
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| | Re: Robo Waiter - a BrickFest PDX Robot competition
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A couple of people have asked for rule clarifications. To be fair to everyone competing, below is what I've sent them. This doesn't change any of the rules I posted before, and probably shouldn't change how you build or program your robot. I'll use (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: Robo Waiter - a BrickFest PDX Robot competition
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There's just 10 days before BrickFest PDX 2004 starts, and that means there's just 10 days left to build a robot for the Robo Waiter competition! There are two classes for the competition: the fastest waiter, and the 'best dressed' waiter. (The same (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Robots Competition
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Hi everybody, Yesterday (27/01/04) there was a Robots Competition for junior high at Haifa. The task of the robot was to roll a U turn and then blow up a ballon. Here are some pictures I took of the robots and the competitors: (URL) (press the (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.events, FTX)
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| | Re: Robo Waiter - a BrickFest PDX Robot competition
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(...) As Steve pointed out, (Thanks Steve!) the starting line will not be something that your robot will really be able to notice. I'll use a thin red line, which your light sensor probably won't be able to detect. But us humans can see it easily (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: Robo Waiter - a BrickFest PDX Robot competition
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This is by no means an Official reply, but I know David is mad at his computer, and e-mail, so he may not reply right away. :) (...) There will (most likely) not be a start/finish line that the robot will be able to see. (...) Normally, with Line (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: Robo Waiter - a BrickFest PDX Robot competition
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(...) David, I have a public question about the competition. Will the robot need to know when and where the starting line (and therefore stopping line) be located? Or will the robot simply need to carren he course following the line? What (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Robo Waiter - a BrickFest PDX Robot competition
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Announcing a robot competition for BrickFest PDX... Robo Waiter: Line tracking while carrying mini-soccer balls ---...--- Build a Robotic Waiter that can carry a tray full of mini Lego soccer balls (or equivalently, basket balls) around a track. (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics.events) !!
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| | Sumo-bot event in Ann Arbor, Michigan on 9/20/03
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If you are interested in competing with us, or just want to attend, you can find all of the information you need here: (URL) have begun robot registration and so far there are 14 robots in the database and 13 others have been mentioned, which brings (...) (21 years ago, 5-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.us.lrgoaa, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: Lego Mindstorms Mars Rover Robotics Camp
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(...) Tonya, Did you know that Lego is assisting with the www.redrovergoestomars.org website? Lego ran the competition to name MER-1 and MER-2 as "Spirit" and "Opportunity". If you go to the planetary society's website, and look at archives (...) (21 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Lego Mindstorms Mars Rover Robotics Camp
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I just finished teaching a robotics course for elementary and middle school teachers on how to incorporate lego, robotics, and MLCAD into their classrooms. During one week of the course teachers were paired up with small groups of 4th-8th grade (...) (21 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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