 | | November 15th, 2008 SMART meeting
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Time is sneaking up really quickly for our next meeting! The meeting will be November 15th at DigiPen from 2 to 5pm. The mini-challenge is a walking robot race - walk to the end of a field, turn around, and return to the starting spot. See (URL) for (...) (18 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | NELUG to Display at Hartford, CT
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This coming weekend, November 8th & 9th, (URL) NELUG> will be kicking off our train show season with a display at the Greenberg Train and Toy Show in Hartford, CT. For details, see the (URL) Greenberg Train and Toys Show site>. If you're in the (...) (18 years ago, 3-Nov-08, to lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | TexLUG at Maker Faire Austin 2008
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TexLUG was invited to participate at Maker Faire 2008 in Austin, Texas this past weekend. We're not the first LUG to display at Maker Faire, but this was our first time, and we walked away with not one but two "Editor's Choice" awards for our (...) (18 years ago, 23-Oct-08, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.space, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, FTX)
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| | Re: Next challenge?
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(...) I talked with David and Gus, and the challenge is to build walking robots. We are going to follow the format of the Robothon walking robot competition, and will have an arena that meets the specifications of that competition at the meeting to (...) (18 years ago, 20-Oct-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | October SANDLUG Meeting
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The October SANDLUG meeting will be on Saturday October 25 from 2:00 PM - ??? at Matt and Dawn's home. We're sticking with our regular meeting date of the 4th Saturday of the month. We will be showing off MOCs, buy/sell/trade, and parts draft of (...) (18 years ago, 19-Oct-08, to lugnet.org.us.sandlug)
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| | 5th Annual "Living LEGO-cy" Christmas Show
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Museum of American Heritage 351 Homer Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 Schedule: Show Hours: Friday-Sunday 11am-4pm Monday-Thursday closed Admission: Donation We are pleased to announce that our 5th Annual "Living LEGO-cy" Christmas show will be on (...) (18 years ago, 16-Oct-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.org.us.sacbb)
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| | Michiana-LTC at SJVRR Swap Meet - Sunday, October 19
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To all, The Michiana LEGO Train Club is pleased to display at the upcoming SJVRR Swap Meet on Sunday, October 16. Time: 10:00AM - 3:00PM CST Address: Elks lodge 3535 East McKinley Avenue South Bend, Indiana 46615 Admission: Individual $4 Families $8 (...) (18 years ago, 16-Oct-08, to lugnet.org.us.michiana-lug, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains)
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| | Next challenge?
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Is there going to be a new challenge for the next meeting, or are we going to work more on the Robot City concept? -Craig (18 years ago, 15-Oct-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Is it normal that my local FLL knows nothing about AFOLs?
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OK, so I got roped into going to a meeting of a fledgling Robotics League in Orange County, California. They invited me because one of the founders of the League knew I was into Lego. There were several FIRST and FLL coaches, mentors,and club (...) (18 years ago, 11-Oct-08, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.edu, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: September 27th SMART meeting at Redmond Library
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(...) BrickCon has probably a dozen or more LEGO themes represented. Each theme is on a set of tables. SMART is hosting the MINDSTORMS robotic display. We'll be at the back of the room, near the curtains. The public hours for BrickCon are from 11 to (...) (18 years ago, 2-Oct-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: September 27th SMART meeting at Redmond Library
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(...) So, any details around exactly what we will be doing and when? I've never been to Brick Con so have no idea how it works or where the SMART display would fit in. I looked at the schedule and it seems like people will be moving their stuff in (...) (18 years ago, 1-Oct-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | BayLUG Turns 10!
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The Bay Area LEGO Users Group (BayLUG) is pleased to announce that on October 10, 2008, we turn 10 years old, and we want you to come out and celebrate with us! The party is at the Museum of American Heritage in Palo Alto on Sunday, October 12. The (...) (18 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.org.us.baylug)
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| | Re: September 27th SMART meeting at Redmond Library
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(...) BrickCon is definitely a "go", and SMART will have some sort of display there, though I'm not sure it will be a robot city as we originally planned. Thanks to everyone who made it to the meeting, and worked hard building robots and writing (...) (18 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: September 27th SMART meeting at Redmond Library
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(...) Hi David, Just wanting to confirm whether the BrickCon event is a go or not? Just trying to set up plans for the week and allocating time where needed. Thanks, Carl (18 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | September SANDLUG Meeting
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The September SANDLUG meeting will be on Saturday September 27 from noon - ??? at Steve DeCraemer's home. We're sticking with our regular meeting date of the 4th Saturday of the month. We will be showing off MOCs, buy/sell/trade, and parts draft of (...) (18 years ago, 26-Sep-08, to lugnet.org.us.sandlug)
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| | Re: September 27th SMART meeting at Redmond Library
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(...) Sorry for not replying sooner, I was hoping to have some code to share sooner, but it's still not ready. When it is, it will deal with detecting intersections and line tracking. In any case, if you can just make sure that your robot is capable (...) (18 years ago, 21-Sep-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | NCLUG Meeting
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NCLUG will have their monthly meeting this coming Sunday, September 21st at the Cameron Village Library in Raleigh. Need more information? Check out NCLUG's web site at: (URL) Mike Walsh -- mike underscore walsh at mindspring dot com LEGO Blog: (...) (18 years ago, 19-Sep-08, to lugnet.org.us.nclug)
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| | Re: September 27th SMART meeting at Redmond Library
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(...) David, Are any additional details of how the SMART-Bot City robots supposed to work published somewhere? I remember that we discussed a lot of ideas about how to space intersections and whether they would be marked, but I don't remember (...) (18 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | September 27th SMART meeting at Redmond Library
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The next SMART meeting will be held at the Redmond Regional Library on September 27th from 2 to 5pm. We'll be getting our SMART-Bot City display ready for BrickCon, which takes place on the following weekend. So the mini-challenge is to build an (...) (18 years ago, 9-Sep-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | NJ AFOL photography assignment request
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Greetings New Jerseyans, I have fallen in love with a couple of historic buildings in South Orange that I would like to attempt to model out of LEGO bricks but have only been able to find a few photos on the Internet and in books. Unfortunately I'm (...) (18 years ago, 12-Aug-08, to lugnet.loc.us.nj.new, lugnet.org.us.gardenslug)
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