 | | November 2003 SMART Meeting
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It's a little late (I've been having weird computer problems for a while) but I thought I'd post some notes on the last meeting. First, though, someone lost an RCX remote; if anyone picked it up, could you please let me know so that we could return (...) (21 years ago, 5-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | January meeting
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For those that were not at the November meeting, for Brick Heap Wars (which was a blast, BTW!), the challenge for the January meeting is to build a robot that either manipulates Lego soccer or basketballs, or crates, like the robots in our (...) (21 years ago, 1-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | November 8th SMART Meeting
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It's been a while since the last SMART meeting, but that doesn't mean we haven't been busy. Nor does it mean that there aren't Lego robot activities that you can participate in: Robothon, sponsored by the Seattle Robotics Society this week at the (...) (21 years ago, 24-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Workshop3D RCX Challenge 7
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(...) I've been looking forward to this, as usual. I've entered the last four Workshop 3D Challenges, and I've never even been to Seattle! David Schilling has been nice enough to run my robots in past events, but it doesn't look like that's going to (...) (21 years ago, 24-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Workshop3D RCX Challenge 7
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On Saturday, November 1, the Pacific Science Center in Seattle will be the venue for yet another Workshop 3D RCX Challenge. This will be number 7! Events as usual will be Line Tracking, Sumo, and Puck Gathering. Last year he also had walking sumo (...) (21 years ago, 19-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.events)
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| | NWBrickCon 2003
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This weekend SMART will be participating in NWBrickCon 2003. Any robots you would like to display are welcome. SMART will have a large display of cooperating robots, called the "Cooperative Cybernetic Crate Contraption". A smaller version of this (...) (21 years ago, 3-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: September SMART Meeting Canceled
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(...) Just a reminder that the usual SMART meeting that would occur this weekend has been canceled. A number of our club members are participating in the LEGO roadshow which will be held this weekend at the Seattle Center near the international (...) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | September SMART Meeting Canceled
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The Lego Roadshow is taking place the same weekend that we'd normally have our SMART meeting. Since a number of us are participating at the roadshow, it has been decided to cancel the normal SMART meeting that would take place on the last Saturday (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | NWBrickCon Registration Deadline
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Some SMART members might not be aware of this because they missed the last meeting, but NWBrickCon is happening on the first weekend of October, at the Seattle Center. SMART will be putting on a display of robots at the convention, but there will (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: July 26th SMART Meeting
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One of my robots decided to try the "center of gravity above the rope" challenge on it's own initiative Sunday. The results were not pretty, but nothing was permanently damaged, and the robot is back together now. Sean and I are having a lot of fun (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jul-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART Robotic Marvel
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I want to thank David for putting this show together! I think it went very well, introducing many people to Lego robotics and our club. The robots on display captured the interest of a large number of people walking by. The contests worked well, (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jul-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | July 26th SMART Meeting
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In two weeks SMART will be having its next meeting at the Redmond Library, room 2 at 2pm. The mini-challenge this time is to build a robot that can cross from one table to another on a taunt rope. You won't be told ahead of time how far the tables (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jul-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | SMART Robotic Marvel
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SMART Robotic Marvel A LEGO Mindstorms Display and Kids Robotic Competition SMART's robot display and kids competition at Crossroads Shopping Center was tremendously fun! We had a ton of robots, using over 40 RCXs, a half dozen scouts, some (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART show at Crossroads
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I'm short some boat weights for my demo robots (my line crossing robot uses some, as does Sean's tug-of-war robot). If anyone has some extras laying around, I could use 6 just for tomorrow so I can have the helicopter, spot finder, and Sean's (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART show at Crossroads
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The link: (URL) not working right now. I'm not sure who to contact about this. Hopefully it can be fixed soon. Gus (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART show at Crossroads
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I plan to bring my helicopter as well. I think it will be interesting to see two helicopters. I'll also bring my puck gatherer and line tracker. I will try to bring Alegomazer if I can find an RCX for it. Barton, are you bringing your puck gatherer? (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART show at Crossroads
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(...) Tomorrow I'm getting together with the coordinator at Crossroads to plan the layout of our display this Saturday. If anyone else knows or even just hopes that they'll be coming to the show, let me know as soon as possible what you'll be (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART show at Crossroads
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(...) There's only a week left until our show at Crossroads. Thanks to the people who have replied so far! I hope that more than that will show up, though! Since it's important for planning and setting up that I give an estimate of the number of (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | July mini-challenge - Rope crossing
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Ah, those deceptively simple challenges! This one is proving to be more challenging than I initially thought! After a fair amount of work, Sean and I each have a robot put together for the rope crossing challenge. Sean's starts on the rope and just (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART show at Crossroads
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(...) I can bring several robots to demonstrate. I've still got my spot finder pretty much together, a couple sumo robots and a line tracer from W3D, a helicopter, and the figure 8 racers. My nephew's puck gatherer is still together as well, and I'm (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART show at Crossroads
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(...) Thanks! All of these robots are welcome. I will bring a line for line tracking, and a puck-gathering arena. I can also bring a sumo arena if desired. Did you want a plain white surface as well? For anyone else: when describing robots you'll be (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART show at Crossroads
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I can bring a few robots for demonstration as our line following ant, walking sumo and puck gathering robots all remain intact and operable. Will we have a white playing field available? Regards, Martin (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | SMART show at Crossroads
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Our robotic display at Crossroads Shopping Center is coming up in a bit over two weeks. I need to provide them with an estimate of how many tables we'll need. The more robots we show, the better this will be. So if you will be bringing robots, (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Prospect of household robotics is good
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While not mentioning LEGO Mindstorms, there's a column in the June Technology Review about how robotics is finally seeming to take hold in the world, and we might see, over the next years and decades real robots doing "real things"(tm) in the house. (...) (21 years ago, 18-May-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | May 17th SMART Meeting Notes
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Today, perhaps because of the nice weather, or perhaps because we met at the Bellevue library instead of our usual location, the number of people who attended the SMART meeting was down, as were the number of robots that showed up. But those who did (...) (21 years ago, 18-May-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | May 17th SMART meeting
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With only a little more than a week left before the next meeting, I thought I'd remind everyone about the two challenges that we'll be holding. Also, we'll be meeting at the Bellevue library this month, which isn't our usual location. First, the (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Move meetings to a weeknight?
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(...) Well, not too many people turned up for the workshop, but I think for the people that took advantage of the opportunity, they improved their robots a LOT! I can't wait for the competition May 17th! If anyone would like to have one last chance (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Grand Challenge Workshops
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A quick reminder about the up-coming Grand Challenge Workshop this Monday at the Kirkland Library (308 Kirkland Ave., Kirkland, WA 98033) from 6pm to shortly before 9pm. Bring your Figure-8 robots, laptops, IR towers, extra Technic pieces, and make (...) (21 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | May Mini-Challenge: Maxwell's Demons
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A number of people have asked what the surface will be like for the Maxwell's Demons arena. (By the way, this newsgroup is for everyone to post in, not just for announcements by me!) Since the surfaces are very even, you should be able to get away (...) (21 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Move meeting to a weeknight?
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(...) When we first started SMART, Saturday was the best day for everyone, and since we only meet six times a year, people with busy weekends didn't mind. But it's a good topic to look at again. Perhaps if there is a huge turnout for the Grand (...) (21 years ago, 17-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Grand Challenge Workshops
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(...) Since I haven't received any more people interested in attending the first Grand Challenge Workshop, I'm going to cancel this one. The second one on the 28th at the Kirkland Library is still on, though. -- David Schilling (21 years ago, 17-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Grand Challenge Workshops
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(...) I haven't received any new requests for the first Grand Challenge Workshop. Is there anyone else interested in attending? Please let me know as soon as possible. Thursday is fast approaching. Also, if anyone has a mini-challenge robot ready (...) (21 years ago, 15-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | WS3D RCX Challenge #6 Results
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Last Saturday was the Workshop 3D RCX Challenge #6. As usual, the competition took place in the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. This time the events were Single RIS Line Tracking, Unlimited Line Tracking, Lightweight Sumo, Walking Sumo, and Puck (...) (21 years ago, 15-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | SMART Show at Crossroads Shopping Center
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After talking with a bunch of you at WS3D#6 on Saturday I've talked with the marketing manager at Crossroads Shopping Center and we've picked June 28th as the day that SMART will put on a show there. I think that this will be an excellent (...) (21 years ago, 15-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Grand Challenge Workshops
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(...) We're fast approaching the time for the first workshop -- this Thursday. I would like to let my pastor friend know whether we'll be taking him up on his kind offer of a classroom in his church or not. So far I have two replies, one of which is (...) (21 years ago, 15-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Move meeting to a weeknight?
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I don't know about the rest of you, but attending the meetings on a Saturday is difficult for us, due to other conflicting activites. Has there been any consideration given to having the meeting on a weeknight? If we started at 6:00, the meeting (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Testing for Workshop 3D RCX Challenge
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The arena for the 6th Workshop 3D RCX Challenge will be available for testing on Friday at the Pacific Science Center. If you would like to bring your robots down during their regular hours (10am-5pm) to try them out, make improvements, etc., this (...) (21 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Lego spools/bobbins
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Yes, that is the part, and they are blue. (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Lego spools/bobbins
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(...) My guess is he means the one shown here: (URL) David Schilling (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Lego spools/bobbins
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(...) Mark, not sure which parts you mean here, do you have a pic? Thanks ROSCO (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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