 | | Calling All Presenters - Help Make NWBrickCon™ 2004 Great!!
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Call for Presentations at NWBrickCon™ 2004 Some of the many activities at NWBrickCon™ 2004 will be opportunities to share your knowledge and experiences, and to learn from each other. So, we would like to open an invitation to all individuals, (...) (20 years ago, 17-Aug-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.org.us.sealug, lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.scibrick, lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.id, lugnet.loc.us.or, lugnet.loc.ca.bc, FTX) !!
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| | The Vancouver LEGO club at Science World in Vancouver, BC
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Hello Fellow brick fetishists! There is a very good chance that the Vancouver Lego Club will be exhibiting its talents at Science World ( (URL) ) in the spring of 2005. We are very keen on involving some of the surrounding area groups, if they would (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.org.us.sealug, lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.org.scibrick, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.or, lugnet.loc.ca.bc, lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.org.ca.viclug, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic)
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| | NWBrickCon Is Coming Soon
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It is my pleasure to announce NWBrickCon 2004. This fan-based event will be held Halloween weekend (October 29-31, 2004) in the Great Northwest (Seattle area). This amazing event will be three days of : Fellowship - Meet with other AFOLs from (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.org.us.sealug, lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.scibrick, lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.id, lugnet.loc.us.or, lugnet.loc.ca.bc, FTX) !!
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| | Re: July 31st 2004 SMART Meeting
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(...) Hi everyone! I've been out of town myself, so I know a lot of people are traveling. I hope that I'll still see most of you at the meeting this Saturday, though. Afterwards we'll head over to Red Robin for dinner for whoever would like to come. (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: July 31st 2004 SMART Meeting
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(...) David asked me to post a message reminding folks about the meeting next Saturday. The meeting should start at the normal time of 2:00. I'm not sure about the classes, but I think the plan was to do the classes at every meeting for a while, so (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: July 31st 2004 SMART Meeting
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(...) Hi David Will the meeting be at 2:00 PM again? Are you going to give an NQC class again? Your last one was very interesting and informative. Gus's group programming exercise was fun too. Thanks, Mike (20 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | July 31st 2004 SMART Meeting
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The next SMART meeting will be on July 31st, at DigiPen. We'll be doing "Milkman" as our minichallenge -- a looped track of 3/4" black line with markers (2" long pieces put across the line) to mark locations to drop off a milk bottle (a stack of (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: May 22nd 2004 SMART Meeting Notes
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(...) Thanks David We thought we would put some black tape down and test our robots. Thanks for decribing the kinds of turns to negotiate. My son has already built a line tracker that "picks up the empty milk bottles", I'm trying to get him to build (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: May 22nd 2004 SMART Meeting Notes
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(...) Like all mini-challenges, this is pretty much up to you. I'll bring a surface with a line on it, but you may also bring your own. The point of the challenge is to see if you can get a robot to do it, to find what interesting solutions people (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: May 22nd 2004 SMART Meeting Notes
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Hi David I have a question about the "Milk Man" challenge for the July 31 S.M.A.R.T. meeting. What is the minimum radius of the line's turns? Thanks Mike (20 years ago, 8-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: New Lego store in BelSquare
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(...) $%$#$%!! Sure, they wait until after I move to Arizona to put one in the Seattle area. This on the heels of Major League Soccer announcing that Seattle is on the short list for expansion next season. At least LEGOLAND California and the LIC at (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.org.us.sealug, FTX)
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| | Re: New Lego store in BelSquare
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(...) Please let us know when it opens and the VLC would be down there an in instant! (20 years ago, 4-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.org.us.sealug, FTX)
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| | New Lego store in BelSquare
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I was just in Bel Square today, and saw this: (2 URLs) Yeah!! Up until now the nearest Lego store has been either the one in Chicago, or Legoland California, both over a thousand miles away! The location is west of the tug-boat (and Talls Camera), (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jun-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.org.us.sealug, FTX)
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| | Re: Workshop 3D #8 Results
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(...) Thanks David. I would also like to point out that David put in a tremendous amount on work into this challenge. He created both the sumo and the gap crossing arenas as well as making the RCX based timer and the angle templates for the line (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Workshop 3D #8 Results
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Workshop 3D #8 Results I apologize for not posting these results sooner; it's been a busy month since the WS3D RCX Challenge. I've put a few pictures of the event at (URL) Here are the results: Line Tracking 1st: Gus -- 15.8 seconds 2nd: Lennart -- (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | May 22nd 2004 SMART Meeting Notes
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At our SMART meeting last Saturday there were a less robots than usual, but the quality of the robots there was definitely first rate! Gus, Patrick and I brought Gap Crossing/Cube Gathering mini-challenge robots. All of them attempted the entire (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: May 22nd SMART Meeting
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(...) Last reminder: Just over a week before our next SMART meeting at Digipen (Saturday May 22nd, 2pm). In case you haven't been there before, here's the address and a map. 5001-150th Ave N.E. Redmond, WA 98052 (URL) It's just off SR-520, use the (...) (20 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | May 22nd SMART Meeting
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In just over two weeks we'll have our next SMART meeting. The mini-challenge is to build a robot that satisfies some or all of the gap crossing/cube gathering requirements from the last Workshop 3D RCX Challenge competition. The rules for the (...) (20 years ago, 7-May-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Workshop 3D RCX Challenge in two weeks
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(...) We're pretty lenient, as long as you register the day before, we'll gladly accept your robot. It makes planning for an event much easier if people register earlier, and we can provide your name to the science center to get in free to the (...) (20 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Workshop 3D RCX Challenge in two weeks
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(...) The deadline has been extended to noon Friday so go ahead and register. Gus Jansson event co-chair (20 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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