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As we mentioned at the meeting (and in the last message) our next meeting will be at Crossroads Shopping Center on March 26. This is the Saturday before Easter Sunday. So our mini-challenge will be to build a robot that will hunt for chocolate (...) (19 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | January 2005 Meeting Notes
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Saturday's SMART meeting went really well! For our fourth anniversary we had slightly less people than normal, but almost everyone brought a mini-challenge or other robot. The mini-challenge was to build a robot that could detect a 60-watt (...) (19 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 29th 2005 SMART Meeting
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A kinda-late reminder about tomorrow's SMART meeting: 2pm at Digipen. Whoever is interested, we'll go to Red Robin afterwards. See you there! -- David Schilling (19 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 29th 2005 SMART Meeting
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Here's the two-week reminder before the SMART meeting which will be at 2pm at Digipen on January 29th. Read the previous post for details on the mini-challenge. I'm thinking of just enclosing the light-bulb in a small plexiglass box instead of using (...) (19 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | January 29th 2005 SMART Meeting
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Happy New Year everyone! This next meeting, on January 29th, is going to be SMART's 4th anniversary! Here are the details about the mini-challenge that we're having: The idea is to build a stationairy robot that can shoot some sort of Lego (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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(...) When it's "officially" assembled, we will want room for the builders to monitor modules, without blocking the view of spectators. But I'd recommend the goal for running be like last year, where the whole contraption is set to run for an hour (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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(...) Great work Steve, and thanks for picking up the ball and running with it. Oops, was that an unintentional pun ;) I am already looking forward to working on a module or two for the this year's BrickFest event. If you have four modules which can (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | The Great Ball Contraption
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Well, I don't have a web page made up, yet, but over the holidays, several of us got together to set-up a Great Ball Contraption. The Great Ball Contraption is a take-off of SMART's Crate Contraption. With the GBC, balls are moved (instead of crates (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: November 2004 SMART Meeting Notes
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Thanks David for organizing this meeting. It looks like I missed a lot of cool robots. Good job Mark on a excellent mini-challenge robot. From the photos I can see that there were several other cool robots that I wish I had more time to look at. (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | November 2004 SMART Meeting Notes
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We had a small but wonderful meeting last weekend! Gus showed a wind-up clock that he's been working on. He gave an interesting presentation on how several escapement mechanisms work, and also some useful pointers on how to reduce friction in gear (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: November 20th, 2004 SMART Meeting
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This Saturday at 2pm is the next SMART meeting. We'll be at Digipen, as usual. The mini-challenge is block stacking along a line. See previous posts for details. I hope to see everyone there! -- David Schilling (20 years ago, 18-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | HardToSeperate - solutions?
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I noticed a new folder in the SMART Brickshelf today: have you tried using those flexible thin rubber pads used to open really tight jar lids? I use one of those, and it works great (and is cheap). Using two of them makes pulling small pins out of (...) (20 years ago, 18-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: November 20th, 2004 SMART Meeting
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(...) For the BrickHeap Wars competition there were strict rules about what and how the robots had to work. For our mini-challenges, we leave much of the interpretation up to you. Do what you can. Challenge yourself to build the best robot you can. (...) (20 years ago, 14-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: November 20th, 2004 SMART Meeting
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(...) Hi David This challenge sounds like fun. Some questions. Will the blocks be white? How many blocks will there be (approx.)? How long is the course? (to gauge speed to complete in 3 minutes) I read some of your previous notes and understand (...) (20 years ago, 14-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | November 20th, 2004 SMART Meeting
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It's hard to believe that the next SMART meeting is almost upon us! I've been so busy with the Crate Contraption at Robothon, and NWBrickCon that I haven't even thought about the next meeting until now, but it's only 10 days away! So if you haven't (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: NWBrickCon 2004 - Crate Contraption
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(...) Thanks for coming by to see us! We'll look forward to seeing you again in a few weeks. (November's meeting is on the 20th, due to Thanksgiving weekend.) There's a few more pictures of the crate contraption robots at (URL) (Most of the second (...) (20 years ago, 1-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: NWBrickCon 2004 - Crate Contraption
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I just saw this thing live and I must say it was incredibly impressive. I talked with a gentlemen from SMART for a bit of time, but I forget his name (I believe it was Mark). Anyway, hats off to you folks, it was a really neat display. The whole (...) (20 years ago, 31-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: NWBrickCon 2004 - Crate Contraption
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As promised, I have a few more pictures of our current Crate Contraption. I'll have a write-up of them sometime in the next week or three. Overall layout: (URL) forklift: (URL) distributer: (URL) Truck: (URL) End Loader: (URL) Forklift: (URL) robot (...) (20 years ago, 31-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | NWBrickCon 2004 - Crate Contraption
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Gus, Mark and I have spent much of the last week ironing out little bugs in getting our latest Crate Contraption working. It's now set up at NWBrickCon. I'll have more pictures soon, but for now here are two: (URL) you'd like to see it in action (...) (20 years ago, 30-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Crate Size
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(...) Why 2x2 square bricks for feet, instead of 2x2 round bricks? Having played (only as little!) with the crate on a self-aligning stand (2x2 slopes to help center the feet), the slopes don't seem to need the square edges of the 2x2 feet, and a (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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