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Here are a couple of 'work in progress' pictures of the Easter Egg Hunt arena: (URL) black top has curled a bit, but we'll tape it down before using it. The walls will be fastened together properly, and there will be white tape around each of the (...) (19 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 26th Smart Meeting
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(...) The holes will have white tape around them (I think you said in a previous posting), so if there are robots that may fall into the holes, they could detect the edge of the circle before falling in (they'll need to in order to deposit the egg, (...) (19 years ago, 19-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 26th Smart Meeting
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(...) All good questions. I was just starting to build the arena today (making larger at 8'x6'), though I haven't cut the holes yet. My plan was to make them complete circles, about 3" in diameter, with somewhere around 1" between the edges of the (...) (19 years ago, 19-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 26th Smart Meeting
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I think a larger arena makes sense, so that it doesn't get too crowded. What size will the holes in the corners of the table be? How far away from the walls will the center of each hole be? (I'm trying to figure out if my wall detection will prevent (...) (19 years ago, 19-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 26th Smart Meeting
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With our next SMART meeting a bit more than a week away, I wanted to tell everyone that the Easter Egg Hunt arena will be available from probably 11am for people to try it out, and make changes to their robots or programs as required. Don't forget (...) (19 years ago, 17-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | March 26th Smart Meeting
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The next SMART meeting is just over two weeks away, on March 26th. We'll be meeting at Crossroads Shopping Center this month, but the time will be as usual, from 2pm to 5pm. The mini-challenge is a robotic Easter Egg Hunt. Build a robot that will (...) (19 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Easter Egg Hunt
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(...) Sure, anyone who'd like to bring an Easter Egg hunting robot is welcome. The more, the better! Unlike the past, this event isn't in addition to, but rather IS our normal meeting. As such it will run from 2pm to 5pm. We'd like people to stay (...) (19 years ago, 18-Feb-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Easter Egg Hunt
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Is the arena open to anyone that brings an egg-gathering robot? My son and I haven't been to any of the meetings (but we have participated in the robot challenge last year and have been to many of your other public events) and we may put together a (...) (19 years ago, 18-Feb-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Easter Egg Hunt
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As promised, here are the specs on the Easter eggs that we'll be using for our Easter Egg Hunt robots. We'll be buying a bunch of Hershey's Solid Milk Chocolate Eggs. The eggs are about 1 1/8 inch long, and just a bit over 3/4 inch wide, or in (...) (19 years ago, 16-Feb-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Easter Egg Hunt
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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 (...) (20 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 (...) (20 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 (...) (20 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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| | Re: Crate Contraption Standard
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A friend passed this thread onto me and thought you might be interested in some work I've done with marbles: A marble pump (Pump folder) A marble machine i.e. continuous pump with falling devices A marble factory (supertrain2004 folder) (URL) be (...) (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Crate Size
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(...) up on it. Two things I can see at this time, though, are that it only has one technic hole. It'd be much more useful with two or three that you could connect to. And second that it's not quite as thick as a rounded beam on the 'lifting' part. (...) (20 years ago, 20-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Crate Size
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(...) Similar to this piece? (URL) Good luck! Thanks! (20 years ago, 20-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Crate Size
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(...) Thanks! It has been extremely fun and rewarding to build these. They certainly attract a lot of attention from crowds. (...) The current crate that we use is this one: (URL) The other one that you see was an old prototype when we first started (...) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Crate Size
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(...) If I haven't said this already, let me first express how impressed and fascinated I am with your Contraptions. Three questions about the SMART crate. 1. The one at (URL) is 7 1/3 bricks high. The ones at the Road Show ((URL) appear to be 7 (...) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Crate Contraption scripting system?
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(...) That sounds very interesting. David Schilling has some white 3x7 boards that we are using that work fairly well. I would prefer something less glossy because then I get a better gray scale reading on the edge of the line. I'm going to look (...) (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Crate Contraption scripting system?
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(...) Wow. Thank you for an absolutely fabulous describtion - that is far more than I hoped for, and it makes a lot of things clearer. (...) That's probably next on my list. I grabbed some cheap retroreflective tapa at Meijer's the other day, and (...) (20 years ago, 17-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Crate Contraption scripting system?
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I'm not sure how 'exactly' I can describe the system but I'll give it a try. I'll basically describe how the scripting system is used and you can infer how the code must work. First of all, let me talk about the marker tape pieces. They come from a (...) (20 years ago, 17-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Crate Contraption scripting system?
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How exactly does the scripting system you use work? I'm trying my hand at this, and did not think of using the remote to "program", so you've got my curiosity arroused (I'm using NQC, but that still gives me program access to three buttons (...) (20 years ago, 16-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Robothon 2004
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(...) Oops. Should be fixed now. -- David Schilling (20 years ago, 16-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Robothon 2004
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(...) Some of the video links are broken, but you can still see the videos at (URL) (20 years ago, 16-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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