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Since the next challenge is to build a walker, I thought I would pass this on to you in case you have not seen it in the robotics or technic newsgroups. (URL) a related matter, Barton Place and I were talking about using a wheel or similar mounted (...) (23 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Meeting Home Page and Mini Challenge lists
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I've created a home page for our SMART meetings. (URL) page will contain details about when and where the next meeting will be held, what the current mini challenge is, and what mini challenges will be up for a vote for the following meeting. This (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Length of Diagonal Spreadsheet (Now in PDF format!)
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Thank you everyone who either offered to make a PDF file or went ahead and made one and mailed it to me. Here is the PDF version of the spreadsheet. (URL) suggest that you print it out and try out some of the diagonals. For the new 12 and 20 tooth (...) (23 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Length of Diagonal Spreadsheet
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"Gustav Jansson" <GJansson@aol.com> wrote in message news:GBFto5.GFC@lugnet.com... <snip>> Please, if anyone has the means to create Adobe Acrobat .pdf files, please (...) </snip> I'll give it a go when I'm back in work on tuesday..... Duq (23 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Length of Diagonal Spreadsheet
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Hi Everyone, I just created a spreadsheet that I think will be useful to many of us. It shows the lengths of possible diagonals in terms of LEGO Units. I created it because I often find myself searching by trial and error for possible diagonal (...) (23 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: David Schilling
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Oh I see. thanx....good luck! (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: David Schilling
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(...) I built the Killough platform for the March SMART meeting mini-challenge. (SMART is the Seattle Mindstorms and Robotic Techies group.) The basic idea was to build a robot to wander around a table, without falling off, and stop beside a heavy (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Killough Platform and Meeting Thanks
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First of all I want to say thank you to everyone who came today. I think it was an excellent meeting and I'm already looking forward to the next one. The next challenge should be fun, especially now that I know what 'around' means :) I especially (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Notes from second SMART meeting
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The second SMART meeting just is just over, and we had a terrific time! Quite a few people tried out the mini-challenge of locating a heavy block on a table. And most of them were even successful! (Though my own entry wasn't, perhaps I was overly (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Tomorrow's Challenge Notes
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I funny thing happened to me while I was writing up some reminders for tomorrow's meeting to send to SRS and Workshop3D. I realized that I, myself, had totally misinterpreted the challenge as stated by David Schilling. When I reread it today I (...) (23 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Point new-guy to resources?
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(...) Now there's an interesting idea.. but I'm out of sensors. )-: (...) Aww.. (-: Actually, one of our guys is doing just that. I've had a couple of ideas, but they're kludgy. Our first match ruleset permits only peices from a single RIS (plus one (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Point new-guy to resources?
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(...) Actually it was me (David's little Brother) who built it and David came from Seattle to program it. The reason I made it with a transmission is because it was too slow the first time I built it and I knew that if I left it like that, the other (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Point new-guy to resources?
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(...) Sorry for not answering sooner, I've been out of town. Actually, it was my brother, Phil Schilling who built the gear-shifting robot for the RTL-Toronto sumo event. (I only wrote the program it used.) He won with it last year. He also entered (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Maxwells Demons - official rules
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(...) I haven't settled on an official date for the next Maxwell's Demons competition, but I'm leaning towards the end of September, or perhaps early October. Of course there's nothing to prevent anyone from starting to build a robot now, if they (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Point new-guy to resources?
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(...) the builder thereof. I've got a couple ideas about how to do it, but neither are particularly elegent, and I was hoping to learn from your experience. We're trying to skip ahead a few iterations to more advanced sumo techniques in our earliest (...) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Point new-guy to resources?
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Hi Robert, Perhaps you meant to send this out to a more general newsgroup, but, since you are here... (SMART is a Seattle Mindstorms group) David Schilling has told me about a robot built in rtlToronto which has the gearbox you described. You can (...) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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Hello, all. Several friends and I are beginning a sumo competition in Denver. I've seen references to a couple of things that are very interesting, and am looking for more info: 1> Shifting transmissions- low mode for push, high mode for search. Is (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Maxwells Demons - official rules
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Thanks for the rules, David. Do let us know when you plan to run this type of event again. Is this something we can expect to see more of at SMART meetings? Gus (23 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | March Meeting Reminder
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Just a reminder that the next SMART meeting is coming up in a couple of weeks. If you haven't started building a robot for the mini challenge, now is the time to at least start thinking about it. The meeting is Saturday March 31st, at 2pm, in the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Maxwells Demons - official rules
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A number of people have asked me to post the rules for a robot competition that we had at my place in January of this year. The competition is called "Maxwell's Demons" after the imaginary quantum physics entity that tries to separate all the hot (...) (23 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics)
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