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Last reminder about next Saturday's meeting at Digipen. Mini-challenge: bring a robot that can write or draw something. Also, If you're looking for an NXT, but didn't order one online, they are available at Toys R Us, and the LEGO store in Bellevue (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: July 29, 2006 SMART meeting
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(...) Two weeks until our next SMART meeting. As usual, we'll be meeting at DigiPen. The mini-challenge is to build a robot that can write or draw something insteresting. You are perfectly welcome (but by no means under any obligation) to use an NXT (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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(...) I don't know how accurate the big wired article on NXT was, but it says pretty clearly it is 50/50 adults and kids. "Such loyalty isn't unusual among the fanboys who've swooned over Mindstorms since its 1998 debut. Four years after its (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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(...) Yeah, well,*I* am. There's already a Logical block that starts getting at this, but bit-wise opertations would be very nice to have sometimes. I agree, if we have arrays they should be arrays of anything (number, boolean, or string), but (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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(...) A copy of the MyBlock is not stored with the file that uses it. I've had several programs in NXT-G wind up broken because of changes to the MyBlock VIs they used. You definitely need to be very careful with MyBlocks. John Hansen (18 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Program to Manually Run Motors using NXT-Brick's Buttons
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ScreenShot: (2 URLs) pretty self explanatory. It even shows three lines of help when you run it. I'm tempted to alter it to have two speeds. Sometimes the current speed is too fast. -S (18 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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(...) Well, they already have a boolean data type. If we have arrays, arrays of booleans doesn't seem like much of a stretch. I'm not asking for bit-wise Ands and Ors, Shirts or Rolls here ;). (but isn't something like 50% of their mindstorms (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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(...) Yep, I agree. It why one of the first things I did was write a MyBlock that would use file memory to hold and manage a 1-d array. Worked quite well, but it was slow, and I'm not sure what the ultimate read-write limits are on the flash memory (...) (18 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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(...) All I'm asking for is fixed-size, global, 1-d arrays of numbers. I'd prefer floats or ints, but just ints (32 bit preferrably) would be fine. Arrays of Bits would be handy, too. There are many times when I'd like to make a 2D scan of an areas (...) (18 years ago, 8-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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(...) Agreed. Although if it had full strong parsing ability, you could use the string variables as arrays. But yeah, I really miss (&, for somethings, need) arrays. Data structures I can do without (or roll my own with arrays). (...) As I'm sure (...) (18 years ago, 8-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | a Google Groups SMART Newsgroup
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I've been trying to get an account on Lugnet for years (literally) and finally got one a couple of weeks ago (after I'd sent them my $10 a couple of months previously). Recently I've been trying to post on newsgroups from my email account and can't, (...) (18 years ago, 8-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Got my NXT on Wednesday
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(I've been trying to post this message since Thursday, but still can't figure out how to do it by sending an email. Here goes trying with a web-post.) I just got my NXT in the mail yesterday. I just thought I'd post some impressions ;). Shipping & (...) (18 years ago, 8-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | July 29, 2006 SMART meeting
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The next (NXT?) SMART meeting will be July 29th. At the March meeting we already decided on the mini-challenge for this meeting. The vote was for building a robot that could write or draw something. What you have your robot write or draw is up to (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: BrickHeap Wars Space Elevator Challenge Results
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There's a "Space Elevator Blog" that posted a link to our challenge. ((URL) If you're interested in finding out more about the ("real") Space Elevator, you can also read about it here: (URL) David Schilling (18 years ago, 24-May-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: BrickHeap Wars Space Elevator Challenge Results
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(...) Windows Media Player to view them. I didn't get any errors. (...) Mark said he spent three weekends collecting and counting parts. This was a very impressive part of the whole competition. Mark and David did a fantastic job of both planning (...) (18 years ago, 24-May-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: BrickHeap Wars Space Elevator Challenge Results
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(...) David, Sounds like fun, however, I can't view any of the videos. It appears the server won't allow me to save the videos, or even view them directly. I keep getting an error saying "File download was cancelled by user." (...) Personally, I (...) (18 years ago, 23-May-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | BrickHeap Wars Space Elevator Challenge Results
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On Saturday we had one of the best, and one of the funnest BrickHeap Wars there's ever been! Besides two SMART teams, seven other teams from around the Seattle area came and participated. There was a team from the Seattle Robotics Society, as well (...) (18 years ago, 23-May-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART BrickHeap Team Forming
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Team update: My son Lennart won't make it but I have one new member: Alexander Kau. Current team roster: Sean Kenworthy Doug Bell Mark Chow Alexander Kau Gus (18 years ago, 20-May-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: May 20th SMART Meeting: BrickHeap Wars!
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I look forward to seeing everyone for BrickHeap Wars tomorrow. We have an excellent challenge for you! Don't forget, the meeting starts at noon. If you haven't signed up for a team yet, you should contract Shane or Gus (see previous messages for (...) (18 years ago, 19-May-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: May 20th SMART Meeting: BrickHeap Wars!
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Just one week left till BrickHeap Wars! And there's room for only one more team! Anyone want to step up to be the final team captain? -- David Schilling (18 years ago, 13-May-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: May 20th SMART Meeting: BrickHeap Wars!
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(...) As of this morning, two more teams have signed up. I would say that this is the last chance for a third SMART team to be started! Any volunteers? -- David Schilling (18 years ago, 10-May-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: May 20th SMART Meeting: BrickHeap Wars!
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It's just over 10 days until BrickHeap Wars! We have 6 teams now, only two of which are SMART teams. Since a team is 4 to 6 people, there are going to be a lot of SMART members who won't be participating unless another team or two is started. There (...) (18 years ago, 9-May-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART BrickHeap Team Forming
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My team is growing! Current team: Sean Kenworthy Lennart Jansson (if he has time) Doug Bell Mark Chow Anyone else want to join? email me: GustavJ elephant-trunk-a msn dot com Gus (18 years ago, 5-May-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | SMART BrickHeap Team Forming
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I'll captain a SMART team. Current team mates: Sean Kenworthy Lennart Jansson (if he has time) Anyone else want to join? email me: GustavJ elephant-trunk-a msn dot com Gus (18 years ago, 5-May-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: May 20th SMART Meeting: BrickHeap Wars!
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(...) Shane Brinkman-Davis, (unable to post himself,) has asked me to post for him: he's going to be a team captain for the BrickHeap Wars we're having in two weeks. If you would like to join his team, there are still a few slots available. Please (...) (18 years ago, 5-May-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Pictures of SMART's robot display at Crossroads
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(...) ... (...) combining a Crate Contraption & a GBC. Very cool. Steve (18 years ago, 28-Apr-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Pictures of SMART's robot display at Crossroads
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(...) Well, the LEGO chain link is pretty weak and flimsy stuff! Great for a static model of a motor cycle, not so great if you want to apply a lot of force. So I've been trying to come up with different ways to make stronger chains. The biggest (...) (18 years ago, 27-Apr-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Pictures of SMART's robot display at Crossroads
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(...) Thanks for writing this up and posting the pictures, and the video! Really wonderful stuff. I love how many different ideas people can implement - the screws are nice, but I think my personal favorites (after a *quick* browse - so much there!) (...) (18 years ago, 26-Apr-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | May 20th SMART Meeting: BrickHeap Wars!
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With both summer and the NXT launch sneaking up fast on us, we've decided to have a BrickHeap Wars competition again for our next meeting (on May 20th). BrickHeap Wars is a competition where people arrive at the meeting, and get in teams to build (...) (18 years ago, 26-Apr-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Pictures of SMART's robot display at Crossroads
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On Saturday SMART put on a terrific robot display at Crossroads Shopping Center! This was a combined Crate Contraption and Great Ball Contraption. There was so much going on that it was hard to take it all in! Trains zipping back and forth, ball (...) (18 years ago, 25-Apr-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART display at Crossroads Shopping Center (April 22)
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Just a reminder that tomorrow SMART will be putting on a robot display at Crossroads Shopping Center. Setup will be at 10 AM. Everyone should be there by 11 AM so that we can have all the modules put in the display, which should be running, at the (...) (18 years ago, 21-Apr-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | SMART display at Crossroads Shopping Center (April 22)
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In a week and a half SMART will be putting on a robot display at Crossroads Shopping Center. Everyone is welcome to come take a look, but we're especially interested in having people participate! There's going to be a Great Ball Contraption as part (...) (18 years ago, 12-Apr-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Programming the RCX
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(...) While I've tinkered a tiny bit with alternate firmwares (legOS and the Swan firmware) I almost exclusively use NQC. Considering the types of robots you're likely to build, there really are few situations where you need more power and speed (...) (18 years ago, 12-Apr-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Programming the RCX
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My son and I are new to the group (and to Mindstorms) so I don't know if this has been covered recently... I'd be very interested in learning the pros and cons of different programming options for the RCX. I'm currently using NQC but don't have a (...) (18 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 25, 2006 SMART meeting
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Our next meeting is only a week away. I've been working on a couple of ball modules this weekend. I hope to see many more interesting modules at the meeting that others have been working on! Don't forget, 2pm at Digipen next Saturday. BTW: if anyone (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART T-shirts
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(...) Reminder: if you want a SMART t-shirt, get your orders in as soon as possible. I've only received orders for 5 so far, which would make it prohibitively expensive to move ahead. Send an email with your name, and the number and size(s) of (...) (18 years ago, 14-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | SMART T-shirts
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I've been looking for someone to make SMART t-shirts for a while, and I think I've finally found someone. Besides just a cool memento of our club, it would be nice to have a consistent look for our members at shows that we put on, for instance the (...) (18 years ago, 12-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Crossroads Event on April 22nd, 2006
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On April 22nd, SMART will be displaying an integration of the Crate Contraption with as many Great Ball Contraption modules as we can get our hands on! Originally planned for Easter weekend, we've moved the event to April 22nd because a number of (...) (18 years ago, 11-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | March 25, 2006 SMART meeting
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Unbelievably (well at least to me), the next SMART meeting is only two weeks away! As usual we'll be meeting at Digipen, at 2pm on the last Saturday of the month (the 25th in this case). The mini-challenge is to build one or more Great Ball (...) (18 years ago, 11-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: IMPORTANT: Possible SMART Crossroads Event Rescheduling
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(...) of those at PaB recently, and yet again, now I have a use for them. Sigh... now if I could just do without sleep... (18 years ago, 8-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: IMPORTANT: Possible SMART Crossroads Event Rescheduling
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So far I have only head from Brad, via email, and he says he would be out of town April 15 so for him a later date is better. Does anyone else want to comment on this possible rescheduling? I would really like a little more input on this one way or (...) (18 years ago, 7-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: IMPORTANT: Possible SMART Crossroads Event Rescheduling
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Hi Brian, I'm sure we'll take lots of pictures and movies. Here is the hint: (URL) motorized yet and jams if there are too many balls at the bottom. Powered by hand it lifts four or fewer balls at a time very quickly and effortlessly. Gus (18 years ago, 7-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: IMPORTANT: Possible SMART Crossroads Event Rescheduling
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(...) I look forward to seeing the combination, with kids and all! Please take lots of pictures/movies for those of us on the wrong side of the Mississippi for this event! (...) Well now you've got my curiosity up. Hints? (...) Yes, those and the (...) (18 years ago, 7-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | The LEGO difference engine
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This message is from Doug Bell who says he never did manage to get a LUGNET account up a running that lets him post so this is being posted for him. Sorry Doug that it has taken me so long to get this posted: From Doug Bell: Have you seen this? It (...) (18 years ago, 7-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | IMPORTANT: Possible SMART Crossroads Event Rescheduling
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Hi Everyone, It turns out that the selected day for the SMART Crossroads event, April 15, is very bad for me. This is a big deal since we are going to be putting up the Crate Contraption/Great Ball Contraption at this event. Not only is it bad for (...) (18 years ago, 7-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 28th, 2006 SMART Meeting
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I've had four people ask about a wider line, including two that were concerned that if the line wasn't really 3/4" wide, their light sensors wouldn't be able to track the line properly. In fact, the "3/4-inch" tape is just a bit under 3/4", so I'm (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 28th, 2006 SMART Meeting
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Last reminder about Saturday's meeting (2pm, Digipen; mini-challenge is there-and-back-again drag racing). Has anyone built a GBC (Great Ball Contraption) module that they could bring to the meeting? I'd like to have one or more to demonstrate what (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 28th, 2006 SMART Meeting
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I thought the ascii-art would be understandable, but I've made a picture with the dimensions and starting configuration for the drag-racing arena that you can find here: (URL) that helps. Don't worry too much about the details. You can even bring (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jan-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 28th, 2006 SMART Meeting
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Hi Ben, Looking forward to hearing about CES. I'm not sure if you got David post before or after you made your post. I just saw your post even though it looks like it was time-stamped a few days ago. Not sure what's going on. Anyway, here is my (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jan-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 28th, 2006 SMART Meeting
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I could use some clarification on the track material and layout. I've been using the paper track that comes with the mindstorm kit to practice and just realized the line is 1" wide. It sounds like you are going to use a 3/4" line instead. Is this (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 28th, 2006 SMART Meeting
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(...) One week left to build your most amazing drag racing robots! I've had a couple of questions about the arena and event which I'll answer here. First of all, the arena will be made out of separate boards that are painted white. This means that (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 28th, 2006 SMART Meeting
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Reminder - in two weeks we'll have our 5th anniversary SMART meeting. The location is Digipen, the time, 2pm. Meetings usually go to around 5pm, and often people gather together for dinner at Red Robin afterwards. Check the previous post for rules, (...) (18 years ago, 16-Jan-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | January 28th, 2006 SMART Meeting
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The nxt SMART meeting is going to be January 28th. This will be our 5th anniversary! The mini-challenge is to build a drag-racer. The robot cars will have a 12-inch wide lane to travel on, with a 3/4" black tape line in the middle to follow. Cars (...) (18 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: November 19th, 2005 SMART Meeting
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(...) Just a little under two weeks to try to cross the largest gap you can with a robot. If some of you haven't attempted a mini-challenge before, the main objective is to learn. Tackle as much of the task as you feel you are able to; you don't (...) (19 years ago, 8-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | November 19th, 2005 SMART Meeting
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The next SMART meeting is going to be November 19th, at Digipen. Our mini-challenge will be Crevice Crossing, but as always you are welcome to bring any robot you've built. Crevice Crossing: Build a robot that can cross a gap between two tables. (...) (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Robothon Recap - Welcome to SMART
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(...) Thanks for the great write-up, Gus. Thanks also for all your help and your terrific robots! Here are some pictures that I took at the event: (URL) David Schilling (19 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Robothon Recap - Welcome to SMART
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(...) What did you bring to NWBrickCon? The next SMART meeting is scheduled for November 19. Normally we meet at Digipen, a collage for games programming, in Redmond. You can find more information about upcoming meetings, including a map link, at: (...) (19 years ago, 11-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Robothon Recap - Welcome to SMART
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(...) I'm kind of kicking myself for taking my robot to NorthWest BrickCon, which while it obviously had far far more Lego than Robothon, didn't have the emphasis on robotics of Robothon. I only found out after the events that Robothon was taking (...) (19 years ago, 11-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Robothon Recap - Welcome to SMART
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We had a very busy and exciting weekend at Robothon 2005. SMART had two tables where we demonstrated some of our robots and showed a video of our the last Crate Contraption that David, Mark, and I put together. Our table was manned by Brad, David, (...) (19 years ago, 11-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Robothon 2005 this weekend
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This weekend Robothon 2005 will be held at the Centerhouse in the Seattle Center. We'd love to see you there, especially if you have some robots to display, or better yet compete with in the various competitions. The event is from 10AM to 5PM both (...) (19 years ago, 5-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: September 24th 2005 SMART Meeting
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Last reminder of our meeting this Saturday. Looking forward to seeing everyone there. I hope everyone's had a chance to work on a robot for Robothon, and that many of you will have a chance to attend Robothon in two weeks. -- David Schilling (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | September 24th 2005 SMART Meeting
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The next SMART meeting is only a bit over two weeks away. Back to our normal location, we'll meet at Digipen on Saturday, September 24th, at 2pm. Two weeks after the meeting, on October 8-9, is Robothon (in the Centerhouse). Therefore the (...) (19 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | July 23rd 2005 Meeting Notes
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On Saturday's SMART meeting we had a robot building competition. The object of the game was to push LEGO cylinders to the opponent's field. Two teams competed. I'm sorry I don't remember everyone's names on the teams, but the robot named "Lawn (...) (19 years ago, 25-Jul-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: July 23rd 2005 Smart Meeting
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Last reminder about Saturday's meeting. Don't forget, we'll be meeting in the Redmond Regional Library (15990 NE 85th St., Redmond, WA 98052) at 1:30pm. Hope to see everyone there! -- David Schilling (19 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: July 23rd 2005 Smart Meeting
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I have been unable to confirm our being able to meet at Digipen next Saturday, but fortunately I've been able to reserve a room at the Redmond Regional Library for Saturday July 23rd, so we'll meet there instead. The address is 15990 NE 85th St., (...) (19 years ago, 15-Jul-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | July 23rd 2005 Smart Meeting
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I just realized that I'm going to be in DC on the 30th of July, and so unfortunately we'll have to reschedule the meeting to be the weekend before, to July 23rd. Sorry for the date change, I'm currently trying to find out if we'll be able to use the (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jul-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | June 25th 2005 SMART Meeting Notes
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At Saturday's SMART meeting we had quite a number of interesting solutions for the mini-challenge: step ladder traversal. With one exception, most of the solutions attempted to climb the ladder the way a person would, on the outside. There were a (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jun-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART Meeting On June 25th
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Don't forget ... SMART meeting this Saturday! Rules and pictures for the Step Ladder Traversal minichallenge can be found in this thread: (URL) David Schilling (19 years ago, 21-Jun-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | SMART Meeting On June 25th
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Our next meeting (postponed from May) is just under two weeks away. The mini-challenge is stepladder traversal. Hope to see everyone on the 25th! -- David Schilling (19 years ago, 15-Jun-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | West Seattle Robotics Club event this Saturday
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Doug Bell just informed me about a local robotics event that SMART might be interested in. Details from their website, (URL) : Come join us for a day of Lego Robot building and Engineering Challenges!!! Lego Robotics Fun Day June 11th from 10:00am - (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | SMART Meeting Postponed!
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The SMART meeting scheduled for this Saturday, May 21, is being postponed. I was going to run this meeting since David is in Europe but I will not be able to make it. I apologize for any confusion, or even worse, if anyone goes because they did not (...) (19 years ago, 20-May-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Meeting reminder
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Hello, Here are some photos of the step ladder I built for the meeting. (URL) Overview> (URL) Rung Spacing> (URL) Bottom Rung Height> (URL) Width> As specified by David, the ladder has rungs 6" apart and bottom rung is 6" off the floor. I made the (...) (19 years ago, 18-May-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart, FTX)
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| | Meeting reminder
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Hello SMARTies! This is a reminder that the next SMART meeting is next Saturday, May 21, 2:00 p.m. at Digipen in Redmond. Details and map can be found on David's meeting reminder page: (URL) mini-challenge is the stepladder traverser. I have yet to (...) (19 years ago, 15-May-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Coming in October: NWBrickCon 2005
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NWBrickCon 2005, a convention in the Pacific Northwest for Adult Fans of Lego, will take place October 7th, 8th, and 9th, 2005, in Seattle. All AFOLs are invited. This will be the fourth annual NWBrickCon. Planned highlights include: * MOCs * public (...) (19 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.wa.tac, lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea, lugnet.loc.ca.bc, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.van, lugnet.loc.us.id, lugnet.loc.us.or, lugnet.loc.us.or.por, lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.org.us.sealug, lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.org.ca.viclug) !!
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| | Re: Crate Contraption Writeups
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Thanks to Philo, I've put up much smaller versions of the Crate Contraption videos for download. You'll have to have the latest DIVX codec (from www.divx.com) installed. The videos average 1/4 to 1/5 the size of the originals. (URL) on the Divx (...) (19 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Crate Contraption Writeups
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On Thu, March 31, 2005 6:06 pm, David Schilling said: (...) This is the good thing about even the worst crate contraptions that's totally lacking in even the best GBCs. Continuity. It's very cool to see all the machines working together. I, for one, (...) (19 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Crate Contraption Writeups
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I didn't want to post a writeup of the recent crate contraptions we've done until I had some video to show. Unfortunately all the video I took at NWBrickCon in October had really messed up audio. Last weekend we showed a nearly identical setup, (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics) !
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| | May mini-challenge
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(...) I've had a couple of questions about the step ladder. Here's a picture that shows what it will look like: (URL) If there are other questions, please ask -- post online so others can see them as well. (Especially as I'll be reading my email (...) (19 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | March 26th 2005 SMART Meeting Notes
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We had a great SMART meeting at Crossroad Shopping Center yesterday. We had two robotic displays set up. First was an improved version of the Crate Contraption that we showed at NWBrickCon 2004. All the robots looked pretty much the same (though (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 26th Smart Meeting
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Final reminder about this weekend's SMART meeting. We'll be meeting at Crossroads Shopping Center (corner of 156th Ave NE and NE 8th St in Bellevue) near center food court area. The official meeting time is from 2pm to 5pm, as usual. But the egg (...) (19 years ago, 25-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 26th Smart Meeting
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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 (...) (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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