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I'm sorry that I still haven't been able to confirm a date for the January meeting, I'll post a message as soon as I have a time and location. In the mean time, the mini-challenge is to build a walking robot that can change its direction (not just (...) (17 years ago, 14-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Funny NXT display
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Philo posted this in the Announcements group, ((URL) but I thought it was funny enough to post a note here too. Check out the two video clips on (URL) -- playing pranks on shoppers with the NXT, the sort of the thing you'd see on Candid Camera. -- (...) (18 years ago, 21-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Today only: NXT On Sale at bn.com
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Doug Bell has found this deal for NXT sets from barnes and noble. With the coupon code you get 25% off the retail price. If you are a member you get 35% off. Limit one per customer (I tried to get several but it would only give me a discount on the (...) (18 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: November 18th, 2006 SMART meeting
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Just in case you've been hibernating, our next SMART meeting is this Saturday, and the mini-challenge is to build a swinging robot. We're looking forward to seeing you all at 2pm! Any questions, post here, or send me an email (taking care of the (...) (18 years ago, 14-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: November 18th, 2006 SMART meeting
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Here's the standard two-week reminder for our next meeting. If you haven't started a robot yet for the minichallenge, I recommend starting this weekend! It's not a trivial challenge. -- David Schilling (...) (18 years ago, 4-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Video Clips from Robothon
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(...) Thanks for posting the videos, Shane, and for pointing them out to us, Gus! And congratulations, Gus! Your line-maze solving robot is pure genius. It was amazing to watch! :-) What's really cool about this competition is that it's meant for (...) (18 years ago, 14-Oct-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Video Clips from Robothon
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Hi Folks, Today I noticed that Shane put some BrickHeap clips up on YouTube. Thank you Shane! These are excellent. (URL) BTW, in case you were not there. I was on the dark gray team that made the robot using the NXT. Our robot was not the winning (...) (18 years ago, 12-Oct-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | November 18th, 2006 SMART meeting
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Our next meeting will be on November 18th, at DigiPen. The mini-challenge is to build a swinging robot. We'll provide a thin rope that your robot needs to hook onto. It will be attached at the top at two locations, 18" apart, to form a 'U' shape. (...) (18 years ago, 10-Oct-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | NWBrickCon next weekend
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This coming weekend (October 6-8th) SMART is putting on a Crate Contraption and Great Ball Contraption show at NWBrickCon. If anyone has any GBC modules they'd like to include, please bring them by any time on Friday (10am-6pm) or early Saturday (...) (18 years ago, 1-Oct-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: BrickHeap Wars Truck Loading Challenge Results
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Once they get moderated (should be soon, I hope), pictures of today's BrickHeap Wars event can be found at: (URL) videos can be found at: (URL) of these videos are not the final 'official' runs, but they give a good idea of how the various robots (...) (18 years ago, 1-Oct-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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