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Just in the nick of time, the day before Easter, I completed building a 4-colour NXT Easter egg painting robot. I started building it several months ago, when I thought I'd have plenty of time before Easter. Of course, at about the 85% complete (...) (17 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.org.us.smart) !
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| | BrickFest 2007 registration closing tomorrow
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In case you've been hiding for the last few weeks, here's a last reminder for a few things: First of all, our next SMART meeting is this Saturday, and will be at Renton Technical College. See previous posts in this group for time, (...) (17 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 17, 2007 SMART meeting
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One more week until our next SMART meeting. Just a reminder that we'll be meeting at the Renton Technical College instead of our usual location. This is because Gus and I are giving a presentation on the NXT at the SRS meeting in the morning. You (...) (17 years ago, 10-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | March 17, 2007 SMART meeting
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In just over two weeks we'll be having our next SMART meeting. This meeting will take place at 2pm, after the SRS meeting, at the Renton Technical College. Here's a map for how to get to the campus: (URL) Here's a map of what room we'll be in on the (...) (17 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Lego Robotics Instructor(s) needed this summer
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I'm forwarding this from the Washington FLL yahoo group. I would consider doing this but at this time I'm not sure what weeks this summer I will be in the Seattle area. Poulsbo is also a bit of a drive (and ferry ride) from Seattle. But in case any (...) (17 years ago, 10-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: NXT for $200
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FYI: I received the NXT set and as far as I can tell it was a smooth transaction. -Craig (17 years ago, 1-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 2007 SMART meeting notes
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(...) I did some testing with encouraging results and programmed the robot to respond to sound this morning. My testing indicated that even if the sound was straight ahead, one sensor gave a higher raw signal then the other so I came up with a (...) (17 years ago, 1-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | NXT for $200
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Inspired by the gentleman selling NXTs for $200 (I didn't have a checkbook with me or I probably would have got one), I did some searching on the web (I think I used Froogle) and found them for $199.99 from A Child's Delight, a toy store in (...) (17 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 2007 SMART meeting notes
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(...) Thank you. (...) This robot was just finished before the meeting so the ears went on but I never got a chance to program them. The idea is just as you describe and I did try use the View feature to see how directional the sound sensor is. My (...) (17 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 2007 SMART meeting notes
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(...) I like Gus' line-following dog. How well do the ears work? Could it turn towards sounds? Steve (17 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | January 2007 SMART meeting notes
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What a terrific meeting we had yesterday! I was really blown away by all the walking robots people built. There were 7 fully working robots, and many other prototypes that people brought as well. As usual, every design was different. Some robots (...) (17 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 27th, 2007 SMART meeting
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(...) The mini-challenge vote we had at our last meeting was close between coin sorter and walker, but walker won. Coin Sorter: 8 votes Inverted Pendulum: 3 votes Walker: 11 votes Sorry, I should have posted something sooner. But if you have a coin (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January SMART meeting
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(...) Perhaps I'm way off base, but I thought the next challenge was a coin sorter. I haven't built anything so I've just missed out on some thinking time if I try to build something. -Craig (17 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | NXT for sale
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I just saw this post from someone in Oregon, and I thought of SMART. Maybe someone can help relieve this guy of his NXT... ---...--- Yo, For sale in the Milwaukie, Oregon area: Lego Mindstorms NXP Bought it, used it once, decided it was not the (...) (17 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January SMART meeting
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(...) Okay, I've got confirmation of the date. January 27th from 2 to 5pm, at Digipen as usual. Sorry for the delay, but at least it's our usual time and place. Looking forward to seeing everyone there, and especially looking forward to seeing some (...) (17 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | January SMART meeting
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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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| | BrickHeap Wars Truck Loading Challenge Results
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Today's SMART meeting, held at the Seattle Center as part of Robothon was a great success. We had a BrickHeap Wars competition, and five teams participated. The teams, and their results were: Red Team (Mark & Cathy Williams) "Peninsula Power (...) (18 years ago, 1-Oct-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Brickheap Wars - September 30
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Last reminder about our September meeting tomorrow. The location will be in the Centerhouse at the Seattle Center. We'll be in one of the conference rooms upstairs. It shouldn't be too hard to find, but if you don't see it, ask the Robothon folks, (...) (18 years ago, 30-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Brickheap Wars - September 30
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(...) Here's the standard "one-week" (give or take a bit) message: In a little over a week (September 30th) we'll be having our next SMART meeting. This meeting will be at Robothon, taking place at the Seattle Center in the Center House (note: NOT (...) (18 years ago, 21-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Brickheap Wars - September 30
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All - We are hosting another Brickheap War event! This event will be held Saturday afternoon, September 30, from 12-5 ((URL) in the Center House at Seattle Center (Conference Room A). The space we have for the event at Robothon is a bit limited, so (...) (18 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Upcoming SMART meetings
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At our last SMART meeting we decided that the next meeting (September 30th) will be held at Robothon, in the Centerhouse, Seattle Center. The meeting will be another BrickHeap Wars, and teams will need to sign up ahead of time. More details to (...) (18 years ago, 29-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: July 29, 2006 SMART meeting
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My son Sean has built 4(!) robots for the drawing challenge. I'm not sure how many of them we'll end up bringing to the meeting. The last one he built using his new NXT set. Total build time was under 30 minutes, and that was his first NXT robot! I (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: July 29, 2006 SMART meeting
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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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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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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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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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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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