 | | April 26th, 2008 SMART meeting
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Our next SMART meeting is only 2 weeks away. We'll meet at DigiPen, in the Plato auditorium at 2pm on Saturday, April 26th. (I've been assured the building will be open for us.) The mini-challenge is to build a robot that moves around using an (...) (16 years ago, 12-Apr-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Challenge for April 26 meeting?
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Hi David - Have you had a chance to pick a mini-challenge for the upcoming meeting yet? It would be great to have a couple weekends to work on robots before the meeting. Thanks, Mark (16 years ago, 10-Apr-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | March 22nd, 2008 SMART meeting notes
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We had a great show at the LEGO store yesterday! Seven different robots built by Patrick, Craig, Gus, Doug, Tony and myself delivered thousands of chocolate Easter eggs to the waiting kids (and adults!) Gus also put on a mini Crate Contraption. It (...) (16 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 22nd, 2008 SMART meeting at the LEGO store!
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Easter's just a week away, which means our next meeting, the day before Easter (Saturday) is even closer! This month we'll be meeting at the LEGO store in Bellevue Square, from 10am to about 4pm. The mini-challenge, (and totally coincidentally (...) (16 years ago, 17-Mar-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 22nd, 2008 SMART meeting at the LEGO store!
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I've got some great news about those who are participating (not just showing up!) at the Robotic Easter Egg Hunt at Bellevue Square. I met with the people in the LEGO store today, and they'll give a special discount in the store for anyone who (...) (16 years ago, 9-Mar-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 22nd, 2008 SMART meeting at the LEGO store!
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David: Thanks for organizing this event! Everyone: I think this is going to be a really cool event and a great opportunity to show the community and the LEGO store what we can do. The Easter egg hunting robots is the right level of difficulty to (...) (16 years ago, 3-Mar-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | March 22nd, 2008 SMART meeting at the LEGO store!
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First, thanks to the people who showed up for our February meeting. Due to a scheduling glitch, our regular meeting place turned out not to be available. Those who showed up went to a nearby cafeteria to have our meeting. I hope that there weren't (...) (16 years ago, 2-Mar-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: February 23rd, 2008 SMART meeting
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Just a reminder about the meeting this Saturday at DigiPen at 2pm. We'll be preparing for our Easter egg hunt next month, as well as doing our racing grand challenge. See the previous message for details. -- David Schilling (16 years ago, 21-Feb-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart, FTX)
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| | February 23rd, 2008 SMART meeting
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Thanks to all who showed up at the last meeting. We had a few people who brought working rope crossing robots. None crossed successfully from one table clear to the other, but the point behind our mini-challenges is to do as much as you feel (...) (16 years ago, 12-Feb-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart, FTX)
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| | Re: January 26th SMART meeting
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Reminder about Saturday's SMART meeting at Digipen. We'll meet at 2 in our regular room. There will be some time to build, test and program your race cars for this year's Grand Challenge. Check previous posts for details. The mini-challenge is to (...) (16 years ago, 23-Jan-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | January 26th SMART meeting
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The next SMART meeting is only a week away. (Appologies for the short notice!) We'll be meeting in our regular room at Digipen. The mini-challenge is to build a robot that will be able to cross between two tables using a rope. The distance between (...) (16 years ago, 18-Jan-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | I'm looking for the RCX 2.0 software and a USB tower
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There are surprisingly few of the CDs on bricklink, and since they come with every 2.0 set I figured someone here would have extras. Anyone? -- Tony Hafner (17 years ago, 6-Dec-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: November 17th, 2007 SMART meeting
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(...) Just a last minute reminder about tomorrow's meeting. Sorry about the late notice for people who were relying on news-by-mail. The problem has been fixed now, and shouldn't happen again. Anyway, tomorrow, 2pm, at DigiPen. Hope to see all of (...) (17 years ago, 17-Nov-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | November 17th, 2007 SMART meeting
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The next SMART meeting is only a bit over a week away, on November 17th. We'll meet at DigiPen, in our regular room, from 2 to approximately 5pm. We have a mini-challenge as well as the start of this year's Grand Challenge at this meeting. Build a (...) (17 years ago, 7-Nov-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Notes on the last and next SMART meeting
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I wanted to thank all the teams that participated in the BrickHeap Wars competition at Robothon last month. Besides a SMART team, we also had a local company field a team, Steve Hassenplug came to participate, and we had an FLL team as well. (...) (17 years ago, 31-Oct-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: September SMART Meeting at Robothon!
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Last reminder about this Saturday's SMART meeting. We'll be meeting at the Seattle Center, in the Centerhouse during Robothon 2007. The meeting starts at 12 noon. This month's meeting will be a BrickHeap Wars event. It's a competition where you (...) (17 years ago, 20-Sep-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: September SMART Meeting at Robothon!
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(...) Don't forget, we'll be meeting at the Centerhouse, in the Seattle Center on Saturday, September 22nd at 12 noon for this month's meeting. The meeting will be a BrickHeap Wars competition. There's only a bit over a week left to start another (...) (17 years ago, 13-Sep-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: September SMART Meeting at Robothon!
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My son, Peter, and I should be able to participate. While I could bring electronic parts, I may not be able to bring a computer so I'm a little hesitant to volunteer to lead a team. However, if there are a bunch of people who want to participate but (...) (17 years ago, 8-Sep-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: September SMART Meeting at Robothon!
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(...) There's just a couple more days that we've reserved only for SMART teams to register for BrickHeap Wars. After that we'll open up registration for other teams. Once all the slots are taken, you'll have to join one of the teams that has already (...) (17 years ago, 5-Sep-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: September SMART Meeting at Robothon!
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(...) David, I'm trying to arrange to attend Robothon. If I can make it, I'll have a team. Steve (17 years ago, 24-Aug-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | September SMART Meeting at Robothon!
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The next SMART meeting will be on Saturday, September 22nd, held during and at Robothon. The meeting will be a BrickHeap Wars - a competition where we bring the (Technic) LEGO pieces, you build and program a robot at the meeting. For this reason, (...) (17 years ago, 24-Aug-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: May 19th SMART Meeting
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It's time to think of a game for your robot to play -- the next SMART meeting is only 10 days away! What kinds of game would you like to have your robot play? Something physical (baseball?), something with props (cards?), something purely (...) (17 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: MicroMouse
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(...) Hi Steve, I think you are assuming this is my 'bot. This was just something I found on YouTube. I have a Micromouse robot in the works so I will attempt to answer your questions based on my experience. I believe it is flashing the LEDs in an (...) (17 years ago, 4-May-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: MicroMouse
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(...) Gus, Just so you know, there are people out here watching. :) Thanks for posting this stuff, and the crate contraption stuff from BFPDX. Nice job on the maze. Are you recording your path? You're using flashing light sensors to detect the (...) (17 years ago, 4-May-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: MicroMouse
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It can be done! (URL) Gus (17 years ago, 4-May-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart, FTX)
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| | MicroMouse
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I have built a small, 4 x 6, micromouse arena and uploaded a few pictures. I will bring this maze to the next meeting. The maze: (URL) Note, it will be very tight to build a LEGO robot that can navigate the maze, but I'm sure it can be done. For (...) (17 years ago, 26-Apr-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart, FTX)
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| | May 19th SMART Meeting
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The next SMART meeting is only a month away, on May 19. We will be back at our usual location in DigiPen for this meeting. There are two mini-challenges you can build robots for. Pick one, or build a robot for both! First: Build a robot that plays a (...) (17 years ago, 20-Apr-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Brickfest2007 Crate/GB Contraption
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(...) I have added links to video files, as well as some commentary, to the write-up on the Crate Contraption shown at BrickFest. These video files all come from David Schilling, Thank you David. The write-up page has several embedded Brickshelf (...) (17 years ago, 18-Apr-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Brickfest2007 Crate/GB Contraption
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We had quite the Mindstorms/Technic display at BrickFest2007 in Portland last weekend! Now that I have been home for a week, I'm starting to recover enough to actually write something about the event. David Schilling was in charge of our (...) (17 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | EggArt - a 4-colour Easter egg painting robot
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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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