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Unfortunately, there has not been a large response with people committing to participate in the BrickHeap Wars competition for next Saturday's SMART meeting. So instead, we'll do a simpler variation of the competition idea as a mini-challenge. The (...) (15 years ago, 24-Jan-09, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 31st, 2009 SMART meeting
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(...) I have received a number of "regrets" from people unable to make it to the BrickHeap Wars competition on January 31st (noon to 5pm), but so far only know for sure that one person will be coming, and a "maybe part of the time" from a second (...) (15 years ago, 21-Jan-09, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | January 31st, 2009 SMART meeting
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In about three weeks we'll be having our first meeting of the year, and it will be a fun one! We're celebrating our 8th anniversary by running a BrickHeap Wars competition! If you've ever watched Junk Yard Wars on TV, you'll understand the concept: (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jan-09, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | November 15th, 2008 SMART meeting Notes
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We had a great meeting last Saturday! Nine amazing walking robots for our mini-challenge! I've posted pictures here: (URL) For those who didn't see the robot in a sphere I brought, here's a video of it: (URL) In January, we'll have our meeting on (...) (16 years ago, 18-Nov-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: November 15th, 2008 SMART meeting
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(...) Last minute reminder that our November meeting is in two days! We'll look forward to seeing your walking robots, as well as any other robot you've been working on at the meeting. -- David Schilling (16 years ago, 13-Nov-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | November 15th, 2008 SMART meeting
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Time is sneaking up really quickly for our next meeting! The meeting will be November 15th at DigiPen from 2 to 5pm. The mini-challenge is a walking robot race - walk to the end of a field, turn around, and return to the starting spot. See (URL) for (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Next challenge?
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(...) I talked with David and Gus, and the challenge is to build walking robots. We are going to follow the format of the Robothon walking robot competition, and will have an arena that meets the specifications of that competition at the meeting to (...) (16 years ago, 20-Oct-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Next challenge?
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Is there going to be a new challenge for the next meeting, or are we going to work more on the Robot City concept? -Craig (16 years ago, 15-Oct-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: September 27th SMART meeting at Redmond Library
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(...) BrickCon has probably a dozen or more LEGO themes represented. Each theme is on a set of tables. SMART is hosting the MINDSTORMS robotic display. We'll be at the back of the room, near the curtains. The public hours for BrickCon are from 11 to (...) (16 years ago, 2-Oct-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: September 27th SMART meeting at Redmond Library
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(...) So, any details around exactly what we will be doing and when? I've never been to Brick Con so have no idea how it works or where the SMART display would fit in. I looked at the schedule and it seems like people will be moving their stuff in (...) (16 years ago, 1-Oct-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: September 27th SMART meeting at Redmond Library
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(...) BrickCon is definitely a "go", and SMART will have some sort of display there, though I'm not sure it will be a robot city as we originally planned. Thanks to everyone who made it to the meeting, and worked hard building robots and writing (...) (16 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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(...) Hi David, Just wanting to confirm whether the BrickCon event is a go or not? Just trying to set up plans for the week and allocating time where needed. Thanks, Carl (16 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: September 27th SMART meeting at Redmond Library
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(...) Sorry for not replying sooner, I was hoping to have some code to share sooner, but it's still not ready. When it is, it will deal with detecting intersections and line tracking. In any case, if you can just make sure that your robot is capable (...) (16 years ago, 21-Sep-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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(...) David, Are any additional details of how the SMART-Bot City robots supposed to work published somewhere? I remember that we discussed a lot of ideas about how to space intersections and whether they would be marked, but I don't remember (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | September 27th SMART meeting at Redmond Library
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The next SMART meeting will be held at the Redmond Regional Library on September 27th from 2 to 5pm. We'll be getting our SMART-Bot City display ready for BrickCon, which takes place on the following weekend. So the mini-challenge is to build an (...) (16 years ago, 9-Sep-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: May 31st, 2008 SMART Meeting
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(...) We made some great progress on SMART-Bot City, but didn't get everything coordinated to the point of having robots driving around our sample city. I'll post some pictures and video of the meeting soon. It's great to hear that Kyle's been (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jun-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: May 31st, 2008 SMART Meeting
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(...) Hello David, We were unable to attend the last meeting, but are looking forward to the next meeting. What did you guys cover on the 31st. I remember from the April meeting that you were planning on having so software put together for the bots. (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jun-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | May 31st, 2008 SMART Meeting
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Our next SMART meeting will be May 31st, 2008. Note, this is two weeks later than I indicated during the last meeting -- I knew we wouldn't meet Memorial Day weekend, but didn't think that there was actually a Saturday this month *after* Memorial (...) (16 years ago, 9-May-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | The Adventure Begins: BrickCon 2008 Registration is Open!
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BrickCon 2008 Early Registration is now available at (URL) the special Early Registration price (prices go up starting in August). BrickCon is an annual adult Lego hobbyist convention and exposition in Seattle. BrickCon 2008 will be October 3, 4, (...) (16 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.org.us.sealug, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.or, lugnet.loc.us.ca, lugnet.loc.us.id, lugnet.loc.ca.bc, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community) !!
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| | Re: April 26th, 2008 SMART meeting
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In two days (Saturday) we'll have our next SMART meeting. The mini-challenge is to build a robot that moves around in an unusual way. The Grand Challenge is our continuing Indy-500 race. See previous posts for details. Even if you don't have a (...) (16 years ago, 24-Apr-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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