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(...) It hardly seems possible, but our next SMART meeting is in two weeks! If you haven't started your mini-challenge robot yet, now might be a good time! See you then! -- David Schilling (14 years ago, 13-Mar-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | LEGO HockeyBots
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A couple of weeks ago I posted the (URL) HiTechnic HockeyBot> on the new HiTechnic blog and video on (URL). My brother Pehr was inspired and made his own LEGO Hockey robot video: (URL) YouTube - Lotechnics.dv> Enjoy! Gus (14 years ago, 11-Mar-10, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.animation, lugnet.org.us.smart, FTX)
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| | Re: February 27th, 2010 SMART meeting
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We had a great meeting last Saturday. A number of robots were able to complete the mini-challenge. Everyone who built a robot for the challenge agreed this was one of the more interesting ones to work on. The March meeting is in four weeks. Since (...) (14 years ago, 2-Mar-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | February 27th, 2010 SMART meeting
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A quick reminder about our upcoming SMART meeting on February 27th. The mini-challenge is to build an Obstacle Avoiding Target Seeker (OATS) robot: a 4"x4" retroreflective target will be placed on the ground exactly six feet directly in front of (...) (14 years ago, 16-Feb-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 30th, 2010 SMART Meeting
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Thanks to everyone that showed up on Saturday, we had a great 10th anniversary meeting! There were a number of good rope climbing robots! As well as some other interesting robots that people brought. For our next meeting, on February 27th, the (...) (14 years ago, 2-Feb-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 30th, 2010 SMART Meeting
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(...) Just a quick reminder about tomorrow's meeting stating at 2pm at DigiPen! If you have a mini-challenge robot (rope climbing) don't forget to bring it. Even if it doesn't work perfectly, I'd still encourage you to bring it: we can learn from (...) (14 years ago, 29-Jan-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | January 30th, 2010 SMART Meeting
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Happy New Year, SMART members! And Happy 10th Anniversary!!! Yes, ten years ago we had our first SMART meeting. It doesn't feel nearly that long, but I guess that means we've been having a lot of fun! This month the fun continues with our latest (...) (14 years ago, 17-Jan-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: November 21st, 2009 SMART meeting
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(...) We had a good last meeting, with several interesting candy dispenser ideas. All accepted coins, some even determining which type of coin to give candy for. Everyone went home with a few candies or chocolates under their belts! Gus Jansson (...) (15 years ago, 1-Dec-09, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Message from Doug Bell regarding Electronic Thinking
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Hi Everyone, It was great seeing all of you at the SMART meeting on Saturday. One of the things that came up at the meeting was Doug Bell's new involvement in the company Electronic Thinking. Doug asked me to forward the message below about some (...) (15 years ago, 23-Nov-09, to lugnet.org.us.smart, FTX)
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| | November 21st, 2009 SMART meeting
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The next SMART meeting is in two weeks, on November 21st, at DigiPen. The mini-challenge is to build a candy dispensing robot. You get to choose the type of candy. Have fun! Create an interesting candy delivery mechanism! For a challenge, have your (...) (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | BrickHeap Wars at Robothon this weekend
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Robothon is taking place this weekend at the Seattle Center. Numerous competitions take place on Saturday, many of which are suitable for LEGO Mindstorms robots, including the walking robot race. On Sunday I'm hosting a BrickHeap Wars competition. (...) (15 years ago, 7-Oct-09, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | November 21st, 2009 SMART meeting
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Before I talk about our next SMART meeting, I'd like to invite everyone to attend BrickCon 2009. It's in the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall at the Seattle Center this coming weekend, October 3-4. Public hours are from 11am to 3pm. Admission is (...) (15 years ago, 29-Sep-09, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: September 26th SMART meeting
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Reminder about this week's SMART meeting...we'll meet Saturday at DigiPen, at 2pm, as usual. Bring robots you would like to display, or robots for the walking competitions. See you then! -- David Schilling (...) (15 years ago, 21-Sep-09, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | September 26th SMART meeting
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I hope everyone had a very pleasant summer! Now that summer's coming to an end, we'll start meeting again. There will be a SMART meeting on September 26th. Bring any robot you are working on, but especially ones you might consider for display/demo (...) (15 years ago, 14-Sep-09, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | LOCATION CHANGE!! Re: May 30th, 2009 SMART meeting
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I just drove past DigiPen and there's a strong probability that the building is unavailable today. Fortunately I've been able to reserve meeting room #1 at the Redmond Regional Library, so we'll meet there instead. Redmond Regional Library Meeting (...) (15 years ago, 30-May-09, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | May 30th, 2009 SMART meeting
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The next SMART meeting is on May 30th, 2009 from 2-5pm at Digipen. This will be our last meeting before the summer. The "mini-challenge" this time is an open challenge. Basically, bring a robot! Something you're proud of! Perhaps it's a robot that (...) (15 years ago, 21-May-09, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: April 25th, 2009 SMART meeting
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(...) A reminder about this weekend's SMART meeting. We'll meet at DigiPen at 2pm, as usual. The mini-challenge is to build a sumo robot that can handle an immovable object (we hope :-) on the field. Don't forget the 5-second wait before moving in (...) (15 years ago, 21-Apr-09, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | April 25th, 2009 SMART meeting
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Sorry for the somewhat late notice, I've been out of town and didn't realize I hadn't posted what the next mini-challenge was yet. Our next SMART meeting is on April 25th, at 2pm at DigiPen. The mini-challenge we voted on at the last meeting was to (...) (15 years ago, 15-Apr-09, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Next SMART Meeting Feb 21
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(...) Thanks for posting this, Gus. The next SMART meeting is only a week away, so I hope you've started thinking about how to build a robot that plays an instrument by now! See you next Saturday. -- David Schilling (15 years ago, 14-Feb-09, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Next SMART Meeting Feb 21
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We had a great SMART meeting this last Saturday. Despite the difficult challenge David thought up, we had several successful robots. It was pretty amazing seeing the robots line tracking on a rough all LEGO track with scattered bricks and bumps as (...) (15 years ago, 6-Feb-09, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 31st, 2009 SMART meeting
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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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| | Re: September 27th SMART meeting at Redmond Library
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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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| | Re: September 27th SMART meeting at Redmond Library
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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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