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As many of you know, I'm the Mindstorms coordinator at BrickCon. As such, I need to make sure that anyone bringing robots will have room to display them. So if you are thinking of displaying a robot, please let me know by email (remove the spambot), (...) (14 years ago, 8-Aug-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: May 22nd, 2010 SMART meeting
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It's very likely that I'm going to be late to tomorrow's meeting, and I'm not sure that Gus will be there when the meeting starts either, but I just wanted everyone to know that tomorrow's SMART meeting is on anyway. I hope everyone has a good time (...) (14 years ago, 22-May-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | May 22nd, 2010 SMART meeting
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What happens to the time? In just a week we've got our last SMART meeting before our summer break. (This will also be our last SMART meeting at the current DigiPen facilities.) The mini-challenge is to build a robot for BrickCon 2010. Ideas proposed (...) (14 years ago, 15-May-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | April 24th, 2010 SMART meeting
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(...) Wow, it's almost that time again already! Our next SMART meeting is this coming Saturday, from 2 to 5 at DigiPen. The mini-challenge is part two for our stair climbers, as well as building a robot for BrickCon, either from the list of ideas we (...) (14 years ago, 19-Apr-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 27th, 2010 SMART meeting
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We had a small, but wonderful SMART meeting last Saturday. While the turnout was smaller than usual, nearly everyone brought a robot, and four people brought stair climbing robots! Not one was anything like any other! As previously mentioned, we'll (...) (14 years ago, 31-Mar-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | March 27th, 2010 SMART meeting
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Just a last minute reminder of tomorrow's SMART meeting, at Digipen, starting at 2pm. I'm looking forward to seeing you all there! The mini-challenge is stair-climbing. See previous messages for details. -- David Schilling (14 years ago, 26-Mar-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: February 27th, 2010 SMART meeting
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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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