 | | October 29th, 2011 SMART Meeting
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For the upcoming SMART meeting (in just over a week!) your task is to build a robot that can do Pumpkin Chuckin! Throw any LEGO element or elements as far as possible, without doing any damage to our facilities! Your device must be built entirely (...) (13 years ago, 21-Oct-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | SMART's BrickCon Display
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I want to thank everyone who participated in this year's SMART display at BrickCon. It was absolutely amazing! We couldn't have done it without everyone's help. Every element was crucial, and worked amazingly! Named "BallMageddon" because either it (...) (13 years ago, 12-Oct-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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| | SMART STEM outreach this Wednesday
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This Wednesday SMART is doing a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) outreach to help some of our younger members that have won a spot in Phase Two of this years MoonBots competition. Public hours are from 5:30 to 7; we can start setting (...) (13 years ago, 16-Aug-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: July 23rd, 2011 SMART Meeting in Woodinville library
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Just a reminder about the SMART meeting this Saturday where we’ll start putting together our new display, figure out all those interesting interactions that we never would unless we try first, and hopefully get blown away by how cool this is going (...) (13 years ago, 21-Jul-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | July 23rd, 2011 SMART Meeting in Woodinville library
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In order to have enough time to work out the kinks in our contraption, at the last meeting we decided we'd get together again this month to test how things work make any necessary changes to the interfaces between units. So I've reserved the (...) (13 years ago, 3-Jul-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: June 18th, 2011 SMART Meeting in Woodinville library
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We had a great meeting last Saturday! There were a lot of good ideas and suggestions made, and everyone seems really excited about our new display. To summarize the interface between modules, the inputs are 6 inches high, and at the meeting we (...) (13 years ago, 23-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | June 18th, 2011 SMART Meeting in Woodinville library
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Due to the amount of interest expressed at the last meeting, we'll be having a SMART meeting this month: on June 18th, at the Woodinville Library from 2 to 5pm. They only have a single meeting room, to the left in the lobby. The purpose of the (...) (13 years ago, 4-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | New Google Group for SMART
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Mark Kenworthy has created a new google group for SMART with the goal to ease communications within our group. The name of the group is smart_robotics. To keep the group clean and away from the despicable acts of spammers, the group is closed. (...) (13 years ago, 19-May-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | May 21 SMART Meeting
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The next SMART Meeting is this Saturday May 21. Challenge for the meeting is to build a robot that resembles some type of creature, real or pretend. We will also do an mini-class/group programming with NXC. Bring a robot and a laptop and we will see (...) (13 years ago, 18-May-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: April 30th, 2011 SMART meeting
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Just a quick reminder about the next SMART meeting in about two weeks... -- David Schilling (...) (13 years ago, 19-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | April 30th, 2011 SMART meeting
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We had a great meeting a week an a half ago, and saw a lot of really cool drawing robots! The next SMART meeting will be April 30th, at 2pm. The mini-challenge we voted on was to do "chimney climbing". Build a robot that can climb up the inside of a (...) (13 years ago, 6-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: February 26th, 2011 SMART meeting
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Just a reminder: we'll have our next SMART meeting in two weeks. The mini-challenge is to build a plotting robot of some sort. If it can draw, color, paint or even just make a pretty line on some sort of surface, it counts! See you in two weeks! -- (...) (13 years ago, 12-Mar-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: February 26th, 2011 SMART meeting
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We had a nice SMART meeting today, though because of the weather, not too many people showed up. Nevertheless, there were a few very interesting 'tracking' robots. Great job, everyone! For next month (March 26th) we voted on building a "Plotting (...) (13 years ago, 27-Feb-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | February 26th, 2011 SMART meeting
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Our last SMART meeting went really well! There were lots of really good robots that people built on the spot to solve the task presented! In fact, I had a couple of people comment that they would like to do something like this again on a more (...) (13 years ago, 16-Feb-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 29th, 2011 SMART meeting
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Last reminder about tomorrow's SMART meeting. The meeting will start at 2pm in the Michelangelo room at Digipen (located at 9931 Willows Road in Redmond). After you go through the lobby, go down the right hallway, and the room is on the left, (...) (13 years ago, 29-Jan-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Motors comparison page updated
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(...) No, purely resistive. Although it does have a "boot up" time, I think it's just due to heating up the element. I'm not completely sure if the element will respond better to a "dimmer" type set-up (running it at less than normal voltage) or a (...) (13 years ago, 15-Jan-11, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 29th, 2011 SMART meeting
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(...) That sounds like a great plan though we did actually pick a mini-challenge at the last meeting. I should have posted something about it but I guess I never got around to it. My bad. The proposed mini-challenge was to make a non-traditional (...) (13 years ago, 14-Jan-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | January 29th, 2011 SMART meeting
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In just over two weeks we'll have our next SMART meeting. We'll meet at the new DigiPen building, from 2pm to 5pm. As no mini-challenge was posted, we'll try a very low-key variation on BrickHeap Wars for this meeting. It will be an individual (or (...) (13 years ago, 14-Jan-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Motors comparison page updated
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(...) Interesting thread, even if a bit off topic of LEGO motors. I'm not an expert on power circuits, but a google search turned up this web site with a number of interesting power supply circuits (there is a search option). (URL) Putz (URL) (13 years ago, 13-Jan-11, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Motors comparison page updated
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(...) Good thing, the load is not inductive. (...) OK, with a 1 second cycle time, and pure on/off, it is simpler. All you need is a solid state relay. (...) Looks like some people do: (URL) and worse, most of these dimmers work by dissipating and (...) (13 years ago, 13-Jan-11, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Motors comparison page updated
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(...) I've been operating outside my personal SOA for years now :) (...) It's actually not a motor - it's a small electric hot water heater element. When plugged in it produces 1300W, but if I want less than that I need to figure out some way to (...) (13 years ago, 13-Jan-11, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Motors comparison page updated
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Hi Brian, (...) I was surprised too. I suspect a relatively high internal resistance of the windings, rather than mechanical friction, as the source of losses. No, (shame on me!) I didn't checked yet with an ohmmeter. (...) This is clearly outside (...) (13 years ago, 13-Jan-11, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: November 20th SMART meeting
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I just wanted to remind everyone about our next SMART meeting in two weeks (Saturday, November 20th, 2pm). We'll be meeting at the new DigiPen facilities, in the Michelangelo auditorium. The address is 9931 Willows Road, in Redmond. Here's a map: (...) (14 years ago, 8-Nov-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | November 20th SMART meeting
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For the November SMART meeting (at the new Digipen location) bring whatever robot(s) you happen to be working on! Our mini-challenge will be to build a robot that can balance on a teeter totter. You can design whatever sort of teeter totter you like (...) (14 years ago, 20-Oct-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: BrickCon 2010 awards
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(...) Any video or pictures around? I love what you folks have done with the crate contraption, and wish I could see it in person... but if not, I'd still love to see it as much as possible :). (...) Cool... (...) Shooting what? Spheres, or bullets? (...) (14 years ago, 15-Oct-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | BrickCon 2010 awards
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What an awesome robotics display we had at BrickCon this year! I really wanted to thank Mark Kenworthy for putting together an awesome Crate Contraption! These are very difficult to put together, and Mark did this one entirely himself! It was a (...) (14 years ago, 14-Oct-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | SMART meeting this Saturday, September 25, 2-5pm
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I just got confirmation that we will be able to use the new Michelangelo auditorium in the *new* DigiPen facilities for our meetings this year, starting with this Saturday's meeting. The meeting starts at 2pm, and goes to 5pm. Please note the new (...) (14 years ago, 23-Sep-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Robot Competition at BrickCon 2010
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This year's robot competition at BrickCon will be a racing competition. Build and program a robot able to race around an irregularly shaped gradient track while avoiding obstacles on the track. The track is approximately two feet wide, with black in (...) (14 years ago, 16-Sep-10, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce)
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| | Register for BrickCon
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At the build session on the weekend I was reminded that I hadn't mentioned where to register for BrickCon. If you plan on attending the entire convention (not just the visitors exhibition on Saturday and Sunday) you should register before September (...) (14 years ago, 1-Sep-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Build session on August 28th for BrickCon 2010
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Here's a quick reminder about the build session this Saturday at the Bellevue Library in room 3 starting at 2pm. Besides just a time to work on your robots, ask questions, etc, I will be presenting an idea for a racing robot competition at BrickCon. (...) (14 years ago, 24-Aug-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Build session on August 28th for BrickCon 2010
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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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