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Last minute reminder about the SMART meeting this Saturday. The meeting starts at 2pm. Since it's a Build On The Spot competition, you'll probably want as much time as possible. I recommend arriving a couple of minutes before the meeting starts to (...) (11 years ago, 23-Jan-13, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 26th, 2013 SMART meeting
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On New Year's EV3 I came up with a good challenge for our Build On The Spot competition. I just wanted to remind everyone that it will take place in just under 3 weeks, and look forward to seeing you all there! A line tracking driving base would (...) (11 years ago, 6-Jan-13, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | January 26th, 2013 SMART meeting
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Our last SMART meeting was decent, but we missed all the people who couldn't make it. Hope that you can all attend the next SMART meeting, this January (assuming the world doesn't end four days before Christmas!) At the next meeting we will have a (...) (12 years ago, 8-Nov-12, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | October 27th, 2012 SMART meeting
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First, a tremendous thank-you to all the people who helped with robots at BrickCon last weekend! Mark’s fine balancing robots were very cool to watch, and Gus’ shooting gallery always had a line of people wanting to try it out, and his Ranat player (...) (12 years ago, 12-Oct-12, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | September 29th, 2012 SMART meeting
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Our next SMART meeting is in two weeks, on September 29th. We'll meet in the Michelangelo room of Digipen, from 2-5pm. The mini-challenge is to build a dancing robot. It must be able to do four actions: - turn left 90-degrees - turn right 90-degrees (...) (12 years ago, 16-Sep-12, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | BrickCon 2012 robot competitions
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At the last SMART meeting I mentioned that I would consider hosting a couple of robot competitions at BrickCon (October 5-7th) if there was enough interest. Note: I won’t do a competition if there’s less than four competitors for that particular (...) (12 years ago, 27-Jul-12, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | June 30th 2012 SMART meeting
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Here's your two week reminder for our next SMART meeting. We'll meet in our usual location at Digipen, in the Michelangelo room, from 2-5 pm. In honor of Alan Turing’s 100th birthday (this coming Saturday), one of the mini-challenges is to build (...) (12 years ago, 18-Jun-12, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Robothon and June 30th SMART meeting
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We had a GREAT time at Robothon today! For the first couple of hours we were putting together our ball contraption, and the crowds weren’t too heavy yet, but they enjoyed watching the progress, always anticipating what the rest would look like when (...) (12 years ago, 3-Jun-12, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 31st, 2012 SMART Meeting
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We had our meeting on Saturday, and while the turnout wasn't as big as a couple of the previous meetings, we had a number of really cool Easter egg collecting robots, and some new people showing up to check out what we do. For our next meeting, (...) (12 years ago, 3-Apr-12, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 31st, 2012 SMART Meeting
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Just a friendly reminder that the next SMART meeting is this Saturday at 2pm in the Michelangelo room at Digipen. The mini-challenge is Easter Egg Hunt. See below for a reminder of the details. BTW: the walls are a fraction over 2" high. See you in (...) (12 years ago, 27-Mar-12, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | March 31st, 2012 SMART Meeting
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We had a great meeting last Saturday, with lots of really good line-tracking robots. The people there voted to do the line tracking competitively, so here are the results: For a straight line: 1st: Kyle (34.9 seconds) 2nd: Rose (36.5 seconds) 3rd: (...) (12 years ago, 1-Mar-12, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | February 25th, 2012 SMART meeting
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We had a great meeting last Saturday; a huge turnout! Thanks to everyone who came! If you’re new, and have questions, don’t hesitate to ask. For our February 25th meeting (also at Digipen, and also in the van Gogh room) we voted on line-track racing (...) (12 years ago, 3-Feb-12, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | January 28th, 2012 SMART meeting
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Happy New Year, and happy 12th anniversary, SMART! Our next meeting is in two weeks, on January 28th, at Digipen. The Michelangelo room is unavailable, so we'll be meeting in the Van Gogh room instead. Our mini-challenge is a repeat of the rope (...) (12 years ago, 13-Jan-12, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | December 10, 2011 SMART Meeting
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The next SMART meeting is December 10th, from 2-5pm, at Digipen. The mini-challenge is to build a robot that can cross the gap between two tables. There will be a taut rope going over the tops of the two tables. See you then! -- David Schilling (13 years ago, 30-Nov-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: October 29th, 2011 SMART Meeting
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Just a reminder about the upcoming SMART meeting this Saturday, from 2-5pm, at DigiPen. The mini-challenge is to build a robot that can throw a LEGO "pumpkin" as far as possible, or as accurately as possible. The "pumpkin" can be any LEGO element, (...) (13 years ago, 27-Oct-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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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