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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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