 | | Workshop 3D RCX Challenge #4 Results
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Earlier today was the Workshop 3D RCX Challenge #4. There were dozens of competitors, and even more robots. This was the best turnout yet for the number of competitors and robots at this event! Below is a summary of the results. For the full (and (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Code-only Line-tracking event results
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It's time for the Workshop 3D RCX Challenge again. The main event will take place tomorrow, from 1pm to about 4pm. It should be webcast. Check out (URL) and (URL) for details tomorrow morning. This year the Code-Only Line-Tracking event was held the (...) (22 years ago, 13-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March Meeting Notes
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This post is forwarded from mail from Doug Bell. For some reason Doug is having problems with lugnet and can't post yet. - Gus ---...--- Not knowing much about the Cybermaster, I hunted around for some info. Here is a particularly good link: (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March Meeting Notes
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Here is a link to the French online retailer that sells Cybermaster. (URL) the left side of the page you will see Customized Catalog. For no. 1 select Games/Toys and no. 2 Lego Technic/Cybermaster. Then click on See the items found. If I understand (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | March Meeting Notes
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Today's SMART meeting was a great success! There were quite a few new comers to the group -- Welcome! We hope you'll join us again at future meetings. There were quite a few people who created robots for the Dead Reckoning challenge, including (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | SMART meeting on March 30th
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Just a reminder that we'll be having our next SMART meeting this Saturday. If you haven't started building your robots yet, don't delay much longer! See (URL) for the task description, or (URL) for other details about the meeting. If anyone has (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | A few reminders...
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First of all, I just talked to Vikki at Digilennium and she still has a lot of Lego Mindstorms kits for sale at $179.99. She had ordered the kits to have before Christmas and Lego didn't deliver until the day before, so she totally missed the (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Lafayette (Indiana) Area Lego Robotics Club.
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Steve, This is great news, but do you need to post like this? Why not just cross post in one shot. (i.e. copy and paste the names into the Newsgroups space) Then again I could not fit all the newsgroups you posted to into the space? See Ya... Robin (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.org, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.org.us.gmlug, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in.ind)
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| | Lafayette (Indiana) Area Lego Robotics Club.
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We're proud to announce the formation of the Lafayette Area Lego Robotics Club in Lafayette, Indiana. The Lafayette Area LEGO Robotics Club is a group of people who meet once a month to discuss and build Lego robots and related subjects. We hope to (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Demonstration or exhibit robots
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(...) I would like to give the Pacific Science Center a rough number of how many robots our group will be able to lend them for display. Anyone with one or more possibilities, please either reply to this message, or email me directly. I need to give (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Test message
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Just verifying that my registration worked and I can post. Never say that I don't post nothing here. :) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Mindstorms Kits on Sale!
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Hello everyone, I just this from Vikki at Digilennium. Gus Subj: Hello from Digilennium! Date: 2/7/2002 3:24:27 PM Pacific Standard Time From: vikki@digitalseattle.com To: gjansson@aol.com, rayiii@workshop3d.com Sent from the Internet (Details) Hi (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | January Meeting: Photos, Results, and Next Challenge
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Hello Everyone! On Saturday, January 26, 2002, SMART had it's first anniversary meeting. The Mini-Challenge for this meeting was to build a drag-race robot that could race 16' down the library carpet and come to a stop within 6" of a reflective (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Demonstration or exhibit robots
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For this Saturday's SMART meeting, I've already asked people with robots they'd like to show at BricksWest to bringing them along. (see (URL) I would also like to encourage everyone to consider what robots would make good demonstration or exhibit (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Two weeks till January meeting
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First of all, this is another mini-reminder about building your drag-racer for the SMART meeting on the 26th. You've got less than two weeks. Mainly, however, I wanted to mention our group's participation is for BricksWest. BricksWest is a (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Two weeks till January meeting
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In a bit over two weeks SMART will have it's first anniversary meeting at the Bellevue Library! If you haven't started on your drag racer yet, I suggest now's a good time to do so. Since I haven't had a lot of feedback from anyone, and my own first (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Marysville 4H Technology Club and Lego Geometry
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Last week Barton Place and I drove up to Everett to talk about Lego robots with a group of young people in a 4H Technology club. This amazing group is not only working on a Lego robots (plural at least two teams!) for the First Lego League but are (...) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | NQC Development Environment
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Hello, At the last SMART meeting I promised someone, Martin Daniels I believe, that I would post something about the NQC development environment that I use. I know this is a little late, but, better late then never, right? Anyway, first of all, you (...) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | January Mini-Challenge
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Here are some comments about the January Mini-Challenge. The idea is to build a robot that will drag-race from the starting line to the finish line and stop within a very short distance of the finish line. The starting and finish lines will be made (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Need some sensors, or an extra RCX?
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Normally 'sales' posts are discouraged outside of the market groups. But since we're focused on Mindstorms sets, and this is a deal too good to believe, I hope you'll forgive me for posting it here. Mike Brock posted in (URL) that many of the (...) (23 years ago, 18-Nov-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Notes from the November 2001 SMART meeting
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Meeting Notes ===...=== Today we had our last SMART meeting of the year. The first hour or so we ran the sumo and puck gathering events with our improved robots. Some of the improvements were very interesting, and also quite good. We also got to (...) (23 years ago, 18-Nov-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: November SMART Meeting - tomorrow
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Last reminder for tomorrow's meeting. Hope to see everyone there. -- David Schilling (...) (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: November SMART Meeting
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The next meeting is fast approaching. Date: November 17, 2001 at 2 pm Location: Redmond Regional Library Room 1 15990 NE 85th St Map: (URL) it's at the *Redmond* library this time. The mini-challenge is to improve the robots you built for the (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | BotBall
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Hello SMARTies, Remember the BotBall video that I showed a few months ago at our meeting? Well, BotBall is coming to town. At the next SRS Robothon, May 2002, there will be a regional BotBall event. Currently there are no local teams but we are (...) (23 years ago, 3-Nov-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | November SMART Meeting
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In case you've forgotten, the next SMART meeting is in just two weeks, on Saturday November 17th, at 2pm. Note that there IS a change of location this time. We will be meeting at the **REDMOND** Regional Library this time. Here's a map: (URL) is (...) (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Code-only Line-tracking competition
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(...) Yes, that is indeed how you must do it. But there are two things that make this more difficult: first of all, the surface is highly reflective (while the line itself is flat). You'll get a high percentage of light return even if the light (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Code-only Line-tracking competition
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(...) I don't know anything about this competition, but can't you just store the black line and the table as two different variables and have your program pick the halfway point and use that in its decision making when line-following? Of course, you (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | RE: Code-only Line-tracking competition
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(...) David, thanks for putting this contest on. I admit that I was intrigued when it was announced but did not have time to put an entry together. The idea of a code-only competition on a standard hardware platform is brilliant and opens up the (...) (23 years ago, 28-Oct-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Code-only Line-tracking competition
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Well, it's been a few weeks since the Workshop 3D RCX Challenge, and all the other results were in a long time ago, but we finally have the results for the code-only event. Since tab characters seem to disappear in these posts, and a table is (...) (23 years ago, 28-Oct-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Line Maze Challenge!
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Excerpt from SRS October Meeting Minutes: | We ran out of time to talk in detail about some of the Line Maze | robots that showed up to the meeting. Of the eight or nine robots | at the meeting, four or five were running (depending on your | (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Photos of Workshop 3D RCX Challenge #3
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(...) So, when will the results be available? As a participant in the code-only category I'm very curious how my program did, but I didn't see anything about the line tracking event yet, neither on the webcast nor among your pictures nor on the (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.loc.us.wa)
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| | Photos of Workshop 3D RCX Challenge #3
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Thanks to everyone that helped out, everyone that participated, and everyone that attended, the third Workshop 3D RCX Challenge was a phenomenal success. I don't know if it was an official count, but someone said there were over 30 participants, and (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.loc.us.wa)
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| | Web cam for Workshop3d RCX Challenge
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For those trying to watch the Workshop 3D RCX Challenge on the web cam, the url was incorrect. Please use the following: (URL) for the inconvenience. -- David Schilling (23 years ago, 6-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events)
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| | Re: WORKSHOP 3D LEGO RCX Challenge
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Only two weeks left for building your entry to the Workshop 3D RCX Challenge! Make sure you register if you intend on bringing a robot! Check out (URL) for details, including how to register. And don't forget, the November SMART meeting (Nov. 17th) (...) (23 years ago, 23-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | September Meeting was Excellent
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On Saturday we had a fantastic SMART meeting at the Renton Technical College after the SRS meeting. There were many participants who attended the SRS meeting and came back for the SMART meeting. Ray Freeman came and set up the Workshop3D RCX (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | September Meeting Details
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On Saturday, September 15, SMART will have a meeting in Renton after the Seattle Robotics Society meeting. The SRS meeting is from 10am to noon. The SMART meeting will be from 1:30 to 3pm. We have to be out by 3:30pm. For those who plan to attend (...) (23 years ago, 8-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | WORKSHOP 3D LEGO RCX Challenge
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Just in case anyone reading this group hasn't figured out yet that there will be a robot competition coming up soon in Seattle, consider this fair warning! You have only one month left to build your robot and program it! Check out (URL) for details, (...) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | September Meeting
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SMART will have its September meeting on Saturday, the 15th at the Renton Technical Collage after the SRS meeting. The SRS meeting runs from 10am to noon. SMART will have their meeting from 1:30pm to 3pm. For this meeting we will be considered to be (...) (23 years ago, 18-Aug-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | July Meeting Photos and Notes
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Hello SMARTies, Sorry it has taken so long to get this on the net but I have been rather busy with trips and relatives and camps etc. To top it off, my AT&T cable modem has decided that it will only work when it feels like it, which is not very (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Botball demo at SRS meeting on 7/21
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Hi Everyone, I just saw the following mail on the SRS mailing list. This Saturday, July 21, there will be a special demo of BotBall. This is the high school Lego competition that is taking place August 8 as part of the at AAAI convention in Seattle. (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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