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I needed a few of these, so I purchased 40 (!) from Pitsco. If anyone wants some, I'll sell them at my cost of 3/$1. (22 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Grand Challenge Workshops
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I've arranged for a pair of Grand Challenge Workshops. The first is Thursday April 17th, at Newport Hills Community Church 5833 - 119th Ave S.E. Bellevue, WA 98006 The second is Monday April 28th, at Kirkland Library 308 Kirkland Ave. Kirkland, WA (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Lego Geometery Powerpoint slides
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On the previous meeting I gave my PowerPoint presentation on Lego Geometry. I finally got around to uploading my PowerPoint file to BrickShelf. This is the same presentation I made at NWBrickCon. (URL) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: What's up with HiTechnic?
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Here's the scoop, from their web site: ** HiTechnic Products ceases manufacture of RCX© Compatible Products ** In the face of a number of difficulties, HiTechnic Products has worked tirelessly to continue to manufacture our complete range of sensors (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | March 2003 SMART Meeting Notes
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Yesterday's SMART meeting was awesome. Lots of people brought robots for the rope climbing mini-challenge; there were at least four working Grand Challenge (Figure-8) racers, and a large assortment of other robots as well. I've posted pictures here: (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 29th SMART meeting
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Brief reminder: the next SMART meeting is tomorrow at the Redmond library (2pm). The mini-challenge is rope-climbing - see previous messages for details. The Grand Challenge arena will also be set up. Hope to see everyone there. Also, don't forget, (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Some Grand Challenge (Figure-8 Racing) Notes
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I was working a bit on my Figure-8 racer tonight when I remembered that I had to rebuild it to make the RCX face forward. That prompted me to review the building and programming rules that have been decided on to make this race work. The initial set (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | March 29th SMART meeting
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In two weeks we'll be having the next SMART meeting. The time and location will be as usual: room 2 at the Redmond Regional Library, starting at 2pm. The mini challenge is to climb a rope. See the previous message (below) for details. I highly (...) (22 years ago, 16-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | One month notice!
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Hello Everyone, I'm forwarding this from Ray's Workshop3D mailing list. If you are interested, make sure you register and get on his mailing list. I don't plan to make a habit of forwarding these emails! If you have not been to one of Ray's RCX (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Workshop 3D Challenge 6
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Hello folks, In case you have not heard... the next Workshop3D RCX Challenge has been scheduled for Saturday, April 12! Mostly the events are unchanged from previous RCX challenges with the addition of a Walking Sumo class in the Sumo event. That (...) (22 years ago, 8-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: What's up with HiTechnic?
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We ordered some sensors from HiTechnic a few weeks ago and they were shipped out right away with great communications and speedy service. :-] (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Winter mega challenge?
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(...) I was thinking IR proximity sensors (HiTechnic). Given the experience I have with them thus far, I think they would work well in the environment described in the rules. I think the final robot would likely require more than one RCX, given the (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Winter mega challenge?
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(...) This sounds like it could be a good idea for next year. Thanks for suggesting it. We might alternatively consider a "SMART-Team" robot. Any ideas on how to accomplish that? The one thing that would make it quite difficult for Lego robots is (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Finding the rope
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(...) The challenge is mainly to start away from the rope, so anything you do to find it and attach youself to it is okay. It would be cool to see a robot be able to find it from a greater distance, or without facing it directly to start with. If (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Winter mega challenge?
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I was browsing the Seattle Robotics Club pages and saw the link to the fire fighting robot contest ((URL) is a northwest qualifier event for this held March 15 this year. While it is too late for this year, maybe we could consider this as a mega (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: What's up with HiTechnic?
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(...) I heard rumor (only a rumor, I can't back this up) that the exposure they've gotten from media such as Steve Hassenplug's TV interview has swamped them with orders. Perhaps John can confirm. If true, that's a real testament to the demand out (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | What's up with HiTechnic?
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Anyone know what is going on with them? They've been "reorganizing production" for a while now, long enough that I am wondering if there is something else going on. Plus there was someone selling custom sensors on eBay a while ago, which looked like (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Finding the rope
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We've built a couple rope climbing robots, but both assume they are started pointed pretty much directly at the rope. One of them does a little searching to make sure it is lined up accurately, where as the other one gathers the rope in (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Figure 8 Vehicle number
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David, Sorry to address this here, but I don't know how to get past your spam blocker. Can you provide me with a broadcast number for myself and another one for Joseph? We are working (struggling) with programming and hope to each produce an entry. (...) (22 years ago, 23-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Rope crossing mini-challenge?
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(...) And maybe bonus points for shooting the rope across the gap first 8?) ROSCO (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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