 | | November 2003 SMART Meeting
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It's a little late (I've been having weird computer problems for a while) but I thought I'd post some notes on the last meeting. First, though, someone lost an RCX remote; if anyone picked it up, could you please let me know so that we could return (...) (21 years ago, 5-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | January meeting
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For those that were not at the November meeting, for Brick Heap Wars (which was a blast, BTW!), the challenge for the January meeting is to build a robot that either manipulates Lego soccer or basketballs, or crates, like the robots in our (...) (21 years ago, 1-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | November 8th SMART Meeting
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It's been a while since the last SMART meeting, but that doesn't mean we haven't been busy. Nor does it mean that there aren't Lego robot activities that you can participate in: Robothon, sponsored by the Seattle Robotics Society this week at the (...) (21 years ago, 24-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Workshop3D RCX Challenge 7
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(...) I've been looking forward to this, as usual. I've entered the last four Workshop 3D Challenges, and I've never even been to Seattle! David Schilling has been nice enough to run my robots in past events, but it doesn't look like that's going to (...) (21 years ago, 24-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Workshop3D RCX Challenge 7
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On Saturday, November 1, the Pacific Science Center in Seattle will be the venue for yet another Workshop 3D RCX Challenge. This will be number 7! Events as usual will be Line Tracking, Sumo, and Puck Gathering. Last year he also had walking sumo (...) (21 years ago, 19-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.events)
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| | NWBrickCon 2003
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This weekend SMART will be participating in NWBrickCon 2003. Any robots you would like to display are welcome. SMART will have a large display of cooperating robots, called the "Cooperative Cybernetic Crate Contraption". A smaller version of this (...) (21 years ago, 3-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: September SMART Meeting Canceled
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(...) Just a reminder that the usual SMART meeting that would occur this weekend has been canceled. A number of our club members are participating in the LEGO roadshow which will be held this weekend at the Seattle Center near the international (...) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | September SMART Meeting Canceled
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The Lego Roadshow is taking place the same weekend that we'd normally have our SMART meeting. Since a number of us are participating at the roadshow, it has been decided to cancel the normal SMART meeting that would take place on the last Saturday (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | NWBrickCon Registration Deadline
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Some SMART members might not be aware of this because they missed the last meeting, but NWBrickCon is happening on the first weekend of October, at the Seattle Center. SMART will be putting on a display of robots at the convention, but there will (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: July 26th SMART Meeting
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One of my robots decided to try the "center of gravity above the rope" challenge on it's own initiative Sunday. The results were not pretty, but nothing was permanently damaged, and the robot is back together now. Sean and I are having a lot of fun (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jul-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART Robotic Marvel
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I want to thank David for putting this show together! I think it went very well, introducing many people to Lego robotics and our club. The robots on display captured the interest of a large number of people walking by. The contests worked well, (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jul-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | July 26th SMART Meeting
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In two weeks SMART will be having its next meeting at the Redmond Library, room 2 at 2pm. The mini-challenge this time is to build a robot that can cross from one table to another on a taunt rope. You won't be told ahead of time how far the tables (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jul-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | SMART Robotic Marvel
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SMART Robotic Marvel A LEGO Mindstorms Display and Kids Robotic Competition SMART's robot display and kids competition at Crossroads Shopping Center was tremendously fun! We had a ton of robots, using over 40 RCXs, a half dozen scouts, some (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART show at Crossroads
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I'm short some boat weights for my demo robots (my line crossing robot uses some, as does Sean's tug-of-war robot). If anyone has some extras laying around, I could use 6 just for tomorrow so I can have the helicopter, spot finder, and Sean's (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART show at Crossroads
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The link: (URL) not working right now. I'm not sure who to contact about this. Hopefully it can be fixed soon. Gus (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART show at Crossroads
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I plan to bring my helicopter as well. I think it will be interesting to see two helicopters. I'll also bring my puck gatherer and line tracker. I will try to bring Alegomazer if I can find an RCX for it. Barton, are you bringing your puck gatherer? (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART show at Crossroads
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(...) Tomorrow I'm getting together with the coordinator at Crossroads to plan the layout of our display this Saturday. If anyone else knows or even just hopes that they'll be coming to the show, let me know as soon as possible what you'll be (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART show at Crossroads
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(...) There's only a week left until our show at Crossroads. Thanks to the people who have replied so far! I hope that more than that will show up, though! Since it's important for planning and setting up that I give an estimate of the number of (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | July mini-challenge - Rope crossing
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Ah, those deceptively simple challenges! This one is proving to be more challenging than I initially thought! After a fair amount of work, Sean and I each have a robot put together for the rope crossing challenge. Sean's starts on the rope and just (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART show at Crossroads
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(...) I can bring several robots to demonstrate. I've still got my spot finder pretty much together, a couple sumo robots and a line tracer from W3D, a helicopter, and the figure 8 racers. My nephew's puck gatherer is still together as well, and I'm (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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