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At our last meeting we voted on a new Grand Challenge: Robot Soccer. This will be an ongoing challenge for 2004. The reason for a Grand Challenge is that this lets you build a robot over a longer period of time. You will have many opportunities to (...) (21 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | January 31st SMART meeting notes
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At last Saturday's SMART meeting we had a bunch of people coming for the first time: welcome! Even more impressive, a number of them brought robots! I've posted a few meeting pictures at: (URL) The mini-challenge was to build a robot that could (...) (21 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 31st SMART meeting
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Final reminder about tomorrow's (Saturday) SMART meeting at the Redmond Regional Library, room 2, 2pm. See previous posts about the mini-challenge. It's our third anniversary, I hope everyone can make it! -- David Schilling (21 years ago, 31-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Cooperative Cybernetic Crate Contraption
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"Tobbe Arnesson" <StPnAtM@lotek.nu> wrote in message news:Hs7AyD.898@lugnet.com... (...) for the (...) the (...) I was amazed at the way that everything was designed to work together without passing bytes. absolutely excellent work, the pcitures (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cooperative Cybernetic Crate Contraption
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Amazing! Purly amazing. Well done all of you! To bad this post seems to have been hidden in the flow of Lugnet. Thanks for the highlight Philo (added a spotlight myself alas I think it's too late for the frontpage). (21 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cooperative Cybernetic Crate Contraption
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(...) Looks like this incredible job didn't got enough attention... Congratulations, spotlighted ! Philo (21 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | January 31st SMART meeting
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Just a reminder that the next SMART meeting is only a week away. We'll be meeting at the Redmond Regional Library at 2pm this Saturday (the 31st). The mini-challenge is to build a robot to manipulate crates or the small Lego soccer/basket balls. At (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Has anybody successfully added an RCX to 7471 Mars Rover?
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Ever since I picked up the 7471 Mars Rover a few months ago, I thought it screamed out for an RCX modification. I saw a lot of discussion about the possibility, but didn't find where anybody had actually successfully done it. Now that BrickFest PDX (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.org.scibrick)
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| | January SMART meeting in two weeks
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The next SMART meeting is less than two weeks away. On January 31st we'll be meeting in the Redmond Regional Library at 2pm. The mini-challenge is to build a new robot that either manipulates crates or the small Lego soccer balls or basketballs. The (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Cooperative Cybernetic Crate Contraption
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Cooperative Cybernetic Crate Contraption ===...=== In June of 2003 SMART put on a massive display of robots at a local shopping mall. After the show a few of us got together for dinner to decide what would be cool to do for our next show. Instead of (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics, FTX) !
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| | 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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