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Re: May 22nd SMART Meeting
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lugnet.org.us.smart
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Fri, 14 May 2004 03:41:19 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.smart, David Schilling wrote:
> In just over two weeks we'll have our next SMART meeting. The mini-challenge is
> to build a robot that satisfies some or all of the gap crossing/cube gathering
> requirements from the last Workshop 3D RCX Challenge competition.
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> The rules for the competition are posted (towards the bottom of the page)here :
> <http://www.workshop3d.com/rcx/challenge8.htm>, but as with almost all our
> events, we're not approaching this from a competition point of view, rather just
> to see how much you can do. So don't feel pressured to do everything; this is a
> touch challenge! First of all you have a line-following challenge with not only
> a gap in the line but actually a piece of the table missing. Secondly there are
> 'T' intersections at the ends of the line that you need to detect and turn
> around at. Third, you have the challenge of finding the cubes without pushing
> them off the table, and fourth, trying to pick them up. Finally you have the
> challenge of dropping lots of cubes off in a narrow area without pushing them
> off the table. Pick one or two of these sub-challenges to work on first, and
> when you do those well, try for another one.
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> I'm looking forward to seeing many innovative solutions at our meeting!
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> --
> David Schilling
Last reminder: Just over a week before our next SMART meeting at Digipen
(Saturday May 22nd, 2pm). In case you haven't been there before, here's the
address and a map.
5001-150th Ave N.E.
Redmond, WA 98052
<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/David/SMART/Maps/digipen.gif>
It's just off SR-520, use the 51st Street exit, go west about a block; it's on
the left.
Last time a few of us went to dinner afterwards. It was pretty fun. We'll do it
again for anyone that wants to come along.
--
David Schilling
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