 | | July 23rd 2005 Smart Meeting
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I just realized that I'm going to be in DC on the 30th of July, and so unfortunately we'll have to reschedule the meeting to be the weekend before, to July 23rd. Sorry for the date change, I'm currently trying to find out if we'll be able to use the (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jul-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | June 25th 2005 SMART Meeting Notes
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At Saturday's SMART meeting we had quite a number of interesting solutions for the mini-challenge: step ladder traversal. With one exception, most of the solutions attempted to climb the ladder the way a person would, on the outside. There were a (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jun-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART Meeting On June 25th
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Don't forget ... SMART meeting this Saturday! Rules and pictures for the Step Ladder Traversal minichallenge can be found in this thread: (URL) David Schilling (19 years ago, 21-Jun-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | SMART Meeting On June 25th
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Our next meeting (postponed from May) is just under two weeks away. The mini-challenge is stepladder traversal. Hope to see everyone on the 25th! -- David Schilling (19 years ago, 15-Jun-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | West Seattle Robotics Club event this Saturday
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Doug Bell just informed me about a local robotics event that SMART might be interested in. Details from their website, (URL) : Come join us for a day of Lego Robot building and Engineering Challenges!!! Lego Robotics Fun Day June 11th from 10:00am - (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | SMART Meeting Postponed!
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The SMART meeting scheduled for this Saturday, May 21, is being postponed. I was going to run this meeting since David is in Europe but I will not be able to make it. I apologize for any confusion, or even worse, if anyone goes because they did not (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Meeting reminder
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Hello, Here are some photos of the step ladder I built for the meeting. (URL) Overview> (URL) Rung Spacing> (URL) Bottom Rung Height> (URL) Width> As specified by David, the ladder has rungs 6" apart and bottom rung is 6" off the floor. I made the (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart, FTX)
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| | Meeting reminder
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Hello SMARTies! This is a reminder that the next SMART meeting is next Saturday, May 21, 2:00 p.m. at Digipen in Redmond. Details and map can be found on David's meeting reminder page: (URL) mini-challenge is the stepladder traverser. I have yet to (...) (20 years ago, 15-May-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Coming in October: NWBrickCon 2005
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NWBrickCon 2005, a convention in the Pacific Northwest for Adult Fans of Lego, will take place October 7th, 8th, and 9th, 2005, in Seattle. All AFOLs are invited. This will be the fourth annual NWBrickCon. Planned highlights include: * MOCs * public (...) (20 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.wa.tac, lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea, lugnet.loc.ca.bc, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.van, lugnet.loc.us.id, lugnet.loc.us.or, lugnet.loc.us.or.por, lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.org.us.sealug, lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.org.ca.viclug) !!
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| | Re: Crate Contraption Writeups
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Thanks to Philo, I've put up much smaller versions of the Crate Contraption videos for download. You'll have to have the latest DIVX codec (from www.divx.com) installed. The videos average 1/4 to 1/5 the size of the originals. (URL) on the Divx (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Crate Contraption Writeups
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On Thu, March 31, 2005 6:06 pm, David Schilling said: (...) This is the good thing about even the worst crate contraptions that's totally lacking in even the best GBCs. Continuity. It's very cool to see all the machines working together. I, for one, (...) (20 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Crate Contraption Writeups
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I didn't want to post a writeup of the recent crate contraptions we've done until I had some video to show. Unfortunately all the video I took at NWBrickCon in October had really messed up audio. Last weekend we showed a nearly identical setup, (...) (20 years ago, 31-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics) !
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| | May mini-challenge
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(...) I've had a couple of questions about the step ladder. Here's a picture that shows what it will look like: (URL) If there are other questions, please ask -- post online so others can see them as well. (Especially as I'll be reading my email (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | March 26th 2005 SMART Meeting Notes
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We had a great SMART meeting at Crossroad Shopping Center yesterday. We had two robotic displays set up. First was an improved version of the Crate Contraption that we showed at NWBrickCon 2004. All the robots looked pretty much the same (though (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 26th Smart Meeting
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Final reminder about this weekend's SMART meeting. We'll be meeting at Crossroads Shopping Center (corner of 156th Ave NE and NE 8th St in Bellevue) near center food court area. The official meeting time is from 2pm to 5pm, as usual. But the egg (...) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 26th Smart Meeting
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Here are a couple of 'work in progress' pictures of the Easter Egg Hunt arena: (URL) black top has curled a bit, but we'll tape it down before using it. The walls will be fastened together properly, and there will be white tape around each of the (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 26th Smart Meeting
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(...) The holes will have white tape around them (I think you said in a previous posting), so if there are robots that may fall into the holes, they could detect the edge of the circle before falling in (they'll need to in order to deposit the egg, (...) (20 years ago, 19-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 26th Smart Meeting
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(...) All good questions. I was just starting to build the arena today (making larger at 8'x6'), though I haven't cut the holes yet. My plan was to make them complete circles, about 3" in diameter, with somewhere around 1" between the edges of the (...) (20 years ago, 19-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 26th Smart Meeting
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I think a larger arena makes sense, so that it doesn't get too crowded. What size will the holes in the corners of the table be? How far away from the walls will the center of each hole be? (I'm trying to figure out if my wall detection will prevent (...) (20 years ago, 19-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: March 26th Smart Meeting
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With our next SMART meeting a bit more than a week away, I wanted to tell everyone that the Easter Egg Hunt arena will be available from probably 11am for people to try it out, and make changes to their robots or programs as required. Don't forget (...) (20 years ago, 17-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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