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(...) I built the Killough platform for the March SMART meeting mini-challenge. (SMART is the Seattle Mindstorms and Robotic Techies group.) The basic idea was to build a robot to wander around a table, without falling off, and stop beside a heavy (...) (24 years ago, 2-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Killough Platform and Meeting Thanks
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First of all I want to say thank you to everyone who came today. I think it was an excellent meeting and I'm already looking forward to the next one. The next challenge should be fun, especially now that I know what 'around' means :) I especially (...) (24 years ago, 1-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Notes from second SMART meeting
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The second SMART meeting just is just over, and we had a terrific time! Quite a few people tried out the mini-challenge of locating a heavy block on a table. And most of them were even successful! (Though my own entry wasn't, perhaps I was overly (...) (24 years ago, 1-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Tomorrow's Challenge Notes
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I funny thing happened to me while I was writing up some reminders for tomorrow's meeting to send to SRS and Workshop3D. I realized that I, myself, had totally misinterpreted the challenge as stated by David Schilling. When I reread it today I (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Point new-guy to resources?
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(...) Now there's an interesting idea.. but I'm out of sensors. )-: (...) Aww.. (-: Actually, one of our guys is doing just that. I've had a couple of ideas, but they're kludgy. Our first match ruleset permits only peices from a single RIS (plus one (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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(...) Actually it was me (David's little Brother) who built it and David came from Seattle to program it. The reason I made it with a transmission is because it was too slow the first time I built it and I knew that if I left it like that, the other (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Point new-guy to resources?
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(...) Sorry for not answering sooner, I've been out of town. Actually, it was my brother, Phil Schilling who built the gear-shifting robot for the RTL-Toronto sumo event. (I only wrote the program it used.) He won with it last year. He also entered (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Maxwells Demons - official rules
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(...) I haven't settled on an official date for the next Maxwell's Demons competition, but I'm leaning towards the end of September, or perhaps early October. Of course there's nothing to prevent anyone from starting to build a robot now, if they (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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(...) the builder thereof. I've got a couple ideas about how to do it, but neither are particularly elegent, and I was hoping to learn from your experience. We're trying to skip ahead a few iterations to more advanced sumo techniques in our earliest (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Point new-guy to resources?
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Hi Robert, Perhaps you meant to send this out to a more general newsgroup, but, since you are here... (SMART is a Seattle Mindstorms group) David Schilling has told me about a robot built in rtlToronto which has the gearbox you described. You can (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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Hello, all. Several friends and I are beginning a sumo competition in Denver. I've seen references to a couple of things that are very interesting, and am looking for more info: 1> Shifting transmissions- low mode for push, high mode for search. Is (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Maxwells Demons - official rules
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Thanks for the rules, David. Do let us know when you plan to run this type of event again. Is this something we can expect to see more of at SMART meetings? Gus (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | March Meeting Reminder
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Just a reminder that the next SMART meeting is coming up in a couple of weeks. If you haven't started building a robot for the mini challenge, now is the time to at least start thinking about it. The meeting is Saturday March 31st, at 2pm, in the (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Maxwells Demons - official rules
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A number of people have asked me to post the rules for a robot competition that we had at my place in January of this year. The competition is called "Maxwell's Demons" after the imaginary quantum physics entity that tries to separate all the hot (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: SteerBot page on lugnet
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(...) Thank you! Since my original posting I have added an animated GIF of the robot going around my test track. This animated GIF was made from a QuickTime .mov file. This was my first attempt at making animated GIFs. They are pretty cool but they (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SteerBot page on lugnet
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(...) Wow! A wonderful description of an incredible robot. Thank you for posting that! -- David Schilling (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | SteerBot page on lugnet
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Hi Everyone, I have finally gotten around to finishing a LUGNET web page on my SteerBot, the same robot you saw at the first SMART meeting back in January. Take a look and let me know what you think. (URL) Gus (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart) !
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| | Re: Details of second SMART meeting and mini-challenge
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(...) I can tell you that there is a very good chance that sumo will return at the next WORKSHOP 3D Challenge, as it was well-subscribed and very popular at the last one! If you aren't on our mailing list, yet, you can subscribe at (URL) C. Freeman (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: SMART - Meeting
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(...) Hi Sebastian, That's my edge tracker. Currently there are no building plans or code available on the net. I have meant to write something about it but have not gotten around to it. I will. Once I get something written along with some photos (...) (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Wishful thinking, but...
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Does anyone have a Mindstorms they might want to sell for less than it's weight in Gold? I thought I had a deal for one online, but it has fallen thru, so I am hoping for mercy from my fellow LUGNET members... I am in Seattle, but will gladly pay (...) (24 years ago, 10-Feb-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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