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Last reminder about our September meeting tomorrow. The location will be in the Centerhouse at the Seattle Center. We'll be in one of the conference rooms upstairs. It shouldn't be too hard to find, but if you don't see it, ask the Robothon folks, (...) (18 years ago, 30-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Brickheap Wars - September 30
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(...) Here's the standard "one-week" (give or take a bit) message: In a little over a week (September 30th) we'll be having our next SMART meeting. This meeting will be at Robothon, taking place at the Seattle Center in the Center House (note: NOT (...) (18 years ago, 21-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Brickheap Wars - September 30
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All - We are hosting another Brickheap War event! This event will be held Saturday afternoon, September 30, from 12-5 ((URL) in the Center House at Seattle Center (Conference Room A). The space we have for the event at Robothon is a bit limited, so (...) (18 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Upcoming SMART meetings
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At our last SMART meeting we decided that the next meeting (September 30th) will be held at Robothon, in the Centerhouse, Seattle Center. The meeting will be another BrickHeap Wars, and teams will need to sign up ahead of time. More details to (...) (18 years ago, 29-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: July 29, 2006 SMART meeting
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My son Sean has built 4(!) robots for the drawing challenge. I'm not sure how many of them we'll end up bringing to the meeting. The last one he built using his new NXT set. Total build time was under 30 minutes, and that was his first NXT robot! I (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: July 29, 2006 SMART meeting
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Last reminder about next Saturday's meeting at Digipen. Mini-challenge: bring a robot that can write or draw something. Also, If you're looking for an NXT, but didn't order one online, they are available at Toys R Us, and the LEGO store in Bellevue (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: July 29, 2006 SMART meeting
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(...) Two weeks until our next SMART meeting. As usual, we'll be meeting at DigiPen. The mini-challenge is to build a robot that can write or draw something insteresting. You are perfectly welcome (but by no means under any obligation) to use an NXT (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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(...) I don't know how accurate the big wired article on NXT was, but it says pretty clearly it is 50/50 adults and kids. "Such loyalty isn't unusual among the fanboys who've swooned over Mindstorms since its 1998 debut. Four years after its (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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(...) Yeah, well,*I* am. There's already a Logical block that starts getting at this, but bit-wise opertations would be very nice to have sometimes. I agree, if we have arrays they should be arrays of anything (number, boolean, or string), but (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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(...) A copy of the MyBlock is not stored with the file that uses it. I've had several programs in NXT-G wind up broken because of changes to the MyBlock VIs they used. You definitely need to be very careful with MyBlocks. John Hansen (18 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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