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Re: November 18th, 2006 SMART meeting
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Sat, 4 Nov 2006 06:05:40 GMT
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Here's the standard two-week reminder for our next meeting. If you haven't
started a robot yet for the minichallenge, I recommend starting this weekend!
It's not a trivial challenge.
--
David Schilling
In lugnet.org.us.smart, David Schilling wrote:
> Our next meeting will be on November 18th, at DigiPen. The mini-challenge is to
> build a swinging robot. We'll provide a thin rope that your robot needs to hook
> onto. It will be attached at the top at two locations, 18" apart, to form a 'U'
> shape. Several different lengths of rope will be used for the swings, so your
> robot will need to figure out what the proper period of oscillation is each time
> you want to demonstrate it. *Don't* hard code the times for swinging -- that's
> one thing that definitely won't work! While the robots can be very simple
> mechanically, this can be a very difficult challenge, so I recommend starting
> earlier on it. Don't leave it for the last week. If anyone has questions, post
> here, or email me. Here's a picture of what the string setup is:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/David/SMART/Samples/Arenas/swingingrobots.gif
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> Note: The specific rope we'll use is 130 test braided Dacron fishing line, which
> is thin enough to fit into the slot of any of the LEGO pulleys. For your own
> testing, I recommend using any string that doesn't have too much stretch.
>
> --
> David Schilling
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 | | Re: November 18th, 2006 SMART meeting
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| Just in case you've been hibernating, our next SMART meeting is this Saturday, and the mini-challenge is to build a swinging robot. We're looking forward to seeing you all at 2pm! Any questions, post here, or send me an email (taking care of the (...) (20 years ago, 14-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | November 18th, 2006 SMART meeting
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| Our next meeting will be on November 18th, at DigiPen. The mini-challenge is to build a swinging robot. We'll provide a thin rope that your robot needs to hook onto. It will be attached at the top at two locations, 18" apart, to form a 'U' shape. (...) (20 years ago, 10-Oct-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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