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Re: September SMART Meeting at Robothon!
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Wed, 5 Sep 2007 06:04:35 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.smart, David Schilling wrote:
> The next SMART meeting will be on Saturday, September 22nd, held during and at
> Robothon. The meeting will be a BrickHeap Wars - a competition where we bring
> the (Technic) LEGO pieces, you build and program a robot at the meeting. For
> this reason, the meeting will start earlier than normal.
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> In order to participate, teams leaders must register ahead of time. This lets us
> know how many LEGO kits to bring. Really the only thing a team leader needs to
> do is to bring the electronic elements, and keep a count of team members.
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> Team leaders are responsible for bringing (or making sure someone else on their
> team is bringing) all their team's electronic elements: a MINDSTORMS RCX or NXT,
> motors, sensors, wires and batteries, plus a computer (laptop strongly
> recommended) with their favourite programming environment, and either IR tower
> or USB cable, as needed. All other LEGO elements will be provided. Besides these
> electronic components, no other parts may be added to the parts that will be
> provided. You may only use standard LEGO sensors, including the HiTechnic sensor
> line that is available through LEGO Shop-at-Home. Teams are limited to 6 people
> total, and must have at least three members.
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> We'll be inviting SRS and FLL teams (and possibly others) soon to participate,
> but for the next two weeks (until September 7th), registration is open for SMART
> teams. If you would like to participate, please either email me (watch out for
> the spambot) or post a reply to this message. If you'd like to participate, but
> not be a leader, contact one of the leaders to ask to join their teams. If you
> want to participate, but there are no team leaders yet, why not consider being
> one? It's not hard!
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> The meeting will take place in one of the upstairs rooms in the Centerhouse at
> the Seattle Center, and will start at 12 noon. The challenge will be handed out
> shortly after 12, teams will have approximately four hours to build and program
> their robots, and the last hour will be to have the robots compete to see who
> built the best one.
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> --
> David Schilling
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> PS: NWBrickCon is October 5-7. If you have LEGO robots that you'd like to
> display, either at Robothon, or at NWBrickCon, please let me know ASAP.
> Registration for NWBrickCon is currently open. See <http://www.nwbrickcon.org/>
> There is no need to register for Robothon. But if you want to display a robot at
> the SMART table there, you'll need to let me know at least a week before it
> starts. Thanks!
There's just a couple more days that we've reserved only for SMART teams to
register for BrickHeap Wars. After that we'll open up registration for other
teams. Once all the slots are taken, you'll have to join one of the teams that
has already registered ... if there's still room!
So far only Steve Hassenplug (from 1810 miles away!) has offered to lead a team,
and I've received a couple of emails from people wanting to participate, but
waiting for a brave person to step up to be a team leader. Anyone wishing to
lead a team (and really all this entails is bringing the electronic parts your
team will need), please post a message so others know what teams are available
to join.
If you are interested in participating in this BrickHeap Wars competition,
please let me know as soon as possible.
Thanks.
--
David Schilling
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| My son, Peter, and I should be able to participate. While I could bring electronic parts, I may not be able to bring a computer so I'm a little hesitant to volunteer to lead a team. However, if there are a bunch of people who want to participate but (...) (17 years ago, 8-Sep-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | September SMART Meeting at Robothon!
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| The next SMART meeting will be on Saturday, September 22nd, held during and at Robothon. The meeting will be a BrickHeap Wars - a competition where we bring the (Technic) LEGO pieces, you build and program a robot at the meeting. For this reason, (...) (17 years ago, 24-Aug-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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