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David: Thanks for organizing this event! Everyone: I think this is going to be a really cool event and a great opportunity to show the community and the LEGO store what we can do. The Easter egg hunting robots is the right level of difficulty to (...) (17 years ago, 3-Mar-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | March 22nd, 2008 SMART meeting at the LEGO store!
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First, thanks to the people who showed up for our February meeting. Due to a scheduling glitch, our regular meeting place turned out not to be available. Those who showed up went to a nearby cafeteria to have our meeting. I hope that there weren't (...) (17 years ago, 2-Mar-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: February 23rd, 2008 SMART meeting
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Just a reminder about the meeting this Saturday at DigiPen at 2pm. We'll be preparing for our Easter egg hunt next month, as well as doing our racing grand challenge. See the previous message for details. -- David Schilling (17 years ago, 21-Feb-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart, FTX)
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| | February 23rd, 2008 SMART meeting
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Thanks to all who showed up at the last meeting. We had a few people who brought working rope crossing robots. None crossed successfully from one table clear to the other, but the point behind our mini-challenges is to do as much as you feel (...) (17 years ago, 12-Feb-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart, FTX)
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| | Re: January 26th SMART meeting
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Reminder about Saturday's SMART meeting at Digipen. We'll meet at 2 in our regular room. There will be some time to build, test and program your race cars for this year's Grand Challenge. Check previous posts for details. The mini-challenge is to (...) (17 years ago, 23-Jan-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | January 26th SMART meeting
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The next SMART meeting is only a week away. (Appologies for the short notice!) We'll be meeting in our regular room at Digipen. The mini-challenge is to build a robot that will be able to cross between two tables using a rope. The distance between (...) (17 years ago, 18-Jan-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | I'm looking for the RCX 2.0 software and a USB tower
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There are surprisingly few of the CDs on bricklink, and since they come with every 2.0 set I figured someone here would have extras. Anyone? -- Tony Hafner (17 years ago, 6-Dec-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: November 17th, 2007 SMART meeting
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(...) Just a last minute reminder about tomorrow's meeting. Sorry about the late notice for people who were relying on news-by-mail. The problem has been fixed now, and shouldn't happen again. Anyway, tomorrow, 2pm, at DigiPen. Hope to see all of (...) (17 years ago, 17-Nov-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | November 17th, 2007 SMART meeting
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The next SMART meeting is only a bit over a week away, on November 17th. We'll meet at DigiPen, in our regular room, from 2 to approximately 5pm. We have a mini-challenge as well as the start of this year's Grand Challenge at this meeting. Build a (...) (17 years ago, 7-Nov-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Notes on the last and next SMART meeting
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I wanted to thank all the teams that participated in the BrickHeap Wars competition at Robothon last month. Besides a SMART team, we also had a local company field a team, Steve Hassenplug came to participate, and we had an FLL team as well. (...) (17 years ago, 31-Oct-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: September SMART Meeting at Robothon!
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Last reminder about this Saturday's SMART meeting. We'll be meeting at the Seattle Center, in the Centerhouse during Robothon 2007. The meeting starts at 12 noon. This month's meeting will be a BrickHeap Wars event. It's a competition where you (...) (17 years ago, 20-Sep-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: September SMART Meeting at Robothon!
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(...) Don't forget, we'll be meeting at the Centerhouse, in the Seattle Center on Saturday, September 22nd at 12 noon for this month's meeting. The meeting will be a BrickHeap Wars competition. There's only a bit over a week left to start another (...) (17 years ago, 13-Sep-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: September SMART Meeting at Robothon!
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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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| | Re: September SMART Meeting at Robothon!
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(...) 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 (...) (17 years ago, 5-Sep-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: September SMART Meeting at Robothon!
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(...) David, I'm trying to arrange to attend Robothon. If I can make it, I'll have a team. Steve (17 years ago, 24-Aug-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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| | Re: May 19th SMART Meeting
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It's time to think of a game for your robot to play -- the next SMART meeting is only 10 days away! What kinds of game would you like to have your robot play? Something physical (baseball?), something with props (cards?), something purely (...) (17 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: MicroMouse
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(...) Hi Steve, I think you are assuming this is my 'bot. This was just something I found on YouTube. I have a Micromouse robot in the works so I will attempt to answer your questions based on my experience. I believe it is flashing the LEDs in an (...) (17 years ago, 4-May-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: MicroMouse
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(...) Gus, Just so you know, there are people out here watching. :) Thanks for posting this stuff, and the crate contraption stuff from BFPDX. Nice job on the maze. Are you recording your path? You're using flashing light sensors to detect the (...) (17 years ago, 4-May-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: MicroMouse
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It can be done! (URL) Gus (17 years ago, 4-May-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart, FTX)
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