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Re: February 27th, 2010 SMART meeting
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:08:35 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.smart, David Schilling wrote:
> We had a great meeting last Saturday. A number of robots were able to complete
> the mini-challenge. Everyone who built a robot for the challenge agreed this was
> one of the more interesting ones to work on.
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> The March meeting is in four weeks. Since it's a much more demanding mechanical
> challenge, if you are interested in building a robot for it, I recommend you
> start sooner rather than waiting until the last week!
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> The mini-challenge is to build a stair-climbing robot. There is an irregular set
> of stairs in the Plato auditorium which we'll use as our arena. The steps are in
> pairs, with a longer section between pairs. The very first step is 7" high, all
> the rest that I measured were 6" high. The bottom of each step is an inch
> further in than the top of the step. The steps are about 12" wide if you measure
> from top to top, or 13" if you measure from bottom to top.
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> If you want an extra challenge, you can build your robot so that will also climb
> the stairs from the first floor up to the second floor, going around two
> corners. And for Gus, we expect your robot to start in the parking lot, figure
> out a way into the building, climb the stairs, navigate the corridors, and end
> up at the top of the Plato auditorium, where it should then climb up onto the
> table and do a song and dance (or take notes if there's a lecture going on).
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> --
> David Schilling
It hardly seems possible, but our next SMART meeting is in two weeks! If you
haven't started your mini-challenge robot yet, now might be a good time!
See you then!
--
David Schilling
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