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Re: March 27th, 2010 SMART meeting
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Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:44:12 GMT
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We had a small, but wonderful SMART meeting last Saturday. While the turnout was
smaller than usual, nearly everyone brought a robot, and four people brought
stair climbing robots! Not one was anything like any other! As previously
mentioned, we'll continue with this as our mini-challenge for next month's
meeting (April 24th).
Besides having month two of our stair climbing challenge, the following were
some of the possibilities that were suggested for building robots:
Build a famous robot. It needs to move, and preferably be able to line-track.
R2-D2? Wall.e? Number 5? Or any other robot that people will instantly
recognize.
Build a robot that will empty the balls from a crate and dump them 20" above the
ground. These can then be used with Mark's colour-sorting ball contraption.
Build "hands-on" toys that use the NXT. People love Gus' ball-shooting robot,
Nick's white-board drawing robot, and other arcade-style robots. Build something
that would draw a crowd of people wanting to try it out!
Why these particular ideas? Because BrickCon is coming soon! We've only got
three meetings before BrickCon: April's, May's, and September's. And September's
meeting is the weekend before BrickCon, so it'll be too late to start building
robots then for the con. Let's start now!
--
David Schilling
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 | | April 24th, 2010 SMART meeting
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| (...) Wow, it's almost that time again already! Our next SMART meeting is this coming Saturday, from 2 to 5 at DigiPen. The mini-challenge is part two for our stair climbers, as well as building a robot for BrickCon, either from the list of ideas we (...) (15 years ago, 19-Apr-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | March 27th, 2010 SMART meeting
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| Just a last minute reminder of tomorrow's SMART meeting, at Digipen, starting at 2pm. I'm looking forward to seeing you all there! The mini-challenge is stair-climbing. See previous messages for details. -- David Schilling (15 years ago, 26-Mar-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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