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April 24th, 2010 SMART meeting
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lugnet.org.us.smart
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Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:48:34 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.smart, David Schilling wrote:
> 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).
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> Besides having month two of our stair climbing challenge, the following were
> some of the possibilities that were suggested for building robots:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> 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!
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> --
> David Schilling
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 discussed at the last meeting (see above), or something that you think
would be a cool or inspiring robot to demo!
See you on Saturday!
--
David Schilling
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