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Hi Brian, (...) I was surprised too. I suspect a relatively high internal resistance of the windings, rather than mechanical friction, as the source of losses. No, (shame on me!) I didn't checked yet with an ohmmeter. (...) This is clearly outside (...) (14 years ago, 13-Jan-11, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: November 20th SMART meeting
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I just wanted to remind everyone about our next SMART meeting in two weeks (Saturday, November 20th, 2pm). We'll be meeting at the new DigiPen facilities, in the Michelangelo auditorium. The address is 9931 Willows Road, in Redmond. Here's a map: (...) (14 years ago, 8-Nov-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | November 20th SMART meeting
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For the November SMART meeting (at the new Digipen location) bring whatever robot(s) you happen to be working on! Our mini-challenge will be to build a robot that can balance on a teeter totter. You can design whatever sort of teeter totter you like (...) (14 years ago, 20-Oct-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: BrickCon 2010 awards
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(...) Any video or pictures around? I love what you folks have done with the crate contraption, and wish I could see it in person... but if not, I'd still love to see it as much as possible :). (...) Cool... (...) Shooting what? Spheres, or bullets? (...) (14 years ago, 15-Oct-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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What an awesome robotics display we had at BrickCon this year! I really wanted to thank Mark Kenworthy for putting together an awesome Crate Contraption! These are very difficult to put together, and Mark did this one entirely himself! It was a (...) (14 years ago, 14-Oct-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | SMART meeting this Saturday, September 25, 2-5pm
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I just got confirmation that we will be able to use the new Michelangelo auditorium in the *new* DigiPen facilities for our meetings this year, starting with this Saturday's meeting. The meeting starts at 2pm, and goes to 5pm. Please note the new (...) (14 years ago, 23-Sep-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Robot Competition at BrickCon 2010
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This year's robot competition at BrickCon will be a racing competition. Build and program a robot able to race around an irregularly shaped gradient track while avoiding obstacles on the track. The track is approximately two feet wide, with black in (...) (14 years ago, 16-Sep-10, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce)
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| | Register for BrickCon
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At the build session on the weekend I was reminded that I hadn't mentioned where to register for BrickCon. If you plan on attending the entire convention (not just the visitors exhibition on Saturday and Sunday) you should register before September (...) (14 years ago, 1-Sep-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Build session on August 28th for BrickCon 2010
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Here's a quick reminder about the build session this Saturday at the Bellevue Library in room 3 starting at 2pm. Besides just a time to work on your robots, ask questions, etc, I will be presenting an idea for a racing robot competition at BrickCon. (...) (14 years ago, 24-Aug-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Build session on August 28th for BrickCon 2010
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As many of you know, I'm the Mindstorms coordinator at BrickCon. As such, I need to make sure that anyone bringing robots will have room to display them. So if you are thinking of displaying a robot, please let me know by email (remove the spambot), (...) (14 years ago, 8-Aug-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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