 | | February 25th, 2012 SMART meeting
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We had a great meeting last Saturday; a huge turnout! Thanks to everyone who came! If you’re new, and have questions, don’t hesitate to ask. For our February 25th meeting (also at Digipen, and also in the van Gogh room) we voted on line-track racing (...) (13 years ago, 3-Feb-12, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | January 28th, 2012 SMART meeting
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Happy New Year, and happy 12th anniversary, SMART! Our next meeting is in two weeks, on January 28th, at Digipen. The Michelangelo room is unavailable, so we'll be meeting in the Van Gogh room instead. Our mini-challenge is a repeat of the rope (...) (13 years ago, 13-Jan-12, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | December 10, 2011 SMART Meeting
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The next SMART meeting is December 10th, from 2-5pm, at Digipen. The mini-challenge is to build a robot that can cross the gap between two tables. There will be a taut rope going over the tops of the two tables. See you then! -- David Schilling (13 years ago, 30-Nov-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: October 29th, 2011 SMART Meeting
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Just a reminder about the upcoming SMART meeting this Saturday, from 2-5pm, at DigiPen. The mini-challenge is to build a robot that can throw a LEGO "pumpkin" as far as possible, or as accurately as possible. The "pumpkin" can be any LEGO element, (...) (13 years ago, 27-Oct-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | October 29th, 2011 SMART Meeting
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For the upcoming SMART meeting (in just over a week!) your task is to build a robot that can do Pumpkin Chuckin! Throw any LEGO element or elements as far as possible, without doing any damage to our facilities! Your device must be built entirely (...) (13 years ago, 21-Oct-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | SMART's BrickCon Display
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I want to thank everyone who participated in this year's SMART display at BrickCon. It was absolutely amazing! We couldn't have done it without everyone's help. Every element was crucial, and worked amazingly! Named "BallMageddon" because either it (...) (13 years ago, 12-Oct-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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| | SMART STEM outreach this Wednesday
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This Wednesday SMART is doing a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) outreach to help some of our younger members that have won a spot in Phase Two of this years MoonBots competition. Public hours are from 5:30 to 7; we can start setting (...) (13 years ago, 16-Aug-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: July 23rd, 2011 SMART Meeting in Woodinville library
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Just a reminder about the SMART meeting this Saturday where we’ll start putting together our new display, figure out all those interesting interactions that we never would unless we try first, and hopefully get blown away by how cool this is going (...) (13 years ago, 21-Jul-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | July 23rd, 2011 SMART Meeting in Woodinville library
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In order to have enough time to work out the kinks in our contraption, at the last meeting we decided we'd get together again this month to test how things work make any necessary changes to the interfaces between units. So I've reserved the (...) (13 years ago, 3-Jul-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: June 18th, 2011 SMART Meeting in Woodinville library
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We had a great meeting last Saturday! There were a lot of good ideas and suggestions made, and everyone seems really excited about our new display. To summarize the interface between modules, the inputs are 6 inches high, and at the meeting we (...) (13 years ago, 23-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | June 18th, 2011 SMART Meeting in Woodinville library
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Due to the amount of interest expressed at the last meeting, we'll be having a SMART meeting this month: on June 18th, at the Woodinville Library from 2 to 5pm. They only have a single meeting room, to the left in the lobby. The purpose of the (...) (13 years ago, 4-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | New Google Group for SMART
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Mark Kenworthy has created a new google group for SMART with the goal to ease communications within our group. The name of the group is smart_robotics. To keep the group clean and away from the despicable acts of spammers, the group is closed. (...) (14 years ago, 19-May-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | May 21 SMART Meeting
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The next SMART Meeting is this Saturday May 21. Challenge for the meeting is to build a robot that resembles some type of creature, real or pretend. We will also do an mini-class/group programming with NXC. Bring a robot and a laptop and we will see (...) (14 years ago, 18-May-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: April 30th, 2011 SMART meeting
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Just a quick reminder about the next SMART meeting in about two weeks... -- David Schilling (...) (14 years ago, 19-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | April 30th, 2011 SMART meeting
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We had a great meeting a week an a half ago, and saw a lot of really cool drawing robots! The next SMART meeting will be April 30th, at 2pm. The mini-challenge we voted on was to do "chimney climbing". Build a robot that can climb up the inside of a (...) (14 years ago, 6-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: February 26th, 2011 SMART meeting
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Just a reminder: we'll have our next SMART meeting in two weeks. The mini-challenge is to build a plotting robot of some sort. If it can draw, color, paint or even just make a pretty line on some sort of surface, it counts! See you in two weeks! -- (...) (14 years ago, 12-Mar-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: February 26th, 2011 SMART meeting
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We had a nice SMART meeting today, though because of the weather, not too many people showed up. Nevertheless, there were a few very interesting 'tracking' robots. Great job, everyone! For next month (March 26th) we voted on building a "Plotting (...) (14 years ago, 27-Feb-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | February 26th, 2011 SMART meeting
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Our last SMART meeting went really well! There were lots of really good robots that people built on the spot to solve the task presented! In fact, I had a couple of people comment that they would like to do something like this again on a more (...) (14 years ago, 16-Feb-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: January 29th, 2011 SMART meeting
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Last reminder about tomorrow's SMART meeting. The meeting will start at 2pm in the Michelangelo room at Digipen (located at 9931 Willows Road in Redmond). After you go through the lobby, go down the right hallway, and the room is on the left, (...) (14 years ago, 29-Jan-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Motors comparison page updated
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(...) No, purely resistive. Although it does have a "boot up" time, I think it's just due to heating up the element. I'm not completely sure if the element will respond better to a "dimmer" type set-up (running it at less than normal voltage) or a (...) (14 years ago, 15-Jan-11, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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