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Re: March 31st, 2012 SMART Meeting
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Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:57:29 GMT
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Just a friendly reminder that the next SMART meeting is this Saturday at 2pm in
the Michelangelo room at Digipen.

The mini-challenge is Easter Egg Hunt. See below for a reminder of the details.
BTW: the walls are a fraction over 2" high.

See you in a few days!

--
  David Schilling

> The mini-challenge we decided on was Easter Egg Hunt. Build a robot that can
> find and dump the little foil-wrapped chocolate Easter eggs from Hershey. Here
> are what they look like, with some bricks for size in the second & third
> pictures:
> 
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/David/SMART/Samples/Arenas/hersheysbag.jpg
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/David/SMART/Samples/Arenas/groupofeggs.jpg
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/David/SMART/Samples/Arenas/oneegg.jpg
> 
> The arena will be a white bottom, 4'x8' rectangle, with 2" high walls. Robots
> should somehow pick up the eggs (taking care not to unwrap them), and drop them
> over the wall, preferably at the corners.
> 
> Here's a picture of a previous time we did this:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/David/Shows/SMART2008/cimg1952.jpg



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  Re: March 31st, 2012 SMART Meeting
 
We had our meeting on Saturday, and while the turnout wasn't as big as a couple of the previous meetings, we had a number of really cool Easter egg collecting robots, and some new people showing up to check out what we do. For our next meeting, (...) (15 years ago, 3-Apr-12, to lugnet.org.us.smart)

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  March 31st, 2012 SMART Meeting
 
We had a great meeting last Saturday, with lots of really good line-tracking robots. The people there voted to do the line tracking competitively, so here are the results: For a straight line: 1st: Kyle (34.9 seconds) 2nd: Rose (36.5 seconds) 3rd: (...) (15 years ago, 1-Mar-12, to lugnet.org.us.smart)

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