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Announcing the Seattle Mindstorms and Robotic Techies
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lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea, lugnet.loc.us.wa.tac, lugnet.org.us.sealug, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.technic
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Tue, 12 Dec 2000 23:44:44 GMT
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After the November 6th "Workshop 3D LEGO RCX Challenge" in Seattle, Gus
Jansson and I decided it was time to start a LEGO Robot specific group in
this area. Well, it's about a month later, and we're through talking, time
for some action!
So this is to announce the formation of the "Seattle Mindstorms And Robotic
Techies", more conveniently refered to as SMART! We will be having our
first meeting on Sunday January 28th, 2001, at the Bellevue Public Library,
Room 3, from 2-5pm. Anyone interested in building robots out of LEGO, and
LEGO Mindstorms in particular is invited to attend.
Basic charter of the group:
We are a group of LEGO Mindstorms and LEGO Technic enthusiasts in the
Seattle Eastside area. We will maintain a mailing list and have
semi-regular meetings (probably every other month) somewhere on the
Eastside. Meetings will provide an opportunity for members to show off
their Lego creations to other enthusiasts, ask questions on programming and
construction, and will focus around a small, low pressure Lego Mindstorms
challenge.
The main reason for these challenges or competitions is to bring a focus to
the meetings. Anyone may suggest an event to attempt for the next meeting.
(We'll try to be as fair as possible, and let everyone have a chance to do
so.) Most of the attendees will have had a chance to at least think about
how to build a robot for the event, and hopefully a number of them will have
attempted to design and build a robot to compete. Besides being fun, this
will give everyone something specific to discuss. Note that there is no
requirement, and indeed no pressure whatever to complete a robot. It's just
for fun, and a meeting focal point. One more practical use for these mini
challenges may be used to try out certain ideas for bigger competitions like
those hosted by Workshop 3D.
There will be no fees and no officers.
First meeting:
1 Introductions.
2 Show and Tell.
3 First mini challenge.
The first mini challenge is to build a robot that follows the left edge of a
(minimum 6") wide black line. No turn will be greater than 90 degrees.
Don't worry about having a super refined or super fast robot. Remember this
is to learn, and for discussion. Bring any other robots you wish to show as
well.
We hope that if you are in the area, and interested in LEGO robots and
Mindstorms, that you'll be able to make it.
--
David Schilling
Note to Todd Lehman: Can you set up a group for us on LUGNET? Perhaps
lugnet.org.us.smart?
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