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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: David (43.7 seconds)
4th: Norbu (44.7 seconds)
5th: JT/Ty (1 minute 19.8 seconds)
6th: Natalia (1 minute 25.6 seconds)
7th: Alex (2 minutes 11.6 seconds)
For the intersecting, curved track (with touches to fix counted as a penalty):
1st: Kyle (49.0 seconds + a penalty)
2nd: Alex (51.6 seconds)
3rd: David (1 minute 0.1 seconds)
4th: JT/Ty (1 minute 26.4 seconds )
5th: Andrew (1 minute 30.6 seconds + 2 penalties)
Anyway, great job, everyone!
This month (March), we're meeting on the 31st, back in our normal room,
Michelangelo, which is next door to the room we met in last meeting.
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 in the corners.
Here's a picture of a previous time we did this:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/David/Shows/SMART2008/cimg1952.jpg
See you in a couple of weeks!
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David Schilling
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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, April 28th, we chose two mini-challenges. First, build a
two-legged robot that actually IS a robot: it somehow reacts to its environment,
or does something that isn't entirely mechanical. IE: It's not something that
could have the NXT replaced by a battery box.
The second challege is to build some sort of device that will be useful in a
BallMageddon contraption. A ball lifting mechanism, (which might be mechanical,
but that's okay for this!) or some other sort of device that would be useful:
arms, sorters, whatever.
See you April 28th!
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David Schilling
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