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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!
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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:
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Here's a picture of a previous time we did this:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/David/Shows/SMART2008/cimg1952.jpg
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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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