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October 27th, 2012 SMART meeting
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lugnet.org.us.smart
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Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:38:52 GMT
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First, a tremendous thank-you to all the people who helped with robots at
BrickCon last weekend! Mark’s fine balancing robots were very cool to watch, and
Gus’ shooting gallery always had a line of people wanting to try it out, and his
Ranat player kept people entertained. But also a special thank you to Andrew,
and Alex. Andrew NXT-ified a wonderful LEGO mini-fig that waved at people coming
by, and greeted them, and Alex had a cool dancing robot (sadly the only on
there) and a very interesting vehicle with large wheels that people could try.
At our last meeting we voted on building a “target acquisition” robot. Build a
robot that can find a target. You could either make this a shooting target, or a
moving vehicle that finds a target. Especially cool would be a robot that
acquires a moving target, whether shooting, or catching.
Make sure, if you build a shooting robot, that it is safe. We don’t want to hurt
anyone, or damage the facilities. So nothing that shoots anything dangerous, or
that shoots its projectiles too fast, or too high (remember the ceiling!)
To make sure that your robot is actually a robot, and not a mechanical device,
you should build it so that someone else can place the target, and your robot
will still be able to acquire it!
See you in two weeks!
--
David Schilling
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