All, Laura asked me to handle coordinating a creations display at the event. If you're going to volunteer, bring by your latest MOC ("My Own Creation" for ...
Folks, Come on by the next Austin TexLUG meeting this coming Sunday. (And yes, it *is* on Mother's Day. Show your Mom you love her by getting out of the...
All, Attending the 5/8 Texlug Austin meeting were: Kurt Baty Ed Southerland Tim Rueger A low-key meeting this time (the weather was highly inclement, and it ...
Folks, Two small changes have been made to the sumo robot contest rules: 1) Robolab has been added among the allowed programming languages. This was largely...
Folks, Come on by the next Austin TexLUG meeting Sunday, June 12. We'll be holding our Lego Mindstorms Robotic Sumo Contest, so bring your 'bot(s) and we'll...
Folks, Attending the 6/12 Texlug Austin meeting were: Kurt Baty David Perdue Lee Rahe Tim Rueger and many assorted others (see below) We held the first TexLUG...
Folks, Come on by the next Austin TexLUG meeting Sunday, July 10. Bring your latest creations, or share some tips on where you've gotten good deals lately -...
Folks, Attending the 7/10 TexLUG Austin meeting were: Danny Diaz Clendon Gibson Laura Hayden James Loftus David Perdue Ed Southerland Tim Rueger and others Ed...
Folks, There will not be an Austin TexLUG meeting this coming Sunday. I'll be at BrickFest in DC this weekend, and I'm still arranging new reservations for...
Folks, Where to begin? My first Brickfest was an exhausting, frustrating, totally fun affair. I won't give a diary of what happened to me when (even if I...
Tim, Thanks for the update. Are you planning another sumobot competition in October? We had a pretty busy summer and my son is back in school. Instead of a...
Wade, Yes, we are planning another competition for the October TexLUG meeting at NI, currently set for October 9-10. The building theme for the big layout will...
All, The rule set for the October 9 TexLUG sumo robot contest may be found here: http://www.io.com/~rueger/lego/texlugaustin/sumo2005-2/ May the best bot win! ...
All, The next Austin TexLUG meeting will be this Sunday, the 11th of September. I'll be showing some of my photos from Brickfest 2005. I took over 600 shots,...
... Tim, I'm sorry I didn't really have a chance to check out your sumo robot at BrickFest. Actually, I didn't have time to do much of anything outside of the...
... Steve, After the October TexLUG meeting, I'll be posting details of my Brickfest sumobot and the one I'm building for the October meeting's sumo contest....
Hey, Y'all, The fall Texlug meeting is a week from today! Woo-hoo! http://www.texlug.org/fall2005.html Anyone making a "castle attacked by catapult(s)" GBC...
All, The fall meeting of TexLUG has been moved. Instead of this coming Saturday and Sunday at National Instruments, it will be held this coming Sunday 10/9,...
All, Here's a recap of last Sunday's TexLUG meeting in Austin. Our building theme was castle; we also put up a Great Ball Contraption and held a robotic sumo...
All, Per Steve H.'s request, I've posted photos and notes on my Brickfest05 Super-Mega Sumobot: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=151065 It's not...
The Texas book festival is sponsering a number of events downtown this halloween weekend. Of particular interest to the lego group is David Perdue who will be...
Does anyone know if a RCX can be programmed with NQC and the RIS code at the same time? For example, could I put NQC code in program slot 1 and RCX code in ...
... Yes, you can. NQC compiles to the same type of code as the RCX code. Anything that uses the standard firmware is interchangable. RoboLab programs can...
Folks,, Due to an event conflict at the Little Walnut Creek library, there will be no TexLUG Austin meeting this coming Sunday. Our next scheduled time is...
Folks, I'm looking for good ideas for future robotics contests. The sumo contests have been a lot of fun, and we can keep doing those, but I'm thinking we...