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...
Maze navigation might be a good one. You could define the walls of the maze with black tape instead of using some vertical walls. Whichever robot navigates the...
... Tim, Line following is interesting, because it's totally different from Sumo. It can require more complex programming. One contest that we did once was a...
... Another way to do this is the way Chibots does it, where the black represents the path you can follow. The, the robot is trying to follow the line, not...
... Tim, Line following is interesting, because it's totally different from Sumo. It can require more complex programming. One contest that we did once was a...
Tim, My young daughter enjoys programming her bots to dance. Maybe a fun little dance contest with music? I know, not such a technical theme, but a lot of...
Steve, A combo sumo/line follower is a freaky idea. I can see where a lot of conflicting constraints would come into play. The Indy 5.00 race looks really...
Clendon, Yes, that's essentially what the Chibots line following contests do. Their setups are made with 12" "tiles" of track for robots to follow: ...
Christi, That's a cool idea. I keep forgetting that not everyone who does Mindstorms is an engineer geek like myself. There are lots of neat art and music...
All, The next Austin TexLUG meeting will be this Sunday, December 11. It's been a little quiet lately in TexLUG land, so come on out and show off what you've...
Folks, Attending the 12/11 TexLUG Austin meeting were: Kurt Baty Lee Rahe Tim Rueger Ed Southerland Kurt stopped in briefly on a trip back from Houston ...
Folks, My wife and I will be traveling 12/29 to 1/9, so I won't be attending the TexLUG Austin meeting on Sunday, 1/8. (I tried to find an alternate venue...
I have been wanting a UCS Y-Wing lego model. So I put that on my watch list for BrikLink. There is a seller in Germany who has set his price at $79.99. Since...
All, The next Austin TexLUG meeting will be this Sunday, March 12. It's been a few months since we've gotten together, so come on out and show off what you've...
Folks, Attending the 3/12 TexLUG Austin meeting were: Louis Davis Lee Rahe Tim Rueger Ed Southerland Ed brought a few more of his custom minifigs, but most of...
All, The next Austin TexLUG meeting will be this coming Sunday, April 9. Come on out and show off what you've been working on! If you have questions about...
Folks, The Austin chapter of the Texas Lego Users Group (TexLUG) is holding a robotic line following contest on June 11, 2006. In this line following contest,...
All, Today's the day the folks in the NXT developer's program were released from NDA, so there's lots of new information being released. I've been following...
All, 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 house...
All, This Sunday's TexLUG Austin meeting is cancelled. The robotic line follower contest scheduled for 6/11 has been postponed. Look for an announcement here...
Is there a TexLUG Austin meeting tomorrow? Per the First Lego League website, the only remaining tournament in Texas this year is in December in Amarillo....
Hi, Sorry to have missed this earlier, I'm out of town on vacation right now. There was no meeting yesterday. I haven't set up any TexLUG Austin meetings...
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