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  • Members: 145
  • Category: Robotics
  • Founded: Mar 3, 2006
  • Language: English
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We are a loose affiliation of people interested in robots, located in the Twin Cities metro area.

We meet on the third thursday of the month at 7:00 at the Science Museum of Minnesota.

No membership dues, meeting minutes or officers. Just robots.

Our web site is: http://www.tcrobots.org

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Re: geometry wasn't my thing [1 Attachment]
... In the end you will have to either find a table or use a program to create a table since as you know the panels are not straight edged. The vector math
Posted - Mon Nov 30, 2009 4:27 am
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Re: geometry wasn't my thing
Ooh, you lost me at the vectors. :) I was hoping for something like a blueprint flat-pack with a formula for different size domes. Such as; For a 6 foot dome,
Posted - Mon Nov 30, 2009 4:17 am
 Craig & Cindy
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Re: geometry wasn't my thing
There is a whole industry around this stuff. See http://obs.nineplanets.org/obs/obslist.html for example. I whimped out and just put a modified garden shed
Posted - Mon Nov 30, 2009 3:13 am
 Kym Horsell
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Re: geometry wasn't my thing
... I'm probably the worst at math since I never had algebra it in school, however... Since the panels are flat between points you can take the distance
Posted - Mon Nov 30, 2009 3:05 am
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geometry wasn't my thing
To cut to the chase, I am entertaining the idea of making an observatory telescope tower turret built into my garage. The roof should be classic dome shape
Posted - Mon Nov 30, 2009 2:31 am
 Craig & Cindy
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2009 131 154 75 107 82 66 156 158 117 95 95
2008 176 176 152 113 156 222 68 154 189 67 112 106
2007 142 55 98 93 93 82 47 34 73 70 75 135
2006 39 37 47 34 44 30 36 33 13 79
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