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Here is our new sound localizing robot called Nic_3. It is capable of fixing the azimuth of a sound source that is located in the horizontal plane. The localizing process is done using the stereo audio amplifier that we already used with Nic_1 and (...) (16 years ago, 1-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Go Team Hassenplug! PSumo at Brickfair
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Congrats to Steve Hassenplug on the mention at (URL) Programmable Sumo Robots with LEGO MINDSTORMS at Brickfair For all the details see (URL) Tormod Askildsen (Head of LEGO Community Development) got in on the action :) RFID Sensors available at (...) (16 years ago, 5-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Go Team Hassenplug! PSumo at Brickfair
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(...) That's very cool!! Almost like using pre-programmed building blocks in a computer (like Visual-Orieneted Programming), but instead..on cards! How cool would it be for TLG to see "NXT motion packs" like trading cards? TLG could make an NXT (...) (16 years ago, 5-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Asking for RIS 2.0 patch under Windows XP
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Hi all, If your RIS 2.0 freezes under Windows XP when it tries to detect the USB IR tower, install this patch : (URL) View this message in context: (URL) from the LEGO Robotics mailing list archive at Nabble.com. (16 years ago, 6-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Help locating RIS 2.0 and updating from 1.5
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Hi all, My Mindstorms kit has been gathering dust for sometime but I just unpacked it (my daughter is now old enough to join in). However I'm having loads of grief trying to run it under XP. I read that RIS2.0 supports XP and the brick can be (...) (16 years ago, 7-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Help locating RIS 2.0 and updating from 1.5
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Have you tried (URL)? (16 years ago, 7-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: Help locating RIS 2.0 and updating from 1.5
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Many thanks to John who pointed me to a torrent site. (...) (16 years ago, 7-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Help locating RIS 2.0 and updating from 1.5
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What's the url for the torrent site? Thanks! -- Perry (...) (16 years ago, 10-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Primer on writing NXT-G blocks?
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Please pardon if this is a FAQ. I thought I would write some simple NXT-G blocks, but couldn't google up anything that looked like a HowTo on the topic. I've downloaded the SDK material, etc. What I'm really looking for is a simple "hello world" (...) (16 years ago, 13-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Primer on writing NXT-G blocks?
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(...) Dave, While I don't know of anything like that, all the blocks on my page are unlocked, so you can check them out. (URL) that helps Steve (16 years ago, 14-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Primer on writing NXT-G blocks?
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Right now I don't know of any better resource than just looking at examples like Steve's. However, there is a book I wrote titled "LabVIEW for LEGO MINDSTORMS" that will be out this Fall that contains a primer on writing NXT-G blocks as well as (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Primer on writing NXT-G blocks?
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(...) Thanks for the input, guys. Right now I'm stuck waiting for NI to act on my request for the student edition of LabVIEW -- they don't seem to be very speedy. How long do they usually take? -dave (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | AW: Primer on writing NXT-G blocks?
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Well, they sometimes need to be inquired after a while - in my case, I never got an answer to my first request. Only when having asked about it on some "informal" channel, they sent it rather quickly. But that's just my personal experience and (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: PnP, an NXT-based "industrial" robot
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Brian, This is a nice robot. Ive not been on RTL for a bit (computer angst) but this was a nice video and robot to watch. Keep up the good work Regards Chris (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: PnP, an NXT-based "industrial" robot
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(...) Thank you. Like I said, you guys (rtl) are at least partially responsible (or to blame) for this, so I thought I'd flag it your way. (...) Well, speaking of computer angst, I only realized after the fact that PnP can literally push it's own (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: PnP, an NXT-based "industrial" robot
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(...) Nah. Pressing the OFF button is OK. It's when it starts pressing the ON button that you have to worry. That's why one of my personal rules is "the deadlier the robot, the shorter the extension cord." BTW, not only is the 'bot nice, simple and (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Sample Chapter of LEGO NXT Mechatronics Book Available
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Hi All, I've just updated a sample chapter of the LEGO NXT Mechatronics:Intelligent Machine Concepts book I'm writing to my blog. <http:www.family-sci...Blog.htm>. My goal is have the manuscript completed by the end of the year. Enjoy!!! Don W. (16 years ago, 19-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Ordering custom-cut plastic gears for Legos
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I've seen web pages about Lego clocks such as this one: (URL) it want it to be my hobby to make a clock out of Legos. I'm trying to copy a foreign clock and I'm waiting to get contacted back with info about the number of teeth for every gear. Lego (...) (16 years ago, 26-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Ordering custom-cut plastic gears for Legos
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(...) And 12, and 14, and 20, and 36, and then there's that worm-gear. And that's not even getting into the old-style gears, or that odd 4-tooth knob gear (though that's really only useful with other 4-tooth knob gears, so it doesn't really help (...) (16 years ago, 27-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Slope Brick 1x1
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(...) Indeed. I make it 31 degrees. Tim (16 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Ordering custom-cut plastic gears for Legos
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(...) One problem is that changing teeth number also change gear diameter... and you will run into some troubles with LEGO grids. Philo (16 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Slope Brick 1x1
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(...) ...but if you look at the overall slope of the part, it is closer to 38 degrees. Philo (16 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Slope Brick 1x1
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(...) So what name do we give this piece? Slopebrick 33, 45 or rather 38? (16 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: need to make a 15 degree angle
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(...) It doesn't need to be exact, just repeatable. I need to make an armature of 4 or 5 successive 15degree "turns" to support some panels that are making sort of a jointed arc. I'll give the technic pieces a try. Almost jumped for joy at Nick (...) (16 years ago, 1-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: need to make a 15 degree angle
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(...) Further measurements show that connector #3 is 22.5 degrees - this means you can use these to make a jointed 90 degree arc with 5 panels (the ends would be perpendicular to each other). Would this meet your design requirement? (16 years ago, 2-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: need to make a 15 degree angle
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(...) The arc in question only covers 75degrees (5 panels, the first starting at a 15 degree angle). i managed to make it effectively with the suggestion of triangles out of technic pieces. triangles made of two 1X6 technic bricks and one 1X2 brick (...) (16 years ago, 2-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: need to make a 15 degree angle
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Here is the finished frame. (URL) you look at the other pictures in the photostream for the ship (yeah, it's a spaceship) you'll see the paneling on the frame and a mockup of what the paneling looked like on the ship before i had a frame. The (...) (16 years ago, 2-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | LEGO RCX (Line & Light Follower) & NXT (Fighter)
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Hi all, I just upload two articles of three LEGO robots I've made, 2 RCX able to follow a light and a line, and one NXT to fight sumo. Right now I've just "clean" the code of the line follower, as soon as I'll make the other code available I'll post (...) (16 years ago, 3-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LEGO RCX (Line & Light Follower) & NXT (Fighter)
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(...) Philo (16 years ago, 3-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | CAD and FIRST Lego League (FLL)
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Hello again all, It's been awhile since I've frequented these parts, but I thought I would throw this out there anyway and see if anyone could help me. I teach CAD at a Community College in Southern California. Our Electronics Department Head is (...) (16 years ago, 8-Oct-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Help vintage 1093 Interface A
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samurai74 ha scritto: (...) > (...) Prova a guardare questo: (URL) (16 years ago, 8-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Group needing help with a sumo event
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I had a rather out-of-the blue request recently, and thought I'd toss it out to the community at large. A women from the National Society of Black Engineers got in touch with me about making sumo rings for them: they have six events scattered around (...) (16 years ago, 8-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events)
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| | Is it normal that my local FLL knows nothing about AFOLs?
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OK, so I got roped into going to a meeting of a fledgling Robotics League in Orange County, California. They invited me because one of the founders of the League knew I was into Lego. There were several FIRST and FLL coaches, mentors,and club (...) (16 years ago, 11-Oct-08, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.edu, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Odin, a robot for odometry
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(URL) A robot able to move around along pre-defined paths, and keep an estimation of its position from encoders in its wheels and central pivot. (URL) Its mechanical structure allows it to go straight with 4 fixed direction wheels, and to turn (...) (16 years ago, 15-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: Odin, a robot for odometry
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(...) Very nice work,... as usual ;-) (Noblesse oblige!) -Claude (16 years ago, 15-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | A date has been set for the next Ontario Lego Robotics event
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THE CAN GAME! Summary Build a robot made completely out of Lego parts that can find and retain a can. The robot with the heaviest can at the end of the round wins. Date and Time Sat 24-Jan-2009 10:00 AM - 04:30 PM Location New Toronto Library Alex (...) (16 years ago, 16-Oct-08, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.ca.on, FTX)
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| | How to get a RCX1.0 working these days?
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Hi! I have tried to get my old (old? It was the first one in Austria!) RCX 1.0 working again, but didn't succeed. After all these years, the firmware seems to be gone, it doesn't even run the on-board programs... I tried to install the original (...) (16 years ago, 22-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: How to get a RCX1.0 working these days?
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(...) I suggest you use NQC with BricxCC ((URL) Since your tower is serial, you should not need to install any other software. Though it is not VB, it is nonetheless very easy to learn. Firmware file is on LEGO CD-rom, but it would be better to use (...) (16 years ago, 23-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: How to get a RCX1.0 working these days?
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(...) Thanx for your answer, I'll definitely look into that. But I just discovered Robolab, from TLG itself. Does that work (RCX1.0 on XP or Vista), and if yes, does it have Firmware coming with it? A few years ago I worked a bit with LabView at the (...) (16 years ago, 23-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: How to get a RCX1.0 working these days?
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(...) Robolab comes with the RCX firmware and I agree it will probably be a lot easier to grasp for your son than NXC/NBC. The advantage of the latter though is that it is completely free. Since you have a serial tower you'll need to load whatever (...) (16 years ago, 24-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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