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Jasper Janssen writes: > On Thu, 31 Dec 1998 19:53:26 GMT, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Russell > Nelson) wrote: > > >Did you *tell* it which year it was?? > > > >Then why do you think it cares?? > > It's a microcontroller. Therefore it has an internal (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Multiple FAQ's (was CFD: lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) Stop with the flame bait, you silly lad. (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Older Dacta Community Vehicles IS still available at Kaplan
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Cool. Did they give you a free street sweeper? I got one per set when I got my last 2 copies of this set, back in June of last year, to make up for the fact that "the set isn't complete" but near as I could tell, they were. (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Attention Lugnet Philosophers! A quandry....
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(...) There is a thread about this on RTL at the mo too. I think if you went for complete completeness, you'd have to get each set of the theme in every different package (that is, language) it was ever released in. And even the most fanatical of (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: MSP Fest?
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Well, what do you know? I may be in MN soon after all. I've got my new assignments, I will be supporting two projects and one of them is in MSP. Watch this space. ++Lar (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Seeking Strategies on Humanoid Robots/Walkers
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take a look at this guy's page, he has some great ideas on walkers even ones that shift weight from foot to foot. if i remember correctly he has one with an ankle... m. -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (27 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 6462: Aerial Recovery
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(...) hehe... Sounds like future eBay fodder. I did build an ERC, but just barely could I do it and I only built one. It came apart the next day. Oops, I mean I took it apart the next day. Yeah, that's it... :) I seriously thought about a parts (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: local target update
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Nicole Dente wrote in message <36291C36.151B@heron.mv.com>... (...) I took a trip up to Pheasant Lane Mall today, since a) I was bored, and b) I hadn't been up there in quite a while. According to the nice wall up in the mall, they say their target (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Expression limitations w/bytecode
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Kekoa Proudfoot writes: > Or see NQC, as Dave Baum pointed out. For my current project, I'll do that. :-) > You do not have to resort to replacement firmware unless you really want > to. Coming from programming some of the 68hc11 boards, I find that (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Expression limitations w/bytecode
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Dave Baum writes: > The firmware does support basic arithmetic operations. You can use them > in NQC like this... Ah, my mistake. I had tried something like "if (a - b > 20)" using NQC, and it failed. I referred to the docs, and my read of the (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???
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(...) bug, I (...) left (...) or (...) different (...) Well, those of us who are using the RCX for mission critical applications can't be too careful. -Allen PS: I just finished my Lego open-heart surgeon, I'll post pictures in a few days. -- Did (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???
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A more likey reason for a crash is that people will actually believe all these predictions that the markey will crash and try to convert everything to cash. Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36a3cf2e.46618061@l...et.com>... ... (...) ... (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Expression limitations w/bytecode
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(...) The supplied programming environment does not allow you to subtract one sensor value from another, but the bytecode interpreter does. See: (URL) see NQC, as Dave Baum pointed out. You do not have to resort to replacement firmware unless you (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???
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(...) What do you mean by "internal clock?" You seem to indicate that the microcontroller inside the RCX somehow knows the date. It does not. The only "clock" inside the microcontroller is a counter that counts cycles. It starts at zero when you (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: MiniFig Ponderings?
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(...) I wouldn't consider these to be strictly Town Jrish they do have their uses. Consider A Modular building (Like the big Ninja fort) that you want to be able to clip together. You might design a clip that consists of a paired 2X1 brick with Peg (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: FLASHING LIGHT ON LCD PANEL?
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(...) The simplest solution is to reload the firmware. You can use the Lego software to do this. I'm almost positive you can reset if from inside NQC, but since I don't use NQC, I can't give you sample code. -Kekoa (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???
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This is getting way out of hand... (...) If it doesn't know what year it is, then it can't have a Y2K problem! And even if it would know about the year, and even if there was a Y2K bug, I don't think it would matter much. In the worst case, your (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???
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(...) No, just because it has a microcontroller in it doesn't mean it will stop working in 2000. Russell is absolutely right. If it doesn't know what the year is (you never tell it) it doesn't know when Y2K is going to happen. There are too many (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Expression limitations w/bytecode
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(...) The firmware does support basic arithmetic operations. You can use them in NQC like this... int a, b; task main { a = IN_1; b = IN_1; b -= a; } Dave p.s. As a side note, NQC does not support stuff like "a=b+c", but this is due to concurrency (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Expression limitations w/bytecode
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As I understand it, the bytecode interpreter doesn't allow you to do fairly simple things like subtract two variables from each other. That makes doing comparisions between sensors somewhat challenging if you want to know the magnitude of the (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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