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what exactly is the purpose of a differential gear? i've got several of them, i've seen them used in various projects, but i've never quite managed to figure out what they do. ok, there. i feel much better. thank you. -- Chris "Clueless" Stanley (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Seeking Strategies on Humanoid Robots/Walkers
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-----Original Message----- From: Mike Fusion <tltpj@csd.uwm.edu> To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> Date: Monday, January 18, 1999 9:16 PM Subject: Re: Seeking Strategies on Humanoid Robots/Walkers (...) ones (...) sorry, i (...) (27 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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One more note on arithmetic... The firmware supports operations where the second operand is either a constant or a variable, but not other sources (such as input values, timers, etc). Present versions of NQC don't check this, so code like "a -= (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Speculation: Monorail, Disney, Past Coincidence?
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(...) But if I understand TLG's reasoning correctly, the act of publishing your own ideas would make those ideas unusable by TLG. Something to do with copyrights and such? So maybe you would be better off _not_ publishing all those great ideas, and (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MSP Fest?
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(...) Time to warn the employees of the Lego Imagination Center :^) Seriously, Welcome to the Twin Cities! In many ways the hunting for sets can be challenging and rewarding. There are 30+ Target stores, 6 Wal-Marts, 7 or so TRU's, numerous K-Marts (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???
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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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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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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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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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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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(...) 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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