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Jim - - - Perspective #1: As a teaching/learning tool the HB is a "real-life" micro- controller that serves as a great intro to programming embedded applications. It was designed to do just that at M.I.T. Perspective #2: As a toy for the robotics (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Communicating with Cybermaster not easy
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Hello there, I am experimenting with the Cybermaster, but is not able to get the communication line up between the PC and rcx radio tower. (I use Visual Prolog for programming). I use 2400bps 8 bit no parity 1 stopbit I am sending a byte sequence (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Just out of curiosity what does the HandyBoard do for you. Also do you have any experience with the Robolab software? Thanks for the Info Jim Clark (...) This message was sent from Bess.Net, a filtered Internet Access Provider for children and (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: slightly off topic: two questions (one of them for EE types)
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Speaking of which, I saw the train in the store the other day. I was wondering, can the RCX control the train if I hook up an output to the tracks? (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Microfig medium tug towing cargo containers [DAT]
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A microfig-scale medium tug towing two cargo containers. (1) Cheers, - Sproat 0 1 4 0 8 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 -1 0 0 3001.DAT 1 14 0 0 30 -1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 2540.DAT 1 14 0 0 -30 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2540.DAT 1 1 0 -24 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 -1 0 0 3001.DAT 0 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad.dat)
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Jim - - - We don't home school, but we do home supplement public school with 12-15 hours a week of in-depth study. I started my 10 and 11 year old boys on MindStorms in November. The older boy had experience with Logo and QBASIC, the younger had no (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Cool! me too! (Actually, my wife has been getting on my case lately because I've been "pilfering" some of the kids' LEGO stuff to experiment, so I'm going to need to get more of my own.) (...) One of the cleverest ideas I saw for a steering (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Microfig-scale heavy tug [DAT]
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Hey all, The final tug in my microfig collection is a heavy tug. As it doesn't accelerate very well, this craft is used mainly to pull extremely massive loads between spacedocks when time isn't an issue. This is at the same scale as before. Note the (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad.dat)
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| | Microfig-scale medium tug [DAT]
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Hey y'all, Here's a larger zero-g tug, suitable for towing small and medium-ships ships between shipyards. Four of these are used in unison to pull the large battleships from spacedock into the open void. Same scale as the previous tug. The (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad.dat)
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| | Microfig-scale zero-g worksled / small tug [DAT]
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Hey folks, Here's a sneak-peek of a new microfig-scale Lego model theme I'm working on. This particular model is a zero-g worksled / small tug. (1) For a rough scale, a single 1 x 1 plate would be 3 meters square (or 9 square meters). The tiny blob (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad.dat)
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| | Re: IrDA anyone ?
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Hello My name is Jin Sato, One of Japanese MindStorms mania. I have to apologize my English is limited. (Japanese is mother tongue) BTW. On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:02:02 +0000 "Kin W. Lau" <kin.lau@ic.ac.uk> wrote: Actually. we created program for (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I made a wheel that could roll sideways. That way you don't have to raise and lower the turn wheel. Check out "Curvy1" at (URL) It needs some refinement, but the idea works. Bill Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36ac7ccf.83855140@l...et.com>... (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Of course I'm THE Tim. I might just not be THE Tim you are thinking of. Which is Who? Tim Followups set to lugnet.odd-topic.fun (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.storage)
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Alex I read your message and went to your web page and looked at your desigh and was wondering if you (or anyone else) can help me with resources for building robots for my 16 year old son. We Home school and are about to start using mindstorms for (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: FOTW: Stash of old sets in Brighton, Mass., U.S.A.
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(...) Ave. (...) Is there anybody in the aera who would buy and ship for me ? (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) Can someone explain just what amway is? I'm not familiar with the name... Jasper (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) *shudder* Despite my not-quite-purist's outlook, cutting Legos up if the thing you make are already available otherwise just freaks me out :) well, I just recently ordered some Service sets: 2 gear sets, 2 small beam sets, 2 axle sets, and two (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Using motors without a power source.
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(...) In this case one motor is being used as a generator and the other as a motor, correct? You aren't powering both motors. I think its neat, but don't understand the use of it in the context of 4wd. The differential is much smaller then two (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Using motors without a power source.
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I'm new to this group so I don't know if this idea has been mentioned but here it is: First, I connect the two motors in the MindStorms kit together with a wire and nothing else. Below is a crude ASCII art representation: ***...*** ***...*** * * (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: FOTW: Stash of old sets in Brighton, Mass., U.S.A.
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(...) OOPS -- that's Brookline, not Brighton!!! --Todd (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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