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(...) Sitting back watching, I have to delurk and make the point that in ROBOLAB 2.5.4 there is a new function called "Upload RCX Code". With this function you can download someones "spagetti" code to an RCX and then upload it back to your computer (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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Any fanatics out there in the Denver area interested in making a little extra cash while promoting our favorite hobby? If so, e-mail me directly. I can't be completely open about it just yet, but I know of a store in the "Denver area" related to my (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.loc.us.co)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 Problems - Low Level Languages?
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(...) Or if you really wanna reduce the memory use, compile your program as firmware that you can send using firmdl3 (like the BrickOS kernel itself, or LDCC). Although I must admit that BrickOS, if you use the kernel compile defines, can be made (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Total Perspective Vortex
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(...) I thought that it was powered off a piece of Angel Food Cake (that Arthur later ate...) -Scott Lyttle (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Wanted to trade: 6090 Royal Knight's Castle for Mindstorms.
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(...) Geoff, Do you mean the Brick processor with the power jack? The only brick with the power jack is the RIS 1.0 (not sure about RIS 1.5). I can confirm that RIS 2.0 doesn't have a power jack. RIS 2.0 uses a USB infrared tower. The RIS 1.0 uses (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Comments wanted: Plans for easier parts authoring
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I have now given Blender a good test, and I am hooked. The user interface is a bit weird at first, but it grows on you, and I expect it to be quite easy to use once I get the hang of it. The software features are perfect for this: GNU Free software (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 Problems - Language war in 32k RAM
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(...) No no no... Real programmers don't use guns because we don't believe violence actually solves anything. (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) So nice to hear that, and I actually care quite a lot! I have used Lego quite a lot myself to teach computer graphics. Not CAD as such, but 3D modeling, animation and programming. Swedish M Sc students have often grown up with a large pile of (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) *CERTAINLY NOT* I'm horrified that you would think that. A real programmer has to find out which end of the soldering iron gets hot by 'the experimental method' (ouch!). Soldering irons are *hardware* and no real programmer would want to be (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 Problems - Low Level Languages?
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(...) You could certainly use assembler (and presumably hex) using brickOS but I don't think it's possible with the standard firmware. Of course a true 'Real Programmer' would just dump the firmware altogether and write to the bare metal. (...) (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What if.....
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(...) Its funny that you mention articulation, as that was sort of the resion why I came up with this idea. Here is a picture that shows why. (URL) some of you know my TGV is a 10ft long articulated train. I wanted to make the cars for my TGV longer (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 Problems - Language war in 32k RAM
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(...) That's true - but NQC is eminently usable. (...) For those who don't catch that reference: (URL) (real programmers even don't use assemblers but code directly in hex) (I actually have keyed a short program into a PDP-11 using the front panel (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Poor man's Supercar wheels
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(...) Beside the color, what is the difference between this part: (URL) and this part: (URL) ? - David (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) (URL) (...) (URL) (...) (URL) (...) Just wonderful!!, I love them all, specially the shovel. (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) How big is the box? Is it bigger than the Backhoe's one? FWIW last year I bought 3 8386s and I paid 69EUR for air shipping. That was before 8386 became available in NA. The 8386 box is the same length & width as Backhoe's, only thinner. I (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 Problems - Low Level Languages?
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Mark, Try this (...) --- Mark Bellis <mark.bellis@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: (...) ___...___ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web (URL) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 Problems - Low Level Languages?
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(...) Sure, that can be done. Take a look at brickOS. With brickOS as operating system you can write your programs with gcc. So you can write c, or mix c with assembler via asm{} or you could write plain asm routines. (...) But you have to learn H8 (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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Mix four of these: (URL) four of these: (URL) you get a nice wheel that is the same width and heigth as the 8448 wheels. They only difference is the tires are not as low profile as the 8448. But here is the cool part, if you have the 8653 set, you (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: wanted: water fall ideas.......please
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Here's a picture of my snotifall: (URL) sure there's more pictures out there somewhere. I haven't managed to post any myself. The basic construction is a backing of blue plates, with smaller blue plates staggered around to increase texture, and then (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 Problems - Low Level Languages?
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(...) Reminds me of BBC micros, where the most useful BASIC command was the open square bracket to go into assembler! Do you have facilities to program the RCX in assembler or hex? I'm interested in a lower level language so that I don't have to (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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