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(...) snip (...) Your post reminds me of my painful memories of organic chemistry from university... Never thought it could be applicable to things other than molecules! :) -Bryan (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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(...) I don't have a problem doing that, however, I suspect very few people will find it useful. First, most people who understand how to use the code, won't have a use for it. (don't need to talk to RCXs with standard firmware) Second, most people (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) I'll have to take some small photos and post them to my Brickshelf account, and I should really include seom response curves from the various lightsensors so you can "see" what the sensor is seeing during a barcode read. (...) Hmmm. I'm not (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Oh. I'd not thought of that at all. At those angles, the shroud design and the size of the "window" the light sensor can see through get to be tougher problems. (...) It may be because a good retroreflector won't work in this situation - the (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Gus uses two ight sensors, one to follow the (left edge) of a black line on a white background, and a seperate light sensor on an "outrigger" to read the barcodes. There is no light brick, but instead both use the light sensor itself to supply (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New Faction: The Bonktrons are coming.
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(...) Still wondering what contest Rosco was referring to when I called Richie on his previous trolling, starting to suspect a pattern, and wondering as to why the frequency of these trolls and mocks seems to be increasing, I decided to go look (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Hi Steve. WoW, this sounds interesting. Will you be making the code available? I'd love to be able to do the same sort of thing, but my programming skills are laking. Thanks. Chris (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) In what way is this poor taste exactly? Ribald humour is quite an old form of humour (Chaucer springs to mind) and any child viewing it who did not know what it referred to wouldn't get it anyway (if you mean we should 'think of the (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Why? (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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I am loathe to even reply to this post as I am almost sure that Allister is deliberately trying to stir up controversy. I will be the first to say that it is in poor taste though. Way to go for exercising your right to free speech. Nathan (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) That is very cool, but a little scary. The dawn of an RCX virus. If you could then write it so it was also compatible with the other P-Bricks (like the spybotix) that would furtahr enhance it. Very, very nice. Question - if a "victim" RCX is (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Chirality
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(...) Good stuff. Seems BrickWiki fodder! I would footnote that many paired parts are not TRULY enantiomers since the logos on the studs are not reversed. But that is a very unimportant footnote since they are functionally mirrored. (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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So, I finally managed to do something that's been bugging me for a year. When we were at the state FLL tournament last year, there were several times when we had to check the batteries, to see if they were still good. To do that, Greg would take the (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) I had in mind a steeper angle - let's say 20-30°. Light sensor optics is very primitive!!! (...) Serious objection... From my laser sensor experience, I tend to think that retroreflective tape would work well, but maybe not enough to separate (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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LEGO and chirality Chirality is the property of an object that can not be superimposed on its mirror image. Examples includes both natural (biological) object such hands and cultural (technical) object such screws. A non-chiral (achiral) object can (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts) !
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(...) So, I finally sat down and figured out how the lnp state machine works in BrickOS. Turns out it was pretty easy to add in a new set of states so it can process a standard OpCode & store the parameters in variables. At this point, I'm not (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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"Brian Davis" <brdavis@iusb.edu> wrote in message news:IMI0IC.z2M@lugnet.com... (...) I'm just curious, but how much development did you do making the area where the light sensors themselves are mounted as black and light-proofed as possible to (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Are you lighting the area with a light brick, or relying on ambient illumination? I find the Lego light sensor extremely finicky in "real work" situation, and try to always shield the area from ambient and provide my own illumination. -Rob A> (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New Faction: The Bonktrons are coming.
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In lugnet.space, Allister McLaren wrote: (URL) (...) I think this is both brilliant and hilarious. What a great name "Bonktrons" is. I hope this whisks up a storm of prudish controversy, unfortunately I can't start it as I'm too grown up, (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) A-Ha! I couldn't figure this out until I realized that the axle is actually part 6587 - Technic Axle 3 with Stud. Now it makes sense! clever! -Rob A> (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Sweet work Swami! Looking very good and a nice new train base idea. Glad you've got over your builders block in such fine fashion. Now if only you could compress it into six-wide it would be even better ;) Tim PS. S-lit (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim)
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(...) Absolutely, but in any real world application there is almost always some error rate. (...) John Barnes also suggested that to me after I posted, and I'm embarassed to admit that the thought hadn't occured to me. I need to test (again), but (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) No. No. From the NQC Guide: The RCX2, Swan, and Spybotics targets support arrays (the other targets do not have suitable support in firmware for arrays). Arrays are declared the same way as ordinary variables, but with the size of the array (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) A questo proposito invito tutti gli ItLUGgers (sia i piu' attivi, sia quelli che leggono solo) ad approfittare delle offerte scontate di Mauro, come ad esempio quella per i set di Guerre Stellari con il 10% di sconto. Il buon Mauro e' (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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(URL) Deeplinks: (6 URLs) Full Gallery, post-mod: (URL) Well, it's been 5 months, and in the end, I got tired of trying to make a gearbox for this thing. The more I tried, the more frustruated I became, and as many over here have said, "If you're (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.in, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX) !!
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| | Re: New Diagrams of Basic Pneumatics Parts and Circuits
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(...) hi mark, nice to see you put so muts inset in promoting pneumatic, cant folow al the thinks you and kevin discussed becouse i need to go to school to and i have not mutch time left :( I rather had some more time to build en experiment whit (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.technic)
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The Bonktrons are a hedonistic cult devoted to nothing but the peasures of the flesh. They are fairly recent arrivals to our quadrant of the galaxy, having spent many years in exile. They were originally part of the Classic Space regime, but found (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Legofest Torino atto I --> cosa mi sono perso
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(...) Ciao, purtroppo domenica non sono potuto rimanere, in quanto dovevo partire per Londra, dove rimarro` fino a venerdi` notte. Il robotino e` un esempio di remote controller, programmato in java (usa la virtual machine LEJOS). E` possibile (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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Hi all, is it possible to display all images (of one folder) on ONE PAGE ONLY? Thank you. Saso (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Maybe this one?: Set # 261-2: VW Beetle in Transparent Showcase Packaging (URL) are two people listed on the LUGNET page as owning it. (URL) could try contacting one of them just to be sure. The drawing on the LUGNET entry page shows two VW (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) E' una buona idea. Il più è trovare una foto con tutti i partecipanti... In altri Legofest avevamo anche dato ad ogni partecipante un badge (o anche una semplice etichetta autoadesiva) con nome e cognome. Questo serve proprio per collegare i (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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(...) Per noi espositori e volontari l'ingresso è gratuito, a patto di indossare OBBLIGATORIAMENTE la maglietta che ci daranno e di essere all'ingresso entro le 9. (...) A questo punto direi proprio di sì. Ciao Mario (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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Sono d'accordissimo!!!!! Mi sono perso la metà delle associazioni nomi-volti!!!!! Se facessimo girare una foto di gruppo, dove ognuno di noi aggiunge la propria didascalia? Ciao a tutti Giuliano Samurai74 ha scritto: (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Mars mission III
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Luxembourg Science Festival Event is planned from Oct 22th to 30th. And our Mars Rover 3d edition will be a part of it. This time people out there will be able to move the robot over the Mars-environment as already known. BUT, the rover is equipped (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi guys, Anyone interested in an experiment of a self-reproducing RCX program? Then have a look at : (URL) Enjoy ! (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Threats against Minors Re: Janey's tattoo
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In lugnet.general, Kevin Blocksidge wrote: ROFLMFAO!!!!! (...) Add to that the phone number of someone in another country (which is what my case would be) and things really start sounding weird, don't they? LOL. (...) Well, *I* was planning on being (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, FTX)
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| | Arrays and functions in NQC
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Two little questions for the NQC gurus... - Is it possible to use 2-dimentionnal arrays in NQC? - Is it possible (and if yes what is the syntax) to pass an array as an inline function parameter? TIA, Philo (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) A tal proposito, visto che sono una frana nell'associare volti a nomi, mi viene un'idea malsana... che ne dite di applicare i nostri nomi ad una foto di gruppo o qualche cosa di simile? Dino (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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Hello Brian, Error correction is good, but no error is probably better... (...) This may be caused by specular reflexion on a too shiny black stripe. We had that problem during the Billund AFOL mindstorms competition, it was solved by tilting the (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thanks Teddy. I used grated floor design on my earlier ship Explorer: (URL) Offhand, I'm not sure who was the first to do it. I got the inspiration from "Aliens" and don't recall ever seeing it done with Lego. But I remember someone saying it (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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