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In lugnet.robotics, Justin Fisher wrote: <snip> (...) When I was a mentor for a local FLL team, I was so hard pressed to convince the kids that 'dead reconing' wasn't the way to go. THey had the entire program coded like 'go straight for 10 seconds, (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Pedant On As far as I can tell from looking at pics of the web of the Hogwarts Express the coaches are painted in the standard BR maroon livery of the '60s. In which case the twin yellow pinstripes actually have a black line between them, (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) The profile of the coaches used in the film (BR Mk1) is actually pretty much a constant large radius curve down the whole side. Newer designs of British coaches have a different profile with a far sharper curve at the bottom. (URL) This (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: turtle coding kit (Re: How would we (the rest of us) communicate ideas to the MDP?)
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(...) I'd go further than that - I may be wrong here, but AFAIK professional roboticists largely consider dead reckoning to be a losing game, an amateur red-herring that you can waste all the time and money you want on and it will still never work (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That's the exact configuration I had, down to the axle joiners :) Problem is, the spacing is too far--it doesn't grip the brick. It's like as if it needs an extra millimeter of diameter on each wheel. I might 'cheat' and put some rubber bands (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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If I have two 'bots that start in 1x1x1 cu ft, and both have transfer openings, and at the word 'start', these two 'bots separate and go about their business... At the end of 3-5 minutes, do blocks in each 'bot count together, or separate? Dave K (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang wrote: <snip> (...) thanks! (...) If I recall correctly (and everyone knows that my memory is oft faulty)... Wheel-- (URL) axle extenders on technic motors, put 2L axle in the extenders, attach the wheels and (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Jonah Goldberg mentioned this today on National Review Online's blog, (URL) The Corner>. Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.western, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) I enjoy these blogs, btw. I've been trying to build a block cannon and one of the problems was getting the blocks to slide down the channel properly. I will set up a blog page for mine tonight. Has anyone figured out a good spacing and choice (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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My first thought seeing this was "Mmmmmm.....Brickwars" -plucky (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.starwars)
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