 | | Wal-Mart Happiness
|
|
Hey all, Well, pursuant to Sun Yun's heads-up about Service Merchandise, I'm posting my find of the day at a NJ Wal-Mart--it turns out they've got a ton of Insectoid ships (6919 and 6969) and 6582s on clearance. 6919 (Planetary Prowler) is $10.50, (...) (27 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
|
| |
| | Re: Micro Scout
|
|
(...) Sapevo già che il Micro Scout è molto limitato, e anche che Dennis è particolarmente infastidito (giustamente) dall'R2D2 "lobotomizzato". Però c'é chi è riuscito ad "interfacciare" il Micro Scout con l'RCX via sensore di luce, e c'è sempre la (...) (27 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
|
| |
| | crane with multitasking motor
|
|
hi everyone. just thought I would announce my lego crane, also submitted to the mindstorms web site. I've taken lots of pictures & written a long description at (URL) is a very complex and sophisticated crane with four independent functions and two (...) (27 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
| |
| | IR Interface for RCX and Sony Commander RM-AV2000
|
|
Does anybody know what kind of signal comes out of the RCX unit? What I want to try is to control the RCX unit via my Sony Commander. To read more about the Sony Commander go here. (URL) guess I'm trying to figure out if this is even possible. Can I (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
| |
| | Service Merchandise Sale
|
|
Hello all, I was at a Service Merchandise in New Jersey the other day and noticed that their entire Lego section was on sale. Generally the prices were about 10% off what you would normally see at TRU. This included a lot of the newer sets like Star (...) (27 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
|
| |
| | RE: robotic rovers
|
|
Ian Warfield wrote: > Incidentally, has anyone tried to combine a rotation sensor and a touch sensor > on the same input? I've tried programming a sensor task routine to separate > the input signals based on RAW voltage but it's not fast enough to (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
| |
| | Robots Design LEGO Structures All By Themselves
|
|
Evolution, until now the unchallenged domain of living organisms, may soon become possible for robots as well. So say computer scientists at Brandeis University, where a simple computer-based form of evolution -- nature's own design strategy -- has (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
| |
| | Re: touch sensors aren't just switches (was Re: ideas for a RIS 2.0
|
|
Any motion between two hard surfaces, including sliding metal on metal (often called contact wiping), creates intermittent contact that has to be "debounced". The only switches that don't bounce are mercury-wetted contacts, such as one used to find (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
| |
| | Re: Space Shuttles in 6339 and 6544
|
|
Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:37C6E2DC.6576E9...ger.net... (...) I put the stickers on mine, and if you want to have a complete fleet (I like how that rhymes), pick the current Idea book. It has stickers for number 1. Dave (27 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Climbing robot?
|
|
(...) Well, my initial thought is that a simple climber is one that has an inchworm-style motion - open upper gripper, extend the upper half, close upper gripper, release lower gripper, contract body to raise lower gripper, close lower gripper, (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
