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| well I think that is a documentation problem. Its nice to learn children to program - but with out the right steps it might even be a catastrof - in the terms of future choices. Learning children how to program is not a game, I haveself tried it - (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) From the box picture on LEGO's site does not have Mindstorms on it in any noticable way. It is a LEGO logo with Spybotics in big letters. Jude (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| All, Looks like there is still some confusion about the memory in the Spybotics module. I just got this from someone who knows much more about the details than I do: The EEPROM device that we use holds four kilobytes (that's 32 kilobits), of which (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) No. The thing that makes Basic Lego a good toy for children is it's modularity. It's an open ended toy that they'll never reach the end of exploring. That's also true (although to a lesser extent) with the Mindstorms sets - but with this new (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Isn't it ironic how the makers of a Plug-N-Play toy system keep missing the Plug-N-Play technology target? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Hendrix" <rob.removebeforesen...msltc.org> To: <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Spybotics demo followup questions
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| (...) [...] (...) If a SB unit can send/receive VLL on top of having "RCX/Scout compatible" IR comms, is this scenario possible: A CyberMaster (using a VLL output pgrm) sends a VLL message to the SB unit that will send some other IR message to the (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| In lugnet.robotics, Ralph Hempel writes: <snip> (...) One of the few things that playing with LEGO since my earliest recollection has taught me over the past 35 years is that you really don't ever loose that kid in you--it may get hidden away in (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| In lugnet.robotics, Ralph Hempel writes: <snip> (...) So Gigamesh is waiting on my doorstep last night when I get home from work. Took me a bit to install the software (~600 meg full install), then putting the thing together via instructions on my (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| In the same vein, "C:\Program Files\LEGO Software\Products\Sp...nCore.lif" contains (after a binary header) the sourcecode of spybot program for mission "***mission_name***". For example, Critical Countdown mission program begins as : "{ //Critical (...) (22 years ago, 3-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| (...) That is great, but can it program my VCR? :-) Does this mean that the RCX 2.0 has a greater IR range than the RCX 1.x due to hardware differences? Does the new IR RC Car use the same protocol as the Bionicle Manas as well? Jude (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) Buried in the readme file: 5L. USING THE SPYBOTICS BUILT-IN PROGRAM The built-in program in your Spybot works as follows: The built-in program scans the LEDs a couple of times while playing a short tune, prior to starting to move around. When (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| (...) Thanks for the work, Dave! Does this mean that I will be able to program Spybotics thru the USB (RIS 2.0) tower, instead of the serial tower that comes with Spybotics while using NQC? Dave K. (22 years ago, 20-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) According to an e-mail I received from Michael Anderson regarding the Spybotic brick there is "4k EEPROM for persistent program storage (256 bytes available for general use)" To me this sounded like only 256 bytes were available for downloaded (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| [ Titres des News ] o mindstorms: Les spybotics sont la. (Commercial) [ Détails des News ] o mindstorms: Les spybotics sont la. ---...--- Auteur: jlb ( (URL) ) @ 09:51 Topic: Commercial Ca y est il est possible d'acheter les modeles spybotics sur (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jul-02, to lugnet.loc.fr)
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| Hi :) (...) So, a bit like MicroScout, it's programmed through the inbuilt LightSensor, right ? Can you see if it uses a VLL protocol like CodePilot/MicroScout ? ...that way, any Scout/RCX/CyberMaster could download VLL snipets to it. One important (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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