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| (...) I'm also *very* eager to hear some details about these bricks. In response to a few comments which I sent to a fellow who works for LEGO about the MindScript and LASM support I recently added to BricxCC I was told that the spybotic unit would (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Spybotics - A great disappointment
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| I agree with EVERYTHING you just said. Lets just hope the SDK will shed some new light on the subject... I just happen to be one of those folks with NO SERIAL PORT on my laptop. I was not aware when I placed my order (before the ads came out) that (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Spybotics vs Cricket
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| Forgive me if this has already been discussed.. I haven't followed all messages here. I was at TLC's presentation of Spybotics at BF. There, it was described as, "the next generation of RCX." Knowing it has 2 sensor inputs and 2 motor outs, I wonder (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Spybotics demo followup questions
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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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| | Re: Spybotics - A great disappointment
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| I have really got to agree with Ralph. It is hard to believe that LEGO hit this price point when you look at what is inside the box. $60 - $30 for 2 Motors at $15 each - $10 IR transmitter - $19 light sensor - $15 touch sensor ---...--- Wow! LEGO is (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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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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| (...) That's exactly what it did last time, got down to -3 or -4 days and was then reset to +5 days. I did watch the last few minutes of the countdown last time (was late afternoon here in Aus, IIRC), and kept checking back every day at my almost 7 (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Spybotics vs Cricket
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| Paul Andrews writes: > In lugnet.robotics, Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com> writes: > *Mad* props to anybody who > >makes a loop network (ala the Clarkson Loop from my Master's thesis) > >out of three or more spybots. > > Err. What's a Clarkson (...) (22 years ago, 11-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Spybotics - A great disappointment
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| (...) dropped too much money and ordered the 8475. After a quick build of the 8475, I'm gonna try to incorporate it into the 8466. And I'm looking forward to it just to see what's up with Gigamesh. TLC really hasn't disappointed me yet on, well, (...) (22 years ago, 19-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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| (...) <snip> (...) Thank goodness a grownup (and I use the term loosely) "gets" the Spybots. When I watched the kids playing, I got the sense that LEGO had hit the mark because it gently guides kids to imagining they are the agent. Even better, they (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Yes, although I think the question is "is there an interest in *not* having Spybotics discussions in the main .robotics or .general groups?" -Rob. (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| In lugnet.robotics, Suzanne D. Rich writes: <snip> (...) I dunno if this is official enough for you, but they have the Spybotics listed under Mindstorms on the S@H page. I'm at work now so the box my Gigamesh came in is nowhere near me, and I threw (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | UK gets a raw deal again
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| The new Spybotics sets, such as 3806 Gigamesh G60, (URL) are GBP59.99 in the UK, or $59.99 in the USA. I make that about 50% more! Surely such a difference can't be justified. Could it be a mistake? Huw (22 years ago, 1-Jul-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| While I doubt you'd legally be able to answer this, I'm going to ask anyways, just in case you CAN... How hard would it be to replace the EEPROM with one with a larger memory capacity? ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Sun ONE Internet Technical Support, (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| No, it sounds like a 256 byte scratch pad/heap/whatever. But do we have to reverse engineer these things? I would have thought TLC would have seen the light and would make our life easier this time around. --Jack Gregory "John Hansen" (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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