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| | DIY Spybotics SDK
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| The following was provided by Jeff Ardis, Marketing Manager for LEGO MINDSTORMS products during his Spybotics demonstation (which was great!) at BrickFest on Saturday: DIY Spybotics SDK: 0) Download and install the LEGO MINDSTORMS 2.0 SDK from (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NQC for Spybotics in beta test
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| A preliminary version of NQC with Spybotics support is in beta test: (URL) emphasis was on making things that are already defined for other platforms (RCX2, Scout, etc) work for Spybotics. A future release will add support for some of the new (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Spybotics demo followup questions
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| This is a mix of a forward/pseudo-X-post and my comments to the Jake msg on lugnet.lego.direct: (...) So there's an IR on the SB unit, after all :) GREAT! I wasn't understanding how the Remote/Beacon would control the unit through visible light. I (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Spybotics - A great disappointment
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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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| | Re: Spybotics - A great disappointment
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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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| | July 2002 Meeting Notes
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| Another awesome SMART meeting! Lots of new attendees, lots of robots, lots of discussion, lots of great ideas! The mini-challenge: The mini-challenge was to build a robot that would walk over or around a bunch of 2x4's set on edge. Every robot (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Spybotics - A great disappointment
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| (...) It is programmed using visible light, but the commands are very different from CodePilot/MicroScout. The protocol itself is just 4800bps NRZ turned into light. The packets have a simple format (preable, data bytes, checksum). The commands in (...) (22 years ago, 23-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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| | Re: lugnet.robotics.spybotics?
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| (...) Following form, it belongs alongside RCX, under .robotics. My fear actually was that a group's creation isn't warranted - that we create it for something thats attention is short-lived. But with what I just read Dave is up to, it seems (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Spybotics demo followup questions
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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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| | 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: Which spybotic set is best?
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| My Spybotics software runs fine on Win2k Pro, but I have yet to get a usb/serial adapter... Rob "David Koudys" <dkoudys@redeemer.on.ca> wrote in message news:Gzv544.82I@lugnet.com... (...) 3806 (...) control. (...) Pentium® II (...) 98 (...) (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Spybotics demo followup questions
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| (...) Well, I for one hope that you continue to favor serial over USB. It makes it a lot easier for those of us not on the bleeding edge, and those of us who use Linux or other alternative OS's. USB is too sophisticated for something as simple as (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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