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| Now that I think about it, I didn't really like the reasoning behind making a serial product instead of usb. It actually sounds like an excuse to me... Not quite quoted words were, "this product is designed more for children who have hand-me-down (...) (22 years ago, 24-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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| (...) You will have to excuse me in this info gathering process... robotics aren't really my strong point, and I am simply relaying info from those who know what they are talking about. I got a few bits of info back: EEPROM: There is a total of 4k (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) I'm not totally clear about what you want to be convinced of. That is was a good idea, or that price/old computers was the key reason for the decision. Either way, those ARE the reasons, so I'm not sure that I could say anything that would (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Programming multiple controllers
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| (...) I thought somewhere in the Spybotics software, it mentioned to put the controller in the lock position, press a button (1 thru 5) and point it at the spybot. WHen the spybot beeps, it's 'tuned' to that channel. Do the same for all the others, (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | RE: Spybotics - A great disappointment
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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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| 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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| | Re: Which spybotic set is best?
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| (...) I tried installing it on my laptop (PIII 1Ghz), and it gave me a warning about not being a compatible OS (Win2K). It won't run at all--I try opening Spybotics, the screen goes black for a sec, then crashes back to desktop. But my Win98 system (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Are you sure? On the text support file on the CD it says: ***...*** SPYBOTICS ***...*** 1) SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS VERSION ===...=== Hardware 350 MHz or Faster Processor 64 MB RAM 200 MB of free HD space (More space is required if (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Spybotics - A great disappointment
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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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| (...) Yeah, my computor is a Pentium 3, 11 Gigabites hard drive, etc. Only, how do I figure out if my computor has a serial port, without hauling the computor from its corner and unwiring it? -JHK -P.S this is, as far as I can tell, the first 'fan' (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Lundi 15 Juillet 2002
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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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| | LEGO Spybotics & LEGO Direct/Shop
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| Hi :) As most of you might've noticed, the Spybotics line are finally (!!!) available on the LEGO Shop (at least for Portugal, I didn't check it for other countries, sorry). I'm very interested in buying at least one of the possible 4 sets and add (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: July 27th SMART meeting
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| (...) Just two more days until the meeting. I'll share some of the things I saw at BrickFest, as well as some info on the new Spybotics sets. -- David Schilling (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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