|
| | Re: mindstorms NXT
|
| If this new sensor interface indeed is digital and indeed has an "open" protocol, there will soon enough be some eletronics engineer designing an interface or a multiplexer for the old sensors... Lego won't be the one providing that interface, I (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| |
| old (score: 0.560) |
|
|
| old (score: 0.560) |
|
| | Re: Maiden's cart - Castle set 6023
|
| (...) I once opened a set that had been 25 years in the shrinkwrap. What a rush that was. I currently have a number of older unopened sets and some of them I will be letting my kids (or grandkids) open, once they are old enough to appreciate why it (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
| |
| old, bricks (score: 0.560) |
|
| | rare colours in: Life on Mars
|
| Hi Paul, (...) From what I can see this "pink" is not from the Belville or Paradisa line (and I own a lot of these). Instead, my guess is that it's one of the 'unpink' light red Scala colours that were released in 1997 and 1998 which were then (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.year.2001)
| |
| old, bricks (score: 0.560) |
|
| | Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
|
| Yep, I agree. I actually don't but technic anymore just for the reason that these beam pieces are not LEGO enough. The main pieces they use are the L-shaped studless beam mentioned above. They also use way too many rods and those giant molded (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic)
| |
| old, bricks (score: 0.560) |
|
| | RE: mindstorms NXT
|
| -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of Gyl Midroni Sent: Thursday, 5 January 2006 11:13 PM To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com Subject: Re: mindstorms NXT (...) Is this going to be totally (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| |
| old (score: 0.560) |
|
| | Re: new newsgroup for NXT
|
| (...) So eager! :-) Todd will be the one to switch on the group. Hopefully very soon. [looking through the LUGNET membership roster...] Wow. Member numbers 48, 85 and 715. [beaming] Whee! This NXT news has me *so* excited! It's just like old times. (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.curators)
| |
| old (score: 0.560) |
|
| | Re: mindstorms NXT
|
| (...) Not me. From the press release it looks like this new NXT is going to outclass the RCX, but that doesn't mean I won't play with the "old" stuff a whole lot as well - I've not come near the limits of it as yet (I'm fine tuning my 3T robot as I (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| |
| old (score: 0.560) |
|
| | Re: mindstorms NXT
|
| (...) How would you create a rover-based robot with just three motors? I want to design more complex rovers other than the two-wheeled plus caster designs. Something like the shrimp for instance. The old rcx allows you to connect multiple motors to (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| |
| old (score: 0.560) |
|
| | Re: High Speed Trains-Photogallery Link-LEGO Acela v.1
|
| (...) ...hardly can't wait ;-)) (...) for (...) If (...) I haven't heard about the dark blue one with yellow stripes. But that doesn't mean there is none! I meant the german version used by the "Deutsche Bahn". That one is white, the windows are (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
| |
| old, bricks (score: 0.560) |
|
| | Re: new newsgroup for NXT
|
| (...) Well, there isn't really a hurry. The beasts won't be on sale until August. I think that before we split the group in two (which can be damaging to the usefulness of the group when we AREN'T talking about specific computers, motors and (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| |
| old (score: 0.560) |
|
| | Re: Still more
|
| In lugnet.trains, Jeramy Spurgeon wrote: <snip> (...) Well, if I were TLG, I'd use the same train motors--you can power the motor from the top 2x2 electric plate and just connect that to the battery unit (or whatever they're using to power the (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.year.2006)
| |
| old (score: 0.560) |
|
| | Re: 4th Imperial shuttle figure....
|
| (...) Ah yes, the old Black-and-white-imag...laceholder trick. And the proofreader fell for it. In some graphic shops it is common practice to drop low-res B/W images into a layout to test designs, then update the final (approved) copy with the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001)
| |
| old, bricks (score: 0.560) |
|
| | RCX - The NXT Generation
|
| I'm really loving this continuation of the Mindstorms line. I have no issues with the complete revamp and non-backward compatibility. Here's a few points that I'm pondering-- Knowing the Mindstorms community throughout the world, if there is a way (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
| |
| old (score: 0.560) |
|
| | Re: RCX - The NXT Generation
|
| (...) That will depends on how they do their digital fire signal. Given that they are encourging 3rd sensor it's probably very open and not too complex. One serial IR transceiver hooked up to one NXT port should be able to communicate with all RCXs (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
| |
| old (score: 0.559) |
|
|
| old (score: 0.559) |
|
| | Re: mindstorms NXT
|
| (...) Actually, the RCX outputs 0's and 1's to power the motors as it is right now. It uses Pulse Width Modulation (PWM). Basically for 1/3 power 1/3 of the pulse is 1 and the other 2/3 is 0. For full power, the signal is all 1. This creates a (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| |
| old (score: 0.559) |
|
| | Cerco alcuni pezzi lego, chi può aiutarmi??
|
| Ciao ragazzi! Vi scrivo poichè ho necessità di alcuni pezzi technic per una mia invenzione: (URL) 2x (URL) 14x (URL) 9x (URL) 4x (URL) 4x gialli (URL) 55x old gray (URL) 13x oldgray (URL) 5x grigi (URL) 25x neri c'è qualcuno che può aiutarmi, (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug.market)
| |
| old (score: 0.559) |
|
| | Re: mindstorms NXT
|
| (...) A small side note to my jubilation: While I usually never critique the efforts of the Lego Company, mostly because I am sure scores of corporate brainy brains consider many of the issues us fans mull over, I do have one small gripe about the (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| |
| old (score: 0.559) |
|
|
| bricks (score: 0.559) |