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| dear fred and readers my motors is 30V. i am using the external batteries as instructed on the website. but i cant control the motor speed using the command: motor(0,...) i then remove the external batts and supply power to the other power pts(top (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Konnichi wa!
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| Hi there! Long-time LEGO lover, first time poster. Name's Fred (duh); I live in Sedro-Woolley, WA, which is pretty darn close to the middle of nowhere. I'm staying with my folks, but I'm employed and working towards getting my own place, so I can (...) (26 years ago, 27-Nov-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Weird
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| (...) I wound up over-analyzing it, actually. See, before I even moved from the first post, I said to myself, 'hmm, prolly a math puzzle of some sort', and wrote down the cards... red king, black jack... then I clicked on the tornedo. Then I (...) (26 years ago, 29-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Carrying rec.toys.lego on lugnet.com
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| Also sprach Fred Carcanague III: : Dejanews doesn't work w/Outlook Express. Despite some peoples poor : expreiences w/this software, I have had nothing but good come out of it. I That's because DejaNews is a web interface. Use a web browser and (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| ...what's the ratio of distance between stud centers to thin piece height in a LEGO brick? (Which is to say, if I wanted to build a more-or-less perfect sphere out of LEGO... my own Death Star, f'rinstance... what aspect ratio would I use?) (26 years ago, 28-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Carrying rec.toys.lego on lugnet.com
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| Also sprach Fred Carcanague III: : Well since getting RTL here sometime in the near future looks practicaly : impossible... Is there a news server that does carry it. I dislike using the : AOL browser for anything, for me AOL is just a internet (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Stores in Seattle Area
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| (...) Though I don't live in the Northwest any more, some of the store I check when in the area are: Fred Meyer Target WalMart Barry (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Stores in Seattle Area
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| (...) Though I don't live in the Northwest any more, some of the store I check when in the area are: Fred Meyer Target WalMart Barry (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| There is a Walmart in Renton, but I've never been to it. Target has carried the Cargo Train ( (URL) ) in the past, but I don't know if they have it in stock right now. The target stores I've been to in the area have been cleaned out. Zany Brainy (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Handyboard power supply
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| Hi Fred and other, I intend to use grandcell rechargable batteries to supply the HD. Each battery is 1.5V . If I supply 7 batteries of total 10.5V to the HD , is there any problem ? rgds, phillip (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | using external batteries
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| dear readers and fred, i read the instructions on the website on how to use external battaries. the problem is: - in the website, i couldnt see the copper trace properly which we need to cut in order to use the external batteries port. could any one (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| (...) the amusement park kit (so far) and ROBOLAB. There isn't really a Mindstorms "curriculum" available that I am aware of. And yes, it is mainly K-8. If these are 12th graders, then some of the stuff we do at the college level with the RCX for (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I have been researching this exact topic for almost a year now. I started off looking at the Handyboard do to its popularity and strong robotic application design but ultimately I've decided to use one or more Atmel processors do to their speed and (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| hi eric, i haven't tried any of these products, but they *should* work. the mac hb software uses low level driver calls, so if that stuff is patched and translated to usb, it would work. but if i were you i'd get one and try it on an existing (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: RCX 2.0 -- ideas.
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| (...) Building solid structures out of LEGO is something of an art form. Fred Martin wrote an article called "The Art of LEGO Design" which is available as an Adobe PDF at ftp://cherupakha.med...flego.pdf. It's about a 2M download. You may want to (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Print to IC's console window
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| (...) there is no builtin way of doing this. to get msgs back over the serial line, see the FAQ question at: (URL) Is it true that the handy board can only work when the LCD is plugged onto (...) you need a replacement pcode file to let the HB work (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Question for Fred
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| Hi Fred I have question for you. I have to control a position using the miniborad or the handyboard. And I don't know which motors is good the DC servo motor or the stepper motor and whats the diffrence? Another question if you don't mind, have you (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Downloading problems
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| Fred This is a followup to your answer regarding downloading problems 1. The 6811 Downloader does not seem to work with HB. I get mesaages varying from recieved 0, wanted 255-or serial port not responding. I am DL from a MAC PPC 6500 OS 8. 2. This (...) (26 years ago, 26-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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