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| (...) Hey Fred - many great mocs aren't particularly innovative - like all of mine for instance ;) -- It has been my experience that we have a few builders who tend to produce less, but what they do produce is often more innovative, being that they (...) (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) I emailed the people at Imagecraft and asked them if ICC11 works with the handy board and they said they are working with Fred Martin on it. I noticed on thier home page that they claim to have LCD driver code in a library of version 4 ICC11. (...) (27 years ago, 24-Apr-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Stopped by an out of the way Fred Meyer's today as they have had several sets on clearance lately and what do you know, all the LEGO clearance was an additional 50% off of the clearance price. Picked up alot of stuff just for the prices. Road block (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| Hi Brian, When Fred and I designed the Rev 2.0 6.270 controller, we consciously made the expansion bus small and simple. For most expansion devices, the pre-decoded chip selects make more sense than sending all the address lines, since the latter (...) (28 years ago, 8-Apr-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: How to disable ROM on E9 part?
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| (...) Thanks Fred. Turned out I had a damaged MAX232 chip on the charger board that was powering up the handyboard via the TXD or RXD line. Once the chip was removed the 1.4V on the handyboard went away. I believe this also damaged the HC11, so now (...) (28 years ago, 2-Jul-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Hi Fred The "new" spec sound's great ! I'd also like to see a bit more digital I/O on any expansion board, and the extra 8 CMOS outputs are just what I (we) need. Thanks Scott (...) Martin'" <fredm@media.mit.edu> (...) (28 years ago, 10-Feb-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Hi Fred There was a short article on the news last night about a new Lego robotics product that looked alot like the "lego intelligent brick" concept you were working on last year... A bit of searching revealed the site (URL) which mentions the MIT (...) (27 years ago, 28-Jan-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Dear Fred, The Mechatronics class competition was to build autonomous miniature forklifts that would navigate a complex course. In the course, the forklifts had to identify, pick up, and deliver three. The path that the forklifts had to negotiate (...) (27 years ago, 17-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| (...) Not me. Wow, good price. Which Fred Meyer do you shop at? I usually go to the Orchards one. They have a lot of sets on the top shelf I'm waiting for them to put on clearance. (26 years ago, 8-Oct-98, to lugnet.loc.us.or.por)
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| Thanks for the new Downloader_MCL Fred!! Finally I can reliably download the pcode to my Handyboard. I've had my board for some time now and had almost given up hope about ever using it. However, the new downloader works perfect. Now I can get into (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| In response to: (...) Could a hardware expert (Fred?) please give a more definitive answer to this? What value resistor should be used? After extensive IR use with just an IR led and no resistor my transmission circuit eventually died... I guess I (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Fred (Fredrik); That is awesome. I can imagine fleets of Galaxy Explorers lifting off now! :) I didn't see the head turn, but the smoke did look realistic. Scott Sanburn (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| Fred, I'm confused by the Pitsco site. Which package are you referring to as the "Mindstroms Bulk" set? Have you seen one of these?? I'm wondering if there is any advantage over 4 retail Mindstorms sets at $199 each or so.... Software: I was (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| Hi, I have had the pleasure of speaking to Fred Martin at the MIT robot lab, I sdaw the crickets first hand doing some interesting things but I doubt they will work there way into a mindstorms kit. SORRY! But I own the Mindstorms kit and Its cool in (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hillsboro FM on tv hwy and Cornelius FM standard 20% off. Cornelius has been reducing lego inventory. A week ago there was much more stock. I don't believe they are actually selling it based on what remains. david (...) What (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.us.or.por)
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| the shelves have been empty since about the day after christmas. they had very little on clearance, and haven't restocked. probably shipped everything to the midwest where everyone was getting killer deals. david (...) the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.us.or.por)
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| (...) Thanx for the info, Fred. Do you happen to know at what temperature the bricks start to lose there grippiness? I'm not concerned that my attic will reach 220 degrees, but 150 might be a possibility. eric (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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