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| (...) The body will need to hold 2 RCXs, 1 Spybot, and 1 compressor. The Spybot would be the head, and the RCXs should face the Spybot (for IR). I'm pretty sure facing the back of the Spybot is fine. The compressor size is up to you. Why not use (...) (22 years ago, 9-May-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| Two interesting things not mentioned yet or explained: The spybot has an eeprom region. You can store data there between sessions. For instance, the spybot identity... allows you to number each of the spybots that you have so they can tell each (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| My son and I were experimenting with programming the spybot using the brixCC software (neat package - thanks John Hansen!). When we were done, he went back to the default Spybot SW and discovered that all of his hard-earned mission points had been (...) (22 years ago, 11-May-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| (...) Ok, here's a bit more info. All the points/scores SHOULD be saved to the PC, under the Spybot ID. It sounds like your bot lost it's ID. How sad. :( So, I'll suggest a couple options. 1) Try to find and load the original ID or 2) Copy the data (...) (22 years ago, 11-May-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| (...) I'm not sure I can solve the problem, but this may help you get started. After looking in the Spybot SDK, I found "MemOp_Bead" which is a subroutine for Mindscript that sets eeprom. Mindscript is LEGO's own language. I think it works in (...) (22 years ago, 11-May-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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|   spybot (score: 0.566) |
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| (...) Steve, Thank you for your posts. The data you have provided is correct. I have found the scores and the original longID of the spybot brick in RAS.LIF in the spybotics directory (There is some interesting stuff in the USER file as well). The (...) (22 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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|   spybot (score: 0.566) |
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| Hi Bernd, When you need it really fast, you sholud use legOS instead of NQC. A program written with NQC uses the LEGO firmware, which is a ByteCode Interpreter. This pogram is interpreted Byte after Byte from firmaware. The firmware executes the (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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|   rcx, communication (score: 0.566) |
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| All, Keith makes several valid points, and I would like to expound upon them. I have been passively monitoring LUGNET for several years. I just finished reading this entire thread. I must congratulate all of the participants for finally penetrating (...) (22 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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| What is going on here ?! I don't know what Eric's trangression is but, is anyone else alarmed that a toy hobby group has secrets that need to be kept hidden ? Is there really a need to censor Eric's postings ? Shouldn't a group like this deal with (...) (22 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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| Steve, What are all the responsibilities of the spybot, and the two RCXs. One of the RCX's must control the two motors that cause forward/backward mux and turning mux. Another motor for sideways. Do you also need a motor to control the pneumatic (...) (22 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.technic)
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 | | I AM ALIVE (Was Re: Starship Roll Call: Q4 2004)
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| Jeff--just getting a wedge in while you're communicado, and also saying I AM ALIVE, SO HERE'S MY ROLL CALL THINGYDOO. I'm prepping to hopefully start up Sector X again; I am not dead nor am I crazy. Well, OK, I might be crazy, hanging out at the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Oct-04, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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 | | Re: Jake Chat II - Transcript
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| (...) Not to make a bigger issue of this comment than was meant, but I am going to step in here quickly. Please remember that I'm but one person. I do my level-headed best to get and distribute as much information about "everything LEGO" as I (...) (22 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| Ciaran Jessup wrote [snipped]: (...) Thanks for the offer, but after posting my question I decided to have a go at writing my own java solution, and having done so, I also like mine. Looks like all those software reuse lectures I took were wasted on (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| I to am working on a final year cs project and had exactly the same problem :) - I solved it by using the cygwin on win2k solution..very good :) And I wrote a small java package to deal with all the lnp stuff, so I could use java, now this will work (...) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| I just had a silly, yet kind of cool idea. I'm not sure what you know about the Spybots, but if you have two Spybots, then from Spybot A, you can tell the direction, distance, and orientation of Spybot B. (yes, from A you can tell which direction B (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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|   spybot (score: 0.563) |
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| (...) Cool. I didn't know they made them with USB, also. The three I have all use serial cables. The "blinking lights" is the VLL (visible light link), which could be used by other devices to communicate with the Spybot. And, I agree, they are more (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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|   spybot (score: 0.563) |
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| (...) I didn't see any comment from Eric about the proposed parts list. It's around 50 pistons, and 100 switches. Is that OK? And, do we know how big this thing is, yet? Also, I'm going to have to do the Spybot/family thing. We can try to get (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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|   spybot (score: 0.563) |