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A few I poached from slashdot: (URL) you hear about the new Pirate movie? It was so violent it was rated ARRRRR! What did the pirate like most about his salad? The ARRR...RRRtichokes! Then there was the guy who flunked out of pirate school.... He (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Yes, the TRU in Times Square has a Pick a Brick, or did when I went last year. I bought a bag of white window frames and filled the rest with grey jumper plates. I did a number of touristy things there including: -Watching the sun rise on the (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Jen says FAO Schwartz if you are going to NYC Plus I recall* there being a Very Large TRU down there as well, with Lego Models I have seen Brick shelf images of it... Jeff VW Able to post because things are starting to slow a bit at work ;) (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Sigh, won't be able to make it. I'll be driving to New York Friday. So aside from seeing Spamalot what should I do in New York? Derek (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Friday, July 14th, 2006. 7PM Swiss Chalet 5487 Dundas Street West Toronto, Ontario Buy the last rtlToronto shirts! (Seriously, I found the very last shirts. There are like four left) Calum (20 years ago, 12-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: BASIC for the NXT was Re: R21 - Robot Status
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(...) Sorry. C# was a bad example. Let me us the term "somethink like C". Dave (20 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: BASIC for the NXT was Re: R21 - Robot Status
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(...) A NXT-C compiler which supports every NXT feature will not likely be done by BrickFest. I hope to have a first cut with partial support for the NXT features working within a couple weeks. My intent would be to incrementally add support for all (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: BASIC for the NXT was Re: R21 - Robot Status
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(...) Here's what I want: a) An environment that works like BricXCC that allows for edit, debug and compile from a graphical front end. b) A language which looks like C and supports proper function/variable passing (UNLIKE NQC). Not C#, not BASIC, (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) It will not be long before I will have a few high level languages working within BricxCC for the NXT. I am working on Basic, Pascal, and C at the moment. I hope that in the mean time you might try out NBC which isn't particularly hard to (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Dave, NQC is not at all like C#. Neither is RobotC. Are you sure that is what you mean? John Hansen (20 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) It is an ARM based thing, so if the internals are well known enough, maybe GCC can be made to compile for it as a target. I suppose it would just be targetting the arm, and then finding the right stuff to upload the code. Then comes the (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Chris, Fair enough. I thought you were a NQC fan/user, that is why I mentioned it. I too would welcome something VB/VBscript-like based as well. Oddly, I have done some PDA app development and would only use VB to do it as it comes naturtally (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Um, but... isn't that *also* a language developed for kids ;-)? Duck and cover, duck and cover... (...) Dang, that's a nice hit-list of "people both smarter than me and that I am deeply indebted to". It amazing how far and wide the RCX has (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Dave, I did download it, never really started to get into it. I saw it was trial-ware. While I can appreciate Dick wanted to recoup something for his effort, I still have a dream. BASIC for the lego Pbricks. GUI is great for kids, and C is (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Given that a block of wood is often used as an entry test for robot sumo (you must beat the block of wood to enter), and one of the winning C$ robots played at random... yeah, build something. Enter a LEGO brick that can attach to the rope. (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Chris, Have you seen/tried RobotC yet? I have been toying around with it (after trying NBC for oh... 10 minutes then giving up - Assembly is not my forte) and it is much like BriXCC / NQC. C#-based and works quite well. I am in the midst of (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Yes, you could call it the rtlToronto nXt-Prize. A prize for the first person to write an IDE and compiler that Chris (and for that matter me, since I would like one) likes. Prizes to include a Supercar and a Sopwith Camel? Oh wait...wrong (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Rob Antonishen wrote: > > P.S. Anyone coming with an NXT "demonstration" t-o-w bot, since they > are not allowed to compete? > I ~would~ BUT......I !HATE! the GUI programing software. (Yes I know it was designed for kids, and I understand that I am (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) c'mon Iain, throw something together... use a pulback motor....anything :) Even I'm starting to cobble one (or two) together. I'm planning on doinf this one just for fun...not putting any huge thought into problem solving :) P.S. Anyone coming (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) It's looking to be a non-existant one. :) With our workload ramping up again, and the fact that not only did I book vacation that weekend, but also there's a race that weekend I'm suposed to be in, I'm definately out... :( Surprise surprise... (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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