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(...) too. (...) ...and if anyone wants a Gameboy Advance cheap, I'll offer mine. I bought it in 2001, used it for about an hour, and decided it was very much a "Bad buy" (as I'm terrible at video games). I put it carefully back in the box, so it's (...) (20 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) the other videos :) (...) Well, my classic argument is, what's a custom sensor? Is it an ultrasonic Polaroid sensor? Is it a DGPS receiver? A PC with machine vision and a pair of HDTV CCD cameras? (...) Well, the CPU/display/memory part of it (...) (20 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) (URL) That's REALLY slick. The movement of the "Wander" demo is really smooth too. Yes. Too bad we don't allow custom sensors ;-) (...) Hmmm... The whole system is not terribly cheap. You need the "Xport" which hooks up to the gameboy, and the (...) (20 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I tore into one of these a while back. Nice PWM motor control and encoders on the wheels. The reason they don't work is that whoever coded up the PID loop to control the motors obviously had no idea what he/she was doing. I have not yet taken (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) The behaviour in the teach video (drive it around by hand and have it play back the motion) looks exactly what set 4095 Record and Play (URL) is supposed to do. Anyone know how it would compare, and whether the 4095 uses back-EMF or internal (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) This has been around for a while, and they are really doing a pretty cool bit of engineering here. It's not for the faint of heart in terms of complexity, but we ARE talking about a really deeply embedded system here. :-) I'm not so much (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) That's REALLY slick. The movement of the "Wander" demo is really smooth too. The gameboy's not a bad idea either. It's certainly cheaper than a custom board. Calum (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Well Parlugment will have a train show on Feb 5-6, so I would prefer a robot weekend that is far from that. (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Didn't think of that...right! (...) I don't honestly think it's a big deal. It's not the clearance of the track, it's the clearance of the gutter train itself, because the gutter is low enough. I don't think apart from DaveK's SD70ACe (which (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Mastermind I think, as well as the new Toy Blox store. I got one for a friends' kids at the Whitby store. Calum (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Has anyone seen the Advent Calender set in Toronto stores? I'd like to get one soon. Well, by the Dec 1, if I can. :-) Derek (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) How would you do it with train track? It can most likely be steeper then you can make a ramp with train track. I'm still trying to figure out how to solve the width, interference problem. Might have to give up on the racer track and build a (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Selling of Used LEGO bricks in a retail store I guess is a rare thing. I know of only one such store that does this in upstate New York, USA. The store is primarily a video gamer store. The used LEGO is just a gimmick to draw in kids and their (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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For all the robot guys: (URL) HAVE to watch the demo videos. Note especially the "teach" and "haptic" videos. I can't believe the level of control they are getting without encoders. Its incredible. I'm not sure I want a gameboy on my robots, but the (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) LUGNET admins have heard periodic reports of this, but Todd has not yet found the issue. If you would be willing to help try to debug this, please contact Todd (or me if you're not sure how to contact Todd) with details of your setup. (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) (URL) (...) which (...) interface. :: backs slowly into corner, backward, donning pie :: Sorry :( Iain (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) No, it's a different SPI: (URL) MiniBoard (which the RCX was based on) has this thing called SPI, which allows you to link multiple Miniboards together. It is a serial protocol. What you're talking about sounds like a dry contact general (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) presume (...) right? Calum, SPI is as far from Serial as... as far as cerial is from a mushy banana. :) SPI uses 2 16-pin connectors (M/F F/M) on the moulding machine/robot, each line has a specific designated signal and everything is (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I've been told by rtlToronto'er Oliver Giesen that this is the way it works at some used stores in Germany apparently. (...) I don't think they'll ever be able to match the Wal or TRU for pricing. Hopefully they'll do okay by making it up on (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) But if you can't use ramps, how will you lower from the height of the City Station ring down to the Janey Run? Calum (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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