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(...) Um, I think you would want to avoid those you were likely to lose and accelerate for those that you were likely to do well in... (if you clip the tail end of the other train at speed striking a square blow, you are likely to do well... if you (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Pardon? Collision avoidance in a train sumo event.... Nahhhhhhh :) Perhaps collision detection - so you can accelerate... >:) Jeff E (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Excerpt from contest rules: "The winner recieves 2 points for the win, the loser, none. A tie gives each player a single point." Well *I'm* going to wear a tie. An extra point every round - how can I lose? Wait - is this some tricky way of (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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That is exactly what you can do. Lego has released a 2.0 SDK, which includes the 2.0 firmaware (firm0328.lgo), as well as lots of other stuff for programming. I can't find it on their web site, so you can (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Thanks Callum. What we are doing is trying to get to 2.0 to use some features in NQC. Am I making this too complicated? Can we just download the 2.0 firmware and skip the 1.5 upgrade? "Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) and (...) Yes, that's a possibility, but ....I bougth a large amount of blue and gray track without the 12v conductor rails and you'd loose a major benefit of having 2 different radiusus or radii (whichever you prefer :-). Besides....I like a (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Iain and I went up today to Cookstown and there some pretty decent deals. As noted by John (thanks John!) there are a lot of first generation Star Wars stuff (I got a Slave1 and Landspeeder, I couldn't bear to take the Desert Skiff. Damned (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) (URL) little more info about the IBM 3850 MSS. There's also a guy who's built a Lego DDS loader (4mm) tapes, which is pretty inspirational on concept: (URL) was looking at a DDS2 tape here and I think one approach might be not to slide it in (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Bridge Over Troubled Water" "Bridge Over Troubled Linoleum" "A Bridge Too Far" "A Brick Too Far" "How Long Is The Gap? 6 Feet. How Wide Is The Gap? 1 Foot. I Will Build My Bridge ACROSS The Gap." (apologies to The Goon Show) Personally, I like "A (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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If Rob will permit me to answer for him (HAH! Like there's anything he could do about it :), I saw that and thought it was a very good idea because whenever I use a diff, the two axles always slide in and out whenever I try to put something on the (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) You could power the track by using 12v conductor rails. That would actually let you cheat a bit, the suspension wheels could ride in the track between the conductors. You would have to use the old style 12v pickups to get power from the track. (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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(URL) sure most of you have seen DLT, DDS and 8mm autoloaders or even the big tape silos out there-Peachy and it's companion server Blueberry are both backed to a DLT loader in MIE-they're tape drives with a robot to grab a tape and put them into (...) (22 years ago, 12-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Rob, I noticed that you put half bushings on the ends of the axles inside the differential. what purpose does this serve? when I put together a differential, I just put the gears on the end of the axle. the end. What am I missing? -- Chris (...) (22 years ago, 12-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Figure out a name for the rtl11 Contest that's funny and witty. It should be in the form of: rtlToronto11: Fall Into the Gap rtlToronto11: No Robot is an Island. Use the words "bridge" or "gap" or "island" or some combination. Extra points if you (...) (22 years ago, 12-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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St. Jacobs LEGO store. Rotation Sensors. $20. GO. Iain (22 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Hi Paul, You can get a 1.5 or 2.0 upgrade package for a small fee from Lego Shop@Home. Give them a ring at 1-800-267-LEGO. However, it's not really worth the money unless you have small kids-the 1.5 and 2.0 upgrade kit is mostly software plus (...) (22 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) <snip> (...) Yeah, I tried to build it myself. I found it to be unreliable for a practical application. However, it did get me thinking about other configurations for this type of device. Mario and Giulio Ferrari's book has a couple of good (...) (22 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) A two way direction splitter is much simpler and compact. The best way to do this is with a differential. Just ratchet the output gears in opposite directions, and you have a simple, reliable direction splitter. I used this to control two (...) (22 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I agree that the three table, single flag game would be cool. Hopefully there will always be a clear winner rather than a bunch of ties. I can see dumb robots randomly searching and not finding, or robots getting stuck on eachother in the middle (...) (22 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: rtlToronto11 scoring Re: rtlToronto11 Event Rules Posted
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:Gvwqso.Hs@lugnet.com... (...) write. Aw, it's okay. She was great. She wrote "G. G. Ian" on another drawing (Good God). I think tha'ts hilarious. I really don't care if people spell (...) (22 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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