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so. I'm playing in the rice pit. the robot is doing its thing. ---...---some background-------- I'm at a software point now so all I'm doing is "tweaking." changing all those variables from cycle this task 2 times(for efficient testing) to 8 times (...) (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) No, I will only buy the RCX if it has been sealed and properly stored in the original box on the FLAT side. Ralph (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno wrote: <snip> (...) Do you think it might be past its shelf life? (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Is this for one of your competitions? If it isn't you could post the code for us to see and maybe debug. (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Maybe! Most of Chris's jokes are well past the "sell by" date. I think you should package it up and send it to the Institute for Paranormal Programmable Brick Studies which is located in beautiful Ada, Michigan... (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) You seem to imply that someone might glean something from his code. You clearly don't know Chris or his robots very well. (Whoever heard of 64 nested IFs before Chris?) In addition, if he did post his code, I'd advise everyone not to read it (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I'm pretty sure the reason why operating systems have garbage collection routines is because of people who insist on programming 64 nested ifs. I'm the worst programmer I know, and even I know how not to use 64 IF's. :) Calum (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Calum....... I don't need to point out who won that event, and who did not even have a robot. If I can juggle 64 nested if's then that just puts me on a level that you mortals could only dream. now.... cause you asked so nice..... the CODE. (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Well, let's see. Rob won the event...and I know he can program--or at least his dad can. Who didn't have a robot? Well, I brought one with Mario. Hrm. We can both program (He wrote the majority of the code, I wrote a small part on a secondary (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I firmly agree. Leave the Homeys on the streets and not in your code!! Ben (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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:) ba hahhahahahaha (...) as it turns out. Bruce was NOT ok. !!in fact!! up until the last NIGHT bruce THOUGHT he was OK. but bruce dumped untested code in his bot, and it.... EXPLODED! oh. look what I found!! (URL) that!! the mario calum team came (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) As you might know, I have more than a slight interest in linear robots. I come (came?) across this problem all the time, becuase I always had home tasks for homing the x, y, and z axes. I noticed one day, that yes, it would look like "homeY", (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Sounds like a posible event for RTL16(?) - Automated castle building! Get a bunch of 2x4 bricks, cover them with tiles so they're smooth. Build a 'bot that can stack them in a 12x12 square shaped wall. Of course you might have to defend your (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Man, you guys sure fight well..... As a person whos programmed at every level of the machine, microcode, machine code, assembly code, high level code, I can tell you that in tight coding environments, keeping the variables to a minimum sure (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) With an attitude like that, there is NO WAY you could ever join our group. The number 1 requirement is that you mock Chris mercilessly! Don’t you realize that Chris will be quoting this post for years to come...He has probably already got it (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I doubt it. He's probably still reading this post, and his lips are sore from reading the last flurry of posts to himself. Ralph (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) thanks. but what people don't see is that off line we are all good friends. that's why we have monthly dinners. so although it looks like we are "fighting" really Calum and I are good friends. Heck even Bruce has my home phone number. many of (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) (climb on soapbox) and where do you think I LEARNED the home technique??? a lot of what I do comes from snippets of conversations and these games. that's why we do them. (steve) not really to see who can get more bricks out of rice*... but so (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) <quote not copied here> (...) What Kevin said doesn't even make sense. I doubt he intended to suggest that Chris intentionally did anything good, but by TOTAL LUCK, happened upon a good approach to programming. This approach is much like (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Sorry, I didn't know. I'll refrain from this kind of activity in the future. Kevin (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Kevin.... don't let these fools sway you. you have a gift. and true vision. these "programers" by trade only know "old school" the only vision they have in the coke bottle glass's they wear. they could no more look at a new approach to (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) You have to realize we're not at all fighting. We've somehow garnered an incredible ability to trash talk over the last few years. (...) Variables in your own code. The firmware is still handling all those IFs in the background. The pile of (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Yes. I didi know this. I should have used the word heckle or something like it. (...) Sorry, IFs are not worked in the background. Interrupts happen in the background. Instruction execution happens in the foreground :^) Aren't computer (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) cause someone is afraid of the truth. (...) steve as a coke bottle glass's styled programmer, BY TRADE, you know darn well that unlike block flinging, you cant just type random words into an editor and hope it works. by extension, getting (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Or stay out of either of those boxes and be wherever I think is best based on the situation :^) There are always more solutions to a problem than you think of at first glance. I didn't know that LEGO was a two party system :^) (...) Hmmmm.... (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Did you go ot the Minnesota state fair? They had the Mondial Shake, "Magnum" there (it has themeatic elements like Tom Selek). Iain (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) no, anyone can heckle... BUT you better have some pretty good credentials, and have some standing in the community (of rcx's) that's why we tolerate Ralph. sure he never entered a robot.... heck I've never seen him build anything for that (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Bipedal! Monopedal or nothing. That's the only way to sumo. :-) Derek (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Nope. I did not make it this year. My son and I plan on going next year though. He's never been there, and is interested. He wants me to go on rides with him, but I think that even with dramamine, I'd still get sick. (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Pogo-sumo! I like it! Can we have large feet (no need for self balancing) and small feet (self balancing?) (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) These are things I cannot asses, so I guess I'll stop heckling. Well I've made a few bipeds and two pneumatic calculators using RCXs....... Does that help? Kevin (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Kevin, your very humble. But I've already slandered Steve, and sang your praises in some other post. your free to heckle (anyone) Chris "It is a very clever strategy IMHO, and I applaud Chris for thinking of it." K.C. (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) That code was just not elegant, but then script code are a lot harder to read than NQC. I would applaud if those code were machine generated by another code he wrote but they are not. If the target pattern is changed from X to something else (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) DON'T GET ME STARTED on how hard C is to read. if you do not know any language. C is just crazy (for the novice) I still don't know what the hell this means: x != x_target || y != y_target AND I DON'T WANT TO !!!! I think what's this is (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Chris, I'd just like to know whether you use BricxCC to edit your MindScript code? If you don't you might consider giving it a try. John Hansen (URL) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Ka-On Lee wrote: <snip> If we're posting Project X code--This was my favourite codeing ever-- // X-block - Runamok Design Team // Rick De Haan, David Koudys // Feb. 2002 //drive definitions //X-Axis Definitions #define (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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After looking all that code over, I think the problem is pretty obovious. I'm surprised you didn't spot it right away. -Greg "Baby" H (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I keep a copy cause it is a powerful interface for some functions that I just cant seem to "get" with the Lego SDK compiler. (like the datalog - I've used yours a lot for the rice game) BUT, to be honest up until you just pointed it out, I (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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