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G'Day If you are willing to use 'non-pure Lego' parts, then Radio Shack has a telephone cord 'detangler' that plugs into standard RJ-11 jacks, has 4 conductors, and 360 degree motion. Works rather well, esp. with some contact enhancer for a cleaner (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) (URL) think that fits pretty close to your description except for the building block part. Søren (26 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) ... (...) Way cool, John John! :) Steve (26 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Miguel, It depends on whether you want your programs to run on the RCX (case 1) or on the PC (case 2). Case 1: Try legOS. It uses gcc and a cross assembler to compile C directly to the RCX. It requires that you download alternative firmware. (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes. Mail me as soon as you know you'll be in town. Todd and I were hoping you'd come. Anyone else who missed the signup should send mail directly to me. -Suz. suz@media.mit.edu (26 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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(...) <snipped description of new environment for RCX/Cybermaster> (...) Michael, I just downloaded mlCAD and find it an excellent bit of software. The rendering of each step is a bit slow unless you turn on wireframes, but that's not so bad. My 7 (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Michael, You can program the RCX and CyberMaster with quite many languages (such as Visual J++, Visual C++, Visual Basic) using the spirit.ocx. Also the RCX ControlCenter with NQC is pretty good. (The legOS would be the ultimate thing, but it's more (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I have to have a look at it, but as it looks it would have the nice and easy interface known from Lego's RCX programmer but with all functions provided by the spirit.ocx. And it would work under NT as well :-) Mike Ensio Tammi wrote in message ... (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'd second that, except maybe reversing the order. I'd definitely use a Linux version. (26 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Michael Lachmann skrev i meddelandet ... (...) I have started thinking about such a program many times since I and the kids (9 and 12) got our CyberMaster kit, but nothing has come out of it yet :-( I think it would be a good thing for kids, (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I think Ralph has good advice. I personally wouldn't use a graphical block building programming interface. I hate the RCX Code software that comes with the RIS. I've been using NQC under Windows NT and have been very pleased with it. A better (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Michael, do follow Ralph's excellent advice! I took a look at MLCad and found it a truly excellent piece of software. I just wish it were available for Macs and Linux! I do not know if the Mac is recovering in Europe (I guess you live in (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) You got an email that says they don't reply to emails? Hmm... - Ben. ---...--- Ben Williamson benw@pobox.com (URL) (26 years ago, 9-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Apparently Mindfest registration ended yesterday. Did anyone notice a deadline posted at their site? I didn't and I'm upset because it took me several weeks to get approval to go and I missed the deadline by 1 day. I look forward to meeting some of (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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legOS runs fine under the cygwin environment in NT- I finally even tried it myself :) Was there a specific problem that you were having in the porting? The cygnus install is not straightforward- I'll be the first to admit that- but if you are (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Could somebody explain in layman's terms how the light sensor works? Thanks! Bryan (26 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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The sensor uses two semiconductor devices (that's as technical as I'll get, hopefully). One of them is light sensing and the other is light producing. The sensor works by sending out some light and then sensing how much of that light is reflected (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Per the advice of a previous post: (URL) should contact Suzanne Rich at the MIT Media Lab. Apparently they have some back door process whereby they can shoehorn latecomers in. Hope it works out. :) The full text of the post: In (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi, I have been trying again to connect the LM35 temp. sensor (10mV/C) to one of the general-purpose Analog inputs (No pull-up), and I have no success, the result was the following: the analog( ) was 121, the equivalent aprox. to 250 C, obviously (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Luis, The main problem is that I'm using the gnuwin32 environment instead of the cygwin (and I have lot of programs made with gnuwin32 so it's not wise either to port them to cygwin rather set up a secondary c/c++ environment). I was quite surprised (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I'm planning to release version 1.5 of MLCad soon, after that I would like to introduce some things like compatibility to LDLite. I think release 1.6 should be the point where I slow down basic developments on this thing except somebody wishes (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Fantastic. All this time I believed it wrong. I checked and of course it's true, either on VB and on old QB. Thanks for that. Roberto -----Messaggio Originale----- Da: Joel Shafer <joel@connect.net> A: Roberto Amato <RobertoAmato@mclink.it> Cc: (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 10:00:02 -0600 (...) i have used a few PICs, but they have to be programmed in assembly language. but just recently i have found a compiler called C2C which converts C code into assembly code. C2C provides assembly code for (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) Yeah. Apperently this one came from Denmark where thier headquarters is located. My question: If they are just going to e-mail me saying that they can reply yet, then why didn't they just send a reply to from Denmark. I mean it's just more (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Wes Matchett <wes@augustschell.com> wrote in message news:37FA8820.BA3709...ell.com... (...) I think it is a phototransistor. (...) You betcha. I don't know if it is layman enough, but there is a detailed description of the Light sensor at: (URL) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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It's interesting you mention this. I have also started to use RJ11 and RJ45 connectors in my constructions. It is a neat and compact way of routing 2, 4, 6, or 8 wires around. I am working out the most neat and compact way of stuffing them into a (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I've used a very light aluminum air freshener can called OZUIM. It's about 7-8 inches in length and a little over an inch in diameter. My guess is it is about 3 to 4 times the internal volume of the blue tanks. By removing the spray nozzle and using (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Zany Brainy stores in the U.S still have a stock of the submarine model with the air tank. KL (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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Hi everyone! can anyone recommend a place where i can get pneumatic and hydraulic cylinders, and hopefully at reasonable prices? my team and i are planning to build a robot making use of those cylinders. has anyone done the same? any advice would be (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Howdy, Has anyone seen the October issue of Communications of the ACM? On page 13 is a letter critical of the recent article, "Using Autonomous Robotics to Teach Science and Engineering," that appeared in the June '99, page 85. The article is all (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Lego shop at home has the sub discounted to $25.00. It's a deal! You get pneumatics stuff, including the blue tank, and a lot of other handy technic stuff like long yellow beams. JB (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Unfortunately, the sale expired on 30 September, IIRC. I don't know about S@H's policy on holding firm on such dates; might be worth a phone call to check on it. Cheers, Roger (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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BAH! (to the writer of the nasty letter in the ACM communications) If one but peruses the Robot Store catalog (www.robotstore.com)--which I actually use as a source of inspiration for Lego 'bot building, one will see that Lego is by far the least (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Also, while LEGOs (sic) are a wonderful tool for encouraging creative play in children, they fall flat as a university educational or research tool. LEGOs (sic) have so many structural limitations, and LEGO geartrains have such poor frictional and (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Reasonable is a such a subjective term ;>) You might look at (URL) They have a very broad assortment of small pneumatic stuff. Internationally available Parker http:/www.parker.com has all the big stuff you'll ever need... not necessarily cheap, but (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) The Fall S@H still has it for $25 - a very good LEGO deal. DLC (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Very true...and I'm glad to see this is still on-going. Now, if only I had the -current- catalogue to which you make reference... Cheers, Roger (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I think S@H is mailing these one by one or something. I have seen "I've got it yesterday" messages for a couple of weeks now, but I still don't have one myself. Tilman (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) <laughter> Now, if my alleged luck holds true-to-form, I'll get back home tonight and find one in my post-box, having kvetched about it here in public.... Cheers, Roger (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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---...--- (...) check out: < (URL) > It list for DM 499, which works out to US$ 260 ... later, greg (26 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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