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The Green Line runs real, honest-to-goodness trolleys. They are quiet and fun. One of the sad developments of the last few years has been the disuse of the trolleys in the favor of buses. (For that matter, I now drive a daily 20-minute commute from (...) (26 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well, I WILL admit I had a mockup of a green line car partially completed but I just could not get a center pivot that looked good from the outside, worked, and would at least allow a minifig (turned sideways so he was only 1 stud wide) to (...) (26 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Flex Cables (Does anyone have the 8485 CCII)
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(...) Happened to be carrying out a parts inventory of my #8485 CC (*not* CCII) which recently arrived from DYA France. Here are the actual measurements of the flex cables - overall lengths followed by the lengths between the notches, in (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Eric Kingsley <kingsley@nelug.nospam.org> wrote in message news:FJnF0x.rn@lugnet.com... (...) Many thanks Eric. You can bet I will have a folded up copy of those instructions in my pocket Thursday night. Mike G. (26 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us)
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| | The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots
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I'm pleased to announce that my book has been printed and is now in stock in our warehouse. It should be showing up in your favorite bookstores soon. The entire book will be serialized online. Currently the Preface and chapters 1 and 2 are online (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots
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An Oreilly book for Mindstorms??! Cool! Hey, who decides what animal goes on the cover? The author(s)? The publisher? KL (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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C S Soh wrote in message <3807D69E.34C3F7E3@s...com.sg>... (...) followed by (...) from the (...) I concur! -Rob. (26 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Can anyone help me? I'm looking for a UK supplier for the Handyboard, either as a kit or complete. I would also like some advice about how I could integrate the Handyboard into a A-Level physic department. I'm interesting in introducing robotics (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Mr. Han, I think you can try to transmit the data through radio frequency transmitter to the receiver which is connected to the PC. I have tried this but it is digital data and not analog. Thanks, Wil. ----- Original Message ----- From: Chul Hun,Han (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: BrainStorm version 1.0 available
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Forwarding to lugnet.robotics.logo from lugnet.robotics.rcx... --Todd (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.logo)
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| | Re : stuff (Big motor control)
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The following circuit should provide directional control of a DC motor using two SPDT (Single Pole Double Throw) relays and four diodes, but may not act quick enough for a PWM drive. .--------O---...---. | | | | | O---...---. | | | | | \----/ \----/ (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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On Sep.10,I posted the message regarding rotation-sensor problem. I realized that the first threshold value '0x6fc0' in CURRENT_STATE is too small. Some sensors give raw values around 0x7000. #define CURRENT_STATE (raw<0x6fc0?STATE_0:...STATE_3))) (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Control your Lego Mindstorms RCX across the internet using Microsoft NetMeeting
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The WebRemote Device Controller allows you to control devices across a NetMeeting connection... If you have devices to control then you simply run the device controller, add the drivers for your devices and connect to NetMeeting to make the devices (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | AI
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Can we make these things learn? I'm no expert on AI or nothing, but perhaps by making, for example, program 1 write program 2, write to program 3 etc, and use a some kind of a genetic algorithm to determine best output. Or would all this be (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Interfacing 2 Ultrasonic Modules onto one HB?
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I am trying to interface two Polaroid 6500 ultrasonic ranging modules onto one HB to simplify my project. I know this has been done and it is probably very easy but I am not an electrical engineering expert and cannot figure it out. I have two (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Okay. Here is an update. I decided on a platform like the one on this page. Synchro Drive I have bought and finally recieved all the parts nessesary. It is going to use 2 rotation sensors to measure distance, and the angle of the wheels relative to (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hello, I also would like to see a example of the sonars and expansion board hook-up. I also have a vector 2x compass module that was connected and working before the expansion board was added. Is it possible to connect the sonar and compass to the (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
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Are you talking about *real* lasers that can cut things? Or just one of those LED pointers? --Tobias (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
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Tobias Möller <tobias.moller@telia.com> wrote in message news:FJr4ut.Ez8@lugnet.com... (...) considering that a cutting laser starts around $290,000, and requires much more room than 2 Lego bricks, I would venture to guess that it is a laser (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Upcoming _Star Wars_ Mindstorms and Technics Releases
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(...) But the R2-D2 set (9748 Droid Development Kit) -is- a MindStorms set. It's just not an RCX-based MindStorms set. (LEGO MINDSTORMS is a whole division of TLG and a whole product line. The RCX is just one brick in a series.) MINDSTORMS != RCX (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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