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*Real* lasers don't even look impressive. It is pracitaclly impossible to get a laser in the visable wavelengths to cut stuff. Usually UV lasers are used for this purpose. But anyway... in Oz, proper laser pointers are about $60. You can get really (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | legOS 0.2.0 released
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Hello, legOS 0.2.0 is out. If you like to program your Mindstorms in C, or if you would like to try, it has become better than ever. Dynamic linking and program loading are fully supported now, as well as unreliable LNP datagram networking. Lots of (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: legOS 0.2.0 released
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Well, this is a bad week to say the least, but I hope to have rudimentary HOWTO stuff for 0.2.0 within two weeks. Thanks for everything, Markus! Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous ###...### (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
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(...) really (...) the (...) they (...) I bought 2 for $10 at Osco 2 years ago and they are still working on their 2nd set of batts. (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RCX Controlled Air Compressor Tester
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(...) Thanks for your patience. Just received 4 of the lil' compressor pumps and have built and tested John Morgan's new double-acting (*correct terminology*) compressor. Unfortunately, the design does not seem to work out in practice. After just a (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: AI
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Tony- AI is a huge field, encompassing a variety of algorithms and techniques. Some of them will work OK on the RCX, others take just too much computation, especially when floating point is required. Also, when you talk about functions and all that, (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: UK Suppliers
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(...) If you're prepared to mail order, you can get all the Handyboard stuff from the Robot Store, Hong Kong,www.robotstorehk.com I've found Patrick Hui to be most helpful and dependable. -- C S Soh (URL) where air is power (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | need a text editor
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What text editors do you guys use to write your IC code? I am on a Windows98 machine and having a real hard time finding one that doesn't add all of the extra formatting. Or is there an option that I am missing that I can turn the formatting off? (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | AI and even more exiciting stuff
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----- Original Message ----- From: Luis Villa <liv@duke.edu> To: ts <ts@zylotech.com.au> Cc: <lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com> Sent: Monday, 18 October 1999 13:09 Subject: Re: AI (...) I am using NQC at the moment. I have just found, and I am downloading (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: AI and even more exiciting stuff
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For a more reasonable copy of the picture (read: downloadable in minutes, not hours) try (URL) note that I actually have access to 7, not just the 5 pictured. -Luis "still looking for interesting suggestions" Villa ###...### Profanity is the one (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: AI and even more exiciting stuff
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(...) Good luck. You'll find links to my HOWTO in various places- feel free to ask if you have problems. (...) Forth is a language for embedded systems, and since it is designed for embedded systems, (i.e., very low level) resembles assembly in some (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Robot navigation
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I have noticed a lot of effort being put into the most ingenius robot platforms designed to increase the accuracy and repeatability of navigation. While many of these designs are a credit to the designer concerned, I can't help but wonder if they (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Star Wars Technic Sets--Correction and More Info
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Just passing this along. This includes a scan of the cover from the Destroyer Droid (Droideka) set. :) (From www.theouterrim.com) US NEWS - Lego update BY: Greg Edwards Pictures have popped up on the Net At this site ((URL) of Technic Battle Droid, (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: AI and even more exiciting stuff
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(...) ACK! Don't they teach fixed point any more? I encourage anyone to post an application where the dynamic range of signed 32 bit values is outside the range of numbers which would be useful to an RCX application! I'm not flaming, I'm just trying (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: AI and even more exiciting stuff
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(...) Yes, and no. It is an interpreter, that you can type (or upload) ASCII text to. It then compiles it into an efficient bytecode (really 16 bits) that lets you execute later. It allows for LOTS of variables and best of all, you don't need to be (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Annoying Journalist's Request
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Hi, sorry for interferring with this mailing list. I am a journalist from Germany, working for "Konr@d", a multimedia offspring of "Stern" magazine. Since the Mindstorms product has just been released in Germany, we thought it would be a nice idea (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Robot navigation
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Try (URL) for a cheap 'n' cheerful approach, go to (URL) click the 'Search inventions' item in the Navbar on the left, and search for Compassbot. Cheers JP (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: AI and even more exiciting stuff
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(...) Well, we are trying to teach AI, not embedded systems :) Towards that end, we've sort of tried to simplify things as much as possible for the kids who are taking the class, since most of them will probably never do an embedded system again. (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Sharp GP2D02 with out expansion board
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Handyboard Community, Has anyone written code for the GP2D02 sensor without the expansion board. I have a group of High school kids that have KISS institute robot kits. This kit comes with a handyboard and LEGO's but no expansion board. Being on a (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: need a text editor
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(...) I highly recommend TextPad (www.textpad.com). I use it for writing all my C, Java and HTML code. It allows you complete control over formatting (auto-indent, tabs to spaces, etc.) and a multitude of useful tools, including parenthesis (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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