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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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| | RE: AI and even more exiciting stuff
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(...) OK, time to get out the soapbox. If you are trying to teach AI, and are using floating point math, then you probably have really fast computers with floating point processors that are sometimes quicker than equivalent fixed point calcs...... I (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Annoying Journalist's Request
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To the list: this morning is a break for me, so I'm going to use it to type this out. Hope no one minds that it gets sent to the "annoying journalist" as well. Here at Duke, we are teaching a class with the mindstorms. Recently, we completed a class (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Data acquisition through analog input
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Dear Mr. Kalyan, Maybe you can try those RF module from www.Glalab.com Look for their guide on connecting the holtek IC to their RF module. I believe that will help you a lot. Regards, William (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: AI and even more exiciting stuff
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(...) Depends exactly what you're teaching in the class, and how much time you have. Spending a session teaching fixed point math may well mean that you have to miss out a useful AI tool. If the students already understand how to call, say (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Data acquisition through analog input
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(...) Do you mean < www.glolab.com >. Victor (26 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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