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(...) Finding your own balls isn't really as difficult as it sounds -- you just have to know where to look. Most Toys backward R Us stores have a large Nerf selection with a variety of sizes and shapes. They're usually larger than the balls that (...) (26 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Scout brick and IR
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Is there an IR port on the RDS? With that big old LCD, it would be sooooo much better than the RCX if you could actually do real programming on it. -Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous (...) (26 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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HI, I was just wondering what this FLL thing was that you guys were talking about? Thanks in advance. Nicolas Gauthier (26 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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The MIT Press Bookstore received an initial shipment today of 8 copies of Jonathan Knudsen's book, The Unofficial Guide to LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ Robots: (URL) Press is open until 8:30 pm tonight. There were 3 copies left at last count. If you happen to (...) (26 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.books, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.announce)
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| | What is FLL? (was: Re: Need Balls!)
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(...) It's a double acronym: FLL stands for "FIRST LEGO League" and FIRST stands for "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology." (2 URLs) if you're attending MindFest™ this coming weekend, FIRST's founder, Dean Kamen, will be part (...) (26 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: Palm Pilot
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Thanks. It did work with Internet Explorer. It should be fixed now though. If anyone else has problems, please let me know. The website again is: (URL) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Didn't the FLL organizers foresee the need for balls? Have you guys considered using ping pong balls instead? Very close in size to the original robo sport balls I would think. Uniform and easily obtainable. Somewhat heavier I think. <ICS> (26 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatics and the RCX -how?
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(...) Excellent spider model Doug. <ICS> (26 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest update (Good News on our Table Space!!)
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Hello Eric... Expect to be VERY busy. I speak from experience. I just showed off my LEGO collection at Calgary's Woodworking & Hobby show on Canada's Thanksgiving weekend. Show attendance was 8 to 10,000, and I swear everyone stopped by to play with (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) You get 5 balls with the FLL extension set, but the contest uses up to 30 per team, and we are trying to simulate a contest. Of particular interest is whether the bins will get full and start overflowing. The balls are about 1.5 inches in (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest update (Good News on our Table Space!!)
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If you can bring a FEW straights (say 6 or 8) that would be a good thing... I will try to be there as soon as I can, dunno about 3 but will try. Got a full plate tomorrow. (26 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.ri)
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| | Re: Books
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(...) My book isn't out yet, but its getting pretty close. From what I've seen, its clear that Jonathan and I took very different approaches to writing about Mindstorms. Jonathan covers a number of advanced topics (such as pbFORTH) that I don't (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Analog port shaft encoder
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Hi, I am having great difficulty trying to get my shaft encoder to work using both sencdr3.icb or fencdr3.icb driver. I am using the QRB1114 optical sensor connected to analog port 3 with a current limiting resistor of 330 ohms for the emmiter and (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: Scout brick and IR
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Yes, it has an IR port, usable from the front and top. I don't know how you would get to it programmatically, with the current "OS" firmware being burned in to ROM, and not modifiable yet (at least by me...) Jeff jeffrey.hazen@northmill.net (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Ralph, I just tried out to remove all EMITs from ACCEPT word, in order to eliminate back echo from RCX. It works good: less Frame Errors and Break Interrupts from comm port during the session. And you can use "normal" terminal program, like (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Why don't you post the info here? Seems like the best place for it! (26 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Need Balls!
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(...) Don't know if this will help in any way. I happen to have a Pisco-Dacta catalog in front of me (gonna put in an order) and under Tools and Supplies, they have some sponge balls. The ones I see here are 3" lightweight foam balls. Color Vary. (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | A load of balls
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I must have mailed my previous comment to the wrong return address. What the message said was that most craft stores carry a load of different sizes and materials of balls. I've used them for other robotics testing like pick and place. Try to ignore (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I have a nerf gun that shoots a nice smooth nerf ball. I would surmise though i havent checked that they would be very lego friendly. b ---...--- (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatics and the RCX -how?
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Hi Tobias, I have some pages on pneumatics, perhaps you can find some usefull info there. CU Bert Lego robots and artificial intelligence (URL) bericht----- Van: Tobias Möller <tobias.moller@telia.com> Aan: lego-robotics@crynwr.com (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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