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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)
| |  | | 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)
| |  | | 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)
| |  | | 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)
| |  | | Double echo
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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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