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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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(...) 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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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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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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| | Re: Mindstorms available in the Netherlands ?
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(...) Hi Jan, whether Mindstorms is available in the Netherlands I don't know, but it sure is available in Germany. It cost about 450 DM which is currently about 250 US$ or about 230 Euro. Franz (26 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | is their a searchable archive
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Is their a searchable archive of the LEGO Robotics Mailing List? Don Myers (26 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Wot no RCX power connector?
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-----Original Message----- From: Jacob Schultz <dungeonmaster@get2net.dk> To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> Date: Friday, October 22, 1999 8:36 PM Subject: Re: Wot no RCX power connector? (...) is a (...) batteries (...) and (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: is there a searchable archive
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(...) Don, There is a searchable archive* of the lugnet.robotics newsgroup here: (URL) lego-robotics@crynwr.com mailing list is gatewayed with the lugnet.robotics newsgroup, so anything which appears on the mailing list also appears in the (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | mindfest
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Wow. I will never ever again feel that I have a large amount of Lego. (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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I checked out the Nerf balls that are about the same size as the LEGO ones, but they are much denser and harder. I was surprised. They probably shoot much better than the super light foam ones, though. I got a wicked pile of Ping Pong balls that are (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Todd Bertschi <Cptgldfsh@aol.com> wrote in message news:FK0Ms3.5pL@lugnet.com... (...) Supplies, (...) many (...) 1-800- (...) Too big, but thanks for the thought. --Jack Gregory (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Analog port shaft encoder
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Rob, Another suggestion for debuging your setup would be to write a program which; 1, anually counts the pulses from the encoder, and writes them to the lcd screen; or 2, Just writes the state of the encoder input to the screen (a 1 or 0). Then you (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I´ve seen that page before.I tried to build your pneumatic motor, it was really awesome to see it move! --Tobias (...) that? (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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just by the way, the Belville figures heads will fit on a technic figure, so that´s how to make a female technic figure. I have never tried it though, so I don´t know if the figures gets damaged. --Tobias (...) that? (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Spirit.ocx Download
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Hello, I am still waiting for my RIS 1.5 to arrive. I would like to try out some programs like NQC, but none of them work without spirit.ocx installed. Is there anywhere I can download Spirit.ocx (Legally) so that I can get started?. Regards, Garry (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | FW: IR remote using PIC16F84
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(...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The color doesn't match, though. :( (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Actually, NQC works without spirit.ocx (or any ocxes at all, for that matter). (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Mindfest
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Coming at you FROM the MINDFEST floor... Put it this way, Mindfest is a BLAST... More later. John Van Z will be demoing Lugnet and the CAD related stuff (LDraw format files, LDLite, L2P, running POVRay, Datsville and the Datsville explorer at 10 AM (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Mindfest
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(...) Hi Larry. Be there in a few minutes. :) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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snip (...) snip (...) Tobas, I can say that Bert's page is a treasure chest for ideas on how to use pneumatics with mindstorms. I've got a Coal Unloader that uses 5 pn. cylinders, and a motor, to unload coal. (it works, when the program is right...) (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Position Finding/Mapping Description
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Okay. The base is a lot like the last picture on the Synchro Drive page. STEERING Then there are the beams that hold the axles that hold the 8t gears that link the turntables together. One axle is just one of those half friction pin/half axle (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mindstorms available in the Netherlands ?
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Lego claims that it will be available in the Netherlands within two weeks time. Cost about f 550. Mark Overmars Jan Sikkink <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:380C7344.CF2196...roep.nl... (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mindstorms available in the Netherlands ?
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Hello all in Germany and the counties in the neigborhood, I got my RIS at ToysRUs and I ' payed 449.00 DM. They had a lot of packages in their store at Neuss. I think there would be the same situation at their other stores. Ralf (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hello from your southern neighbour. (...) The set is in the stores in Austria if you believe the press. The other side is: Am I too stupid to see one? All the time I sneak into the Legodepartment of the big toystores all I see is the DDK (and (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I just dissasembled the 3 wheel configuration, and built a four wheel one with another turntable I found. It is now a four wheeler. Balance is solved, with no counterweight, and I think that it will steer a lot straighter too. The turntables (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Analog port shaft encoder
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Tried what you said Joshua, I went through all the analog ports and manually fed them with a TTL signal from a function generator at a relatively low frequency of 5Hz and wrote this little test code to test it. In this example, the sencdr3.icb has (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi all! As I plan to build a Handy Bord, and as I am a bit far away from USA, I just would like to know if there is anyone living in France (and maybe in/near Paris?)... Electronic components aren't really cheap here, so if I could share tips about (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Mindfest Photos!
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Check out (URL) for some mindfest photos. Be warned that I haven't gotten time to do any sorting or naming or resizing-for-mass-consumption. They're 1600x1200 and about 400k each. Sometime soon I'll do some work and make a nice page out of this (...) (26 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | H8 tools problems on Linux
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Hi all! The H8 tools on Linux won't work for me - it's Linux 5.2 and the C compiler complains about "null char when parsing input" for anything else than a comment... I tried with both the old and new tools form the legOS site.... any ideas? thanks (...) (26 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I'll let someone else address the rest of your question, but: there is no "Linux 5.2". The latest stable version of Linux is 2.2.13, and the latest devel release is 2.3.22. Perhaps you mean Red Hat 5.2? In that case, I'd suggest upgrading -- (...) (26 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | reading sensor input?
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I've got a strange problem that probably has an easy solution, but I've been trying to hard to figure it out and am afraid that now I'm missing the obvious. I brushed the dust off my Handy Board to build a robot for my middles school robotics (...) (26 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) Vlad- First off, I'd suggest building your own tools, instead of downloading the pre-built tools (which, like anything pre-built, tends to work only on systems very similar to the original builder's.) There are pretty clear directions (I (...) (26 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Mindfest Photos!
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More pics up at <URL:(URL). Same disclaimers apply. Today's start at 1076. (26 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Mindfest Photos!
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Argh! And I JUST finished resizing and thumbnailing the first batch! (sorry, they were just so cool I couldn't wait!) <from my previous post on the mater> For those people that do not have fast connection or 21" monitors, I have resized and (...) (26 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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(...) Uh oh, you're fueling my laziness. Now I have a lot less incentive to go through and clean them up myself. I've got ambitious (heh) plans for actually adding descriptive labels and stuff. *laugh* PS: i really _can_ make a decent web site when (...) (26 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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PS: current batch is kinda fuzzy -- pretty low-light conditions in the gallery, unfortunately. Also, #1106 through #1111 are pictures of the NELUG logo done in lego, and not really interesting to the general population. :) (26 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Uh oh, more fuel on the fire then! I just uploaded the updated pages with the new photos! Of course, they don't have descriptions, since I wasn't there and don't know what was going on! (URL) I have no idea how you are getting this stuff to be (...) (26 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Controlling two robots simultaneously
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Does someone know how to control two mindstorms or two cybermaster robots simultaneously? Of course, one can use either two PCs or one to drive the IR and/or RF sender. But: - in case of two mindstorms, the IR signals and the responses of the robots (...) (26 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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