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(...) Here is an Idea. If you know where you are sort of, then you can program an object into memory at a certian distance(a wall perhaps). Once the robot hits something, it checks to see if it is about at the distance programmed into it. If it is, (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | shoes [was Re: lego Technic "class"]
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=>From: Steve Moffat <smoffat@hcitech.com> =>... => If you have an abnormal foot size why do you need to buy =>twice as many shoes as those who do not? ... in the case where you have different-sized feet (e.g. size-10 left, and size-12 right). The (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: lego Technic "class"
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Greetings, Well that makes more sense. I have never heard of this before. <<...>> -----Original Message----- From: Chris Phillips [SMTP:chris.phillips...oards.com] Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 3:34 PM To: 'Steve Moffat' Cc: (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: lego Technic "class"
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From: "Chris Phillips" <chris.phillips@comp...oards.com> (...) I've (...) the (...) I've (...) far. The adder/subtractor is an all mechincal design which handles this flaw. Take a look at (URL) I'm sure that others will chime in with their designs (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Robot navigation
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I have been working on this too, and I decided that I am going to live with a certain amount of uncertainty. If I can get to within a few inches of where I think I am, that's going to be good enough. Until it isn't anymore, and then back to the (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Using ROBOLAB with FIRST LEGO League
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i'm posting this again. it was already posted to lugnet.robotics If your kids are using ROBOLAB in this years FIRST LEGO League, I've written a replacement for pages 27-36 in the Official FIRST LEGO League 1999 Rule Book, replacing ROBOLAB for RCX (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: lego Technic "class"
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(...) *snip* As a somewhat Bizzare experiment, I have run a LEGO motor from the battery box controller as supplied with motor set 8735. The motor is placed next to a Pick-up on an electric guitar plugged into an electronic tuner. With the motor (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: lego Technic "class"
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In lugnet.robotics, Stephen Unwin writes: <...snip...> (...) I've never seen this, but I recall hearing somebody discuss this recently. It might be a quality control problem having to do with adhesive getting worn off and gumming up the gears. (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Scans of Constructopedia 1.0 English
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Jesper: Thanks for posting the scans of the Constructopedia 1.5 last week. The comparison was fascinating, especially finding out what the "new" pieces were in the set. Some debate remains in my mind--has Lego made the RIS set slightly less valuable (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | bug in semaphore code (was Re: Announce: NQCIPC update
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Your semaphore acquire algorithm isn't too good. Here is your code: #define sem_acquire(s) until (s == 0); s = 1; If two tasks are waiting for the semaphore at the same time, it is quite likely that both will get it: // (s is currently nonzero) task (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LegOS newbie wants more info.
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Thanks Sergey. I was aware of Luis' fine HOWTO. I was actually trolling to see if Luis would offer a preview of the 0.2.0 version ;) I have never heard of doxygen but will grab a copy and see what that gives for documentation. Kevin (...) decided (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: bug in semaphore code (was Re: Announce: NQCIPC update
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(...) Robert, Cool stuff. I just added it here: (URL) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Starting IC with wizard
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I am not familiar with the "wizard" option. Please elaborate -p -- A healthy mind is an oxymoron! (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: Scans of Constructopedia 1.0 English
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(...) If you look closely at the parts list in 1.0 vs 1.5, you will notice that the composition of pieces has changed in many ways. 1.0 has 26 2x4 bricks, and a couple 2x6 and 2x8 bricks for example. 1.5 has only 5 2x4 bricks, and no 2x6 or 2x8 (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 1.0 to 1.5 upgrade
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(...) Maybe they want to get rid of the 1.0 sets, and to encourage that, they are not selling the 1.5 sets just yet. Instead, they will sell you a 1.0 set with a free upgrade. Now if they do that, why can't I get an upgrade for free? -Kekoa (26 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | legOS-0.2.1
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Hello, legOS 0.2.1 is out. No, I'm not working full time on legOS - this is just a day's work. Apart from minor bug fixes, a new file format for user programs is introduced, along with the tools to support it. The dynamic loader is a standalone C (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RELEASE: LegoSim -- another LegOS Simulator
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Nice picture :-) I added this to the legOS tools page. Are you going to do 0.2.1? Markus. (26 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS-0.2.1
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Cool! If no one else does, I'll try to get it working on Windows next week, along with the rest of the HOWTO push. Don't hold your breath, though :) -Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: lego Technic "class"
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By "abnormal" I guess I really mean "mis-matched" foot sizes. Some people have feet that are so different in size that they need to wear vastly different sized shoes on each foot. (ie: Left size 8, right size 13.) Shoe stores will not break up two (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: fast firmware downloader
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(...) Wes, A good place to start with the porting is to grab the latest NQC source code from www.enteract.com/~dbaum/nqc and take a look at the family of PSerial classes in the platform directory. Create a new class (e.g. PSerial_dos) that (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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