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I am about to embark on a great adventure with a dozen 5 to 11 year olds. I've committed to running (or just starting, watching over, keeping peace in) an after-school robotics club at my kids' elementary school. I will be spending one hour a week (...) (26 years ago, 31-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: Robotics demo
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Dennis, your demo sounds great! Please drop in to lugnet.robotics.edu and maybe copy in a bit about what you did. Please tell us a little about the Parallax stuff and where to get it??? I and others are working on learning materials for Mindstorms, (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: lego Technic "class"
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Stephen, I have had one RIS motor fail shortly after first use, apparently developing a shorted armature winding. Symptom: hard to rotate fast by hand. OK very slow. Under power: ran rough and slow, made humming noise I suspect was once-per-motor (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: bug in semaphore code (was Re: Announce: NQCIPC update
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Todd, this is CoolBut: It does not appear to appear from NNTP. Is it your intention to have, um.. lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc.code ?? I like the idea a lot of having a code repository... (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | ------( Welcome to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab )------
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Welcome to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, a LUGNET discussion group. CHARTER/PURPOSE: lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab (group): Focused discussion group for ROBOLAB, a graphical environment for programming the LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ RIS: questions, comments, (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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TERMS OF USE FOR LUGNET.COM OVERVIEW AND DEFINITIONS lugnet.com ("LUGNET") is a privately owned Internet site designed and run primarily for the benefit of those who enjoy building with, discussing, collecting, buying & selling, trading, and (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: lego Technic "class"
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(...) Nice pictures! Now Merlin, my black long-hair cat is telling me to go for it! I guess I'll have to rip into my half-dead motor to see what's inside there. Since it's not reliable, I've got less to lose by (gasp!) cutting the plastic or (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab
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A new newsgroup/mailing-list lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab has just been created. ROBOLAB is a cross-platform (PC & Mac) graphical environment for programming the LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ Robotics Invention System (e.g., RCX). ROBOLAB, like NQC, does not (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Lego parts are featured in mcdonalds (Canada) happy meals currently
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(...) Same "campaign" is going on here in Sweden... //Harri Manni - 070-5850517 -"Do not take life too seriously.You will never get out alive." (26 years ago, 31-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: walker that turns?
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(...) I think I've seen four-legged walkers that turn the same way that a tank tread vehicle turns -- walk the two legs on one side forward and the other side backwards. Not the most efficient way to do this, but possibly the easiest to construct. (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: lego Technic "class"
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I know one thing that can ruin a motor.... Never drop it shaft down on the ground, even in dirt. I was carrying it across my yard, and it fell, and now will not work anymore. The shaft was jammed back inside the motor. If your motor will not turn at (...) (26 years ago, 31-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: fast firmware downloader
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(...) Sorry, but I'm going to be stubborn on this one. I abhor short (often cryptic) filenames. In the NQC source tree, almost every class is in its own file, which is of course named after the class. So in a sense, truncating the filenames is more (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Three point targeting system
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I thought of an idea, Im sure has been used before. Where you have three sensors (ie light or ir) equidistant on an arc and they are all pointing towards the center of the arc. So that when they are all the same value the source is both right in (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: 1.0 to 1.5 upgrade
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Kekoa Proudfoot wrote in message ... (...) My question too. I paid for both the RIS 1.0 and the Scout, but 'll be missing out on the new software to control the Scout from pc, which is in the RIS 1.5 update. I strongly believe this 'patch' should (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Scout secrets revealed
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Even som more Additional observations: - I made up a program to blink a spot on a computer screen as if it where a barcdode, but didn't succeed in triggering either the Code Pilot or the Scout. Don't know if it's fundamental or just in execution. - (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: walker that turns?
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(...) There are probably many ways for a walker to turn. A simple one is the "triple gait cycle hexapod", which can walk both forwards and backwards, in addition to turning either way. I have made a triple gait cycle hexapod based on the Cybermaster (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: 1.0 to 1.5 upgrade
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(...) It might be that it can - but you won't find any menus in RIS 1.5 program that let's you use the software for the Scout - I strongly believe this will be with a Scout version 1.5 (or 2.0 - depends). They still have to market the Scout in (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Site--Comments?
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Hi All, For the ThinkQuest 2000 contest (www.thinkquest.com or org, i forget which) I was putting together a Mindstorms site with a group of two friends. I was wondering what people on the the newsgroup/list thought of the site in its under (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RCX Byte Code listings
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Hi, I am looking for the most detailed version of the RCX Byte Code syntax available does anybody know where I can find such a document. If possible I would also like to find a copy of the Hitachi assembly code syntax. D Myers (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | ABC News coverage of "Astronaut Companion" Robot
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Since kids will have seen this on TV, it may be part of the current popular view of "Robots".. The link is: (URL) abstract: This Personal Satellite Assistant, or PSA, will hover in the weightlessness of space. It’s like having a buddy there to help (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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