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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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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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