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I wrote a very small message to VLL converter with the Scout so that I could play around with my 3 MicroScouts. The direct actions are useful but the script mode is pointless. WHY O WHY did LEGO make it play a stupid song BEFORE each motor action??? (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.microscout, lugnet.robotics.scout, lugnet.robotics.vll)
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| | Cybermaster sale at Brickwest
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Hi I just found a new stock of Lego CyberMaster's here in Denmark. I expect to go to Brickwest in CA in February, and if anybody on this list are going too, and interested in buying CM's, I could bring some. The price will be 100 USD. Regular price (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NQC, Mac OS X, and the USB IR Tower.
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Hi, My experience is that communication with the RCX using the command line version of nqc, Mac OS X 10.1.1 and the USB IR tower is intermittant. About one in 4 times the program will succesfully upload to the RCX, the other times it reports "port (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | BricxCC release 3.3.2.13
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Yesterday, I uploaded release 3.3.2.13 of BricxCC to my website: (URL) version fixes the access violation on calling the UpgradeRegistry method at startup (not all users encountered this problem). I am beginning to implement the "save desktop" (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: 74hc237
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I know that Mouser have the parts in stock.........but they require a minimum order (100$).......it isn't a great deal........Radio Shack is good but i live in Italy and they don't sell outside U.S.........if you know where i can purchase 74hc237 (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: VC on WindowsXP Pro
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Yes I did. It took a bit of hacking. I can follow-up this note if necessary with some more details but I'll have to figure it out again myself. I did this about 6 months ago while beta testing XP. You will need a Win98 system, preferably networked (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| | Re: VB and the IR tower
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hi Ryan, You can do it either through the spirit.ocx or just by sending the bytes to the IR tower. Both methods are quiet straight forward. I used both methods for the serial port in Delphi (which looks a lot like VB) and found that spirit.ocx is (...) (24 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Vision command ActiveX component
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you can get it here (within 2 minutes) (URL) Mientki (24 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: VB and the IR tower
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You need to import the spirit.ocx file (only comes with the rcx 1.0/1.5 version. If properly imported, you will see a lego logo in the components list. Put this in an application form and select in the lego component the proper pbrick and (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Building Robots with Lego Mindstorms
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"John Hansen" <JohnBinder@aol.com> wrote in message news:GnrswI.K5r@lugnet.com... (...) Lego (...) can (...) the ideas and design direction that they give is worth the cost of the book and more. I have only seen the electronic version so i don't (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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