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This site will give you some idea of what the kit involves: (URL) may need (URL) as well : ) Robin "Gareth Bestor" <bestor@cs.wisc.edu> wrote in message news:Gnvtw2.IEs@lugnet.com... (...) out (...) thinking (...) read (...) problems (...) I (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) with Model #1 in Joe Nagata's LEGO MINDSTORMS Idea Book, called 'Rolling Car', as the platform. It is exactly like 'IT' without the steering column. It can be programmed to balance. It has 2 outputs and 0 inputs, so there's lots of opportunity (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) out (...) I bought one of these with the AA battery pack for under $100 and mounted it with rubber bands on the radio control Lego car #5600. I used a small color composite monitor on the receiver. Then I steered it around our office building (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) They suck bad... I have three of them. In really bright light they are ok... Just ok. But in 'normal' lighting they are terrible. And the wireless 2.4ghz can't take moving around at all without 'blipping'... It was a huge disappointment and (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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A long time ago, I built a robot based on the older x10 cam. You can find some example video of what the robot sees here: (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The video works reasonably well where the lighting is good. I've never been to thrilled with the audio. You will need a video capture device in order to get the signal into the PC (which I see you have after reading the rest of your message). (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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If those x10 things do work at least half as well as the ads claim, that would be a cool idea! (...) and tried out (...) I'm thinking (...) I'm using to read (...) is too big and (...) of problems (...) not, then maybe I (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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I hope this isn't too off topic, but has anybody actually bought and tried out these wireless X10 cameras that are advertised all over the web? I'm thinking of using one in a Lego mobile robot. I have an Intel webcam that has a composite video input (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC, Mac OS X, and the USB IR Tower.
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Hi Dave, Thanks for responding. Your efforts have been outstanding! I'm using a G4 Cube. The tower is connected to a 17" AGP monitor. I've never used an earlier version of the system. That's an interesting story. I was having mysterious ethernet (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Could anybody tell me how to proceed to install the Lego-camera with Robolab 2.5 under Windows 2000. I tried the highly recommended Web-help at the Robolab-support, but I definitely got no answer from these Lego-guys. Nor did I get any reply about (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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