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Yup, I just bought it at B&N too,really nice! I love the discussion of grabbing mechanisms, and the skier is way too cool, I can't wait until we get snow! I am however not *quite* impatient enough to defrost our freezer... :o) Elijah (24 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Robert, A company in Canada sells them at a reasonable price, HVW Technologies. My order got held up at the boarder for about a week, but they said that was a rare occasion and not the norm. Here is their web address (URL) They cost $3.25 each plus (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Fw: ...proximity sensor.....
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Hi All, I want to use the "Send message" function of the RCX 2.0 and the = Light Sensor to make an IR proximity sensor, say if the robot gets within = 6 inches of an object it would back up and spin 180 and carry on. I wan = to use the programming (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi I have built the sound sensor in the Extreme Mindstorms book, and the basic operation appears to work fine. However when I have tried to use it in a full program which starts motors at the start of the program, the input is behaving as if it has (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Bouncing
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Is this what you suppose to post? ----- Original Message ----- From: Timothy Burt To: Lego Robotics Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 2:02 PM Subject: Bouncing Sirs, I have had trouble posting but not receiving messages. I think I have the problem (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Shuting up the RCX
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(...) :-( Too heavy for me. Thanks anyway (24 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Shuting up the RCX
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(...) very easy to (...) Ok, perhaps I'll give it a try on Xmas. Thanks a lot (24 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | How to make shared memory....not
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(...) You ask for it, you get it. BUT: It works, sort of. It will not survive any multitasking problems. Shared memory has to be handled by the OS, not by a user program. I split your problem to 3 programs. Program 1 allocates the memory and prints (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Sirs, I have had trouble posting but not receiving messages. I think I have the problem solved. If not, please let me know what I need to do to resolve this issue. I find the posting informative. Thank you, Tim Burt (24 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New MindStorms SDK
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(...) That's fantastic news! Thanks Michael & Team.. Except of course if you happen to be a MacOS developer and super keen to develop some exceptional tools for the RCX on MacOS 9.x/X as a platform.. Can you please provide the toolkit as a .SIT or (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RIS2 Upgrade on W95 & Pentium(I)
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(...) Well, I have a fully functional RIS 1.5 including the serial tower. I got the RIS2 "Upgrade" disk from S@H. It's installer checks for OS and bails when it finds W95. And, of course, the .cab files are password protected, so, none of this (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Using the Home-made One-way valve
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(...) Great ideas there! The Window Walker is a really nice practical application of the one-way split-valve. So that's how the old pre-1989 pneumatic systems operated...:-) -Gaurav Thakur, raving madman cp5670@home.com (URL) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | I need to borrow a USB Tower.
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I don't post to these groups very often, being mostly a lurker, but I am attempting to make a contribution to the world of lego robotics. I am working on what will be an open source version of the spirit.ocx. In fact it's been available as an alpha (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: USB, Windows, legOS
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I tried the patch and still get the error "Error 6 GetCommState". Anyone know what this error means and what I can do to correct it? I would really like to get legOS running. (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Storing Data
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(...) It was suggested by some of my 'c++' co-workers that this was the case (shared memory was available). However, I don't deal with that in my Visual Basic world. They also suggested there were 'unused' memory blocks in LegOS where data could be (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Scout SDK missing from mindstorms.lego.com?
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Hi Chris, I seem to be hosting the only copy in existance :) Try here: (URL) down to the downloads!) Phil. (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.scout, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Storing Data
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(...) As there is no memory management, any memory not on the stack is by definition shared between any threads. Concurrency control is up to you however. John A. Tamplin jat@jaet.org 770/436-5387 HOME 4116 Manson Ave 770/431-9459 FAX Smyrna, GA (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Remote servo motor controller for RCX
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Mindsensors has developed a two servo motor control for the RCX. This interface works on IR message Sent from RCX. It can control tow servo motors with 1 degree resolution, and can move from 0 to 180 degrees. You can have look at it (URL) this page (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Using the Home-made One-way valve
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(...) Agreed! (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | New MindStorms SDK
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Dear LUGnetters and LEGO MINDSTORMS users You can download our new LEGO MINDSTORMS SDK from: (URL) non-standard location is because we were delayed in getting it up and running on the official mindstorms.lego.com pages before X-mas. However, we felt (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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