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I think it would be a very good idea to incorporate the prio-patch to legOS. But there seem to be a lot of patches and enhancements for 0.2.5. Personally, I use the remote control patch from Zhenrong Zang. And there is the TCP/IP system... Any more (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Srial problem
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Hi. I am putting together a Handyboard and have been having success until it came time to test the bootstrap mode. The interface board's voltages check out and it blinks as it attempts to download. I am using an E1 and the Mac 6811 downloader. The E (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Bricks in my Pocket (BimP) now available!
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(...) Content for your PocketPC or Palm is now available. I have been working hard the last few weeks creating a pocket presence for the Advanced Building Brick hobbyist. Using the new Mazingo service, I have created the new e-journal "Bricks in my (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.loc.us.in.eva, lugnet.robotics.palm, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.publish, lugnet.lego, lugnet.edu, lugnet.cad)
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| | Priority Interrupt Patch and legOS-0.2.5
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We are gathered here to witness the union of priointerrupt-patch.diff and legOS-0.2.5. If anyone has just cause why these two should not be wed may they speak now or forever hold their peace. Robert Templeton (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Magna
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-- MIME ATTACHMENTS DISCARDED: 1. Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Next....55D0E880" Content-Length: 1068 2. Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Magna.url" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | PARC's Modular Robotics chain systems - PolyBot
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-- MIME ATTACHMENTS DISCARDED: 1. Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Next....0CE83470" Content-Length: 1082 2. Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="PARC's Modular Robotics chain systems - PolyBot.url" (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.3.7
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Cross-posting to lugnet.robotics in case anyone missed it. I've just uploaded a new release of BricxCC. Version 3.3.3.7 completes the implementation of the configurable Tools feature. Transfer item parameter macros are now functional. The major (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickHeap Wars!
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(...) --I say have five tables: four standard and one large area for parts (or just a huge heap of lego parts on the floor), and let the teams duke it out for parts...just like Junkyard Wars! Of course, then you have a small problem with fights (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: We're Famous!
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Hi, You all are making me jealous. Here in South Africa we don't have BrickFests or anything like that... ...*sulk*... ...I wonder if I can get a job overseas... ...hehehehehehe Q (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickHeap Wars!
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(...) We did something like this at my son's birthday party...but with 11yr olds and on a MUCH smaller scale! (We even called it "BrickYard Wars") * We gave each kid one Mindstorms motor, one wire and a 9v battery pack with brand new Duracells in (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickHeap Wars!
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(...) David and I are going to work on developing and fleshing out the BrickHeap Wars format during and after BricksWest. We're really going to learn-by-doing, and see what sorts of things work best (and don't). I imagine that we'll end up putting (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.games)
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| | Re: Any Robot builders on Long Island?( Eastern L.I.)
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(...) I have links to all known robotics clubs on my web site at www.allaboutbots.com. I don't know of any in NY yet, but I did get an email today for a new one in Virginia. For a list of clubs, click on NEWS on my web site. If you know of others, (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Any Robot builders on Long Island?( Eastern L.I.)
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Hello , I live on long Island near Shirley and was wodering if there are any robot builders interested in starting a club. E-mail me : Bmajik5127@aol.com -Michael (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: We're Famous!
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(...) Just to interject something cool here, you all will be even more famous after BricksWest! By special arrangement with the publisher, I'll have copies of "Building Robots with LEGO Mindstorms" for sale at BricksWest (at 45% off the standard (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickswest)
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| | Re: Web Interface
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Hi Shibu, WebBrick 2.4 is a program that lets you connect your Lego Mindstorm's robot to a web-page user interface. When anyone on the internet connects to your web page, they can press buttons on the page that activate your robot. There are 6 (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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hey Guys, Do any one of ull have information how i could interface the Lego Mindstorm to the internet, if so do keep me posted. Shibu (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Sensor Connector
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The LEGO shaft encoder and light sensor are active sensors that need a special circuit. The Expansion Board for the HB provides this ckt and the requisite drivers. Your simplest path to using these with the HB is to get an Exp Bd. Barring that, you (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Simple Sensor interface, was Re: Question?
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Thanks for adding that information. I had intended the schematic more as an exmaple than something that someone would run out and try to make. The parts are all surface mount parts, since I have been building and supplying this circuit enclosed in a (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: multiplexor and legOS
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Still no luck in getting the mux working properly. I tried making use of the code for turning sensors on and off but later realized that the ds_handler code would still be turning the sensor off as part of its normal operation. I think I'm going to (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Simple Sensor interface, was Re: Question?
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Thanks for publishing this... I have trouble locating infos on regulator "81250", I suppose it is a 5V LDO, but couldn't find manufacturer/datasheet For other curious people, datasheet of the dual shottky diode MA704 is here: (URL) the opamp here (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Sensor Connector
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(...) Thanks, I thought there might be a special connector but I see now that its a standard enough connector. Another question: How can I get the handy board to read from the lego rotation sensor and the lego light sensor? I can get the touch (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I've put a simple sensor interface design on Brickshelf which shows the key elements of providing a linear bi-polar connection to the RCX sensor input. (The two wire RCX connections are represented by the large circles to the right of the (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lost my IR Tower
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Hi, I can post it on my site as well... ...when it is finished. :) Q (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Question?
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Hi Peter, (...) it works for me. (URL) shows another schematics that doesn't show the real rotation sensor circuit, but has the same interface to the RCX. (...) Yes, that's the case. (...) That's what the rectifier bridges are for. (...) With the (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Vision Command...
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Greetings Mindstormers, I have just unwrapped my brand new Vision Command, gawsh... ...I can't wait to get home and begin playing... ...anyway I am rambling now... ...let me get back to my original question. Is there anyway to write software in Java (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lost my IR Tower
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(...) I'd be happy to find a home for it on my Lego pages. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- Mail : <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkMail: <sjbaker@link.com> URLs : (8 URLs) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Lost my IR Tower
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Hi This is probably of no interest to anyone else but... When I bought my Mindstorms (for US$15 in a charity shop) it was missing the IR Tower. I'd allotted myself an hour to build a Tower but I suspect the IR components I was using were the wrong (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Question?
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(...) I meant that the sensor can be connected either way round. (...) (URL) link! I've yet to find a working link to _any_ schematic of the light or rotation sensor (...) current, and "light" is full current, regardless of polarity. Maybe that is (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | BrickHeap Wars!
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BricksWest will host the first ever BRICKHEAP WARS event. This is a competition loosely based on Junk Yard Wars. This particular episode will be a LEGO Mindstorms competition. All materials (1) will be provided at the competition. No outside LEGO (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics) !!
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| | RE: Motorized landing gear question
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You might also want to check out the landing gear for the 8480 Space Shuttle (my all-time favorite set, BTW :) on Lugnet. It uses shafts and cogs to move the landing gear, but when the landing gear is extended the weight is borne by the frame of the (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | BricxCC release 3.3.3.7
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I've just uploaded a new release of BricxCC. Version 3.3.3.7 completes the implementation of the configurable Tools feature. Transfer item parameter macros are now functional. The major feature enhancement in this release, however, is the addition (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Sensor Connector
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Info on doing this is at (URL) . The male strip header is 929400-01-36-ND from Digikey. Fred (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) Oh, that's easy. Just check out your local electronics store. I don't know if there is a Fry's Electronics in your area, but they have them. Radio Shack? I don't know, but I would assume anyone who sells electronic components would have them. (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sensor Connector
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(...) Actually what I was looking for was how to make the male header pins to connect to the HB. Is there anywhere to buy them or how did you make them. Thanks for your answer, brendan (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sensor Connector
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(...) Actually, you can make a half way decent replica of the Lego two plate high connector at this point quite easily. When you prepare the 2x2 piece of the electric plate, cut the center circular section away from the underneath. Then, solder the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sensor Connector
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I've bought some lego electric plates (part 5037) from lego.com, and they seem to be withstanding the heat of a soldering iorn quite well (that was my fear... that I would turn them into bubbling messes). Actually they're holding up better than the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Sensor Connector
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I currently have lego motors and wires that I have used with the RCX but now Im using the Handy Board. The book explains how to connect the motor to the handy board by connecting a wire to a sensor connector but it doesnt state where to get such a (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Ultrasonic Sensor
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(...) Sound travels on the order of 333m per second, so with the 3ms interval between sensor readings you will get a resolution of 1m. You could try some heavy machine level hackery inside legOS or leJOS to read the sensors in a shorter interval, I (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Ultrasonic Sensor
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(...) let (...) Thanks for that Steve. My circuit will be based on the latter of the two possibilities. It is based on a design by RA Penfold from Electronics and Beyond (Sept.2001) so I'm basically doing construction by numbers! However, the thesis (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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