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c s soh wrote: > (...) Umm... you still need the recharge the pressure in the tank once in a while, dont you? (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: A link of interrest
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(...) Toronto, Ontario, Canada isn't terribly far from you, I think, and there are regular robotics competitions put on by the rtlToronto club. That's the only one I know of. --Bill. (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Retry count exceeded
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HI: After programing a lot of robots with an RCX, I thought I'd sit down and try the scout. I use the first (rcx) SDK and the 'script' language to program. The documentation discusses the ability to program the scout. The editor has a drop down (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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| | Strengthening Gears
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I recently received an email from someone about strengthening gears. This person claims that by boiling the gears and then cooling them with cold water, their strength will increase. Has anyone tried this? What were your results? TJ (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Running Vision Command on XP
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Well, it would be nice if Lego would make this "update" available on-line. AFAIK, this update is only on the RIS 2.0 CD. Perhaps, you could order the RIS 2.0 updgrade from Lego. I suppose this update was to make VCS compatible with RIS 2.0 which (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| | Re: Report on BrickHeap Wars: Robot Challenge #1
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(...) Wow, that must have been a truly exciting event. Just reading the report made me feel I was there. Now, if only I were really there :-) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickswest)
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| | RE: h8/300 16-bit multiply
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(...) <snipped code...> Are you sure that it works for signed numbers :-) (...) If you like, I can give you some notes on how my Forth was developed. I'm using a simple pseudo-assembler that lets me port this Forth to a new processor in less than a (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Running Vision Command on XP
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(...) etc... Thanks for the instructions, I followed them all except the bit on VCS VERSION 1.1, so I was only partly successfull. LegoCam is working. Any other suggestions as to where one gets this ? Any idea what the update actually contains ? (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| | Re: h8/300 16-bit multiply
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Thanks. I have a version just 2 words longer that doesn't use the ROM code. Basically it's the ROM's code, trimmed down after assuming high words are zero initially. It's completely untested though, so there may be a bug. CODE UM* \ 16x16=32 (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | JBug11 - new freeware Windows HC11 monitor/debugger
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Hey all, People looking for HC11 utilities should be real interested in this one. JBug11 by John Beatty is a Windows 32-bit monitor/debugger for 68HC11 MCU's. As John states on his site, "Its development was inspired by the difficulty of running (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Report on BrickHeap Wars: Robot Challenge #1
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Ever since my brother forced me to watch an episode of Junk Yard Wars last year, I've been wanting to do something similar as a robot competition. BricksWest was finally an opportunity to try. I modified the concept slightly, to allow using LEGO (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickswest)
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| | RE: rotation sensors
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(...) Yes, you need to read the rotation sensor continuously. Be careful to not read it TOO quickly, especially if the sensor is turning slowly or you get the jumpy count problem. There is a fix for it and I might add it too the rotation sensor code (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: problems with communications
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(...) Keep digging. Try using a PC first and get that working. (...) Yep. (...) Sounds like pbForth is picking up steam again. Good. It's emails like this that keep me motivated to keep development going. I'm just back from a vacation, so I'll do (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: h8/300 16-bit multiply
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(...) The easiest thing is to cast your 16 bit values to 32 bits and use the built-in 32x32 multiply... Here's the code from pbForth that does it. (It's written in a pseudo- assebler, but you can probably figure it out...) #---...--- # UM* UM* ( u1 (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: Support for pbForth in BricxCC
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(...) John, This is great news! My own Tcl based GUI is a bit lacking, and a grand unified firmware uploader sounds like a great idea. I've been away on holidays and conferences most of the month, so I've missed most of this thread. Quick question, (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Tip for cutting electric plates
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To everyone, In case anyone has experienced as much trouble as I have attempting to sever the conductive strips in electric plates, I've posted the method I now use. (URL) a lot easier and a lot safer than severing with a knife and it doesn't mess (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatics: the old and the new
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(...) Exactly! (...) That's right! (...) Oh oh! Methinks you have not had the simple pleasure of playing with a hand pump (the new type of course) and an air tank like in the 8250 Submarine or 8462 Tow Truck or such like. Try it! (...) No need, just (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Support for pbForth in BricxCC
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(...) I wrote a hack to dump all the words, and here's the result for version 2.0.0. The word list has changed since 1999. I think the list is complete, but no guarantees. ?DUP 2SWAP 2OVER 2DROP 2DUP RSHIFT DLShift LSHIFT MOD / * */ SM/REM /MOD (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Support for pbForth in BricxCC
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(...) My plan is to simply have the editor syntax highlight the built-in words in various (configurable) ways. Comments, for instance, () and \ would be highlighter in a certain way. Numbers in another. Standard Forth words that are not simple (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Support for pbForth in BricxCC
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(...) I'm also playing with interfaces to pbforth at the moment. What you're doing and I'm not is syntax highlighting. I'm not actually sure how well that works in pbforth, since I'm not sure how the editor knows which words have been defined (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | rotation sensors
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Do I have to manually frequently read the values from rotation sensors for the count to work, or does the firmware monitor the sensor for me? I have home-brew passive sensors, touch sensors and light sensors working fine, but the rotation sensor is (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Support for pbForth in BricxCC
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I've started a project recently related to pbForth. And I'm interested in some community feedback. Last night I wrote a preliminary pbForth syntax highlighter for the editor component I use in BricxCC. And I modified BricxCC slightly so that you can (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Are these Robolab parts?
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Hope this is the correct newsgroup... The URL below is a picture in which some kind of sensor is displayed... The brick is 2*3 studs, and 1 1/3 brick high. The big hole in the side is big enough for a Technic axle to go through. The small hole seems (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: Pneumatics: the old and the new
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"c s soh" <cssoh@singnet.com.sg> wrote in message news:3C8076A2.E27D98....com.sg... (...) You most certainly can store vacuum. How would a TV set work, otherwise? When the tube is finally smashed or broken at the end of it's life, the vacuum (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | new EmuLegOS release 1.2.5.0
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I just posted a new release of EmuLegOS, if you're interested you can grab it from (URL) of the changes were just adding support for additional sensor types. Here is the changelog. 1.2.5.0 03/02/02 Mark Falco - added include for semaphore.h so user (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Pneumatics: the old and the new
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(...) Now things get a little philosophical :) The air tank itself has no idea about vacuum or pressure. The only thing the tank stores is a pressure difference. The difference between the outer pressure and the inner presure. This difference might (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatics: the old and the new
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Hi there, Rob That thread led to an extensive discussion into the depths of "vacuum storage". It would appear that storing compressed air is no problem but 'the whole concept of "storing vacuum" is a little disturbing.' Well, you can certainly pump (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatics: the old and the new
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Wow!! That is a fantastic model, it's a shame they're not produced anymore - I wonder if TLG would be capable of manufacturing parts which function the same way as the old ones did? If it were possible to obtain new parts that performed the same (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | VOTE: Technic Model of the Month - February
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FUT: lugnet.technic Hi there! As it is a new month it's not only time to select the best MOTM on ldraw.org but also time to vote for the best _Technic_ MOTM! I got nine entries this first very short premier month, see them and judge them here: (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.publish, lugnet.fun, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Pneumatics: the old and the new
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Hello pneumatics fans, I have been working a lot with pneumatics lately, and have made some interesting discoveries. I think the most notable is a method of using the old style red cylinders with the new pneumatics system. I came across this as I (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: pbrick.dll
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(...) spirit.ocx (...) as for the spirit.ocx? (...) comes in the (...) Hi, I don't know about pbrick.dll, but Lego finally made the RIS2 SDK available. Besides a linkable API dll ("Ghost") it also contains a COM server with functionality similar to (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: reliability of quad speed LNP
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(...) Probably depends on the make-up of the data you're transferring. ROSCO (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | burned chip?
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Hi everyone, I've recently put together a handyboard kit. The construction went fine and I was very impressed with the step by step instructions provided from handyboard.com. Anyway, the board just stopped working after just two days of usage. I (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: reliability of quad speed LNP
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So with inverting every other message byte were you able to work at 4x? Were you then also able to work at close range at 4x? It would seem easy to patch LNP to automatically do this inversion. I'll have to give this a try. thanks, mark (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RFC: Creation of Version 0.2.6
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(...) We asked our lawyers about this many months ago, when the whole issue first came up. It's okay with them if the name "legOS" is used in a "formerly known as" context. Just like what you describe, basically - to make sure people understand that (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | h8/300 16-bit multiply
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I'm trying to implement a 16bit multiply that leaves a 32bit result on the H8/300. The RCX ROM includes 16x16=16 and 32x32=32 multiplication routines, but not the intermediate step. Any hints or pointers? (it should be straightforward, but my eyes (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | pbrick.dll
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Hi everyone, I found this replacement controller of the spirit.ocx Does anyone know if there is any documentation for pbrick.dll?Or is it the same as for the spirit.ocx? Another question:Does the pbrick.dll support the USB tower that comes in the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Power to RCX
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Hi every one, Thanks for all your help on my previous inquiery. My other idea is, to power my newly acquired Scout with a Solar panel. The Solar panel (car battery saver) is 12V at ~70mA; which I intend to connect a Voltage converter (ready made (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: reliability of quad speed LNP
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"Mark Falco" <falcom@onebox.com> wrote in message news:Gs44C0.MGL@lugnet.com... (...) <<snip>> I'm not familiar with LNP but I have also experienced similar messaging problems. I have an old RCX 1.0 (S/N 22751) with serial tower and a newer RCX 2.0 (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | analog ports on handyboard?
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We are trying to use the Analog Ports with the Sharp GP2D12 and a potentiometer and are having difficulty with ports 0 -3. When we write to the ADCTL register to read any ports 0 - 3, it reads the respective high ports. For example, when we want to (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Communication between 2 Robots - Movement transmition
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I did something simple in my book where each robot had an angle sensor, and could copy each other's 1D movement. Some grad students at Tufts did the same thing with 2 angle sensors on each robot and 2D movement. Both projects also then expanded to (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.3.8
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(...) It looks like the "slowness on shutdown" that I was experiencing when I closed BricxCC while multiple editor windows were open was causing access violations on your machine. What was happening was the code explorer would kick off a thread to (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Java Mindstorms API
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Hi Keith, (...) on the site I saw: To build an equivalent system for on-board ML programming of the RCX using the Lejos operating system Great project, finally there will be a decent programming language for the RCX ;-) Should better get going with (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: reliability of quad speed LNP
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I have found that between a rather old PC and a RCX I cannot use quad speed transfer of data as the RCX cannot keep up. When a different (faster) PC and the same RCX I can use quad speed transfer. I guess it comes down to protocol timing. LNP does (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.3.8
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hi John, getting the latest video driver (Geforce 2MX, driver DetonatorXP v23.11) didn't help :-(, but .... you're new version 3.3.3.9 DID help :-) So thanks again ! I can't see any relevant changes from your "enhancements" list, but maybe you (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | reliability of quad speed LNP
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Does anyone have any data on the reliability of quad speed LNP? I've been using quad speed LNP for downloading programs to my 1.0 RCX for some time, and never had a problem. Recently I'd bowored a friends 1.0 RCX so that my bot could have two RCXs. (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | BricxCC release 3.3.3.9
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I've released another version of BricxCC (3.3.3.9). In this release: 1) Fixes to Cybermaster-specific items on the Watch window and graph 2) Fixed slow shutdown caused by Code Explorer 3) Added hints on Code Explorer preferences dialog to help (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: windows ce
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"John Barnes" <barnes@sensors.com> wrote in message news:Gs3Dus.6z2@lugnet.com... (...) sent (...) he (...) him (...) bricks. (...) can (...) just thinking about it, one should be able to adapt the circuit to take a smaller battery add-on to use (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.palm)
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| | Re: problems with communications
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(...) Dear oh dear. Probably because I'm being dense. (...) And the obvious answer - if it's software handshaking I should be able to see it with software. Having written a program to feed the serial port arbitary bytes and capture and log arbitary (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: VC limitations - Is there an alternative?
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From Lego Studios, I have been able to access other cameras by editing a line in Registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\LEGO Media\LEGO Studios\Capture Video capture driver name LEGO Cam If you change this value to the name of your alternative cam (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | problems with communications
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I'm trying to get started with pbforth, but not finding it easy. While I know no forth, I'm happy with RPN (long-time HP calculator user) and stacks, dictionaries and defining words (ex-Postscript programmer). What I'm struggling with is getting as (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Echoing printf to terminal
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this is from george musser. enjoy. - fred My advanced library of routines ((URL) includes a kludgy way to echo printf() to the IC command line. Look at the function iprintf() in the file advlib_utility.c. The routine sets up a character pointer to (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Echoing printf to terminal
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i don't know this offhand. you'd have to assemble the pcode source and look and see where it ends up. it's a ring buffer tho' so it might be a little tricky. you'd be better off patching the lcd print interrupt routine (it unspools one char per ms (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Echoing printf to terminal
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this is non-trivial. The -loopback option isn't what you think it is; it's a flag telling the downloader that the low-level serial ckt has a hardware echo. it's relevant to an earlier 6811 design (the mini board), not the HB design. this would (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Interactive C
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You have to coerce the int to a float, e.g: int i= 7; float j= 3.; float result; result = j * (float)i; The above should work. Please let me know if not. Fred (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Echoing printf to terminal
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Hi folks, We have been looking for a way to echo the printf()s on LCD to the IC terminal on host computer (using 2.86 - freeware). IC has a -loopback option, but apparently that only works for HB rev 1.5 and earlier. Is there a way to do this with (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Java Mindstorms API
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Hi all, I'm a 4th year computer science student and have just developed an add on to the RCXPort API for mindstorms control for the purpose of using with standard ML as part of my 4th year project. The website is www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~kv...oject.html (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Interactive C
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(Perhaps this isn't the right place to ask questions about I.C. but it is related to the handy board so I will continue) I am trying to write a program that uses the lego sensors and multiplies them by constants that are floats. The expansion board (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: windows ce
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(...) it's; (URL) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.palm)
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| | come to the First Annual New England Botfest, Saturday, March 9th!
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All, We're looking for people to bring robots, robotic gadgets, or any other sort of robotic invention/art/contra...n/whatever to our first annual New England Botfest. The BotFest is on Saturday March 9, 2002, at the UMass Lowell campus in Lowell, (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Extensions to Scout via VLL
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Hi, I am a newbe to lugnet so please forgive me for verboseness and the cross post to the two groups, but my request seems to be across both. My son has been using a scout & microscout in combination for 3 motor robots for some time, using the scout (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.vll, lugnet.robotics.scout)
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| | Re: windows ce
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"Dean Husby" <nntp@akasa.bc.ca> wrote in message news:Gs0uDw.M70@lugnet.com... (...) control (...) for (...) Well. I can't seem to find it, I did get mine as a demo from John, He sent me a GIF of the circuit but i can't find that either. I don't (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.palm)
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| | VC limitations - Is there an alternative?
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Hopefully this topic hasn't been beat to death... Over the past few months I've been able to borrow quite a few web cams and only the Logitech USB ones work (which makes sense considering the Lego cam is Logitech), except for a parallel port (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Rotation sensor
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"Claude Baumann" <cbaumann@ci.educ.lu> wrote in message news:Grz8BH.AMv@lugnet.com... (...) There is an opcode (0xD1) to set it to zero. No capability to set it to a specific non-zero value. (23 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Idea de Emulador RCX
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(...) Yes. But that would not be enough. In fact, I was thinking about such an emulator to get rid of some crashes in legOS. But one has to mimic the whole seonsor input and motor output possibilities. Imagine a robot with two motors and a rotation (...) (23 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Idea de Emulador RCX
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Hi, (...) For the hardware you can look here: (URL) you can simulate it and an IR connection that would be enough to load whatever firmware and program you like, with the usual tools. Otherwise you can look into the loader code, for leJOS it is in (...) (23 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: windows ce
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"Mike Fusion" <mikefusion@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GrrJF7.K90@lugnet.com... (...) what (...) that (...) NQC (...) the (...) want (...) URL for that mini tower? Dean (23 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.palm)
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| | Re: RCX as a PGP engine
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(...) IIRC, the algorithm doesn't need floating point ops, only very very large primes. (...) yah - I don't think the RCX will have a good generator of random numbers. cool idea, I'd be interested to see if it works :) Dan (23 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Programming CyberMaster with C#
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I set up a web page with some sample code if anyone is interested in creating programs using C# and Spirit.ocx: (URL) Brian BTW: C# is almost identical to Java. (23 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.cybermaster)
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| | Re: Idea de Emulador RCX
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TRANSLATION FOR ALL NON-SPANISH SPEAKERS. NOTE THAT JOSE SALINAS CAN READ ENGLISH SO YOU CAN REPSOND IN ENGLISH. The idea that we have is to emulate the mircocontroller of the RCX, that is we want to emulate the RCX at the lowest so that we can then (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RCX as a PGP engine
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Looked at some of the source code involved. Have a look at the "Gnu Privacy Guard" variant's source at: (URL) I was just thinking, would the RCX be able to implement a PGP or RSA (...) I don't think there is enough room for the WHOLE PGP package in (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RCX as a PGP engine
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So I'm a bit behind on my reading list and I'm finally working through Steven Levy's fascinating book "Crypto" on the history and development of Public Key Incription and such. Great stuff. I was just thinking, would the RCX be able to implement a (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Rotation sensor
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Hi, Does anyone know if there is a possibility to set the rotation-sensor value to a certain non-zero value through LASM? Claude (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Idea de Emulador RCX
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La idea que tenemos es la de emular el Microcontrolador del RCX, o sea, emularlo completamente a bajo nivel, para poder introducirle cualquier firmware y programa. Tenemos el codigo ensamblador de la ROM y del firmware de LeJOS y LEGO (estandar). (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickHeap Wars!
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Hi Matt, Great pics. Sorry I could not be there. Is the description of the challenge listed anywhere? Thanks - Roger (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Vasilis and Jürgen, I think it can be done with only 1 thread in each. In my Java line follower, the main loop reads the light sensors (I use 2) and issues commands to the two motors. It should be possible to encode the commands into a byte and (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.3.8
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(...) I'm afraid this may have something to do with Win98 and ImageLists. It sounds like it might be a video driver bug as well. Make sure you have the very latest driver for your video card. I'm debating about going back to using bitmaps rather (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RE: Emulador RCX
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What level are you trying to emulate? For examlpe one could emulate the whole HW setup or one could just emulate a software level untop of the HW, like enumulating the standard firmware. -----Original Message----- From: Ahui Herrera (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Emulador RCX
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As far as I know, Dave Baum did a Java based simulator, if you want to translate into Spanish and return my reply. Thanks John Barnes BELOW IS THE SPANISH TRANSLATION OF THE MESSAGE ABOVE. ***...*** EL TEXTO ARIBA ES LO MISMO PERO EN INGLES Dave (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickHeap Wars!
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(...) (URL) through p2180118.jpg) Matt (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: BrickHeap Wars!
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So, are there pictures (or did I miss that email)? Andrew Burton phone. (334) 876-9259 email. superboy@wccs.cc.al.us (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Emulador RCX
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FOR ALL THE NON-SPANISH READING I AM TRANSLATING THE MESSAGE - AHui Herrera Has anyone studied the ability to make an PCX emulator? We are 4 alumniu from the University of Alicante (location ???) that are attempting to do this. We are interested in (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickHeap Wars!
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(...) BricksWest 2002 was held in Carlsbad, California last weekend... You DEFINATELY won't be able to attend this year (unless you have somehow perfeced time-travel!), but you could always start saving for BW03! BrickHeap Wars was AWESOME! Matt (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Sorry to be completely stupid but where is brickwest held? I have a feeling it's in america which means that I won't be able to attend :(. i'm in england and can't afford to fly to america. (...) me. I'm good at building the robots but can't program (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Vasilis, (...) I think the easiest is to pretend that the same type of communication that you want to have with the slave also goes on within the master. So you need (at least) two threads, one that looks at the line and one that does the (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Emulador RCX
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Alguien ha estudiado el tema de hacer un emulador para RCX? Nosotros somos un grupo de 4 alumnos de la Universidad de Alicante (España) que esta intentando hacer uno. Nos interesaria cualquier ayuda al respecto. Muchas gracias. (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RCX Dead??
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True. I was only thinking of alkaline. Matthias Jetleb (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Has anyone had any luck getting the software to run on XP? At first it was giving a couple of errors but I altered the registry settings (as described for Windows NT in this newsgroup) and then it would play the intro movies fine. But once the (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.cybermaster)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.3.8
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hi John, >>To day I had an even stranger experiences: > 5. Use Explorer to search your computer for *.dsk files and delete any that > are obviously NQC-related (they will have the same file name as your .NQC > files except with the .DSK extension). (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.3.8
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(...) Try this. 1. Delete the BricxCC key from the Registry (HKCU/Software/BricxCC). 2. Run BricxCC and bring up the Preferences dialog. 3. Make sure the "Autosave Options/Project Desktop" checkbox is NOT checked. 4. Close BricxCC. 5. Use Explorer (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi! I am a new member of your community, and i would like to ask the following question. Please excuse me if something similar has been already posted in the past, but i performed a seach in the previous posts and i did not found any answer to my (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi! I am a new member of your community, and i would like to ask the following question. Please excuse me if something similar has been already posted in the past, but i performed a seach in the previous posts and i did not found any answer to my (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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(...) Lego's usage of the terms'local' and 'global' is a little different than what most people expect. In the RCX, global storage is available across all tasks while local storage is avaialble per task. This is different from the more traditional (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Handyboard, Servo motors
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Hi, You can check the link of how to hook up servo (look for by Gary Livick's contribution): (URL) will be easy if you have HB Expansion board since you just connect the servo directly into it. The servo library is already there for the expansion (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Trilobite
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(...) The trilobite is very very strong (it chewed up and knocked down earlier, more hastily built, duplo walls), but it is also heavy and it can't lift itself by one arm (I just tried to take the wall with only one side and was cringing for the (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | VP of Lego Direct Q&A Session Transcripts
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Brad Justus, Sr. VP of Lego Direct did a question and answer session at Brickswest. I have completed the transcript of this event. You can download the .pdf file from here. (URL) Herrera (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Handyboard, Servo motors
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I'm working on some research with the Handyboard, and I don't know too much about programming it yet. I've figured out how to work the DC motors but not the servo motors, I think I've attached the pins correctly to the wires on the servo motor but I (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Trilobite
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(...) Nice job on the trilobite! About the batteries: I think your review reference is to NiMH type. I use that kind in my digital camera (do you sense a 'but' coming?) BUT, I use rechargeable mangnese alkaline batteries in my RCX. Available current (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: problems using firmdl3 and dll on Red Hat 6.2
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(...) The proper way to manage the /etc/rc.d scripts with RedHat at least is chkconfig. So the proper command (as root) after moving the link back from /unused would be: chkconfig --level 0123456 gpm off More info is at the man page for chkconfig. (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Trilobite
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Nice design. I may have to build a variation and test it out. I also have been unhappy with my attempts at a SHRIMP. A question on trilonite: How is its lateral stability if it hits a wall at an angle or any irregular mountain? (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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