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(...) Hammerhead is very tricky to adjust correctly. I'll be putting some more tips on how to achieve it properly on my site. Miguel Agullo (URL) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build)
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I'm in the process of "reviving" past inventions with my new knowledge of legOS. One such invention (if you can call it that) used 3 12V relay switches to control external circuits. Full power on the outputs would trigger the relays. however, under (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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I'm in the process of "reviving" past inventions with my new knowledge of legOS. One such invention (if you can call it that) used 3 12V relay switches to control external circuits. Full power on the outputs would trigger the relays. however, under (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Very nice design. I don't have access to old style pneumatic cylinders, but was thinking of doing something similar with the new double acting cylinders. Because I don't have a check valve in the new pneumatics that would allow me to store vacuum, I (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: A very inspiring design
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Very cool. Should be able to do it with two motors. I wonder how he sync's the left and right feet. It doesn't look like any sensors are used, or am I missing the wires? I am inspired. P.S. I was also inspired by hammerhead. Since I only had the 9v (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build)
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| | Robotics - Lego and otherwise...
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(URL) -- ___...___ Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books shall be sold and what we may buy? Thomas Jefferson ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.org www.open-forge.org ---...--- (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Edwardo, It is available, ref 3805 (see (URL) Shop@home is indeed not available in Spain... Imho, this upgrade is worth the price, advanced models on CDrom are fine and the new RIS software is much more usable than RIS 1.5 (Yes, you can even use (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Is RIS 2.0 upgrade available?
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I saw several months ago in Lego MindStorms site that there would be a RIS 2.0 upgrade kit as there was the 1.5 one. Does anybody if this is still true? The time has passed and there are no notices about that. Also I would like to know if it is (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Version 1.6 of NQCEdit is now released. This program is a front-end IDE for the NQC command line compiler that offers syntax coloring. NQCEdit is able to do most of the things that NQC is capable of: - Compile program for all targets - Download (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Way to go Ian! I'm moving along in my attempts to get the USB tower working with pbForth. The USB tower uses ODD parity, and that cannot be changed. Sooo, to all the other environment writers out there, be aware that the next version of (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Does anyone know if Rug warrior program in the book "Mobile Robots - Inspiration to implementation" can be run on a Handyboard? Has anyone run the Rug Warrior on Handyboard/Lego kit? Can the handyboard facilitate the same components? Thanks Liam (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: A very inspiring design
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(...) Hey, I said *inspiring* ;-) Actually, if you're familiar with Hammerhead (a MOC on my site) or other ankle-bending bipeds, you'll see how Joe has come up with new aand refreshing solutions for this kind of robots. If you're not so specialized (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build)
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(...) next book? (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build)
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(...) They don't, but they need bignums (really big integers). (...) the API is in java.math.BigInteger . (...) You could just run PPP over it I suppose, with some encryption (IPSec?) on top of it. Would be dead slow, though. The charm of the RCX (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | A very inspiring design
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Hi all, This new robot by Joe Nagata integrates so many solutions in such a simple design that I have little doubt it will be as instantly inspiring to many of you as it has been to me. (URL) building! Miguel Agullo (URL) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: New Book - Programming Lego Mindstorms with Java
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Hi all, As some of you also know, there is a companion book to Mario and Giulio Ferrari's book "Building Robots with Lego Mindstorms" coming out at about the same time (not to rain on your announcement Brian ;-) titled "Programming Lego Mindstorms (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC "No reply from RCX" Help Please
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(...) I'm glad it was a simple fix. Thanks also for buying my book - I hope you found it helpful and/or enjoyable. Dave Baum (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cross Posting - Lafayette (Indiana) Area Lego Robotics Club.
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Sorry for the poorly done cross-post. You know I messed around for an hour trying to figure out how to do it, and was unsuccessful. I needed to put a comma between the group names. Now I know what I was doing wrong. I've alreay gotten several (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lafayette (Indiana) Area Lego Robotics Club.
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Steve, This is great news, but do you need to post like this? Why not just cross post in one shot. (i.e. copy and paste the names into the Newsgroups space) Then again I could not fit all the newsgroups you posted to into the space? See Ya... Robin (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.org, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.org.us.gmlug, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in.ind)
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| | Re: Lafayette (Indiana) Area Lego Robotics Club.
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(...) Whoops, that should be lugnet.PEOPLE.newbie.... sorry about that! (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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