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Thanks for you’re help, but downloading 129 MB whit my connection is not a good idea, so that’s now option for me. I also can’t order it on CD because this is only available for subscribers in North America. I’m not a subscriber and I don’t live in (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 or 1.5 (minimum requirements)
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A more important consideration is whether USB or Serial is more convenient on your notebook. 1.5 comes with a COM port interface, and the 2.0 comes with a USB interface. USB is a lot better, if you have it. (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I saw a quick segment on the News last night, I was amazed at the speed and fluidity of the movements, once I get over how well it moves, I'm gonna go look into the other aspects and funtions of the design. The Future is here Folks. Legomaster (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LegOS newbie needs help
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Have you installed the Visual Studio service packs? You stated that you had reinstalled Visual Studio... so I am guessing that it is currently 6.0 (with no service packs). I can't guarentee that this will solve THIS problem, but I know from (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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I have noticed several places in the kernel where nb_tasks is used to see if a program is running. Currently, nb_tasks > 3 means that a program is running and <= 3 means that just the kernel processes are running. I would like to propose that the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I am going to buy the RIS 2.0, but I am not quite sure if I should better buy the RIS 1.5. That is, because my notebook (366 Mhz PII, 64 MB RAM, but only 2.5 MB Video RAM) does not fully meet the minimum requirements as stated by LEGO (what is (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: motors are stuck...
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Here are some prehaps useful links (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LegOS newbie needs help
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Hi, I’ve LegOS up and running under Win2000 whit Cycwin and this works fine, but I missed the possibility of networking under LegOS. After reading some manuals I discovered WinLNP. So I downloaded this program And followed the install-instructions, (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: How much can you shrink a dual differential drive?
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Miguel, The smallest design for an adder-subtracter I have seen online is by Denis Cousineau. You can find it at (URL) . However, you should know that his design, and one that he links to have inspired myself, and a few of my robotics friends to (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Chris, Actually it has been done! The University of Rhode Island Oceanography Undergraduate/Graduate Program entry to the 2000 International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competion (AUVISI - (URL) won the competition with a submersible whos engine (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thanks a lot, Rosco. I think I'm going to go with Stefano Prosseda's variation, which you also mention on your webpage (URL) clearly didn't quite understand the concept and now see how my design had way too many gears only to accomplish (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) snip (...) Here's yet another shrunken dual differential design. It uses worm gears to drive both differential housings as a space saving measure. This also the adds the feature (?) of a bit more gear reduction. There's a few pics of the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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Straight from the top of Sony Tower in Tokyo comes this press release on a newly developed "entertainment robot" - the SDR-4X: (URL) SDR-4X is without any doubt a prototype successor to the widely successful AIBO bot series. As always Sony haven't (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Interesting but slightly off topic
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(...) For ~US$32k I'm guessing that some slight enhancements could be expected. The section referring to its ability to sing was amusing - just give it the music and lyrics (ie - program it) and it will sing on demand. Yeah, I had an Amiga once, (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Excellent color coding in your pics. Regrettably, I have no practical advice. When I built the differential drive in Dave Baum's book, I was dumbfounded by the principle. I look forward to to seeing what is clearly a demanding project. - Kyle (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well, I think several people have delved into this, but here's my contribution (URL) It doesn't solve the "dual speed" problem, but it's fairly small, and can be reduced further. ROSCO (23 years ago, 19-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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Hi all, I've got an intriguing little MOC coming up that hopefully will interest both the technicheads and the robogeeks. It is a tracked vehicle with a twist, but you'll have to wait to learn all the details ;-) In the meantime, here is something I (...) (23 years ago, 19-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | BricxCC release 3.3.4.4
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I've released BricxCC version 3.3.4.4. It fixes a timeout problem when trying to find the Cybermaster brick (although not all users experienced this problem). It also fixes some problems on the Color tab of the Preferences dialog. It fixes the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Sorry if this isn't the right forum, but ... (URL) like fun to me. Now if only we could find a way to pack that sort of CPU horsepower into a Lego brick ... hmmmmm. JB (23 years ago, 19-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RCX as a PGP engine
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(...) Definitely post it! Better than that, how about sending me the code and I'll add it to our robots section as a unique demonstration. (...) Shouldn't be a problem. Most of the source code in the official Sun package is easy to port to leJOS. (...) (23 years ago, 19-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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