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BrickFest 2002 is putting extra focus on both Technic and Mindstorms activities this year. With that in mind, the organizers are looking for individuals or organizations who are interested in giving related presentations. There are already a few (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Custom ROboloab Investigator projects
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does anyone know of any documentation on creating custom projects for use in robolab investigator? the manual at the tufts site ((URL) suggests such a thing exists but i haven;t been able to track it down asa yet TIA tony (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: latest legOS strangeness
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(...) Nope, shorting the motors has no effect on the batteries actually.. when you spin the motor, it acts like a generator... by shorting out the motor you are actually using the motors own reverse emf (electromotive force) to brake system. I (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Robotics Courses
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Hi, Firstly, can I say that the book mentioned in a previous post on this thread, and its sister publication regarding Lejos, are excellent; I received evaluation copies for a new module we are developing - see later - and they are to be recommended (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: latest legOS strangeness
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(...) To ansswer my own question. The problem was caused by memory corruption. In this case the memory corruption was caused by downloading a very large program in slot 1, and a small program in slot 7. The loading of the program in slot 1 seems to (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | latest legOS strangeness
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I checked out the head of the CVS tree last night and was trying out some of the new stuff. I noticed something quite odd and wanted to see if anyone has any ideas. When I run programs, and the motors aren't turned on they make a stange clicking (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: General IR question
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(...) can (...) <snip> here's the link, he hasn't updated in a long time but it is still good information. (URL) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Technic/Mindstorms™ competitions
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The BrickFest organizers are proud to announce the details of the Technic/Mindstorms competitions to be held as part of BrickFest 2002. There will be three competitions, one on each day of the event. Friday, July 19 The Technic Competition - Scree (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | What is exception "StackOverflowError" in method "<clinit>"
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When running my program (made of several classes), I get the following: (Output from the Emulator, but I get similar result on the RCX of course) *** UNCAUGHT EXCEPTION/ERROR: -- Exception class : 7 -- Thread : 1 -- Method signature : 3 -- Root (...) (23 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Lingo
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No, sorry if I was confusing. EGCS is now obsolete. See (URL) and (URL) Original Message ----- From: "Samuel Winchenbach" <swinchen@eece.maine.edu> To: <lugnet.robotics.rcx...ugnet.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 3:24 PM Subject: Re: Lingo (...) (23 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Lingo
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(...) EGCS was an offshoot of GCC, with the only difference being how the developers worked together (the bazaar vs. the cathedral model). Eventually, EGCS was declared the victor as most developers switched to it and it became the official GCC (...) (23 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: somewhat off topic, but...
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Kenneth, (...) I wrote it so I'm biased... (...) I'll get to the ttasker in a minute, but pbForth is the only alternative firmware with native support for SERVOS if you use the simple circuit I developed here: (URL) The newest version 2.1.3 has an (...) (23 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Lingo
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(...) once (...) site for it anywhere. gcc 3.0.4 was ubdated earlier this year... This whole relationship between gcc and EGCS is very confusing, especially when www.freshmeat.net doesnt even have egcs available! (23 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | somewhat off topic, but...
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anyone tried pbforth ? im doing a comparison between the different possibilities here and looking at pbforth i was somewhat intrigued, until i discovered that you cannot multitask(more than 1 thread of execution). anyone here tried pbforth and can (...) (23 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RIS software in English?
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I haven’t seen any downloads, and I’ve looked (but the LEGO sites is unfriendly in that regard). However, you can purchase the software for $19.99, plus shipping (about $3), from the LEGO site. If there is a download from the LEGO site, I'd be (...) (23 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: RF ideas for the RCX
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This just in from one of the newsletters I subscribe to, ===...=== So is the low-power, low-data-rate specification known as ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4). Pioneered by Philips, this standard is designed to provide ultra-low-cost solutions for applications (...) (23 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: HOW to control MANAS with RCX2 and NQC
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dislexic subject ;) sorry. (23 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lingo
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(...) A mailing list without any posts isn't much use :-) (...) gcc is the compiler, and it uses the binutils tools. The build script just automates the several commands you would otherwise have to type. (...) Yep. You need a compiler that creates (...) (23 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Who to control MANAS with RCX2 and NQC
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(...) 6:45 PM (...) Hi Ron :) This is an example of how you can control 3 Bionicle Manas. Since so many people contributed to this, I edited the last version of the demo source, I could find at lugnet.robotics, to include a "Thanks to" and some more (...) (23 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Not really Robotics related, but it's very cool Lego.
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Mathematical Lego (TM) Sculptures (URL) are absolutely amazing. -- Baha Baydar bbaydar@hfx.eastlink.ca (23 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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