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Inspiring model. The excellent movie provides an effective internet medium to present such a fascinating moving model. Keep up the good work. (...) (23 years ago, 25-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
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Really great construction, very cool movie (but with one colored marble the cycle would have been easier to follow...) ...and you built that in only 3 1/2 h ???? I still have to improve a lot my building skills :p Philo www.philohome.com (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Oh My Goodness!! Was that ever fun to watch! You never cease to inspire me--the Delta 'bot at the last competitoin was beautiful to watch, and so is this! Iain, Keep up the great work! Dave (23 years ago, 24-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC "No reply from RCX" Help Please
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(...) Well, I reinstalled Windows XP and then installed RIS 2.0 and NQC/BRICXCC and everything worked like a dream. I have no idea why it wouldn't work before (did everything the same). Strange that it would work in RIS 2.0 but not in NQC or (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Whoa! Great piece of work, Iain. Nobody does this better than you. You are the marble king! The movie shows a very smooth operation. I don't see any "flying marbles". Very well engineered and fun to watch. BTW your presentation is very professional. (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Why not allow all 4? 1. Have a build option that the variable is set to by default; 2. An option on firmdl3 over-rides this if required; 3. An option on dll over-rides this if required; 4. An API (macro or in-line sub) to set it from a user (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(URL) was tonight's project. My first marble project in a long time! Includes a video, and lots of pictures. Enjoy! Iain (23 years ago, 24-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
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At first, it seems logical that firmdl3 would be the best place to make the change. However, it was very easy to allow the Host ID to be changed at runtime. Whether changed by a user program or changed via the RCX buttons/lcd, it is easy enough to (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I don't know if this has made it to this list yet or not: (URL) _ ---...---ooO( )Ooo---...--- Kyle J. McDonald (o o) Systems Support Engineer Sun Microsystems Inc. ||||| Enterprise Server Products Kyle.McDonald@Sun.COM 1 Network Drive BUR03-4630 (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Review of Jin Sato's LEGO MindStorms: The Master's Technique
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Just found this review on Slashdot (URL) if the link wraps... FUT: .robotics.rcx ROSCO (23 years ago, 24-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New resource for the DACTA interface 70909 - Updated
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(...) I've updated the page with some more info, and there's also a new version of the program, which is much more stable communications-wise (I can pull the serial cable and put it back again, and things still function!). -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden (...) (23 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.se)
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| | FS: 3804 MINDSTORMS 2.0 New
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I have the MINDSTORMS ROBOTICS INVENTION SYSTEM 2.0 for sale for $149.00. New and unopened. I have thousands of ebaY and BrickLink references. I prefer to ship within the USA. Any foreign shipping will be very expensive. Please email me at (...) (23 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Vision command $25 at etoys.com!
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(...) Bruce ---...--- WWW.SYSTRONIX.COM Real embedded Java, fast 8051s, & more +1-801-534-1017 Salt Lake City, USA ---...--- (23 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The best I've seen (and I've not seen all material available) is still Luis Villa's work: his HOWTO at our site ((URL) and that which is published in the book "Extreme Mindstorms" ISBN: 1-893115-84-4 Another good source is the customized HOWTO (...) (23 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) There are, of course, many mindstorms books out there. I see in them (I have purchased at least six of them) that the majority of code examples is in NQC. As you might know we are working on the next major release and in that context let me (...) (23 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Joe Woolley prototyped the firmdl3 mods, I think, and has now a user program which can change the Id. This now makes 4 approaches we have to consider ;-) My thinking on firmdl3 use was that it is a direct replacement for compile time set that (...) (23 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: What is exception "StackOverflowError" in method "<clinit>"
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(...) The first time a method is called the class gets initialized, and the stack overflow happened in the initialization method <clinit>, so nothing mysterious there. (...) If your program uses a lot of memory (less than 3K free) this is a side (...) (23 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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Luke (...) sensor (...) wild (...) Ideally, you'd use accelerometer chips like the ADXL202 from Analog Devices. (URL) a U-tube (like a manometer) filled with salt-water and a couple of electrodes should work. You could adjust the rate of "slopping" (...) (23 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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A polaroid filter attached to a pendulum works very well indeed. You need a lightbulb, a piece of polaroid attached to a pendulum, a fixed piece of polaroid then a photoresistor. I've made tilt-sensors like that and they're reliable but, of course, (...) (23 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) And of course (as is often the case with such things) - it can't distinguish between (say) a backward tilt and forward accelleration. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- Mail : <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkMail: <sjbaker@link.com> URLs : (8 URLs) (23 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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