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Howdy Thomas, Thanx for the heads up... Most humble apologies for that. That's what I get for reading several emails at once and responding to the wrong thread. This was meant for the "book" thread/email from earlier today from Catherine. It's still (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Wrong Thread (Re: Mindstorms Books)
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(...) Uh, that's nice. Jim, do you realize you've posted a response to this message: (URL) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Robolab 2.5 upgrade
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I know this is a little behind the times... I have Robolab 1.5. Can i purchase the Robolab 2.5 upgrade for version 1.5? On pldstore.com the Robolab upgrade is listed as "Robolab 2.0 to 2.5 upgrade" so it seems that 1.5 is ineligible for upgrade (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Howdy All, I've just updated my "Mindstorms Books" page. This can be found at: (URL) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Discussions about differentials, transmissions, and other applications of gears are quite popular and important. I've made an attempt to capture these posts and provide a reference that will be useful to readers: (URL) included links to various (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: bug in setting lnp host address?
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You are correct in stating that I shouldn't have restricted you to 16 nodes X 16 ports. I did however, want to normalize the host address in the visible API and user interfaces to be a small 0..N number instead of a random hex byte value, properly (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Request for designs
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(...) Sorry about the syntax. I was rushing to get that posting out while being called to dinner. I have Mario and Giulio's book and am in the process of getting permission from Syngress (the publisher) to use examples from it. They are such nice (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Request for designs
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Catherine, Extreme Mindstorms: an Advanced Guide to Lego Mindstorms, Dave Baum Dave Baum's Definitive Guide to LEGO Mindstorms (Technology In Action), Dave Baum Building Robots With Lego Mindstorms : The Ultimate Tool for Mindstorms Maniacs, Mario & (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Dave Baum's Definitive Guide to LEGO Mindstorms (Technology In Action) by Dave Baum, Rodd Zurcher (Illustrator) Publisher: APress; ISBN: 1893115097; Bk&Cd-Rom edition (2000) Extreme Mindstorms: an Advanced Guide to Lego Mindstorms by Dave Baum (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Request for designs
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(...) What books are these? Catherine (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Finished! Quadro Assembly Carousel
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"Guido Heunen" <heunen@esrf.fr> wrote in message news:Gx6EIA.79@lugnet.com... (...) If you mean like, one of those MLCAD or LDRAW files, no I don't. I've fiddled around a little bit with that program but not enough to understand how to connect (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
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Iain, Do you have a .dat file available of your neat machine. I would like to understand more of the mechanisms you used. Guido (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
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FYI, the Ferrari brothers' book masterfully covers all of the topics you list, and in a coherent sequence as well (IMHO). Dave Baum covers a subset of them with more emphasis on programming in his book. No NQC in FLL? Ack! --Russ (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Maybe it would help to lay out the format of the training course. 1. Structures I start out with how to build strong structures. There is a discussion of LEGO joining techniques. When is a friction type connection OK, and when is bracing (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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include/lnp/lnp.h (from the cvs repository) 114: file://! set new LNP host address 115: extern inline void lnp_set_hostaddr(unsigned char host) 116: { 117: lnp_hostaddr = ((host << 4) & CONF_LNP_HOSTMASK); 118: } Why is host bitshifted by 4? This (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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In lugnet.robotics, Dave Baum writes: But I can't overstate (...) My favorite reference on the simple stuff is (URL) but good. Roger (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Request for designs
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(...) That's true - I hadn't appreciated the level these people were at. In that case may I strongly recommend a classic: "The Art of Lego Design" by Fred Martin. You can find it in several places: (URL) could perhaps get these people to read it (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I ran a training session for FLL coaches last year. Some coaches already have Mindstorms experience - those aren't the ones that need training. Many of the others had never played with Technic or Mindstorms before. We spent over an hour on (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Request for designs
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(...) I think you should toss in some weird ones: Bipeds, Quadrupeds. Shrimps. Killough platforms (a personal favorite of mine). Er - those weird wheels that have rollers instead of treads so they can roll smoothly sideways - what are those called? (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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I am writing up some coaches training materials for First LEGO League (FLL) in Minneapolis MN and I need some help with examples of various robot designs. I plan on covering: Platforms: Differential Drive (2 drive wheels, 1 or more casters) (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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