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Hi all, I know this is not really related to Mindstorms, but it¹s such a beautiful piece of work. And as a devoted Lego fan, it can¹t be ignored. Freshen up your Bible skills: www.thereverend.com/...testament/ Enjoy! Tormod (23 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Dean Hystad" <dhystad@mn.rr.com> wrote in message news:Gx64G3.6yw@lugnet.com... (...) I have a design for a simple Nagata-style overlapping footprint walker that uses a differential to make it walk faster. I know walkers are not primary topics, (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Dean Thanks for the description of your course. I sure hope your students are up to it - there's a lot there for anyone to learn. Presumably they'll all be mechanically competent, just unused to Lego. I can think of several friends who, after your (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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you'll probably hate me for being a nitpicker.... (...) technically, you should not do any bitshifting at all. There is always the odd case when someone decides to be clever and have a hostmask with interleaved zeros. for example, a hostmask of (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Thanks. Let's hope it's great though it is probably a little of both. (...) Absolutely! Feel free to use what you want. Gus (23 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) calculating diagonal cross bracing and gear layouts. Is it great or twisted demented minds that think alike? (...) same problem. That is something I want to drill into these folks. There is a solution out there for almost any problem they (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I am quite certain that all materials will be made available on the MN FLL web page ((URL) It's likely that this will require getting another release from various publishes of materials I am borrowing. But they have been really great, so I (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hi Dean, I'm really pleased to see this discussion and I suspect that there are several of us who will directly benefit from it. I particularly liked reading your curriculum in post (URL) I will borrow some of it in future classes I teach at (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Perhaps you should commit to putting all the materials up on a web site as a part of this process so that everyone would benefit in the end. I'm sure that more people would contribute to a sort of OpenSourced free online Lego Book that would (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) No problem. (...) I know how that feels ;-) TJ (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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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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(...) 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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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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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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(...) 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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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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(...) What books are these? Catherine (23 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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