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Can the RCX 1.0 be upgraded to the latest RIS 2.0 firmware? If it can, are there any differences, or lacks there of, between the RCX 1.0 upgraded to RIS 2.0 firmware and the RCX 2.0 that ships with the RIS 2.0? (23 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Mindstorms Books
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(...) Many thanks for your appreciation! Mario (23 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mindstorms Books
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(...) That is too bad, I was looking forward to them because of the names of the authors. Jude (23 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Robotic Vision (was: Video image analisys)
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Hello I am planing on building stero-head using rcx, and 2 webcam from lego studio. All ImageProcessing will be done on PC, RCX will be used to control til, pan, etc... psksvp (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mindstorms Books
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(...) page have not been written by me or my brother Giulio. I know that the Amazon associates those titles with our names but, believe me, we didn't write them :-) We are not so prolific :-))) Ciao Mario (23 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Robotic Vision
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Hi, This should be sent to lugnet.robotics.vc@lugnet.com but, if you go to (URL) and do a search on the subject (try this thread: "Running Vision Command on XP") you'll find out what others might say about this. :) ...one thing I don't understand is (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| | Re: lasers and RCX
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(...) We did talk about it for quite a while on this list - but I'm not sure that anything much came of it. I tried putting a laser and a light sensor right next to one-another high up in one corner of the room on an azimuth/elevation mount (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: lasers and RCX
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For anyone interested... I picked up a few 3VDC laser pointer modules from RadioShack recently for less than $10.00 each. The module is RS#277-1101. Here is a link to a picture of it next to a 2x4 brick. (URL) is a link to the PDF file for the (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: lasers and RCX
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I have 2 laser pointers hacked up, waiting for me to buy the diodes and such to finish. :) IIRC, "The Website" has the links, or Lego laser pointer on Google turns them up fine. Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Novy" (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: bug in setting lnp host address?
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And, you'll probably hate my reply... "Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should." The very idea of a discontinuous array of bits representing a network address in something as rudimentary as LNP makes my hair stand on end. The idea (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: lasers and RCX
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Yes, I remember. I did save a search on Laser PEN's on eBay because of that :) I planned to use video image analysis (er... machine/robotic vision) to keep track of (and measure) the reflection of laser line on objects. I say LINE and not DOT (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | lasers and RCX
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Years ago, there was a thread about hooking up lasers to the RCX and using then for signaling and proximity sensing. Aside from the dire warnings (Don't blind the cat!), does anybody remember this thread? I've recently come into ownership of a few (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Robotic Vision (was: Video image analisys)
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Hi :) (recovering a "very" old lugnet.robotics thread about Robotic Vision software for Mindstorms, predating the release of LEGO Vision Command) I'm assuming that you're the same psksvp that made the Robotic Vision dll's at (URL) making a search on (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NQC functions in C???
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Hello all I am looking for C code for legos, to do the same as the below in NQC psksvp SetSerialComm(SERIAL...MM_76KHZ); SetSerialPacket(SERI..._DEFAULT); // Set the first unit two message bytes and send them SetSerialData(0,MANA...0x10+em1); (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Thread class
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// Thread Class for Legos // By Pongsak Suvanpong // psksvp@ccs.neu.edu // use it anyway you'd like as long as this comment is here #ifndef __THREAD_CLASS___ #define __THREAD_CLASS___ #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/dsensor.h> #include (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | The Brick Testament
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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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| | Re: Request for designs
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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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| | Re: bug in setting lnp host address?
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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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| | Re: Request for designs
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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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