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(...) Thanks. Good to know. (...) I'm familiar with that procedure, too. Thank goodness for the '-firmfast' flag in NQC... I do have another question, though (Oh, the joys of actually testing on real hardware...) 1) When I load a program, does it (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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From my experience, what you are describing is normal behavior for the current version of pbForth. Mr. Hempel has done an excellent job of creating a version of Forth to work with the RCX, but the work is far from complete. If you look at the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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"Professor Rogers is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering who is currently on a Fulbright fellowship in New Zealand. He heads the LEGO Design and Programming System Project at Tufts University in Boston USA, where the ROBOLAB software (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) I missed this on my perusal earlier today. Thanks much. 1.5 RCX sets are on sale, as well. (23 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Cheap RCX bricks at S@H
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Hi, I'm new to the list, but thought I'd pass along the sale I just noticed. Shop @ Home is running a sale on RCX bricks, normally $119, but discounted to $59.99. Not a bad deal... (23 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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SOrry, but this ie even a better deal. I just wish they would have started this sale a week sooner-- I just paid full price for 2.0. Oh, well, I wanted another one anyway... (23 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: CPR for RCX?
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(...) Matt, Just because the LCD is blank does not mean that pbForth is not running. When you power the RCX on and pbForth is the firmware, the LCD is blanked. Can you communicate over the IR link? If so, you're fine. If you DO need to remove the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: CPR for RCX?
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I don't know much about forth, but I'll try to help. I'm not sure that any firmware (normal) could keep the RCX from turning on. Try taking the batteries out, wait a few minutes, then put the same ones back in. If it turns on, it was the firmware. (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | CPR for RCX?
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Hello all, I've got a rather odd condition here with my old 1.0 RCX. It's seen just about every firmware out there, and I just nuked Lejos for pbForth. I used the NQC downloader, loaded the most recent s-record, and lo!, '4th' appeared on my (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: Robotic Vision (was: Video image analisys)
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Hi :) *GREAT* ! Are you planning to share your findings ? :) I downloaded the current version of rv2 (the one that now includes RvCAD V.1) and tryed it: WOW :) It doesn't work with my ATI All-in-Wonder128 format feed, nor with mpeg (yet?) but the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Can the RCX 1.0 be upgrade to the latest RIS2.0 firmware?
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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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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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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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"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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| | Re: Wrong Thread (Re: Mindstorms Books)
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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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| | Re: Wrong Thread (Re: Mindstorms Books)
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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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| | Mindstorms Books
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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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| | Differentials, Transmissions, & Other Gear Applications
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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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| | RE: Request for designs
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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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| | Re: Finished! Quadro Assembly Carousel
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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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| | RE: Request for designs
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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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| | Re: Request for designs
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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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| | bug in setting lnp host address?
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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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| | Re: Request for designs
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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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| | Re: Request for designs
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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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| | Request for designs
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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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| | Hacking RS232 port to RCX
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Mike (...) I did. It's not on my web pages but I believe it to be on (URL) Stef Mientki (s.mientki@mailbox.kun.nl) said he'd put it on his web site too. Peter (23 years ago, 3-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Displaying info while debugging
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Hi, I would like to be able to show some info on the Terminal Emulator while debugging, but it seems that pbForth "keeps" the info until the program is over. For example: : TEST 100 0 DO I CR . 7 1 0 MOTOR_SET LOOP 7 4 0 MOTOR_SET ; will start the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: New LEGO Mindstorms Book
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Don, congratulations on getting your book done. Could you please include an ISBN and an Amazon link when they become available... Cheers, Ralph (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: help with setting up legOS 0.2.6 on Windows XP
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Scott, I suggest you start by following the instructions by Paolo Masetti found at (URL) He has written a pretty thorough set of instructions that should get you started. I do suggest that you read it over once BEFORE starting so you don't miss (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | help with setting up legOS 0.2.6 on Windows XP
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I'm new to legOS and would like help setting up legOS on my computer thanks scott (23 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Lego mindstorms on Windows 95...
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That's because the current IR tower requires USB and Windows 95 didn't support USB (well, except for Windows 95B but I think most of the USB drivers were custom/non-standard). It might work with Windows 95 if you get the old serial tower. I picked a (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | New LEGO Mindstorms Book
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Hi Everyone, | |I just completed a manuscript for a new Mindstorms book entitled "LEGO |Mindstorms Interfacing". This book explains using electronic circuits, |VBA(Visual Basic for Applications), LASM, NQC, and IC4 (Interactive C) |for controlling (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | New Mindstorms Book
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Hi Everyone, I just completed a manuscript for a new Mindstorms book entitled "LEGO Mindstorms Interfacing". This book explains using electronic circuits, VBA(Visual Basic for Applications), LASM, NQC, and IC4 (Interactive C) for controlling (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Lego mindstorms on Windows 95...
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Hi Folks, Could someone please tell me if Lego Mindstorms works with Windows 95 ? The Lego Web site says that it works with Windows 98 BUT NOT with 2000/NT. Nothing about 95. Please help. Harpreet ======== (23 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Mac OS X
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Ed, Thanks, I was familiar with that thread. Unfortunately not much useful info came out of it. I was hoping for a report from someone who was ultimately successful in building legOS and its tools, as well as building the cross-compilers on a USB OS (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Running Vision Command on XP
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Thanks for the advice, I now have VC working on Xp. I had one idea which made the process easier. I installed VC on a separate Win98 partition (C:\) on my HD. Since Xp can use the FAT32 Win98 partition, I didn't have to transfer the VC files to (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| | Re: Promising software
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(...) I went over to the colibri.org website, and while they mention that "colibri currently supports one hardware platform - the Lego RCX brick", they also say that putting it in an RCX is "not useful", and actually tell people to use legOS (...) (23 years ago, 29-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Mac OS X
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Brian, Someone recently asked the same question. Check out (URL) am not sure the results of their efforts so good luck! Ed (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Does SDK 2.0 work with RIS 1.5 (RCX 2.0)
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Hi, I have RIS 1.5 and with an RCX 2.0 brick, I have downloaded the SDK 2.0 but the sample programs report Error (0xe0050c98) from VPBrick vpb: bad (unsupported) PBrick type Is this because I am using RIS 1.5? And if so can anyone tell me if it's (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | MoTeC Winners: April
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Hi all! After some fuss about rules etc. I've decided to keep the model that "broke" the rules since it's rulebrake was minor and of no use for the model. Sorry about the locomotion. Overall winner: Brian Sadowski with his Shrimp rover! 29% of the (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jun-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic)
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| | Mac OS X
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Hi, Has anyone had any success with building the legOS system under Mac OS 10.1.4? I downloaded version 0.2.6, put it in my user application folder, and then just typed make. Here is the result. [tw3rakitin:~/bin] rakitin% cd legos-0.2.6 (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: What's next for MindStorms
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Was someone saying these were as programmable as a Microscout? (23 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What's next for MindStorms
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Why aren't these messages threading properly? -Rob. (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: What's next for MindStorms
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(...) <set:8539> The receivers can be controlled with an RCX via IR: (URL) (23 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: What's next for MindStorms
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Just in case you live outside the US or in some area where Lego won't sell Mana's via Shop@Home, check out these sites: (URL) you do want to check out Lego's S@H site, the Manas are set #8539. They also have www.bionicle.com -----Original (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What's next for MindStorms
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(...) Yeh, 200 parts for $60 isn't all that great of a deal. Actually, the pictures make it look like the kit is just a big computer/motor brick with wheels. However, I've got to admit the three-spoked wheel looks pretty cool! (...) That's the hunch (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: What's next for MindStorms
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(...) What are Bionocle Manas? Can someone throw me a quick link to an image or spec sheet? These sound like a nice way to get rid of some money. ;) (23 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: What's next for MindStorms
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I would have to agree with Rob here. If the Spybots can not communicate with other Mindstorms stuff then they become a 30 day toy. Its amazing the Lego price for a short-term kit is $60.00. Maybe I need to find a job in Denmark! My family and I are (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What's next for MindStorms
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(...) I just hope that these Spybots can interface with Mindstorms. I wold imagine, since the Spybot tower looks to be IR, that the Spybot 'bots can also take IR commands from the RCX The Scout and the Microscout (VLL thru the Scout) can be (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: What's next for MindStorms
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The 40t double-bevel gear is one I haven't seen before. The smaller two are readily available in the various Bionicle kits. Gigamesh interests me because of all those gears, the 12 triple rotors, and the 18 bogey wheels. Snaptrax, Shadowstrike, and (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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I also ran a search and found the portfolio of someone who worked on the project: (URL) are photos of the original ideas for the sypbots and the beacon. Interesting to see how much the spybots changed. Info at this site says they won't be released (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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It looks like it's more along the lines of the micro-scout, but it sounds a bit more capable. The $60 price can include more smarts, because there aren't that many lego parts with each, only about 200. I'll bet AFOL's can find a lot more to do with (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thanks to you amazon.com reference, I did some searching and came up with this review: (URL) it doesn't seem to be a true MindStorms kit. Here's a quote from the reviewer: "...the Spybotics line draws its roots from the ever-popular MindStorms (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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I think there are plans for new kits and the theme is spying. If you go to the legomindstorms site and login you will see that there is a game about spying (found under community/games/ then chose Robohunter 2). Further, if you go to Amazon (see (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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I've noticed that the price of the MindStorm accessory packs has been dropping, and that Lego has introduced new sets for just about every line /except/ MindStorms (and Technic, Bionicle excluded). What's going on??? Has Lego got something really (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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BrickFest 2002 is still actively looking for someone to give a LegOS presentation. If your are planning on being at BrickFest (and who wouldn't be) and have successfully wrestled LegOS into submission, please think about telling us how you did it! (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Perhaps this is what you're looking for: (URL) this helps. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Reddy [mailto:mreddy@glam.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 6:11 AM To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com Subject: Hacking RS232 port to RCX Hi, did a search but (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi, did a search but found naught. Has anyone hacked a direct RS232 interface to the RCX who could b=give me the bu=its to cut, solder and pray about? I am wanting to interface to another processor with wireless LAN for a DTI funded education (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Thanks "Ross Crawford" <rcrawford@csi.com> wrote in message news:Gwy7Bn.DJu@lugnet.com... (...) this (...) this (...) can (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) You can use the original LEGO download if you remove legOS first - this can be done by pressing the on/off button while holding the run button. HTH ROSCO (23 years ago, 30-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I have updated the Phantom.dll component to fix a minor bug and some clean up of the source code. Both updated source and binaries are available at: (URL) Jacquemin kjacquemin@cox.net (23 years ago, 30-May-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hello All! If I have installed LegOS on the RCX (I have not done this yet!) and I want to go back to the orignal lego firmware, is it still possible to use the firmware download option in the orignal Minstorm Software? or I'll have to use firmdl3 (I (...) (23 years ago, 30-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Robot Museum
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(URL) West Lugnet Member 63 (23 years ago, 30-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NYTimes.com Article: Robots Find a Muse Other Than Mayhem
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Check out the Sumi-eBot. It's done with Mindstorms. (...) Lugnet Member 63 (23 years ago, 30-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Their website is here: (URL) Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr> (URL) (23 years ago, 30-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by lugnet@jameswest.com. Ok, lets see if this works... lugnet@jameswest.com /---...--- advertisement ---...---\ Enjoy new investment freedom! Get the tools you need to successfully manage your (...) (23 years ago, 30-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(URL) Find A Muse Other Than Mayhem Jim West Lugnet Member 63 (23 years ago, 30-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Review of "Core LEGO MINDSTORMS Progamming" on slashdot
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(URL) (23 years ago, 29-May-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | BrickFest 2002 Competition Rules
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Please note that the BrickFest web site has been updated. (URL) has details about the competitions which will take place on each day of the event. Please refer to; (URL) the original post about this event. JB (23 years ago, 29-May-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Generate LASM Cmd?
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The text box to wire to the LASM Cmd connector on the Generate LASM cmd.vi can be found in the Internet menu under Functions. The commands in this pink bordered box can be entered with the text tool. (23 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.edu)
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