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Greetings from Venezuela!!! How can I use a MicroScout as a third motor on my RCX, I own a RIS 1.5 and a DDK or Can I control the MicroScout from the IR Tower? Thanks!! Juan (23 years ago, 27-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Dead reckoning (was Re: Rover Programming)
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(...) If you haven't already, check out (URL) was able to get quite precise dead-reckoning w/ a Lego bot by programming a PID-type controller. - Gareth (23 years ago, 27-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: control multiple mindstorms robots using 1 IR tower!
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(...) found it! BattleBricks at (URL) the "Remote Control" link under "Support" on the sidebar on the left. (23 years ago, 27-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: pbForth vs RCX 1.0
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Thanks, Just to make sure, let's take an example. Let's say that I have two RCX, named A and B. What if the program in RCX B is waiting for a character on the instruction KEY and RCX A sends a character, let's say '5' (ASCII 52) with 52 EMIT ? That (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | kits on sale - Toronto area
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I was recently at the Cookstown factory outlet (located at highway 400 and 89, north of Toronto) which has a LEGO outlet store. The store currently has Vision Command on sale for $52.99 Can (regular price $149.99) and Exploration Mars $49.99 Can (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Rover Programming
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(...) Try this (leJos): import josx.platform.rcx.*; import josx.util.*; import josx.robotics.Navigator; public class Test { public static void main (String[] arg) throws Exception { int size = 100; Navigator nav = new RotationNavigator( ( float)8.5, (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Rover Programming
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(...) While we're talking about programming rovers, could someone give me an example of a 'spiral drive around behavior' in either RCX Code (v1.5) or Gordon's Brick Programmer? Or how about code with two rotation sensors attached to the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Dead reckoning (was Re: Rover Programming)
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(...) A systematic search pattern is one solution. Not being too anal about it is another - random walking the domain will eventually explore the whole of it, although increasingly inefficiently as time goes on. (...) It's killing me. My first (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: pbForth vs RCX 1.0
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"Mario Beaulieu" <mariobeaulieu@videotron.ca> writes... (...) Yes. I run pbForth on RCX 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0. No differences. (...) No, to my knowledge. In pbForth the IR port is entirely devoted to communication between the brick and the terminal. (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Light Sensor Problem
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Hello, I have been trying out the demo programs in legOS. all demos worked fine except linetrack.c. When I download linetrack.lx in the RCX (RCX2.0) and put it on the test pad that comes with mind storm the bot goes srtaight. It does not recognize (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Rover Programming
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(...) So how do you remember what you've already explored? I think you *need* three states if you want your robot to curiously explore it's environment without continually re-exploring areas that it's already visited but which proved to be empty. If (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Rover Programming
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(...) It's the opposite of impoling. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- Mail : <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkMail: <sjbaker@link.com> URLs : (8 URLs) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Navigation using landmarks (Was: Re: lasers and RCX)
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(...) So with the speed of sound being something like 300 meters/second, sounds spaced 100mSec apart would travel about 30 meters before the next sound started. That's a pretty reasonable distance. If you could measure the arrival time to within (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Any news on USB support for linux?
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Hi there, Is there any news on the development of support for the USB IR tower under linux? I found a HOWTO on the net by Ryan Simmons which claims to be able to get the tower working using a patch written by Bret Thaeler. (URL) anyone been able to (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | pbForth vs RCX 1.0
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Hi, Is pbForth fully compatible with RCX 1.0? Can RCX 2.0 communicate with RCX 1.0 in pbForth (using IR ports)? Thanks Mario (23 years ago, 26-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Navigation using landmarks (Was: Re: lasers and RCX)
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This thread seems to have been going on for such a while I've forgotten where it started. Was the original question: how does my robot know where it is in a room? Has anyone suggested ultrasonic (or audio) "beacons" in each corner of the room? The (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | usb under windows
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Hello! I purchased a Mindstorms 2.0 with USB tower half a year ago and now I want to play with it... My computer is running WinMe so I downloaded the winlegos.exe package from the legos page. When running firmdl3 it complains that it can't find the (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | liblnp for windows
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hi there, we have ported liblnp for windows, with vc++ 6.0. the daemon lnpd still has to run under linux. where can we put the source for the benefit of all? michael ps: could it be lnp was broken from legos-0.2.5 to 0.2.6? (23 years ago, 26-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Friction on Rotation Sensor
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Yes, Gregory, I'm sure. When I mention the sensor I mean the whole thing, not only the eletronics part. I tested both sensors and I tried to tilt the axle to test the behaviour you mentioned. After playing with it a little, it seens the casing don't (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | pbForth questions
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The output of my compiler typically looks like: \ Begin code sample FORTH CODE ... ... : ENTRYPOINT ... ; 0 ENTRYPOINT \ End code sample Or, in other words, I'm currently (and this isn't permanent) not allowing programs to be compiled that do not (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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