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Recently we had a trip to Monterey Bay Aquarium. In the souvenir shop I found an interesting book "Build Your Own Lego Submersible" by Harry Bohm and Vickie Jensen. Despite its name, the only Lego element used in this project is the RCX brick. The (...) (23 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Automatic RCX Battery Recharging
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(...) that's true, (if you think 1 8-pins IC + 1 Mosfet is not simple) (...) Good question, I never asked my self. But it seems no problem at all, I've very bad contacts, (you can even hear and or see them sometimes when the charge process is going (...) (23 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I agree that there are much faster charging methods, but the slow one has the advantage of simplicity (this was implied in the original question)... I wonder too how to design a connector with contacts that reliably carry 4 to 10 A currents and (...) (23 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Automatic RCX Battery Recharging
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(...) Yes Brian, and read my P.S. ;-) (...) This is not necessairly true. If you use the right charge method, load time less then 15 minutes, without degrading the batteries (even with positiv effect on the lifetime/capacity) is very well possible (...) (23 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Automatic RCX Battery Recharging
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Some of us on the leJOS mailing list were discussing auto-battery recharging with the RCX. Here's some technical thoughts from Philipe Hurbain that might be useful to others. p.s. If anyone has anything to add to this please do. -*-*-*-*-*- I think (...) (23 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Spybotics
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There are discussions about this in the group lugnet.robotics.spybotics. (...) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Have you seen this? Spiral Robot Drive
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(URL) NO. (23 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Have you seen this? Spiral Robot Drive
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"Eric Sophie" <mylegomaster@cs.com> wrote in message news:H2oLA5.8Bn@lugnet.com... (...) end of arm tool get slung against a wall at 20 km/h during an e-stop test. Iain (23 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Spybotics
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I recently bought one of these new Spybots. I would like to get some background information. I also have an RIS 2.0 and would like to know if and how Spybotics and Mindstorms can be combined. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank You (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RCX Processor clock rate
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Anyone know what rate LEGO is clocking the H8 processor in the RCX? (23 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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