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| Everything I've ever seen mentioning DOF refers to absolute reference points (a focus, if you will, or origin) that the range is controlled by. In terms of articuation, each DOF corresponds to a joint, which is a fixed focus point that the range (...) (23 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | RE: articulation points?
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| (...) However, a device is made up of several objects. Each component, if treated separately, has six degrees of freedom. Thus each component of, for example, the human arm (reduced to an upper arm, lower arm, and hand) has 6 DOF, for a total of 18. (...) (23 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | Re: articulation points?
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| (...) Oh? Hmmm...do tell. (...) Right! I see. In my own way I work around certain "movements" or joints by making two separete joints cover the same envelope or Area or Control. I mean in that, for example. The Arms of my Super Mech-Bot don't have (...) (23 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | Re: RIS 1.5 $99
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| "Jeroen Stap" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:012501c29015$0d...ntiumIV... (...) You should check BrickLink in a couple weeks.... that is if you don't mind paying for shipping costs. I would be happy to buy a couple extra if there (...) (23 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | Re: articulation points?
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| (...) Pedant's corner: This reminds me of an argument I've had several times, and to be honest have yet to come to a definitive answer. The maximum number of degrees of freedom an object can have in three dimensional space is six; translation in the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | Re: BrickOS & Cygwin
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| (...) You bet. I've fixed this in CVS so it will be in our next test release. Thanks for reporting it. (This is why we do test releases ;-) Regards, Stephen -- Stephen M. Moraco stephen@debian.org (23 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Gigamesh has experienced exploratory surgery: (URL) a bunch of pictures right now, but better than nothing. The whole endeavor was spawned from the insane idea of using a DV camcorder to take the pictures because I can't seem to hold still with a (...) (23 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | Re: Legway <-> Segway ??
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| Well, I'd like to think Dean Kamen copied my idea, and converted into a life size model which he sells and I make lots of money for each one he sells... But that's not the case. LegWay is only about 1 month old, while Segway is > 1 month old. LegWay (...) (23 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | RE: RIS 1.5 $99
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| Thank you Richard. This tidbit of information just put $20 in my pocket. I called eToys / KBtoys and mentioned this price difference, and received a credit. No questions, no hassle, no nonsense. My appreciation and thanks goes to eToys for their (...) (23 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Too bad they don't do international shipping, I would have loved to buy several of them and send them to Holland... :-( Jeroen (...) (23 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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