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maybe it would be better if u could cause accidents ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gustav Jansson" <GJansson@aol.com> To: <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 11:36 AM Subject: Re: Newbie has an idea - Nascar style (...) (23 years ago, 24-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 (...) The OS should not impose conditions on the programmer. Just put in the docs "numbers less than 5ms (the default) are not recommended" or something to that effect. (...) My code isn't a task. It's (...) (23 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Good idea! I was thinking more in terms of bumpers but taillights and forward pointing light sensors is much better. That would allow a robot coming from behind to setup a pass without hitting the robot in front. Perhaps the sensor input used (...) (23 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) If this is a race (as opposed to a set of solo time trials) then I think you need some way for cars to avoid each other. Maybe requiring each car to have a 'tail light' at a specified height so that a forward facing light sensor could detect (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Inkjet plotters are should be pretty common in mechanical enginnering firms these days. Colleges may also have them. The billboard and sign industry uses huge paint plotters, but those are much more expensive to run than inkjet plotters (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) There are Linux tools available. NQC (Not Quite C) is very popular amongst serious builders - and it runs nicely under Linux. You can also get into the whole BrickOS thing - which is a replacement OpenSourced operating system that runs on the (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes. But start simple. (...) As Brass said, Kinkos can do 3' by X Or, I'm sure it would be possible to make a Word document that can be taped together. (...) 2'x4'? no, that's much too small. (This may be where we loose people) I was thinking (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Newbie has an idea - Nascar style racing?
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(...) Yes - I agree - but having a second 'formula' to allow for the experts to race honking great machines with multiple RCX's and a dozen motors would be nice. (...) Most people don't have access to plotters. The most likely thing that everyone (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Even if it wasn't the case, robots don't drive straight because of small differences in how you build one side of the robot compared to the other (eg the collars might be squeezed more tightly onto a beam on one motor than on the other)...also (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi guys, You all missed this page about a year ago, I presume. My double stroke compressor, with build-in 9V power-supply and automatic on-off switch. When used in combination with an airtank, it stops pumping when your desired max. pressure is (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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