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(...) It's even more than that really. Sending live video over IR really isn't feasible - there isn't anywhere near enough bandwidth to do that. What you *REALLY* want is to have enough on-board CPU power in the robot to process the images locally - (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | A Pet Idea ~/\~~/\¤
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I have a cat and a dog (Welsh Terrier) and one of my goals with Lego Robotics is to make a Rover which is fun for my pets. I got a simple idea of how to make the Rover detect a moving object (like a pet). You need RIS, build the Roverbot with the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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I don't know about other places, but here cell phone service is expensive to use as a robot communication method. Perhaps a "personal radio" (They have a range of about 2 miles) would be better, and data could be transmitted through tones. ----- (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | BrickOS Multithreading
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Hi, I did some research in my free time at the public holidays :-). So the questions do we really need a real multithreading??? In my constructions I never used threads with the same priority, because it doesent make sense to turn on a motor and 20 (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | A Generic Idea
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The Vision Command camera was great - until you discovered it had a cord :) and thereby understood that Lego *faked* the robot in robotics inventions commercial...) This is my very first post and so I don't know if this idea is new, but I'm (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Jama - "My chest is looking at you"
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(...) I just developed a super secret "Invinso-Spray" A super durable one micron thick layer of protection. Wax on- Wax off- Only problem I got is I have to stash my computer in a little heated hut about two meters away due to the cord of the Vision (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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Hi, after my BeOS port of NQC, I made a preliminary driver for the USB tower. If you've the BeOS (and the USB tower, of course), please download and test it!!! (URL) you don't have the BeOS... what are you waiting for? ;-) (URL) won't be (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(i had a few problems to post, so this msg is a little too late...) Hi, i am new to brickOS, (since christmas) and i have one of those fancy RCX2.0 bricks with an USB IR-Tower. I am using debian and have little experiences with usb and (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) circuits????? 8?) ROSCO (23 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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We got our first Spybotic for Christmas and we've been unable to run the software program. When we try to run it we get the following message: Problem detected! A terminal error has occured in your program. Shut down all other running programs and (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) I too was sad to find that there were not any additional missions posted on the web site. I have Ralph Hempel's book (buy it if you don't have it...it's good stuff) and he also describes how to create and share missions. I think this ability (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Spybotics Programmable Controller Internals
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In my free time (yeah...sure Steven) I have begun a little project. It will require the assistance of this group, so if you have some time please visit: (URL) offer some feedback and assistance by responding to this post or e-mailing me at (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: USB IR tower support in Lunix
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Hi, I got the USB IR-tower to work under linux using the same patch Florian used. I also sent an updated patch that applies to 0.2.6.09 to the original author of the patch. However I have to caution that the said patch only works with UHCI hubs that (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Jama - "My chest is looking at you"
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Jama lair: (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Communication between RCX's with BrickOS
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...Problem Solved #include <lnp/lnp-logical.h> lnp_logical_range(1); I set the IR transmission range to far and everything works fine. It seems the issue was that the RCX's are not facing eachother and depend on bouncing mesages off a wall. I'm (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | makedepend variable in Makefiles
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While attempting to build brickOS under DJGPP I noticed a few discrepancies across the makefiles using the variable makedepend. Under the directories boot, demo, demo/c++ for the .depend rule it uses the variable $(MAKEDEPEND) while the makefiles in (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Communication between RCX's with BrickOS
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Hello Everyone, I have been working on a dual RCX robot for quite some time now, and have just recently upgraded to BrickOS. At first I attempted to used the LNP communication functions, such as lnp_adressing_write. I am not an expert, and I got (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Jama - "My chest is looking at you"
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Whooo hooo! my (3rd) Vision Command has just arrived today. I'm gonna see if I can mount it into the chest of the Jamocklaquat. Fun Fun Fun. Legomaster www.mylegomaster.com (23 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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"Steve Baker" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:3E1374CB.70000@...ail.net... (...) Just a minor quibble... The current for two identical resistive loads in series will be half that of just one of the loads when connected to the same (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Air transportation of RCXs etc
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Does anyone have any first-hand experience of electronic equipment being damaged by airport X-rays in carry-on or checked baggage? Is it just an urban myth? My understanding is that although individual X-ray photons have high energy, so few are used (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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