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(...) Sigh. I wish you would read the rest of my message and discover that I address that issue(!), instead of chopping the messages up into neat pieces which you can "deal with". (...) See? (...) Who talked about live video? I was talking about (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I summarized neatly too, while he got into the intricacies of DTMF and Phreaking in the 70s... :D (...) It wasn't a generic solution, it was a generic idea. The generic cel phone would provide a generic link to any generic PC in the world. You (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: How can I get a Mindstorms Ultimate Accessories Kit??????
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(...) In Lego.com, there seem to be availability problems in the U.S. and Canada, but it is still available in Europe. And in New Zealand, they are accepting orders to be shipped by Jan 27. Don't give up hope yet! =8D (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: How can I get a Mindstorms Ultimate Accessories Kit??????
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I don't know where you are located, but the local Fry's in Oregon (Fry's is a large electronics shop) has shelves full of them (except for the one at my house, that is). I was surprised to find them, but they must have dragged them out of a (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: A Generic Idea
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Steve Baker summarized neatly: The big design issue is whether to have the brain near or far. If far, you need more communications bandwidth, but you can have a mongo brain. If near, you can minimize your investment in communications overhead, but (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Matthias, Thanks for your reply! It didn't actually solve the problem. But it did get me looking again and going over the options. The good news is that the software is now running and we can access most of the features. So what was the problem? (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) That struck me just as I left to visit my father - someone's gonna have to program the thing ... ;) Well, I guess you'd just have to buy the PDA with the most open architecture. And the first (maybe only!) language you'd see would most likely (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) No problem. Stupid lugnet server stripped out the attachments. Here is the patch, both attached and inline. BrickOS maintainers: How about applying (some ideas from) this patch? Max Index: Makefile.user ===...=== RCS file: (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Michael, I tried your programs on Windows and Linux. On Windows 98 the USB tower takes about one second to reply (990 - 1100ms). On Linux it took about 9 seconds as you indicate. This looks like a problem with the Linux USB driver. I will ask (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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(...) Yes - but when they install ISDN or DSL on your line, they switch out some electronics at the telephone exchange - remove some line filtering, pull out the digital part of the stream from the analog part, etc, etc. If you just have the audio (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hello, Did you only buy the mobil unit or did you get another tower with it? The two unit could have different fequencies. The cybermasters I have both have 26650 and 26950 MHz crystals. (or something like that). Lars Gertsen - Denmark "mick (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yeah - but the amount of CPU horsepower to do that (on the robot remember) is comparable to the horsepower you'd need to extract the edges and do some simple image recognition. So why transmit the image at all? (...) Yes - but they don't (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Has anyone seen these before: (URL) appear to be promotional materials for the Spybotics sets. Any insight would be appreciated, -Rob. (23 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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hi there, as you may know, the RCX contains only 3 inputs + 3 outputs. and if you ever tried to build a real robot with it, you may also know that this is far from sufficient. to solve this problem, we built some extension called LEPOMUX. it uses on (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes - using the RCX as a fairly dumb motor controller and sensor input device makes a lot of sense. I've been doing that with the (even more primitive) Scout computers using the RCX as the 'brain'. (URL) modern PDA would make an excellent (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi there, I am just wondering - Snaptrax, the Spybotics tracked thing looks like it has longer rubber treads than treads included in RIS. Is it true or not? I tried to build treads with similar design and it looks like there's much more friction (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) This works in deed! Thank you so much Michael! No way I would have found this myself. BB (23 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Ok. This is indeed the result if you run the original LNP package. There are several problems with your sources, too. So try the following to get things done: First, go to the lnpd subdir and edit rcxtty.c. In function tty_init you find a line (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Thanks. Too bad it doesn't work, but at least now I know it's not me :) Please let me know if I can be of any help. BB (23 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I know that this won't help, but I tried your program (and the lnptest.c program from the lnp distribution) and got the same errors. No message came through, only frame errors. Will have a closer look at this. Regards, Michael (23 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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