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"Philippe Hurbain" <philohome@free.fr> wrote in message news:H8C9HB.6qJ@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) with (...) be (...) Seeing this get me thinking of the lawnmower that my father has. It made by Husqarna (a Swedish company) and it is a fully (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Actually the first vehicle I used to test this sensor is a rack-and-pinion steered car, see a short video (Divx3) here: (URL) This is what I did with my SteerBot as well as (...) Documentation is also why I used a standard roverbot to (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Rob and Ross, (...) Sorry, I have neither time nor structure to do that... (...) I hope so ! (...) I have not tested that (my longest track is about 5 meters), but as actual current is fairly low I think that wire can be quite long. I used thin (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hello Stef, (...) Thanks ;o) (...) That might work, but getting a high enough field to be detected and be immune to external sources (including earth magnetic field!) would require a LARGE current, not very practical... Philo www.philohome.com (23 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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This is beautiful! I, too, have been inspired by the cars driving around Legoland (though in California and Denmark) but my solution has been to use the light sensor on a visible track. It occures to me that it would be very easy to adapt your (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Maybe John Barnes would be interested in doing something with this? One other question - do you have any idea how long can the wire can be with the AC generator you built? Regards ROSCO (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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very good application-idea Philippe, and nicely implemented ! Looking at your idea, brings me on another idea. Shouldn't it be possible to build another wire-follower, consisting of just 1 wire, fed by a DC source and a measured with a Hall-sensor? (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) When did I say that? Talking to a parallel port in C is easy in most OS's. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- HomeEmail: <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkEmail: <sjbaker@link.com> HomePage : (URL) : (4 URLs) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Those sound interesting - I did a Google search and turned up several of them on web sites in Germany - nothing much in the USA - and no indication of prices. However, they claim to produce up to 14Kbaud data rates and they have a nice simple (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) My aging Agenda PDA does integer work at about the speed of a 100MHz Pentium. Floating point performance is terrifyingly slow though. Since the Agenda is a couple of years old now, I'd expect PDA's to be two or three times faster by now - so (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Rob Doucette" <lego@nospam.doucettenet.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:H89F2M.LKJ@lugnet.com... (...) insight (...) Yes I have seen it in action. This is the setup I wrote about in the other thread: "Controller Channels" Reg. Matthias (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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Thats amazing! I'm impressed. When are you going to mass produce for the world market? -Rob "Philippe Hurbain" <philohome@free.fr> wrote in message news:H8B9FH.Jvq@lugnet.com... (...) track. (...) be (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Inspired by vehicles moving precisely along the roads in Miniland, I have created this homebrew sensor, which allows a RCX robot to follow a wire track. Since distance between sensor and wire can exceed 1 cm, the wire may even be hidden below (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Bill Lane" <lane@pipeline.com.au> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:H8A341.L5K@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) was (...) bit (...) the (...) display (...) But it gives me a good clue what is wrong. Our installation runs fine at 1024x768, 32Bit. So that (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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Thanks for the kind offer, but it recently became available online again for Canada, I ordered it (by phone... I HATE that) from Lego.com sunday. However, they sure do take their sweet time to ship it to me... (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) It's actually worse than that since 56k is only 33.6k upstream unless you have a special line. Most ISP's have these special lines giving their customers 53k/56k downstream. The 53k limit is an FCC thing imposed on older modems that was lifted (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Speaking of PDAs, specifically Pocket PC's, the HP iPAC 5450 has Consumer IR, will that automatically take care of the comm thing with the RCX? Then I guess that would be ideal, tho expensive ($700 in Sweden). But that's provided there is a (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Investigating into this further, apparently from the comments in CVS, a change was made to the makefile in legOS\boot (Rev 1.2) and legOS\demo (Rev 1.2) some three years ago. The comment stated "replaced makedepend by MAKEDEPEND". But no similar (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Oh, that's about 2% of the price i am paying. Can you please provide a source for this? Thanks, Till (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Mark Ferris" <markdf2001@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:g59e1v0qegpg0ol...4ax.com... (...) Well, I am one of the people who has stayed away from them despite following this and other lugnet groups, and having several RCX's (and DSDK, DDK). There (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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