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(...) Ah - OK. But other things in the world (like people) are moving around - it's not always going to be possible to stop, capture a static image - and then reliably navigate based on it. I guess there are niches where such a robot could be (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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So far I have heard from two people who have successfully used brickOS with BricxCC. I'm interested in whether anyone else has tried using BricxCC to edit/compile/download programs to brickOS. Currently BricxCC requires that the cygwin bin directory (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'm working on a new release of BricxCC at the moment and I want to better understand the dll utility - specifically the RCX host address and RCX source port options. I think I understand the RCX host address part. Correct me if I'm wrong. Supposing (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I don't have a 5292 motor or I would do this test myself, but it would be possible to get a more direct comparison with the 71427 gear motor. The 1700-RPM output could be geared down to 340 RPM at a gear ratio of 1:5 with 8- and 40-tooth gears. Tony (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Thomas, Interesting informations ! I added a link to this thread in my motor comparison page... Philo www.philohome.com (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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Ok, here is an extrapolated result for the short circuit (stalled) test. The current at 9 volts would be 3.6 amps. Since I did not wish to burn up the motor, I checked current readings at both 3 and 6 volts and also measured the DC resistance and (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well, check this out: (URL) are a few pictures of the internals of the motor. Quite a few gears! (...) Thanks! TJ (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hi Gus, This is a very impressive project. Thanks for sharing the information. I tested your program with a similar bot just to see your program in action. It performed flawlessly. Bob Fay (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) If there are USB Logitec camera drivers for PPC (especially for the ball cams), then try those. Many of the Logitec drivers will work fine with the LEGO cam (considering it's a Logitech cam to begin with). Conversely, the LEGO cam drivers work (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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That figure was the normal operation (no load) figure. What concerned me was that it was a factor of almost 20 higher than the gear motors which normally run about 10mA. Of course, it is very easy to overlook the fact that the gear motor is (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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Yes, I think the point isn't whether or not the robot has enough oomph to recognize faces or things like that :D The point is that you can do a *lotta* fun stuff with a camera or mike in a robot, if ONLY you could give the RCX a link to something (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) To clarify, I should say that the software with the cam would probably not even install on a PPC, since it doesn't even install on XP... (23 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes, I did too. Judging from the performance of the RC car, you'd think the motors would be equivalent to perhaps 8, or more, of the geared 9V motors. The buggy can really zip along! There was one other thing about my test. When the 9252 motor (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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This is interesting information, thanks TJ. I must say that I got the visual impression that the buggy motors seemed to have more than a mere 2 - 3 times more shaft power output than the gear motors. The little piece of data which would add greatly (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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Steve (...) Under anything after Windows 95? Nope. In fact, only Win3.1 programs running under Win95 can do it easily. Win3.1 programs running under Win98 onwards can't talk to the parallel port at all easily. If you must do it, use PortTalk - a (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'll jump in here. The two canted receptors at the front do indeed give a basic direction and range finding ability. The IR signal strength follows an inverse-square law. Double the distance from source to sensor and the signal is reduced by a (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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You might be interested in the CMUcam. See (URL) CMUcam is a new low-cost, low-power sensor for mobile robots. You can use CMUcam to do many different kinds of on-board, real-time vision processing. Because CMUcam uses a serial port, it can be (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Last night I performed a few quick tests on the 5292 motors (the new motors from the 8475 Race Buggy set: (URL) to compare them to the standard geared 9V motor ((URL) summary, the 5292 motor (when geared down to match RPM of 71427) has about 2.33 (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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To get a PDA to interface to RCX is easy, i am right in thinking that TV remote is the same freqency etc as RCX? If so go to pdawin.com and get TVRemote (URL) i use version 3.1 which can learn commands, and we can display this on the PC and control (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes - I don't know about Bricx - but the NQC example programs contain one that says: #ifdef __RCX ...and (more significantly) the system file 'compiler/rcx2.nqh' contains #if __RCX==2 #if defined(__SCOUT) ...and a bunch of other defines (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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