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BrickFest is almost upon us. One of the highlights will be the Sumo competition on Sunday. If you are planning on taking part, then you need to know; The beacons will be infrared emitters - provided by the organizers. The detectors may be; your own (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jul-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Hot off the Press "Artist builds comprehensive LEGO robot"
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Hot off the Press - Artist builds comprehensive LEGO robot - July 9th 2003 - (URL) On Lego.com (URL) e (22 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: Help with lnp
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(...) (URL) the latest 0.2.6.10 version. Regards, Michael (22 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Help with lnp
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I guess I should have been more specific initially. Our question, more precisely, is which version of brickOS can we use on regular redhat linux? We will use your directions as well, but what we were really stuck on was which of the brickOS versions (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Hailfire Droid, set #4481
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(...) Mindstorms (...) Excellent pictures. Thanks. I'm also hoping the price drops some, though I don't expect that for a while. As an aside, I saw one on eBay for $5 *more* than retail from the LEGO site! (22 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Hailfire Droid, set #4481 - whoops
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Whoops, sorry. Hit the wrong button. (...) (URL) intend to give it quite a workout once the price drops a little. (22 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Hailfire Droid, set #4481
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(...) If you look closely at the picture at FBTB.net, you'll see they're perfect: (URL) ---...--- Mike Thorn webmaster@roboticsresources.com This email was sent from a Linux computer! (22 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Hailfire Droid, set #4481
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Has anyone seen this set closeup? Can those wheels be driven by Mindstorms motors and gears, or are they too big? (22 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Help with lnp
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Hello Katie, (...) A good decision. (...) To install software on (RedHat) Linux, you will use a program called rpm. Rpm is a packet manager; it can install new programs, you can ask rpm if a package is installed, you can update an existing package (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Help with lnp
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(...) So if you don't want to take the time to configure linux, then you can perhaps try to download legnoppix. Legnoppix is a linux distribution bootable on CD you don't need any installation and it include all lego tools available in linux (not (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS motor-output: Subject to change?
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Hi Dietmar, Have you tried brickOS 0.2.6.10? Code was added to that version to address this issue. Mark "Dietmar Cordes" <cordes@lepomux.org> wrote in message news:3F0A7BA7.207050...mux.org... (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Help with lnp
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(...) We finally decided to take the time and use Linux to try and get lnpd working. Although we are not familiar with Linux, our professors are helping us. Our main problem now though is the installation of brickOS. I know this should be an obvious (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | BrickOS motor-output: Subject to change?
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Hello, while doing some testing with data transfer wia the motorport of the RCX, I had (again) the problem that the output at full speed (255) is not a constant DC-output. Does anyone have a good solution for this already and will it be part of the (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | X5 - High-speed COG-shifting biped
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Introducing by far my fastest biped yet. I've clocked it at approximately 28 ft./min. or about .5 km/hour, although its speed can vary a bit depending on the surface it's run on. It is fairly compact, and it uses an improved walking mechanism that (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: robot as input device
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> I assume you want to use the RCX and sensors to collect data and plot/export/do (...) Yes I would like to use sensor data to control objects in a VR-Framework. So it would be possible to use lego RCX data and map it on input device data of the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: robot as input device
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(...) I assume you want to use the RCX and sensors to collect data and plot/export/do calculations using these data. RoboLab Investigator (software) does that. You can have a bot roam around, collect sensor data of all kinds, and upload it to your (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: robot as input device
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(...) I don't really understand what you want to do ...... nanobapt (22 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: uCOG VI, improved leg geometry
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(...) I made a video of this one walking. The amount of leg lift on this little one is quite big given that it has no knees. (URL) (22 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: MOC - Small Pneumatic Biped Walker
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(...) moves quite quickly. I used my best compressor for this (three large hand pumps side by side all being pumped by hand at the same time :^) (URL) (22 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatic Inchworm
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(...) Thanks! Yes. THis one is going to brickfest. The new form factor pneumatic switches found in 8455 helped a lot, because the mounting holes are not in line with the switch rotation point. (...) Kevin (22 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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