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I have completed Version 0.1 of my list, which means it's just a list of categories. There are no links to any specific projects or details, no graphics, and no special CSS (the stylesheet is the same one I use on my personal site). I just wanted to (...) (22 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: Weird RCX electrical ideas
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(...) Almost right. It's not being powered, it's being shorted. (22 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The firmware gets erased if you take out the batteries. Plug in the IR tower, start the RIS software and download the firmware again. (22 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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This one is much more reliable than 0.0.0.5 because I fixed all of the saving issues (I hope)... (URL) me know any bugs if you find any... -AK -- ---...--- My website: (URL) LEGOCam: (URL) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Thanks for the links. I would really like to use such a sensor, but I'm a LEGO purist. Maybe that's irrational, but it pains me to see things like servo motors and ugly exposed circuit boards attached to LEGO. Even if a device is hidden inside (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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Thanks, feel free to give me the tarball and I'll make this a multi-platform project... (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I got a private email that said this: Jordan, this idea is a good one. and has proved to work in the past. if you have 2 rcx's, then try it. heck you can even experiment with just one RCX for proof of concept. run a wire from the motor out to (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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Errm wrong message reply? (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) saw, (...) number (...) were in (...) and a (...) of (...) things: (...) machine (...) for the (...) Don't forget that the microcontroller probably puts out pulses to control the motor's power level. So the pulses one would see in normal (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) under linux .... nanobapt (22 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) A much simpler "contraption" that you can build is discussed in (URL) this LUGNET message>. The basic idea is that you place a reed switch in the railbed and it will sense the magnetic couplers between the cars of passing trains. I have been (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(URL) beginning of my all-in-one program for controlling the RCX..should eventually have a robot server, webcam image server, the works - everything to fit my needs and hopefully everyone else's too...I'm open to feature requests (just check the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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<snip> (...) Well Jordan I know a little about DC motor theory. In essence a DC Motor and a DC Generator are the same thing. The amount of ripple (i.e. the frequency of the pulses although frequency is a bad term to use) is dependent on 2 things: (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Voltage shouldn't be much of a concern, unless the RCX has a transformer to allow it to output higher voltage than the internal batteries can provide. Besides, wiring up a bunch of 9v lights will increase the total voltage needed to make them (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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I'd like to share two thoughts with you all. They involve the RCX and doing things with it that I'm sure the designers never intended (or thought possible). Oh, if you're reading this in the .trains newsgroup, you can skip over the first thought (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) would of course have a lot more pictures to demonstrate the challenge. But I would like this list to be something people could consult when they need ideas for challenges. Many of them can be combined into one, including ones that have never (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for mentioning my web site David, :) As far as the actual challenges go, if you haven't already looked at our site, then you can add stair climbing to the list. I am wondering if your intent is to have a list of challenges already (...) (22 years ago, 31-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) At least half the problem is going to be to decide who's won. int main () { printf ( "Woahh! Suddenly, I'm thinking!\n" ) ; sleep ( 1 ) ; printf ( "This is amazing - I know that I exist!\n" ) ; sleep ( 1 ) ; printf ( "'I think, therefore I (...) (22 years ago, 31-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) It's something I once saw on Scientific American Frontiers, where each robot would start out on one end of a balance beam, and the object is to get your side lower than the opponent's side. Some robots did this by dropping what amounted to (...) (22 years ago, 31-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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Make my day. "nanobapt" <nanobapt@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message news:3F50F04C.204090...adoo.fr... (...) have (...) (22 years ago, 31-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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