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(...) today. One of the supporting LUGs at the con is SMART, (the Seattle Mindstorms and Robotic Techies) and so a number of questions were about the future of this product. General answer: Mindstorms isn't going away. Though it might be sold (...) (22 years ago, 5-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: End of Mindstorms :-( - I'm very skeptical
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Consider that the FIRST LEGO League registered the following number of teams so far this Challenge Season: NORTH AMERICA 3.359 teams registered SCANDINAVIA 325 teams registered GERMANY 94 teams registered UNITED KINGDOM 92 teams registered FRANCE 52 (...) (22 years ago, 4-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi LEGO Enthusiasts, My new book titled "LEGO Mindstorms Mechatronics" is available. This book combines mechanics, electronics, and software with the usual lab projects format that was presented in the Interfacing book.There is info on how to use (...) (22 years ago, 5-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Sorry, I didn't want to give false news. I was very worried but I didn't know all those things you have said... Thanks to all Apologize for this mistake. Chris. (22 years ago, 5-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Consider that the FIRST LEGO League registered the following number of teams so far this Challenge Season: NORTH AMERICA 3.359 teams registered SCANDINAVIA 325 teams registered GERMANY 94 teams registered UNITED KINGDOM 92 teams registered FRANCE 52 (...) (22 years ago, 4-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'm very skeptical about this... Last week I was in LegoLand at Billund, Denmark. They are adding _more_ interactive Mindstorms exhibits, based on the Mars Lander. I also had meetings at Aarhus University with people who work in the Lego lab (...) (22 years ago, 4-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I' m agree, Mindstorms is a revolutionnary product and may be I am too negative. But there is less and less mindstorms additional box (like vision command).... I' m sure a new "robotic LEGO product" will appear..but when ??? Chris. (22 years ago, 4-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) At Brickfest 2003 in August Brad Justus clearly stated: ?: What is the future of Mindstorms? There haven't been many updates lately? A: It's a real product and it is staying. It IS expensive, so that cuts into where it can be sold, it probably (...) (22 years ago, 4-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Everybody, I have the badest new of the world: LEGO stop Mindstorms products. I hear it of several persons, LEGO shop on Paris (they won't receive other RIS box or additional box) and also from LEGO staff. They have stoped RIS production 3 months (...) (22 years ago, 4-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I think there are hints that the ROM can. IIRC, the Spybotic software allows you to set the IR to detect "some kind of thing at an unknown distance and direction". This is my interpretation of what the Spybotic GUI is telling me, not a verbal (...) (22 years ago, 4-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) The Spybot hardware itself appears capable of simple proximity detection. Looking at outputs from the IR detector modules on an oscilloscope, I can see the Spybot's own pings. This includes the absence/presence of range sensing/ID bits due to (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) I'm glad that you (and others) have found NQC to be useful. Most people don't use NQC for anything beyond compiling and downloading programs, but it has lots of options for interacting with the RCX (such as -datalog, -run, and -raw). Type "nqc (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) 3. add a line after the sensor declarations: timer Timer1 Sorry about the missing step. John Hansen (22 years ago, 2-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I sent you an email with a revised program. To summarize here: 1. comment out the #include <RCX2Def.h> line 2. comment out the rcx_ClearTimers line Hope this helps. John Hansen (22 years ago, 2-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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John, (...) I tried to email this but AOL appears to be blocking me. Thanks for your offer of help. I've got the 2.5 SDK installed, and I'll download BricxCC as soon as Sourceforge comes back up. The .lsc file is for a robot I've built from the (...) (22 years ago, 2-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'm not a leJOS expert by any stretch of the imagination. But I think I can help. (...) That is not a correct understanding of the rcxcomm package API. The RCXOutputStream class, for example, which descends from java.io.OutputStream inherits (...) (22 years ago, 2-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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(...) I would recommend using BricxCC to edit/compile/download your .lsc file. I'm not sure what is in RCX2Def.h but if you post the .lsc contents (or email them to me) I'm sure I can figure out how to use the .lsc without needing the RCX2Def.h (...) (22 years ago, 2-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Markus, I second Chris' request that you explain more fully what you are trying to do exactly. Why do you need your output formatted as result1;result2;result3..., for instance? John Hansen (22 years ago, 2-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) You probably do not want to use the datalog if you just want to get the latest lightsensor reading every two seconds. Here's a way to do it if you can use JavaScript and if you have BricxCC installed (since BricxCC implements an out-of-process (...) (22 years ago, 2-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) By "connected" do you mean always within range of the infrared tower? (...) How long do you need to do this? Do you need to access the text file while the robot is running, or do you only plan to use the data after the experiment is over? (...) (22 years ago, 2-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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