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(...) Those that know aren't talking, but personally I'd bank on this year. ~Mike (22 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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I didn't think we were talking about it being dead ( if it sounded like that I didn't mean it ). I was just wanting to know if and when it was going to be available? It seems like it is a given there will be a new version, I was just hoping someone (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) According to this post (URL) Brad Justus had a Q & A session almost 2 weeks ago and answered that question. Here are a few exerps from it pertaining to this question. Q: Mindstorms, any new news or products? A: it’s being worked on but nothing (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Since this subject does not match the possible problem, I started a new thread to reflect the more accurate symptom "failure in communicaton between RCX & IR Tower" (22 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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PC: toshiba - P25 series model with four usb 2.0 ports, an bluetooth/wi-fi capability, w/ infrared port built in as well. IR Tower : usb RCX : 1.0 Symptom: - communication between the ir tower & laptop is fine... verified with the device manager - (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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I like the "OS". What do you think about doing "brick" in more block-like font. Something like bold (or black), outlined, Helvitica? (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Just heard that Mindstorms has been discontinued and a new product is due out for the 2004 holiday. Does that mean this Christmas ( end of 2003 ) or next ( end of 2004 )? Can't imagine they would wait over a year to release something new... Does (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) of? (...) You can usually still find a few deals on e-bay. You'll want to be careful though, I've seen packages sell on e-bay for *more* than the buyer would've paid shopping at the LEGO site. (22 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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After I have done trouble-shooting for hours on my toshiba-laptop, the point of failure seems to be between the ir tower & the rcx...: - the ir tower did insteed install properly... I have verified with the device manager as well. - the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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I have been looking at Mindstorms for a while now and have noticed many different deals. I noticed about 6 months ago, Lego S@H had some packages for ~$230 you got 2.0, Ultimate Builders Set. They had other packages that seemed like good deals also, (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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I noticed there still isn't an official logo on the SourceForge page, so I thought I'd make a contribution: (avaiable in PSP/vector) (URL) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, FTX)
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I forgot to cross-post this to the spybotics newsgroup. My apologies for the double post. Here is another submission to the NQC spybot API. I haven't properly tested this against an actual Spybot but I have compared the NQC output code to what is (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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Here is another submission to the NQC spybot API. I haven't properly tested this against an actual Spybot but I have compared the NQC output code to what is generated by MindScript and documented in the VPB help file. #define SOUNDEFFECT __res 2 (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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OS: winXP Robolab : 2.5.2 machine: Toshiba Satellite-p25... coming with 4 usb ports and a IR port. Symptom: - usb tower driver installed fine. - I even verified with device manager that the lego usb tower did indeed install properly. Robolab (...) (22 years ago, 15-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) I actually had already tried this, but couldn't get it to work. Turns out I was having a problem with generating the linker file (genlds). Once I resolved that, it works GREAT! As you may expect, the processor intensive program I've written, (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Doesn't the H8/300 have a mode where you can scan up to 4 channels at once? Ralph (22 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) With four orientations that would be 0, 90, 180 and 270. However, you could get away with eight if you have one side of the worm gear at 0, 90, 180 and 270 and the other at 45, 135, 225 and 315, you'd just need to turn around every other gear (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Very nice analysis! All seems perfectly logical to me! (...) The other problem is not having an axle long enough to put them on. So I connected them together with axles butting each other about halfway through each worm gear. And with 14 worm (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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I have given this question some thought in the past and I came up with a theory. First of all some gear geometry background. Lego gears have 8 teeth per Lego unit (aka stud) of pitch diameter, the effective diameter to where the gears mesh. Using (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Mark is correct: I made the following two changes which will cause the sensors to be polled at 1KHz: in systime.c; added "bset #0x5,@_AD_CSR:8"; extern void clock_handler(void); ... sys_nohigh: mov.w #0x5a06,r6 ; reset wd timer to 6 mov.w (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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