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I may be stepping out on a limb, but have you tried reformatting the laptop that doesn't work? What about using NQC or the original Lego software to test and make sure its not RoboLab in combination with your laptop that is causing errors. Ok, (...) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Yet another NQC spybot API submission [DAT]
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Doh! I had the low and high bytes switched on the items below which can be passed one or more frequencies. Now I have actually tested this code and it does, indeed, work (with the low and high bytes in the correct order). I've also slightly changed (...) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Best deal on Mindstorms? 3.0 a possible reality?
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"Rand Krakora" <rfkrakora@insightbb.com> wrote in news:HMv6wM.D28@lugnet.com: (...) Apparently not this Christmas. I just put in a Lego order for my store and there is no new Mindstorms available yet. (22 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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I tested with the same installation, IR tower & rcx module with another laptop (by Dell) built with infrared port, wireless network card, but with no bluetooth built in. They work fine... The problem is more and more leaning over to hardware (...) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) Well, I liked the more horizontal feel of that one, and it's lost when you use a more vertical (bold) font. This one has more of a block focus: (URL) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, FTX)
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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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| | Re: usb tower failed in XP!
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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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| | Re: Best deal on Mindstorms? 3.0 a possible reality?
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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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