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(...) I have a movie of my robot balancing pretty good. Sadly I don't have a website to put it on. However, from watching your movies my tip to you would be to reduce the power to the motors (a lot!) and increase the distance from the surface to the (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Simplifying Cygwin & brickOS/leJOS
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(...) I'm looking into the problems that have been reported to me regarding using the pre-built compiler tools & cygwin on Win98. (...) IC4, so far as I can tell, doesn't have a command-line compiler which makes it quite a bit more difficult to (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: 9747 (RIS 1.5) comes with 2.0 RCX brick?!?
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(...) I tried to do that, without success... it would be nice if someone else could try, I may have missed something ! BTW, NQC contains functions to send multibyte serial data, but none (except the single byte "Message()" function) to receive them. (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cubesolver with USB Tower?
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(...) Thanks Chris, for the explanation, I gave it a first try this morning, and it seems to work (at least for the replacement of spirit.ocx)!! But I have to change some more coding: for example, the program automaticaly searches for the (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Biggest lego wheel?
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(...) You're talking about a tri-star wheel. Here's but one thread on the topic: (URL) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 9747 (RIS 1.5) comes with 2.0 RCX brick?!?
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(...) I wonder if the RCX 2.0 to RCX 2.0 range would improve if you changed to a 76KHz carrier. (22 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Biggest lego wheel?
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if the goal is to climb stairs, i remember seeing some designs that manage to function like larger wheels than they are. i can't find the links, maybe someone remembers where. was it lobster bot or something like that ? it used canterlever arms or (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Spybot studies: SetTxDirection() confusion
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(...) How *does* the Spybot know the orientation (the ROM SDK calls it "aspect") of another Spybot? My (casual) observations indicate that all three emitters are on simultaneously and synchronously. How does the observing Spybot identify which one (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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(...) How about doing what TI does with their graphics calculators instead... use small watch batteries to backup the memory (with a tiny inset button to reset). Michael ___...___ MSN Messenger with backgrounds, emoticons and more. (URL) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 9747 (RIS 1.5) comes with 2.0 RCX brick?!?
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(...) Yes RCX 2.0 can communicate with spybot if you use "extra-soft" but not with RIS soft. RCX 2.0 does not work well with IR remote, you have to be exactly in front of the RCX 's IR port to pilot it. So you can' t pilot easily RCX2.0 vehicle with (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Biggest lego wheel?
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"Mike Reddy" <mreddy@glam.ac.uk> wrote in message news:Hnz8uz.1yxp@lugnet.com... (...) students (...) The hailfire droid wheel is the biggest, but impossible to use. After that the balloon tyres from 8466/8457 are the largest. ((URL) and goes on (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Biggest lego wheel?
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(...) I think we can be a little more specific here: Besides the Hailfire droid wheel Philippe Hurbain mentioned in his post, here are 3 more Peeron references to large wheels. If you follow the links, you will also see a list of what sets each one (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Spybot Studies: display an 8-bit value
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(...) In case anyone was wondering (yeah, sure :-), this line in my original post: lediDisplay = (x & 0x17) ((x & 8) * 4) ((x & 32) / 4) rearranges the bits so that the lower 6 bits can easily be read left to right (while looking at the bot from the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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(...) Mark Riley did this using MindScript but I don't recall having already seen the equivalent in NQC. (URL) than use a #define macro (speaking of which, I need to fix the syntax highlighting of preprocessor macros to account for multiple lines) I (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Another very simple thing to do to display this type of "debug" information is to send a message to an RCX, and display the value on the LCD of the RCX. That way, you don't need to mess with decoding the 8 bit binary number. This was not my (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Spybot Studies: display an 8-bit value
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I feel a little sheepish posting such simple code, but I needed to write this function anyway, and it's a legitimate illustration of a couple functions, which is the goal of "Spybot Studies" and this is a run-on sentence. /* led_8bit_display A (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Cubesolver with USB Tower?
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(...) It's been awhile since I've used VB to do anything, but these instructions look like they will work. To add a bit more detail: 1. Download the Phantom OCX and install it on your system. I don't know if Phantom registers itself on your (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Spybot studies: SetTxDirection() confusion
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(...) I think these emitters are different wavelength, 940nm for the pointing up one, 880nm for the others. 940nm radiation is very close to red wavelength range and is easily seen by cameras CCD, even though they generally include an IR filter to (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Yes, there is a visible light cut-off filter built in remote command receiver. Philo (22 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) My understanding (which may well be incorrect) is that the Manas unit only responds to IR. Sending an RC message using the PC channel is probably not terribly useful since (as far as I am aware) there aren't any devices that use RC messages (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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