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(...) Here are two links that can be found right on the sidebar of the lugnet.robotics page. Michael Gasperi has done a lot of work in this area: (URL) Stormont also has a page with some very useful information: (URL) are other sites around, but (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: polish version of mlcad
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(...) Doceniam wysilek, dzieki! :) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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Hi, i am looking for any homebrew sensor links on the Web. Any info would be helpful. -Nick (22 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Henrik Thanks for the pointers.... I've got it working a lot better than in the video now but have a way to go to get as good as Steve's. I'll try and get the video's updated in the next couple of days. I'm keen to hear what you and Steve make (...) (22 years ago, 10-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: 4095 Record and Play
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(...) I couldn't agree more. I was ecstatic when I saw this at the local TRU, so I bought one. Probably bought the FIRST one. The "programmable" brick did NOTHING like I had recorded it to do - time after time. Went too fast, didn't rotate to the (...) (22 years ago, 10-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: More Speed? Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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(...) OK, that's definitely a good reason to keep things simple. I'm far from convinced that _any_ sensor suite (advanced or not) will completely fix the drift problem, but if the sensors themselves return absolute coordinates (or even absolute (...) (22 years ago, 10-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Spybot studies: seek a world object
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(...) Or, then again, you might not. As with the vast majority of the ROM subroutines (and all the _Bead subroutines) this subroutine fiddles around with a global variable (via calls to EnterBead and ExitBead). In this case it happens to be global (...) (22 years ago, 10-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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I had to buy this set just to see. Total disappointment :( Nice idea, dreadful implementation. The motor/battery box clearly tries to record the rotation of each of two wheels in "record" mode, and I think it actually manages to do that part ok. The (...) (22 years ago, 10-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Spybot studies: seek a world object
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(...) Cool program. Keep up the great work! (...) You might be able to use PointToward_Bead without running into problems. __nolist void PointToward_Bead(const int& nTimes) { asm { 0xe3, &nTimes, 0x17, 81, 0x01, 1 }; } This ROM routine monitors an (...) (22 years ago, 10-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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/* beacon.nqc Uses World Relation Table to get a fix on and drive to another object. The object can be a Spybot, PC, or Spybot Controller. The program fixes on (i.e. drives to) the first object it finds. If that object disappears from the "radar", (...) (22 years ago, 10-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Proximity Sensors for Legway
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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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(...) 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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