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(...) As Steve pointed out, (Thanks Steve!) the starting line will not be something that your robot will really be able to notice. I'll use a thin red line, which your light sensor probably won't be able to detect. But us humans can see it easily (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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(...) Hi. I don't know anything about the mac questions, but assuming this question is actually related to the competition which I announced (and which your post was in reply to) perhaps I might point out that the competition rules say you can only (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: What's Mindstorms Futures? or Re: How Many Mindstorms Have Been Sold?
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(...) A lower price would help a great deal. Who wants to dish out $200 for something when you could just as easily buy the individual motors, sensors, etc and then a BASIC Stamp from Parallax and use that. (...) Some of that would be useful like (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: how to get vision command update for win XP and win 2000
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I am having the same problem on Win2K, but even worst is that I am living in asia, the LEGO branch here, told me that they does not help to order anything for individuals... Any place I can download it? "chrismaker" <chrismaker@noos.fr> (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| | Re: Ultrasonic Sensor
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(...) In my experience, the loss of "headroom" when using rechargeable batteries can cause serious problems for active sensors. They run from a current limited copy of the battery voltage when in the power phase of the active sensor interface mode. (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Follow-Up to USB IT Tower issue on Hyperthreaded XP systems
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Everyone, This is a follow-up and suggested work-arounds for the USB IR Tower problem on computer systems that have Hyperthreaded CPU(s) and are running Windows XP. My apologies for the length of this post. Please understand the following: * This is (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Sorry, I checked here in Eskilstuna today, and found nothing :-( Why don't you write a message in (URL) to activate a search by more people? -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: WORDLIST
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Ernst! Good to see you're still among us. I'd be happy to post your WORDS and SEE (with appropraite credit) and write up a little tutorial on their usage. You can post them here and also email them to me directly. Cheers, Ralph (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) That suggestion makes no sense at all given what your problem is. The voltage and current to the sensors is regulated by the electronics in the RCX, and is not governed directly by the type of battery that you are using. This would only make (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Brickos fun and games!
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(...) I actually had this exact problem at the Hobby Show. I was in a hurry and didn't want to think about it (all I was doing was tweaking the light sensor thresh), so I just rebooted every time. Chris: I had lots of trouble too, but the final (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, FTX)
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Hi all, I recently got an ultrasonic sensor from MindSensors, the problem is that I don't have a stable value and they overlap with different distances. Nitin suggested me to use alkaline batteries rather than rechargeable ones. I have done it with (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NEWBIE question : installing BrickOS
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I hate to see questions go unanswered. Steve H replied to me saying it took him 12 hours under these conditions, and now that I have done it I can say it took my P233 laptop a full 24 hours to install brickOS under Paolo's instructions. I'm also sad (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I wrote WORDS and SEE and some other useful stuff for pbforth 1.21. SEE is a bit rough, it doesn't handle IF, LOOP etc. very graciously but just dumps out bytes. If the dictionary structure hasn't changed in 2.0 they should still work. If (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Okay, I'm working on a proc in ASM, and I need help with using MOV to move stuff back and forth between memory and registers. I have the following (very simple) program working, but I can't for the life of me get the MOV to work. I've got the (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | What's Mindstorms Futures? or Re: How Many Mindstorms Have Been Sold?
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This post is a follow up on earlier post wondering about the sales success (i.e. highest serial number) of Mindstorms. Looking at the various replies, I've derived some data on Mindstorm's limited sales success. The post also contains some (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well, not *very* important, perhaps (no need to hurry), but it'd be useful. I haven't done very much FORTH programming since the 80's, and I even then I wasn't exactly a pro FORTHer. Also, I was used to F-PC (and/or TCOM), and my FORTH (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Ah, I didn't know of that. (...) BTW, I'd like to suggest (to Ralph, not you) that the pbForth scripts included in the release should use .4th or .fth or something a bit more distinctive. They're now .txt, so BricxCC does not recognize them. (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: How Many Mindstorms Have Been Sold? Or What's the Highest RCX Product Serial Number?
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"Dick Swan" <dickswan@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:HrIwBo.12wM@lugnet.com... (...) I have a RCX 1.5 s/n : 198963 and a RCX 2.0 s/n : 723544. Both purcased in Norway where I live... The RCX 2.0 was purcased in august 2003. Probably will all (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: WORDLIST
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(...) snip A while ago, I started to work on a few words that I find useful,including WORD and SEE. I still have to finish them, but what would help is to know the structure of the dictionary (starting with the execution address obtained by tick (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) The pbForth documentation which is included with the latest release of BricxCC indicates which of the ANS FORTH words are supported by pbForth. If you open a forth document (one with an extension which BricxCC recognizes as a forth document) (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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