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(...) Thanks Kevin! Hey, worst case scenario, I wait till the Fall. I actually now feel better cause I have filtered any emails with the words LEGO or NXT in them! Btw, according to the original MDP page, it claimed that all MDP participants would (...) (19 years ago, 10-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Alexander, Keep breathing.... in through the nose, out through the mouth..... in through the nose, out through the mouth.... LOL! 18 days until the end of February... Keep up the excitement! Kev (19 years ago, 10-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) And today, I got an email from LEGO Shop! But it was a normal advertisement...ahhhhhhh! :)! -aps (19 years ago, 10-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Allan, You seem to be assuming that LEGO tossed out the applicant list and pciked whomever they wanted. Why do you think that? I hate to say it, but it is obvious that reputation matters. Look at the original four MUPs. They have fantastic (...) (19 years ago, 10-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Nothing more? But, your list still has 300 names on it. You can compare it to the lottery, but wouldn't it be better to compare it to applying for a job? (as a developer?) Steve (19 years ago, 10-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Calculation time is very short -regarded the H8 limits- On the video and the program diagram you can conclude that the robot turns about every 2 seconds. Deduce the 0.8 sec pause and you have something around 1.2 seconds for a (...) (19 years ago, 10-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Wow, why do I think this has the potential for extreme pain? In any case, I'm very interested in anything you can provide for the rest of us. You've done some really nice work, that the rest of us would now like to copy :-). (...) That's (...) (19 years ago, 10-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Steve Hassenplug" <steve@teamhassenplug.org> wrote in message news:IuH5uw.1GI2@lugnet.com... (...) I would have made a list of the requirements of those who I wanted to be part of the project, then I would have cross-reference this list with the (...) (19 years ago, 10-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) This would not be difficult - if you scroll down to the bottom schematic, it is colour-coded into sections according to function, with the last third of the circuit being all that you need to make a switch to activate and run the RCX from some (...) (19 years ago, 10-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Ultimate ROBOLAB is an extension to normal ROBOLAB to produce our own stand-alone firmware. (19 years ago, 10-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hey that's pretty amazing for the standard RCX firmware. I guess calculation time doesn't really matter though. I'm a graduate EE taking estimation theory this semester so I'll keep this close to my heart. :-p I can't wait to try 2 mics on the (...) (19 years ago, 10-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I wouldn't think of that list as people who "happen to be part of a particular newsgroup". You should see it as people recommended based on their potential to meet LEGO's goals for the MDP. Who (outside of LEGO) better understands these goals (...) (19 years ago, 10-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) It's totally possible, there's someone out there that builds much better robots than I do, and would have been a much better MUP than I am, but they've never posted anything on the internet. However, because I'm part of a particular newsgroup, (...) (19 years ago, 10-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) A robot that follows Kelly Clarkson around! Now that's the kind of computing that I can really get into. Thomas (19 years ago, 10-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) This morning, I had like 40 spam messages and I actually found myself skimming through them...ouch... -aps (19 years ago, 10-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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If you want to see Nic_1, a sound following robot, go to (URL) runs a program on the RCX that first samples two RCX sensor input ports at 36000 Hz (there is no mistake here !) to receive 300 samples from both microphone channels. Then the program (...) (19 years ago, 10-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Steve Hassenplug" <steve@teamhassenplug.org> wrote in message news:IuG0JL.1xIx@lugnet.com... (...) I must admit that I'm very disappointed to hear that such a list exist. Why should one group of people, who just so happens to be part of a (...) (19 years ago, 10-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) To answer several questions: I don't really know anything more. :) I suspect their selection process will not be as through as "America Idol". Either you answered the questions like they wanted, or not. But, I'm really guessing here. We did (...) (19 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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:Hi. I'm currently working on a thesis using Brickos 0.9.0. I succeeded in writing, compiling and uploading c code. When I tried to convert the SAME program in c++ (changing extension from .c to .cpp) and eventually including a library such as (...) (19 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Steve, thanks a million for this post. I know I hate waiting as well for stuff like this but realize that they have thousands of applicants to review and its not easy. I'm sure LEGO has some goals for the MDP with respect to demographics and (...) (19 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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