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(...) I would like to hope so. Those mounting holes would seem perfect to secure rubber cleats to, especially with the ridges on the hard plastic tread underneath. That one piece woulkd change them from semi-decorative to fully robotic functional (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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David Wallace wrote on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 7:34 PM: (...) This is an opportunity for the open source community to improve the firmware. Enhanced firmware does not need to have any dependency on the LEGO or NI development teams. The challenge (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) This is not an easy thing to do. While the mouse may support bluetooth, the signals are not the same as what the NXT is expecting. The mouse sends Human Interface Device (HID) signals, while the NXT expects Serial Port Protocal (SPP). Simply (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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Thanks Philippe. You definitely asked the questions that I was thinking about and I pretty well understood the answers except I was a little puzzled by the need for "follows" as well. However, we definitely lost functionality in this area with NXT. (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Is it possible to control an NXT with Bluetooth device(such as mouse) directly? I watched a video clip from youtube (URL) I want my NXT to do that :-) I read 'Bluetooth Developer Pack'(or whatever it is) and it says NXT requires to receive certain (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Is it possible to write in the display popup buffer? So that we can do double buffering? I made some quick tests, but it seems the drawing routines always write in the normal display buffer... Julien (19 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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"Brian Davis" <brdavis@iusb.edu> wrote in message news:JCBttB.GEJ@lugnet.com... (...) I see. I wonder if we'll ever see some kind of rubber plug-in outer surface for these treads? Since they already have mounting holes, it only remains to figure (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Yes, and no. The problem is they are hard plastic with ridges, so if a tread ridge catches on a rough portion of the surface, they push fine... but if the surface is smooth, they'll just slide (very low coefficient of friction). The width is (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I asked about the same questions some time ago, here is John's answer: (URL) (19 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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"Geoffrey Hyde" <g.hyde@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message news:JCAxx2.8KF@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) forgot to include the URL of the set I was talking about. Here is is above. Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde (19 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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"Brian Davis" <brdavis@iusb.edu> wrote in message news:JCAvs8.H94@lugnet.com... (...) Have you considered using the new 5-wide treads found in the new Technic Snowmobile? They seem a lot more suited to driving over most surfaces with their added (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Hoser! Kev P.S. Dave, my friend, I knew this was a sore spot. I was just tickling it a bit, not meaning to pour salt. I'm so open minded that I have a Canadian friend that lives here in the lower 48. It is clear from him that this horrible (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) The more I thought about this, the more I liked this idea: I wanted to make a really high-mobility vehicle, but the problem with wheels is they are really stopped by steps greater than their own radius (well, partially, ignoring pushing from (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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If anyone is still listening to suggestions, I would like to have the ability to spawn a thread. I don't know how threads are handled in NXT-G, but in NBC, there is no way to create a thread to kick off a task while moving on to other tasks in the (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Great sites! I have asked Danny Benedettelli to put together an NXC Tutorial based on the existing NQC Tutorial and NBC Tutorial. He's making great progress on that so it should be available soon. And I'm feverishly working on finishing the (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Matthias, you forgot the other german Workshops and FAQ's ;-) FAQ, Workshop und Tutorial zu NXC gibt es hier: (URL) FAQ, Workshop zu pbLua (URL) Regards Christian (19 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Someone sent me a link today to what I guess is one of the first existing tutorials for NXC, at least the first one in German (please correct me if I'm wrong): (URL) if this here allegedly is an "American forum" (HOOOTS!), it might be of interest (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Thanks for the support - I thought I was the only one! My main aim was to go for the sort of graphics libraries that support games, so if you could spare the memory you could draw on hidden screens, copy chunks of screens around, display (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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I have just released a new beta of NBC/NXC. It is available from the NBC website: (URL) has been updated with a few syntax highlighting changes (minor). The latest test release is at (URL) via the link in the NXT News section near the top. Version (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) This would definitely be useful for me! I am currently programming an interface for controling a train layout. This is the kind of thing that needs good graphics. There is a lot of situation where advanced graphics are useful in robotics. (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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