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heheh, looks like a very fun contest! We've got a couple questions though: (...) Will the placement be absolute digression of the judge? Will it be at right angles to the wall, or facing any direction? Also, would a contestant be allowed to code (...) (19 years ago, 1-Feb-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Anyone had success with Microsoft Robotics Studio
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Hi everyone Is there anyone on this list who has managed to get the canned demo of Microsoft Robotic Studio working with NXT? Sounds simple, but several of us with an interest in this have tried. No one has been able to get it to stay connected for (...) (19 years ago, 31-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NXC Documentation & Samples
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A Not eXactly Complete (NXC) version of the NXC Guide is now available on a new NXC Docs page. It is based on the original NQC Guide written by Dave Baum and John Hansen. (URL) portions of the document describe compiler features which have not yet (...) (19 years ago, 31-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Spawning threads in NBC
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(...) Just to clarify, NXT-G doesn't have a thread scheduler. NXT-G is a just a graphical programming language, not a firmware or a virtual machine. The standard NXT firwmare implements a virtual machine which has a thread scheduler. The name of the (...) (19 years ago, 31-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Spawning threads in NBC
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(...) I'm sure someone with some firmware knowledge will have a better answer for this, but my belief is that there are no smarts in the firmware for swapping threads during a wait - i.e. I bet it uses a full timeslice. I have done some BT logging (...) (19 years ago, 31-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: Spawning threads in NBC
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I don't know how the NXT-G thread/task scheduler works. Just wondering if anyone has any idea on the impact on execution performance when multiple threads are running? And how often threads are scheduled? For example, if you have a "main" thread (...) (19 years ago, 31-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | BrickFest™ PDX 2007 - Robotic Easter Egg Hunt
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BrickFest™ PDX 2007 LEGO Mindstorms Robot Competition Robotic Easter Egg Hunt ===...=== The Challenge: Build a robot that will look for chocolate Easter eggs, and deposit them over the edges of the arena. The Rules: A judge will tell each contestant (...) (19 years ago, 31-Jan-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.robotics, FTX) !!
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| | BrickFest™ PDX 2007 Mindstorms Events Announcement
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(URL) BrickFest PDX 2007 is coming! Where: Portland, Oregon When: March 30th - April 1st 2007 Public Hours: April 1st 2007, 10am – 4pm There will be plenty of Mindstorms at BrickFest! Here is a list of just three of these events. Robot Easter Egg (...) (19 years ago, 31-Jan-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.robotics, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Spawning threads in NBC
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(...) I stop a thread the manual way: #define STOP_OTHER_THREAD() \ set bOtherThreadEnable, FALSE dseg segment bOtherThreadEnable byte TRUE ends thread main start OtherThread // John's great invention //... STOP_OTHER_THREAD() // ... endt thread (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Spawning threads in NBC
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(...) I'm trying to leave you alone John, but I haven't been too successful :). (19 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: WIP - Red Quad
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Hello Eric! (...) The legs show a high flexiblity! Great! Why are there wheels on the feets? Are there wheels so that they feets legs do not slipping away? I think a time abot the Mindstorms NXT and I think about how to use this in a Mecha. Nice to (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | NBC and NXC API macro testing (bluetooth-related)
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If you have 2 NXTs lying around and you are moderately interested in testing some potentially interesting new NBC and NXC API macros then I would definitely be interested in hearing from you via email. I have written a few additions to the NXTDefs.h (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: WIP - Red Quad
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(...) Ah-ha! That explains my strange building habits lately. Hopefully the merger will mean I'll get an equal portion of the extensive Sophie part collection. I mean, if you doesn't know where he got it, you won't miss it right? -a (19 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Philo's remote and spy rover
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(...) As a first cut, I was thinking of using the position information to determine if the detected target was most likely to the left or the right of the direction of travel. Just to determine the "best" direction to turn to avoid the target. It (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Unit LNE of the dinochrome brigade (Was: Rock Crawling)
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(...) camera angle and lots of action! I liked it! (19 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | NXC/NBC release news
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I have posted beta 24 of NBC/NXC. Here's the list of fixes and new features: Version 1.0.1.b24 ---...--- - Fixes a preprocessor bug in NBC and NXC that is triggered by not having a ')' at the end of a macro invocation (or anywhere following in the (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: Spawning threads in NBC
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In practicality, it is not a good practice to kill another thread without some sort of synchronization anyway. However, if one thread is not responding for a long period of time, it will be good to allow the parent thread to terminate it. (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Unit LNE of the dinochrome brigade (Was: Rock Crawling)
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The second set of arms on Mike's robot gives it better mobility. They make its overall tread length much longer, so it can treat stairs like a ramp instead of, well, stairs, and that makes it faster at climbing them. The arms also let it raise the (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Unit LNE of the dinochrome brigade (Was: Rock Crawling)
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(...) Ha! Methinks you underestimate the talents (not to mention obsession) of the other folks in this event <grin>. Seriously, thanks for the kind words, and I'm very happy with it, but now the rest of you know yet another way to try to do it. Go (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Unit LNE of the dinochrome brigade (Was: Rock Crawling)
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(...) well, in all honesty I shamelessly implemented a solution I had already known about: PackBot by iRobot. I won't remotely claim the idea originated with me, as it didn't. I was inspired by the "real world" here. That said, I'd not run across (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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