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Hello, At the company I’m working (DivX, inc) we have an Annual LEGO Sumo Championship, this is the 3rd year we are doing this, this year we decided to make it a complete multi-event championship and to record and broadcast every events. We had some (...) (19 years ago, 3-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RCX controlled GBC train drawbridge
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I suppose this doesn't have to really be for the GBC only, but that was why I decided to build it. I've been playing with this idea since Brickfest '06 when Steve Hassenplug suggested a way to go in & out of the GBC area without crawling under the (...) (19 years ago, 3-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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| | Re: BrickFest™ PDX 2007 - Robotic Easter Egg Hunt
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(...) The location will be at the absolute discretion of the judge. The orientation is up to the owner, however. (...) The sides will be of constant height. It won't change over the circumference. The reason for the ambiguity is twofold: I'm waiting (...) (19 years ago, 2-Feb-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | 4Bit Digital Controller with LEGO NXT Visual Display
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Hi LEGO NXT enthusiasts, I've just posted a Reference Design on my blog (URL) showing how to build a Digital Controller with a twist. I'm using the LEGO NXT as a visual indicator. It's a remix based on providing output status for digital circuits. (...) (19 years ago, 2-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Controlling NXT with bluetooth input device 1/3
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(URL) After watching the video-clip above I wanted to do that with my NXT. I didn't know how to do that. :( But, I did it after four days of trial and error. It cost me about $50 excluding the price of NXT. (teers) I searched on Nabble, Nxtasy, (...) (19 years ago, 1-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickFest™ PDX 2007 - Robotic Easter Egg Hunt
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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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