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(...) What exactly do you mean by "Dead"? I've never seen any NXTs die. I've been told it's possible to reprogram the flash memory enough to wear it out, but that required someone writing a PC program that did nothing but reprogram the flash, and (...) (19 years ago, 23-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Surveying MTBF of Edu NXTs
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I have 11 commercial (C) and 25 educational (E) NXT sets. The 11Cs are doing fine after about 4 battery changes. They have been in use since July 2006 for about 60 class hours. I'm sure there's a more empirical way to calculate how much run-time 4 (...) (19 years ago, 23-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Power Functions Element Pics (inc Plugs)
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(...) Here are the pictures of the Power Functions elements from the Bulldozer 8275, including pictures of the plugs. (URL) (when modified). You can see it's a 4-wire system. There are basically 2 wires for power and 2 for control. I'll give more (...) (19 years ago, 23-Feb-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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From the NXC Guide: ---...--- TachoCount: Return the internal position counter value for the specified output. BlockTachoCount: Return the block-relative position counter value for the specified port. RotationCount: Return the program-relative (...) (19 years ago, 23-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: More IR Bulldozer pics
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1). I am envious... 2). Can you post pictures of the underside of the connector, the battery box connector and the IR connector? I would much appreciate it, thanks. "Brian Davis" <brdavis@iusb.edu> wrote in message news:JDvpqM.JGG@lugnet.com... (...) (19 years ago, 23-Feb-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: More IR Bulldozer pics
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"Brian Davis" <brdavis@iusb.edu> wrote in message news:JDvpqM.JGG@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) on the gap in the motor housing (between the light bley and dark bley) , it looks like Mark already has taken his motor apart (or dropped it). Oh Mark!?! (...) (19 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: More Power Function MOC pics
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(...) Well spotted Brian :-) The electric elements are those that will feature in the new Bulldozer. The rest of the MOC is parts from my own collection, NOT the rest of the Bulldozer! (that many beams with studs would be too much to hope for :-) ) (...) (19 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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Here's a "rover robot" built,apparently, out of the new IR Bulldozer. August is much too far away. I like the look of those motors, not just for this but for GBC modules and other "simple" automation, and (if the IR system is compatiable) with the (...) (19 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Extending the firmware through DrawGraphic()
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(...) Hmm, this is interesting. The capabilities that aren't used by the current firmware are very curious. I can see the purpose of multiple sprites and draw modes though. With that, you could do masked graphics. A mask sprite would be drawn first (...) (19 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Thanks John. I find it a problem that NXTasy posts are not signed - I didn't know you were the author... Philo (19 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: spybotics header files
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Nice (basic) nqc tutorial - actually I think I've seen it before The spybotics pdfs you sent are really nice!! regards, linmix (...) (19 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: spybotics header files
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Thanks! Are there any other valuable resources available? regards linmix (...) (19 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Extending the firmware through DrawGraphic()
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(...) Unfortunately, I made several factual errors in my post on NXTasy the other day. I have attempted to correct those errors today by editing the existing post. Please make sure you read it again if you read it yesterday or earlier this morning. (...) (19 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Extending the firmware through DrawGraphic()
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(...) Yikes - I had no idea it was that convoluted! I want to put on some new graphics functions but I think I'll devise my own file format for those. I'll see if it's possible to hijack DrawGraphic to test it at least, but supporting new opcodes (...) (19 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) These variables do get used by the existing RIC format. I could tell you what they mean but then I'd have to kill you. :-) It definitely is not a good idea to try to use them for something completely different. It seems better to just add a (...) (19 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: spybotics header files
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(...) The latest version of Bricxcc (3.3.7.16) should deliver these files to your computer as part of the install. Check the Spybot directory below the BricxCC directory. John Hansen (19 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Extending the firmware through DrawGraphic()
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Hello Jason, (...) There was a paper about RIC on NXTasy a few days ago: (URL) (19 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Extending the firmware through DrawGraphic()
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Having made an earlier suggestion about using file names to extend the capabilities, I've looked into it a little further and found something very useful. The 'NXTDrawPicture', or 'DrawGraphic' command can take an arbitrary array of variables. The (...) (19 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | spybotics header files
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I've been reading up on spybotics as I found some information in the NQC programming Guide and got curious (I bought a Gigamesh a couple of months ago, but never dreamt I'd be able to program it myself) Mention is made of a couple of header files in (...) (19 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: motor disassembly
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You gave me an idea there! I had look and found 2 people wanting to sell a znap set with a motor and asked them to tell me if the motor could be turned by hand and then continued to turn a little. I've bought 2 motors for a total price of just under (...) (19 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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