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(...) Yes ;o) (...) I have yet to perform the measurements, but I can tell you that the big motor is really powerful (comparable to NXT motor), with a rotation speed around 200 rpm. The other one is quite good too, should be significatively more (...) (19 years ago, 7-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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Wow, so you are also one of the chosen ones to make our collective mouths water... Would it be hard (or legally possible at this time) to add these motors to your lovely 9v motor comparison on your site to give us an even better idea of what they (...) (19 years ago, 7-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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A 1.2m (URL) tower crane>, built to exercise the new remote controlled Power Functions motors that are to be available in late 2007 sets, such as the (URL) 8275 Technic Bulldozer> (URL) Enjoy! (URL) Philo> (19 years ago, 7-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, FTX) !
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(...) Hello GiP, (...) I am very interested by your tool. if you can send it to me or put it somewhere on internet, it would be cool. thanks, JLB (19 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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 | | Re: The rarest colour in LEGO - grey on a NXT?
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(...) Rasmus - Sorry I haven't been able to work on this some more lately. I had to spend my birthday - a day off work - taking my car back to the dealer. Honestly, if I wanted the windscreen wipers and lights to go off on their own in the car park (...) (19 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) I really like this, and may give it a go. Please make it available somewhere... I take it the -s lists the BT devices in terms of addresses that can be used with the -a command? If you need somewhere to host the download while you get your (...) (19 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi, I just discovered this forum and I found a lot of interesting things.... I work on linux and I found that there is very little around on how to use NXT with BlueTooth on Linux, so I started writing my own set of tools. I have finished a first (...) (19 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thanks Jason (...) It is pretty close I think. I fixed some bugs. Now Demo.rxe and "Try Me" loads/runs but terminates early. Actually, it is really fun as one is forced to look inside and understand the LEGO virtual machine. Well, My latest (...) (19 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Slight snippage has occurred ;o) Eric, The depth of thinking and your skill at building these Robo Quads is wonderful. I will follow this project, too. Since I'm a limited technic person, and am just getting exposed to NXT, I doubt I could (...) (19 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) D'oh! forgot the deep link: (URL) (19 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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With the new Power Function IR RC handsets it is possible to create joystick controls by adding a few extra pieces. The controls are tank drive by default so a few levers are required to turn the sideways joystick movement into forward and back (...) (19 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) AFAIK they will not be in the 2007 ferris wheel, dinosaur or bulldozer kits. I don't have any news about a release date, nor about a place to purchase them. I eagerly await developments and will let you know as soon as the information is (...) (19 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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Will those cords be part of the sets or have to be purchased separately? linmix (...) (19 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Rob, (...) I can't give too many details at the moment, but there WILL be a compatibility between both systems, built in the extension cords. Philo (19 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) OK, I'm claiming retardism on my part for this next question: I just don't see the compatibility between PF and 9V, can you elaborate? -Rob www.brickmodder.net (19 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Excellent slides! I went throguh all of them. Thanks. By the way, Victoria and Grace expressed their gratitude for helping bring back OOBER. (19 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Simple. Have the motor move until it stalls, or some other situation is reached. First, you need to detect when a motor stalls out: (URL) then if you need to combine it with some other action (like stopping the arm at a known angle if nothing (...) (19 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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In "Spike", a touch sensor at the end of the stinger provides the logic to stop a motor when it is pressed. How about without a touch sensor? How can the motor/rotation be programmed to provide tension or force feedback? If I tell the motor to move (...) (19 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Nevermind - my error. I was using some of NBC's internal variables/routines because I was going to suggest that John H. add a Ping command and I didn't realize that the variable I was using was later being blown away for another use later. Sorry for (...) (19 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) multibyte (...) Yes I am John. But I am doing separate single-byte reads. I base this on the US sensor hardware doc where it indicates 0x02, 0x42 for the closest distance, 0x02, 0x43 for the next, 0x02, 0x44 for the next, etc. This also (...) (19 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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