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There will be a number of interesting robotic activities at (URL) BrickFest™ 2007>, which is fast approaching. Don't forget, if you haven't registered yet but wish to attend, the preregistration deadline is March 15th. Here's a summary of the (...) (19 years ago, 10-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.robotics, FTX) !
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| | Re: IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
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I feel kind of dumb: the serial port was disabled in the BIOS. However, now that it is enabled and is assigned COM1 (and shows up in Device Manager under Ports), I'm still having problems: C:nqc>nqc -SCOM1 -v -d test.nqc Downloading Program:Tx: 55 (...) (19 years ago, 10-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | Real Robots Article
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I've just posted an article published in this month's Electronic Design Magazine about the LEGO Mindstorms NXT and Real Robots on my Blog (URL).For design inspiration there's a small video clip of a Handy Cricket Line Following robot for your (...) (19 years ago, 10-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
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The light goes on as soon as you plug in the tower? Sounds like someone is already using COM3. I was looking around DELL technical support and you may have a bit of work ahead of you. First off your serial port on the inspiron 8200 should be COM1. I (...) (19 years ago, 9-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | NXT Turkey MOC
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To learn studless construction and building with the NXT I have been reworking all my RCX robot designs. After what, almost a year now, I think I'm finally getting it. This week was the first time I successfully designed a NXT robot in my head (...) (19 years ago, 9-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics) !
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| | Re: IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
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(...) Jordan, I only have one suggestion that may, or may not be useful. I'd suggest you try a fresh battery in the tower. I know you said it works on another PC. Sorry, that's the best I can do. :) Steve (19 years ago, 9-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Meet the NXT pin-plotter
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Alfonso, Nice stuff! Would you mind providing the URLs to the plotters you've mentioned? I've posted your Plotter site to THE NXT STEP ((URL) and asked for comments on other plotters out there - let's see what people know of... Regards, Matthias (...) (19 years ago, 9-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Meet the NXT pin-plotter
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Concept: a plotter which "writes" by making holes, starting from a b/ w bitmap. (URL) was sure not to be the first to build an NXT plotter, but my pride prohibited me to search the net for some NXT plotter to get inspiration before completing mine (...) (19 years ago, 9-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
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I have a used Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop that is old enough to have a serial port. I'm trying to use a serial port IR tower to program an RCX and am having problems. When I plug in the tower the green light turns on immediately, which AFAIK is not (...) (19 years ago, 9-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, FTX)
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| | Re: My first(ish) program
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(...) I wrote the program but never bothered to get a proper score-- Just tried-- -3 :) Dave K (19 years ago, 8-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: My first(ish) program
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(...) I'll post the first hi score... -6 !!! Wo-hoo! oh, wait a minute... rats. Good programming, nice idea. Now, if you have something to fix my reflexes... (19 years ago, 8-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | My first(ish) program
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Read the blog (yes Chris, I know it's slow...)-- (URL) made a little video game. I know that others have made on-screen games, so I just went with it. As soon as I saw the 'aim' pic and the 'rabbit' pic, I knew I just had to do this. So with much (...) (19 years ago, 8-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NovaLUG display in Stellarton, NS March 10 and 11
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NovaLUG (Nova Scotia LEGO Users Group) will be displaying at the (URL) Museum of Industry> in Stellarton, NS this Saturday and Sunday, March 10 and 11. We will have a 5 foot by 25 foot (URL) town/train layout>, and a display and demonstrations of (...) (19 years ago, 8-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.novalug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.ns, FTX)
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| | Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio
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You'll probably have to post a bit of your code. You could zip the projects up and link to them or copy/paste relevant portions into here. (19 years ago, 8-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Microsoft Robotics Studio
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Has anyone had any luck with the Microsoft Robotics Studio with the RCX / RIS 2.0 ??? I have been able to write a program that uses the direction control to control a basic roverbot moving left/right forwards/backwards and another program that (...) (19 years ago, 7-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Power Functions Tower Crane
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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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| | Re: Power Functions Tower Crane
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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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| | Power Functions Tower Crane
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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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| | Re: NXT on Linux.
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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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