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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) !
| | |  | | 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)
| | |  | | 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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| 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)
| | |  | | 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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