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David, how high is the shortest house? Is it taller than the side panels? ---Will (19 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: Boosting power in a gear train
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(...) How much torque do I need to drive the rotation sensor? This was my first plan of action, but I was limited because I don't have a rotation sensor other than the NXT motors themselves! From a purist point of view, I would really like a (...) (19 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Boosting power in a gear train
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(...) ... (...) So use a rotation sensor to sense the position of the weak input - and use a NXT motor to track that position and drive all of the gears. You can change the ratio of the input angle to the NXT motor's angle in software and thereby (...) (19 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Boosting power in a gear train
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I have a gear train that is driven by a very weak input, very small torque. There are some places in the gear train where I have some worm gears driving some 'regualr' gears. As I go along the gear train, I boost the output as much as I can with (...) (19 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | new NXT mailinglist established
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Hello! A new NXT mailinglist is established. Because there are no german mailinglists until now, this mailinglist is for german speaking (not necessary native) people around the world. You need an (free) yahoo account to participate! (URL) (19 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio
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(...) Please let me know if you have much success. Several of us working on a robotics project tried the Oct and Nov 2006 releases and could not get the out-of-the-box Lego NXT demo to stay connected for more than about 60 seconds, even after hours (...) (19 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Enhanced standard NXT firmware
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... (...) Hi John, I just tried to load it and just tested the "Try-me" light sensor. It worked fine. Not so much help, but I can try some more another day. Good work. Rasmus (...) (19 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Battery Level NXT-G Block
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I've posted a new NXT-G Block that reads the battery level from the UI module IOMAP. Can also be used as a sensor block to detect low power conditions. Details and download: (URL) Ziv NXTasy.org (19 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Could not upload program output file to PC
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(...) In my experience, this sort of problem occurs when the file size is zero (or, more precisely, it contains zero bytes) or it is not properly closed. Can you send me a copy of your program so I can see if it has any problems? John Hansen (19 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Could not upload program output file to PC
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Hi, I am a new user of the Lego robot and would like to ask a question. I ran into a problem with uploading a file from the NXT to my PC via USB which I did not understand why. Basically I have written a program that reads light sensor values (port (...) (19 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Last call for my New York City NXT Meet-Up
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I have the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT ROBOTICS SET and since I'm so "into it", my father and I were thinking we could start up a Lego MindStorms NXT Meet up group/club in New York City where we could meet once a month (or every other month), build, (...) (19 years ago, 18-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Detecting stall and slip conditions in NXT-G
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I published a new "sensor" NXT-G Block that monitors that actual power sent to the NXT servos. This is useful to detected both stall conditions as well as the move challenging slip conditions. Full description and download are here: (URL) Ziv (...) (19 years ago, 18-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | MinMax NXT-G Block
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I've published a small NXT-G block that allows to find the minimal and maximal value of a varying input. Description and download are here: (URL) Ziv NXTasy.org (19 years ago, 18-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Missing links?
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Hi guys, Are there missing any links in the "stable" section (the one with the links to RobotC, pbLua NBC etc) to the left of the forum (most likely since I put them there...)? I don't know if all can edit it but otherwise you can probably write to (...) (19 years ago, 18-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: Enhanced standard NXT firmware
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(...) I would have liked to have one permanently, but it seems a little steep. Last summer I got a limited edition (32KB or something) along with the an AT91 evaluation board. (...) Perhaps Section 5.1 is useful: (URL) I just tried to post but it (...) (19 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Enhanced standard NXT firmware
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(...) It actually was not a very big deal. I was familiar with the firmware source code since I had looked at it quite a bit since it was released, trying to figure out how to get it to compile with GCC. All the RIC bug fixes were things I figured (...) (19 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Enhanced standard NXT firmware
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(...) <snipped description> Holy crap John! You've been really busy! For anyone poking around in this forum, I can say that what John has done is pretty significant. I have written my own firmware for the brick so I know how much work must have gone (...) (19 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Enhanced standard NXT firmware
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Over the past couple days I have used the IAR Embedded Workbench to implement some enhancements and bug fixes for the standard NXT firmware. The bug fixes are as follows: 1. RIC drawing code incorrectly checked the size of the OP_LINE structure for (...) (19 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Connection to Bluetooth
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Dear All, I have spend a lot of time to get connection with Bluetooth using Bricx. I using the latest nxt software! I have connection with the NXT with Bluetooth, I see on the display of the NXT "<>" After starting Bricx Command Centre I get the (...) (19 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricx Command Centre and the NXT
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(...) BricxCC uses the NXT Fantom API layer to communicate with the NXT via both bluetooth and USB. If you have the NXT Fantom drivers installed properly (which, if you can communicate with the NXT via the standard NXT software, you must) then when (...) (19 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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