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(...) OK, so the Outdoor Challenger is significantly discounted - the real question is, has anybody found any way to mount those rather nice looking wheels (umm, rock crawling...) into a "normal" MOC? Anybody know how they connect? (19 years ago, 20-Apr-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Robo Quad - Stage Four and Five
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Hey there, nice work Eric. I can't wait to see this thing in action. I like to follow your BS folder for progress on it. Keep it up. Cheers, Nathan (19 years ago, 19-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickworld 2007 - Line Maze
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(...) Much clearer, thanks. The phrase "along the path" did not jump out at me the first time :-) Ralph (19 years ago, 19-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Brickworld 2007 - Line Maze
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(...) Correct. (...) No, that was not the intent. That's why I said "every line segment and junction ALONG THE PATH from start to finish". Much of the maze will be line segments and junctions that are parts of dead-ends, not along the correct path. (...) (19 years ago, 19-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Brickworld 2007 - Line Maze
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Brian Davis wrote: Great contest Brian - I have a question about this though: > In “solving” the maze, a robot must clearly traverse every (...) I think you mean the robot must only travel along the lines, it can't just drive across the squares. The (...) (19 years ago, 19-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Brickworld 2007 - Indy 5.00
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Brickworld 2007, June 21-24, Chicago Indy 5.00: Autonomous robots will run head-to-head races of five laps around a 8’x10’ oval gradient track. The event will be double-elimination or round-robin style (depending on the number of participants; (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Brickworld 2007 - Rock Crawling
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Brickworld 2007, June 21-24, Chicago Rock Crawling: The goal is to accumulate points by conquering as many obstacles as possible along a “Rock Crawling” course, with the spirit being to produce a remote controlled vehicle that can traverse a very (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Brickworld 2007 - Line Maze
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Brickworld 2007, June 21-24, Chicago Line Maze: Each robot gets three tries to find the end of a simple maze using line following techniques. The robot that completes the maze in the shortest time (after figuring bonuses and penalties) wins. Having (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Brickworld 2007 - Gladiator Sumo
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Brickworld 2007, June 21-24, Chicago Gladiator Sumo: The competition will involve two robots in a circular ring, with the goal being to push your opponent out of the ring or otherwise disabling them within the time limit. While pushing your opponent (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Brickworld 2007 - Call for Mindstorms competitors
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As part of Brickworld 2007 in Chicago, Jun 21-24, we are going to try to run at least four seperate Mindstorms events: *The ever-popular Sumo (4' ring, 2 lb limit, flipping strongly encouraged) *Line maze (find your way to the exit, as fast as (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics) !
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| | iCommand 0.5: Bluetooth API problem
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Hi, We are in the process of evaluating different NXT programming tools for our project and currently having some problems with the reliability of the the iCommand 0.5 Java library. We wrote a simple Java app that connects to the NXT and reads some (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Brickfest2007 Crate/GB Contraption
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(...) I have added links to video files, as well as some commentary, to the write-up on the Crate Contraption shown at BrickFest. These video files all come from David Schilling, Thank you David. The write-up page has several embedded Brickshelf (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest™ 2007 Mindstorms Events Wrapup
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(Forgot to cross-post to robotics) It's been a couple weeks since BrickFest was over, but I wanted to thank everyone involved in the Mindstorms activities. I've only now had a chance to upload the many megabytes of videos that I wanted to have ready (...) (19 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: SRand - a random number generator NXT-G block with seed
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(...) What I'm really up to with NXT-G Simon is to actually connect the player to an input port on the NXT to measure their Galvanic Skin Response (GSR). That is the skin resistance from one finger to another using the NXT as an Ohmmeter. I want to (...) (19 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Wishlist for next pbLua Beta
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(...) I'm looking at this now. Files to be stored in FLASH. (...) Not too hard to do as long as you don't want to stream data to other robots at the same time... (...) I'll look at adding at least tones soon. (...) Done for Beta4 (not yet released) (...) (19 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Wishlist for next pbLua Beta
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(...) EIA-485 Highspeed support :D Is nobody using pbLua or is everybody happy with Beta-3 ??? Christian (19 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Using NXT Port 4 EIA-485
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ReHi Ralph, (...) I'd like to have some address information for device number added (can be done at a higher layer ?)... EIA-485-Hardwareconcept allows to handle more than one target :D ID0: Master (NXT) ID1: SD ID2: Camera :D ... (...) I hope we (...) (19 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Using NXT Port 4 EIA-485
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(...) Great idea Christian! What kind of API do you need to make this work? I think these might get things started: nxt.RS485SetParam( speed, parity, databits, stopbits ) nxt.RS485SendData( string, bytes ) string = nxt.RS485GetData( bytes ) status = (...) (19 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Using NXT Port 4 EIA-485
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(...) Ralph, I'm using an ATMega8 as frontend processor between NXT and SD-Card. Step1: NXT===>I2C===>ATMega...==>SD-Card Disadvantage: Very low speed (9600) Step2: NXT===>EIA-485===>AT...==>SD-Card This should work in an easy way, FAT-Support for (...) (19 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NXTiiMote
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(URL) NXTiiMote is a remote control device based on a MindSensors acceleration sensor. You may control a vehicle through Bluetooth by tilting the remote, forward/backward and left/right. Additionally, a wheel and push button can control (...) (19 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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