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(...) You should be proud! Excellent success. I hope ALL your data will be published. The nerd in me really wants to know what the terminal velocity of a box of Styrofoam filled with Lego is... And pictures, I'm assuming the ground recovery crew (...) (16 years ago, 30-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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It certainly was the most exciting robot project which we participated in. Many thanks: 1. to the organizers : Dr. Eric Wang and his team at Nevada University. Great job guys !!! 2. to the sponsors : Nevada Space Grant, LEGO Company, Energizer, (...) (16 years ago, 30-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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Give you joy for your very successful mission. And a glass of wine with you. Incredible. Will be expecting with much anticipation your final report to the Admiralty and the subsequent publishing of results in the LEGO Gazette. I hate it when I (...) (16 years ago, 30-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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Give you joy for your very successful mission. And a glass of wine with you. Incredible. Will be expecting with much anticipation your final report to the Admirality and the subsequent publishing of results in the LEGO Gazette. Tommy Armstrong (16 years ago, 30-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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OK, I'm a little bit proud of this... and, mostly, amazed that it functioned at all. I was selected to participate in the HALE (High Altitude LEGO Extravaganza) after submitted two proposals in the hopes one would make it... and instead, both were (...) (16 years ago, 30-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.technic) !
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I had two laptops giving me that same error: "A critical error has occurred. You may be running out of memory, or you may need to reinstall Robotics Invention System 2.0." It must have been a recent Windows update that messed them up, as these (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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Ok I'll do that. Lego support has always been very helpful in the past :) Thanks Luca (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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Dear Luca, I got an email from Lego few days ago, seems Lego has solution for Windows Vista yet. You can ask him for free CD just write you probelm on official Lego site. Best Regards, Alan (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I used to use Terrapin Logo and MicroWords on the RCX. Haven't used either on the NXT. If only to get kids to think in a lambda-calculus programming language, I'd pop for fee based MicroWorlds. Unfortunately, the spirit is willing, but the (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Our tech had to take out the Adobe CS3 suite. Now the models show up. But CMU's Robotics Engineering does not. He reports that the old 'NXT clicking" version 1.0 was compatible with Adobe CS3. Seems Lego Tech Support has heard of something (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) That did it :) However I also installed the Ultimate Builders Set, which gives me a similar error, as well as complaining about a broken Quicktime installation. I saw on the Lego website that this is because of a recent Quicktime version, but (...) (16 years ago, 24-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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I'm teaching this week using laptops running on Vista. The laptops also have the full suite of Adobe software. Under these conditions, the models do not show up. The models momentarily blink onto the screen, then the display goes blank. I suspect (...) (16 years ago, 24-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Hi Brian, obviously you are working hard on Nadar 2.0 :) Also read about your Little Joe free-fall on H.A.L.E and I wish you very good look with that! ;-) Two NXTs in one single mission is of great courage... For the worm gear issue I also (...) (16 years ago, 23-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Brian, (...) I have used thin slices of LEGO corrugated tubes as washer for that. Works fine, but I can't guarantee it would work for a long time without wear... Philo (16 years ago, 23-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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I've been lurking with interest, teach intro robotics in middle school among other tech subjects, and wonder if any of you use the latest version of MicroWorlds EX Robotics, V 1.6, to program NXT robots. I just found out about that capability so (...) (16 years ago, 23-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Neither. I actually purchased those from Mindsensors. They sell a thinner, flexible cable with NXT-style plugs. For the HALE mission (what this payload is aimed at - launch in 7 days or so), every gram counts, and I realized that at least in (...) (16 years ago, 23-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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I had this error message on a Vista system. RIS 2.0 worked fine the first time I ran it, but gave this error every subsequent time (even if I uninstalled/reinstalled it). Memory definitely wasn't an issue since the system had 4GB RAM plus swap (...) (16 years ago, 22-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I have just encountered this exact problem, but on Windows Vista. Did you find a solution? Could you please tell me what you did? Thanks in advance Luca (16 years ago, 22-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Rafe (16 years ago, 22-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thanks Mark - those are nice designs. In my case I needed the precision, but I also needed a very compact implementation *and* it had to mount to an NXT motor: (URL) pretty happy with the design, but the slop really needed to be compensated (...) (16 years ago, 22-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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