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"Brian Davis" <brdavis@iusb.edu> wrote in message news:KAC4K5.8yI@lugnet.com... (...) I was thinking... "More Power!! ungh ungh ugnh" (16 years ago, 14-Nov-08, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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| | Re: LEGO Powered Boat Race
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(...) Fair enough... you mean one where you can use modified bricks for water-tight enclosures? I really would love to move into the even riskier option of true submarines... Or do you mean the modified *combat* class, that allows (nay, encourages!) (...) (16 years ago, 14-Nov-08, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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| | Re: LEGO Powered Boat Race
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(...) I'll patiently wait for the modified class... *evil grin* -Rob www.brickmodder.net (16 years ago, 14-Nov-08, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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| | Re: LEGO Powered Boat Race
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(...) Thanks - like you said, simple sometimes tends to be a good approach, and while I only had the red hulls there wasn't a lot of mass budget to "overbuild". (...) That I *completely* understand. I just haven't had the luxury of a warm pool to (...) (16 years ago, 14-Nov-08, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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| | Re: LEGO Powered Boat Race
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(...) Very nice; I like your design! Since it was our first challenge, we figured we still needed someone in the pool, just in case something went wrong... We had one boat capsized, one boat take on too much water, & a few circle out of control. (...) (16 years ago, 14-Nov-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LEGO Powered Boat Race
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(...) Cool. Although since the festival takes place at Downtown Disney, I think you really should have had a race across the entire lake. Serenity could handle it: (URL) I've got the 2.0 version (using two blue hulls... and mounting a camera that (...) (16 years ago, 14-Nov-08, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.robotics)
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| | LabVIEW for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT book available
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The new book "LabVIEW for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT" is now available from the publisher at (URL) . You can also get a sneek peek at one of the chapters at (URL) . (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Spatial sound localization
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Sound localization is an extremely exciting topic. While blur localization cues that are based on level differences or precedence effect cues are easy to implement into real robots, the localization of continuous signals based on time difference of (...) (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Addional Building Instructions for Edu NXT
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(...) Thanks Brian. NXTPrograms.com is a nice website. Interesting that they chose to use photographs instead of CAD to illustrate their builds. For the most part, the basic NXT Edu bot is more than sufficient for Elementary school robotics (...) (16 years ago, 1-Nov-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | My New Book Is Available for Purchase
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Hi LEGO NXT Enthusiasts, I'm happy to announce that I've just self-published my book based on Don's Projects blog. All of my blogs written since September 2005 to September 2008 along with the LEGO NXT eZCIRCUITs,Handy Cricket robo-projects,the (...) (16 years ago, 28-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Addional Building Instructions for Edu NXT
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(...) For the Retail (not educational) kit, NXTprograms has a good selection... but I don't know of anything similar for the Educational version. (16 years ago, 24-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: How to get a RCX1.0 working these days?
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(...) Robolab comes with the RCX firmware and I agree it will probably be a lot easier to grasp for your son than NXC/NBC. The advantage of the latter though is that it is completely free. Since you have a serial tower you'll need to load whatever (...) (16 years ago, 24-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: How to get a RCX1.0 working these days?
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(...) Thanx for your answer, I'll definitely look into that. But I just discovered Robolab, from TLG itself. Does that work (RCX1.0 on XP or Vista), and if yes, does it have Firmware coming with it? A few years ago I worked a bit with LabView at the (...) (16 years ago, 23-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Addional Building Instructions for Edu NXT
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In my classes, the basic NXT Educational bot goes a long way. Additionally, we have the Robotics Engineering bots from CMU. Is there a collection of other bots with building instructions somewhere on the internet? (16 years ago, 23-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: How to get a RCX1.0 working these days?
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(...) I suggest you use NQC with BricxCC ((URL) Since your tower is serial, you should not need to install any other software. Though it is not VB, it is nonetheless very easy to learn. Firmware file is on LEGO CD-rom, but it would be better to use (...) (16 years ago, 23-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | How to get a RCX1.0 working these days?
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Hi! I have tried to get my old (old? It was the first one in Austria!) RCX 1.0 working again, but didn't succeed. After all these years, the firmware seems to be gone, it doesn't even run the on-board programs... I tried to install the original (...) (16 years ago, 22-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | A date has been set for the next Ontario Lego Robotics event
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THE CAN GAME! Summary Build a robot made completely out of Lego parts that can find and retain a can. The robot with the heaviest can at the end of the round wins. Date and Time Sat 24-Jan-2009 10:00 AM - 04:30 PM Location New Toronto Library Alex (...) (16 years ago, 16-Oct-08, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.ca.on, FTX)
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| | Re: Odin, a robot for odometry
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(...) Very nice work,... as usual ;-) (Noblesse oblige!) -Claude (16 years ago, 15-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Odin, a robot for odometry
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(URL) A robot able to move around along pre-defined paths, and keep an estimation of its position from encoders in its wheels and central pivot. (URL) Its mechanical structure allows it to go straight with 4 fixed direction wheels, and to turn (...) (16 years ago, 15-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Is it normal that my local FLL knows nothing about AFOLs?
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OK, so I got roped into going to a meeting of a fledgling Robotics League in Orange County, California. They invited me because one of the founders of the League knew I was into Lego. There were several FIRST and FLL coaches, mentors,and club (...) (16 years ago, 11-Oct-08, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.edu, lugnet.robotics)
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