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Hey folks I've created a very basic site here: (URL) I say very basic I mean VERY basic.. it's just an empty instance of mediawiki, but I'll look to adding content when I get a chance. Any help appreciated. Cheers Tom (...) (16 years ago, 9-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Simple Lego traffic light
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After all the amazing post across lugnet the past few weeks, it feels a bit lame putting this one up: (URL) guess once it's running up on an RCX it'll be a bit more interesting. On the topic of RCX - and the whole old-school Mindstorms preservation (...) (16 years ago, 30-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Brickworld - Thursday Workshops
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(URL) Share - Learn - Explore - Discover The Brickworld Team is in full swing preparing for the event. We are thrilled to have 5 leaders lined up to head workshops on Thursday. The Thursday workshops are each 3 hours in length. There is a limit to (...) (16 years ago, 26-Apr-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.people, FTX) !
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| | Brickworld - Mindstorms Competitions
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(URL) Share - Learn - Explore - Discover The Brickworld Team is proud to announce the following Mindstorms competitions for this year’s event: Stock Sumo – Are you a Mindstorms expert? It doesn't matter for this competition. Come and see if you can (...) (16 years ago, 24-Apr-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.people, FTX) !
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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I have updated the Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) primary changes are in Patch 11, which provides DCC support, and the key change in that patch was the modification of some assembly code that performed motor controller (...) (16 years ago, 22-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Patch 10: This works for me under Cygwin with a USB tower, but some of the files such as rcx_comm.c have a bit of platform-specific code. Patch 11: I've noticed that the linker command file is a little different in Bibo than it was in BrickOS. If (...) (16 years ago, 21-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: My Lego Flexpicker Video on YouTube
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Fantastic! Sweet set up. Everything looks so clean and tidy. Your set up is very nice. Looks like people will be able to get up close to your display to see how it works, rather than the caged industrial robots. Funny, don't be surprised if your (...) (16 years ago, 21-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: My Lego Flexpicker Video on YouTube
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(...) I am going to take some video at the show. The lighting there is spectacular. I really hope to get more details published. Getting ready for the show has taken sooooo much time. Chris (16 years ago, 20-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NXTGCC update 0.0.12
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There is an update to the NXTGCC toolchain. I have added a complete download package including arm-elf-gcc, Elipse, and a converter (from IAR to gcc). Check it out at (URL) (16 years ago, 20-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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(...) specific patches from the Bibo set. However the symptoms are identical under BrickOS so I assume they would be linked to the same patches there. Patch 10: Under Ubuntu with the usb tower, this causes firmdl3 to exit with error "read: resource (...) (16 years ago, 20-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: My Lego Flexpicker Video on YouTube
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.../snip (...) Wow, absolutely fantastic work. Congrates! This is worth a web-site with details, programs, photos, building instructions, comments, descriptions... that could be inspired from Philo's site. -Claude (16 years ago, 20-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: My Lego Flexpicker Video on YouTube
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(...) The robot is set up and ready to run Tuesday thru Thursday at the ABB Technology Days! Check out some of the photos. (URL) (16 years ago, 20-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources
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(...) (URL) . Unfortunately (at least from a code merge perspective), their "version 1.2" is based on BrickOS 0.2.5. The lnp_printf functionality has been adapted and included in the recently-posted rollup patches, but incorporating other (...) (16 years ago, 19-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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Now for Bibo.... I have merged these patch rollup collections with Bibo (where appropriate) and have posted the resulting diff files to (URL) of this follows the pattern of the previous patch rollup collection for BrickOS, with the following notes: (...) (16 years ago, 19-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: A couple of gear questions
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(...) That doesn't make sense. If it's rotating internally such that the "weak point" could be alligned, then it's already slipping, isn't it? (...) The range probably has to do with speed of rotation. Rotate it at a really slow speed, and it should (...) (16 years ago, 16-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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A very useful site is the cs university page here: (URL) of useful tutorials and instructions. It would be unhelpful to have it disappear. All of the stuff at the legos/brickos sourceforge pages, however a backup probably isn't needed of these. A (...) (16 years ago, 18-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | changing speed of already running motor
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We are using the NXT in a research paradigm delivering food stimuli to human participants, and have utilised the NXT# thus far. I have a quick query with regard to how it would be possible to adjust the speed of an already moving motor ? e.g. if I (...) (16 years ago, 14-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Nice to see a few of us share the interest. :-) The best I can offer for a list of patches is what I listed in the post here [ (URL) ], along with Carl's follow-up post. That list was culled from links I've collected over the years. As was (...) (16 years ago, 14-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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After surfing through many sites, and (sadly) even more 404s I have been unable to find a definitive list of gcc, binutils, BrickOS etc. versions and patches that I should and could be using. Presumably everybody here has up to date versions of all (...) (16 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources
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Hi all Lately I've noticed a lot of old-school Lego Mindstorm resources are starting to disappear from teh webz. I've blagged about wanting to preserve this stuff here: (URL) the-brick If anyone knows of any resources you think should be maintained (...) (16 years ago, 12-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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