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Hello to everyone on the list; I am a new user of the Ris 1.5 system. I was hoping this list might help me- a totally Blind user of the kit with building instructions for the basic robots. The materials in the kit demonstrate the building of the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) This is a unique challenge, folks. Are we up to it? Short of writing some software to translate DAT files to spoken words (which would be very difficult) here is my humble contribution: Check with your community to see if there are young (or (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) This is a unique challenge, folks. Are we up to it? Short of writing some software to translate DAT files to spoken words (which would be very difficult) here is my humble contribution: Check with your community to see if there are young (or (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | OK-CONTEST #5 (Online contest for mindstorms users)
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Hello to everyone on the list; I am very pleased to announce that OK-CONTEST #5. * What is OK-CONTEST ? OK-CONTEST is MINDSTORMS robotics on-line contest by managed with volunteer. * What is the meaning of the ON-LINE contest? The participant (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I too use Speech to program my designs. (Dragon). I also have difficulty with the picture based programming options. I can also wholeheartedly suggest using NQC. I see you have his book and should know where to get the software from. NQC is (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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My father, legally blind from birth, functioned as a sighted person until very late in life, when he became functionally blind. I helped him set up a PC with a voice synthesis board so that he could hear what he was typing. Fortunately, he could (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'm not too sure as to how easy it would be to describe all of the pieces that are in the RIS package. For the robots which are in the package, I would be willing to describe them piece by piece, but...again, I am not too sure as to how well (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Pat, Due to the answers to your request I believe you will get help from lots of people here. I am not an expert in RIS, but I will try to help you somehow. I know it is not a easy task, specially for you. Fortunatelly the main requirement for RIS (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Marc Klein had posted inventory of the 1.5 MindStorms here: (URL) may help you read people's description of their creations. =Hari= (...) kit (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Wow, what a cool challenge. It certainly would be an interesting challenge to develop some software to emit spoken directions, and I could imagine a few ways of starting out on such a problem. Don't know if I could actually _finish_ such a (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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