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Everything is battery powered, so it can run around loose. Unfortunatly, this means it can only stay alive for about an hour, and I can't just leave it online. The laptop is the main bottleneck. I have to turn off all power management or else the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I was watching my local news, and a bit came on about a golf course made of Lego at ISU...so I did a search, and found: (URL) Headline down. Pretty cool...there was heavy use of robotics on the holes, for motion and obstacles, and one hole that the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.castle, lugnet.duplo, lugnet.fun)
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haha. I'm new to Mindstorms and waaaaat older than your 9-yr old - I could use such a book with the topics mentioned! LOL. I've seen explanations/tips mentioned on various websites... Doug (...) Share information about yourself, create your own (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) KL (25 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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No wonder, I tried Spectrumed's website and found it to be useless, so I decided to avoid them. Anyone from the Seattle area? I'm from Vancouver, and is heading down to Seattle this weekend to pick up Mindstorms parts, any good shop I should check (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I've used Spectrum Educational Supplies. I grabbed the dacta Pneumatic kit from them. The prices are a *lot* more reasonable than shop at home. Address: (URL) last time I ordered, you have to order by phone, as the web site is more just a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Does anyone know where I can get Pneumatic Piston in Canada? if not, any online shop I can get it from? Also, what are the sizes for the Pneumatic Piston? It is only one fix size? Many Thanks. (25 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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So, I've been coaching this FLL team for a while now, and also watching my 9 year old daughter's use of Mindstorms and Technic and a book idea has been forming in my head. I'm wondering if anyone else is already working on such a book, in which case (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.edu)
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So, I've been coaching this FLL team for a while now, and also watching my 9 year old daughter's use of Mindstorms and Technic and a book idea has been forming in my head. I'm wondering if anyone else is already working on such a book, in which case (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Modifying parts; was RE: Two original Technic creations
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Ok, so us brick grinders can finally come out of the closet and admit our crimes without fear of retribution ... Here are a couple of basic categories to start with. 1. Addition of holes. I have added carefully placed holes in the sides of things (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: IR tower problem -working but still not
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sounds to me like you have a bad serial port on your computer, have you had the computer apart since this problem started? Did you perhaps bump a cable or connection. Borrow a laptop and try your cable and tower on it, maybe your plug and play (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi, this seems to be a very good idea for a new RCX sensor. Reading the Sharp data sheets for their infrared distance sensors I want to write some facts about. They have 4 different sensors for measuring distances from 10 to 80 cm. The differences (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Oh, sorry that this wasn't posted to this list- I already posted a .pdf version to the legOS site, at (URL) If anyone here is interested in following legOS, I'd recommend following the lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos list- that's where this news was (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Here is me with my roving webcam bot. This weekend I made an improved version. I used WebCam32 for the webcam, my WebBrick program for robot control over IP, NQC code for motor control, IBM's cordless modem, a USB to serial converter to get the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics) !
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"Giacomo" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:NDBBIEKBGLHLJPC...bero.it... (...) correctly (...) I read Steve sugestions and they are great. So here comes another option: You can avoid the sync problem by avoiding the timing technique (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi, educators This may be of interest to people who have to organise or prepare kids to take part in robotics competitions. The National Junior Robotics Competition (NJRC) 2000 which is in its 2nd year running, was held from 5-7 Sep in Singapore. (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.sg, lugnet.edu)
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----- Original Message ----- From: Tobias Möller <tobias.moller@telia.com> To: <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 4:04 PM Subject: Re: Anyone getting PowerPacks? (...) robots. (...) The only way I know of so far is to call (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I've posted the kernel documentation in an Acrobat file to (URL) . For a text-only file, this one is rather large, about 275K--it seems all the fonts have been included as bitmaps rather than outlines. I've re-cropped this to standard US letter size (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Okay, so I've been browsing around the PowerPack site, and I want to buy them, but... How do I order them? I can't find a "buy" button! --Tobias (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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Tobias, The tower light will light even if the battery is dead or improperly connected. The battery compartment is not very well designed, and it can sometimes cause problems. Check the battery again. First, make sure it is fresh. I use the tongue (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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