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(...) Fair enough - I can't think of anything better to do with a Jar-Jar minifig either! :-) Weeellll - you are only *just* marginally, arguably, maybe wrong. Nobody should assume that they'll get the Lego camera working under Win95 - the obstacles (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I thought there were a bunch of them on the NQC homepage - if you can't find them, email me and I'll send you a bunch of NQC programs I've been playing with and whatever examples I havn't "modified to death". (...) Functions are 'inline' code (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Every one that shipped after the OEM update came out shipped with the latest OEM version of Windows 95. See that sticker on your computer that says "Designed for Microsoft Windows xx"? OEM's want to be able to put that sticker on their computers. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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same thing as another poster. I'd hardly call it an event. The one here in chicago had a wall climber, two of the new droid robots, and some p.c.'s set up running lego ads. That was it. The wall climber is neat to see, but hardly worth a trip. hope (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Rats! I hate the taste of plastic. :) Thanks for the article. Of course, it's worth noting that the only way to get these OEM versions is to buy a computer with it installed! I wonder how many machines shipped that had the update? --Doug Wilcox (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Doug, better start chewing on at least an arm. The original retail version of Windows 95 did indeed not support USB. But starting with OEM Service Release 2, USB support was added to Windows 95. See (URL) software vendors may choose to not test new (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Not really, else I would have used one of the AI groups :) (...) Well, if you are trying to make a copy of some simple machinery, like your toaster with it's timer etc, it hasn't. But if you want to make your robots do more than just get stuck (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes, I think it is important to differentiate between these three "modes of thought". I think they are among the more important parts of our mind, and that it won't be a bad idea to copy nature into our programs and robots. The reason I think (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Get a copy of RcxCC by Mark Overmars ((URL) is a great interface for programming NQC and has a tutorial that might have some examples you can use. (...) The main differences are: 1) Functions can have arguments and subroutines not. 2) If you (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.scout, lugnet.robotics.vll)
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(...) I am a programmer a so I will try to answer some of your questions. 1) I think the NQC distribution has some examples. D. Baum's book : The Definitive Guide to LEGO Mindstorms" is excellent and has very useful examples. I may have not gotten (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I have a couple of basic AI applications on my website at www.bvandam.net using the Mindstorm, Scout, Cybermaster or PC. Bert -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Gawel Boguta <gawel@adgam.com.pl> Aan: lego <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> Datum: dinsdag (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Finally i decided to use NQC, the Lego Programmer was too much limited, and others system to program the RCX where still limited;in the other hand ,however, i do not want to get under the firmware. Ok ,i downloaded the firmware 2.0 ,the NQC+Manual (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) On the front page of my Windows 95 manual, it says "USB support". I wonder if I can use Vision Command on my system? Do anybody know just what kind of Logitech camera it is based on? Perhaps one can grab some shareware software from the net to (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Peter, Did you know that building plans for the robots from my book are online? (URL) includes a clever arm designed by Ben Williamson and also exhibits a directional transmission. (Note that Minerva 1.5 includes a slightly different directional (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Nope. This is a Lego *robotics* list, that talks about: Robot hardware = pBrick (RCX/CyberMAster/Sco...)+LEGO+... Robot software = pBrick code+PC/Mac/... code So, if you do, like me, real time image processing/analysis/...rpretation with the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) RCX could have problems with AI algorythm offcourse, but I'm working on such a problem. I use PC to do all computation, and I communicate with RCX through IR port to get data from it and to send orders. I would like to use AI algorythms and (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) All very wonderful I'm sure - but isn't it just a *tad* off-topic? This has essentially nothing to do with either robotics or Lego. There is nowhere close to enough computing resources in anything people are likely to have in a Lego robot to (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi all, I'm coaching this elementary school robotics team, and it would really help these kids (many of whom have never built with LEGO in any significant way before (the disadvantage of LEGO cost and Jrization!)) if they could see some samples of (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Install on Win98 aas follows: 1. Export the registry to a text file 2. Get a complete directory listing of your primary drive (I have an ls, so I would do ls -lR from c:\) 3. Install the VC SW 4. Export the registry to another text file 5. Get a (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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