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Hi All, I am travelling to London from Europe and would welcome suggestions as to where to buy Lego and or Mindstorms in London. Pref. shops that carry stock as I can probably visit them once. Alternatively, mail order organisations selling Lego (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: AI, AI & AC
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Do you have any references or links that you could share with us about "Game AI" ? I'm curious : ) (...) research (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I've got a linux box sitting here that is not doing much at all. I was thinking that I could devote it to Legos. I know that I have seen something on here b4 about using Linux. Where could I get the appropriate driver? Thanks, Jim (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Is Scout powerful?
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I have to agree, the Scout is great. While it will never be as powerful as it's bigger sibling (not sure on the gender here....), it still has plenty of fun inside. And it's being discounted at places like BestBuy for $79.00 which makes it a good (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Is Scout powerful?
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I think the scout is great. We build quite a lot of simple models to be controlled by the IRRC, it is perfect for this. It is also good for checking out larger models before the RCX is cranked up. It is biggest draw back is the it only having two (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Is Scout powerful?
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I just acquired the Discovery set that includes the Scout. At first I always face the scout as a simpler version of the RCX with the following disadvantages: -2 motor outputs only -2 inputs only -inputs are restricted to touch sensors only -less (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Need more help with NQC
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(...) You have to be careful with upper and lower case: task main() { OnFwd(OUT_A); OnFwd(OUT_C); Wait(200); OnRev(OUT_A+OUT_C); Wait(200); Off(OUT_A+OUT_C); } Jürgen (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Need more help with NQC
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I think you have to define out_a, out_b and out_c as OUT_A, OUT_B and OUT_C. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: AI, AI & AC
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(...) Com'on doesn't everybody want a robot that has more sense then only reverse/turn when it hits a wall ... (...) One of simplest forms of AI is to incorporate moods (AE) that can result in more human behavior. This can be done by using different (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Need more help with NQC
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I need some other help with NQC. I downloaded the tutorialof Mark Overmars, a lot of example of NQC, but when i write the first program of the tutorial i got at least 6 errors (maybe 8 !), here is the program: task main() { onfwd(out_a); (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: AI, AI & AC (CM<->RCX)
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(...) As Dean Husby said in a reply to your "Communication between the RCX and the Cybermaster" thread, and as it has been discussed by me and others already in older threads, it's pretty safe to connect directly the CM's OUT to a RCX IN, and doing (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: AI, AI & AC (OT)
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I think that everyone who thinks that to have intellegence you must have a computer communication system. Look at what Bert van Dam did, and only using the RCX. More complicated, independent robots could be built, but everyone sees the home computer (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: US S@H Specials, Oct 18 - Oct 24, 2000
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(...) Ooh -- if you're a fan of the old-style Toggle Joints with teeth, jump on that 5289. There are 4 of the old 2L Gray Toggle Joints and 4 of the old gray piston rods with opposing side studs. The rest of the parts aren't particularly uncommon (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Vision Command camera questions
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(...) I ran into the same problem with the LEGO Studios MovieMaker set. I am having to switch from Win2000 to WinME to run the Studios Software. S@H was telling people (including me) that it would work in Win2000. Tech support confirmed thta it will (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Vision Command camera questions
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Looks like most of your questions have been answered, but I'll add a couple points ... The camera is variable focus - you have to manually rotate a focus ring on the front of the camera (like similar PC cameras). I wish LEGO would have built gear (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Vision Command camera questions
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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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| | Re: help with NQC
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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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| | Re: Vision Command camera questions
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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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| | Re: Mindstorms mall tour
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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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| | Re: Vision Command camera questions
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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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