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(...) we thought it was all done already! Nice work. Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- The train stops at the train station, The bus stops at the bus station, So why am I sitting at a work station? ---...--- Reply to: rhempel at bmts dot com (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Pneumatic pump and switch using a single motor: Do you need pneumatics on your robot? You want to produce the pressure and you want to switch the valve by motors. With my idea you can do both with a single motor. Have a look at: (URL) for my bad (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce)
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I am now using MacNQC 2.2a3. It seems it cannot understand some new syntax than can be used in NQC 2.2r2. (Such as EVENT()...) Can anyone teach me what should I do? Camus Lai (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) If your using the Tower a lot of the time, (Polling etc.) I'd suggest getting a power adapter for 9 volts and use that instead. Saves on power greatly. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I had a similar problem with the RCX. I use the RCX and it works well with 1,2V NiCd batteries as soon as the tower uses a regular 9V battery. If I use a rechargable 9V battery I have a problem similar to yours. Try using a regular 9V battery and (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Great new pictures : robots with Vision Command - hands on
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Oh man, I *have* to get a job like this. -- - Joe "Mikkel Pedersbæk" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:p04330100b61629....100.2]... (...) VC (...) my (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New sets for 2001... finally (Pictures)
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(...) --Todd (25 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.year.2001)
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Title says it all. The show can be found on PBS. Rose (25 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) AFAIK they are built more robust, to tolerate the charging better, while chemically they are the same. That said, my experience with AAA renewals (the german Müller system) for my Palm III was not good. Even with an expensive intelligent (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I've read a lot of posts about the EverReady Renewals, and to be honest, I have to really wonder if they are anything special or not. I kinda think it might mostly just be the charger that is special. However, I *do not know*, so this is just (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes - I'd heard that...and to finish the story, Lead/Acid batteries (such as car and motorcycle batteries) should NEVER be run completely flat as it's very bad for them...completely the opposite of NiCads which should always be run flat. Dunno (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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In lugnet.robotics, sjbaker1@airmail.net writes: <snip> (...) Let me add a few words concerning Renewal's, from my own experiences... Renewal's *like* to be recharged frequently, particualarly while they still have some remaining charge in them. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) We had this discussion (in the context of RCX) a few weeks ago. To summarise: Alkaline (non-rechargable) AA's are 1.5v when new but gradually run down to about 1.2v or even less when 'flat'. A few brave people have actually built rechargers (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) concluded I have uesd the everyready renewal batteries in my RCX without problems (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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A couple weeks back I posted a pretty critical but not mean-spirited (IMHO) critique of the mall tour as it passed near me (reference message Dear Lego n=2518). I was then contacted by Jeff Ardis the tour manager by e-mail. He stated that indeed (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.org.us.wafol, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.robotics) !
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Hi, I just bought a set of 6 AA 1600mAH rechargable batteries together with one rechar. bat. 9V 150 mAH. I tested if the whole bunch would work in my cybermaster unit and the radio tower. Well, nothing happens to the cybermaster. The tower unit is (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi all I thought I would share these pics I took last Saturday at the Danish pavilion at EXPO2000 in Hannover :) (URL) Kjaer mailto:jkj@it.dk (25 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Cancel your odd messages... Yes, you can. What I've done for the Scout is to use a relay and a 9volt connector. If the external power is on the relay is on and the Scout/RCX gets it's power from the external power. If the external power is off (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hello all, Due to some stupid reason, I sent three times the same e-mail and an empty one to the list. My excuses for it. Probably those e-mails contained a read receipt, too. I turned this feature off in OE5, but it seems like this registry key is (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hello all, Do you think it would be feasibleto build in a jack to be able to feed the RCX from an external power source? I just broke off one of those clips used to make contact between the Lego electric plating and the RCX PCB, so I'll have to (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hello all, Do you think it would be feasibleto build in a jack to be able to feed the RCX from an external power source? I just broke off one of those clips used to make contact between the Lego electric plating and the RCX PCB, so I'll have to (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I agree with Jeff (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hello all, During the first release show of the Vision Command I had a hands on experience with the dinos. They are incredible. Only one of the use the vision command. It moves back and forth in order to attack dinos passing by. The other dinos are (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Jerry, I didn't created these superb robots, all this stuff comes from a Lego Press Show here in Paris, France. Yes, we are lucky to see things like these ! - Christophe - (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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What an amazing web site! Christophe, I need to ask a couple of questions: 1. Are you in an educational institution (or what)? You must have at least 6 RCX units to do all that! 2. What did you use to take the pictures on your site? Surely not the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Wow! These are cool! Build On! John Matthews chv <chv@crazyrobots.com> wrote in message news:G2qHG6.4Es@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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go see them at : (URL) : some pictures are quite large : around 1.5 Mo) Missile lanchers, Tyranosaure, Stegosaure, ... - Christophe - (25 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Why not don't you go to Legoland Windsor ? They have a large shop inside. If you fly to Earthrow, it is not a long distance. (URL) - Christophe - (25 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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apologies for continuing the off the lego-robotics theme, but i thought this may be generally of interest... there are some good papers relating to ai/intelligent agents in games from: (URL) includes the paper: Interactive Computer Games: (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Selfridges on Oxford Street sell them as well. That's where I got mine from. At first my RCX stopped working after five minutes so I took the whole kit (all unpacked) back to them and got another brand new one in return. They where very easy (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Xanthra47" <Xanthra47@Inphotek.com> wrote in message news:G2onsu.KsA@lugnet.com... (...) "Game (...) Some, must see sites about game coding www.gdmag www.gamasutra.com www.gameai.com Try these articles; I hope ya can view them without being a (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I've only recently "switched over" to NQC myself, having found RCX Code to be pretty good for the simple tasks I was trying to handle. Be sure you run through all 12 steps in "training mode," and then go through the help file that explains each code (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Could we include C++ header file into NQC? say, <math.h> if not, how could we increase the mathematical power of NQC? Yiu (25 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Unfortunately, unless you completely re-engineer the standard firmware you probably won't get the power you need. The jump from LegOS to NQC is relatively painless once you get a working LegOS compiler up and running. I was actually able to (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Just put a web site up, some of which is dedicated to to Lego, only one model up there so far but expect to do more in the winter while it rains outside. (URL) MIME ATTACHMENTS DISCARDED: 1. Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I would say that Gordon's BrickProgrammer is your best bet before getting into NQC, it supports if/else, multi tasking and routines, as does the standard RCX Environment. It also supports integer Variables. I've done some complex stuff, however I (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Jim- My Linux mini-HOWTO is here: (URL) covers every option that is available on Linux, at least that I'm aware of, including NQC and tons of others. Good luck with it. Luis (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) There sure is.... NQC, a program of the gods. (URL) the news group lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc is where you discuss NQC. -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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