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(...) Do you mean electronically or physically? As long as your power is 9volts DC with the correct polarity it should be fine. Physically you may need to use gator clips to hold it in. I've heard the 2.0's will come with USB versions and since USB (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) a (...) Guido (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Wow, this went to the wrong group! I dunno why. Trying again... "Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:G2vy53.L99@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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A truely ingenious little mechanism. I wonder if mechanical engineers in the real world ever get jealous of how easy it is for us Lego world engineers to do such rapid prototyping. ... and in reply to Ralph's comment, who was the famous figure who (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I use Ray-O-Vac Rechargeable Alkaline batteries and their special charger in my RCX with great results. I only seem to recharge them every few weeks and then they have lots left in them. The charger seems to charge each (of 4) individually, the (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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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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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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(...) --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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| | Mindstorm Mall Tour looking for a few good LUGs
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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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| | Lego Mindstorms at EXPO2000
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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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In London, I know Hamleys on Regent St and Harrods in Knightsbridge both have stock of Mindstorms. There are several ToysR'Us locations on the outer areas of London, but none in the city proper, and you would want to call them first to check stock, (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I agree the droid kits are a bit too much (and I was never a huge Star Wars fan). But they're discounted now to $49.00, and there are 656 other parts.....that's 7.5 cents a part, well below my pain threshold. I got me two ;>) Jeff Jeffrey Hazen (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hello, I'm a new RCX owner and I find that the tutorial for RCX Code that comes with Mindstorms explains squat. Is there an online tutorial that explains what each object does and actually shows how to do more than just turn on a motor for one (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Jeffrey Hazen" <jeffrey.hazen@northmill.net> wrote in message news:01C039AF.73F65F...thmill1... (...) I could think of some applications for that, but I'd have to win a lottery before I could afford 8 Microscouts!! About Microscouts: when I first (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) LegOS doesn't use the standard Byte Codes... So, no I did not... If I was proficient in C I probably would like it. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I don't want to crash your party, but I thik you just described legos as in news:lugnet.robotics.legos ;-) Regards, Hakan (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) If you are looking for NQC for Linux go to the NQC web site and click on the Unix installs. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The Scout has the following drawbacks. Passive Sensors only. No Rotation or Light. It's very hard to use the Light sensor for some projects since it's built into the brick. 1k of RAM!!! That's 400 bytes to play with. Not very much at all. (The (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Why didn't you try my WinNQC? although it is only v1.1. You can find information in lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, you won't be sorry. Zhengrong (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I also think Scout is very good, and it has some new features that not in RCX but will be in new RCX2, like event monitor and so on. NQC 2.2 r1 supports scout in NQC language, so you can write software like for RCX, if you like to use IDE (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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(...) 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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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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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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| | RE: AI, AI & AC
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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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| | RE: AI, AI & AC (OT)
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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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| | RE: help with NQC
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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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| | Re: Scout SDK
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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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I've had similar thoughts though I don't have a clue as to where to being. I've done some checking with a dependancy checker and I've monkeyed with the .ini files all of course to to avail. If anyone has a direction to point me I'de be much obliged. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi LEGO robotics fans, I am organizing the “First Internet Robot Contest”, a robotics paper contest. Submit your bot in the “LEGO robot category” and win one of the following LEGO prizes: - three LEGO Droid Developer Kits - three LEGO Vision Comand (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hello LEGO robotics fans, I am organizing the “First Internet Robot Contest”, a robotics paper contest. Submit your bot in the “LEGO robot category” and win one of the following LEGO prizes: - three LEGO Droid Developer Kits - three LEGO Vision (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) this is (...) Why do all of these begin with the word Artificial? Don't you mean to say that our mind operates with "intelligence", "intuition" and "consciousness"? What exactly is the difference between Artificial Consciousness and "real" (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Everybody today is talking about Artificial Intelligence. I think this is only one of (at least!!!) three different elements our mind is using: AI: Artificial Intelligence. This is in my opinion just the ability to make logical choices. So any (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I'm willing to bet that the issue here isn't even technical (as far as the software is concerned). It is probably the installer script which was written to check if the platform is for Win 98 or NT - and when it doesn't find either, it doesn't let (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) It's not just you :-) Recently I managed a workaround to this exact situation with a 16 tooth gear by placing 1x2 tiles on the bottom plate. The gear then rests on those tiles. Of course, I fully expect to find concave crescents eroded in (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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hi, just some additional information of how people use the sensor: (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Not exactly.... The output is an analog voltage, meaning it's not exactly a digital TTL 0 volts or 5 volts, but ranges from 200mv (call this low) to Vcc-200mv (call this high). But this is a PWM output, meaning that with the chip stationary with (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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