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(...) RIS is still selling in the US for US$180 or so - RDS has dropped A LOT in price and our local 'Fry's discount electronics warehouse has them at US$68. Droid developers is hopeless - except perhaps as an add-on set once you have one of the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) of (...) I will, thanks. While we are on the subject, any plans for a leJOS HOWTO? (I'm only half kidding :-). --Jose (...) writes: (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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First thing I noticed on those scans is that we're moving to version 2.0 now. Anyone know what the differences are? Have they put the external power connector back? I never understood why that's gone on 1.5... I couldn't live without it. During (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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"James Stanton" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.10.1...00@mail... (...) I installed 1.0 on a Dell CPx Laptop running NT4.0, works fine. -Rob. (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) From what I understand the 1.5 software may support NT. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) You can do that with the Scout. (Note: Micro-Scout and Scout are NOT the same) The scout comes with some nice stuff. But to use the full power of the Scout you're going to need a transmitter for the PC. Lego or Ebay should have them. The (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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Does the RCX cd come with an NT driver? I have a friend that is interested. Thanks, JIm (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) come as (...) I think the Robot Invntion system is too much money. Since i'm gettng the Cyber Strikers set, a $60 dinosaur book, and perhaps other things for Christmas too, I don't think I'd be allowed to do that. And I don't really like (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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(...) The arm designs in the Mars Expansion pack are great for that. They have/had pics on the web site that shows it picking up and dropping a pop can... Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I have bricks numbered 026985, 131860 &155226. All 1.0's. So I don't think the first number is a control number. I have a friend that has an 008xxx brick. He picked his up the same week as me so there was no relations to the numbers and (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Brad, if you can, go for the RCX (RIS) It will be usable for MANY years to come as you grow. I have all three units and I can tell you that the RCX (RIS) is the best. There was another message group that discussed all this in detail. (URL) the (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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Jose- That's great! Remind me to mention that when I release the newest version of the Linux + Lego HOWTO, if you don't see it there. Luis (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The RDS is a really cool set. And if it is your first time programming then i think its the way to go. The only real drawbacks i see with the scout is it does not support the rotation sensor and it only has two inputs(that you can change (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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I got a catalog today from a science store in Toronto, and it has relativley low priced Mindstorms. There are Droid Developers for $105.00, and Robotics Discovery for $159.95. This is quite close to the American price, so I think it is a better (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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(...) Umm. I've been chopping the ball and 1/2 inch of cross axle off those useless arm pieces for a while. They make very handy spherical joints to connect parts at odd angles. You can also chop the other end including the first two technic holes (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Nice idea. I don't have pneumatics yet, but the same idea can be applied to different applications. For example, I want to build a arm with a grabber that first closes the "hand" then lifts the arm. I believe your idea using the differential will (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Ahhhh, the lure of numbers :-) (...) Agreed. I know about a half dozen kids that have these sets, and most of them would rather watch TV! Don't forget that a lot of these kits are in schools. They are dumped on teachers that have little or no (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Curiosity piqued, I took a look around Google and found (among others)..... (URL) haven't waded through the math manually yet, but this doesn't look too awful. Perhaps I am ignorantly naive. It sure would be neat to have sin and cos on demand. Jeff (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Jeffrey Hazen (11:58 AM 10.25.2000) wrote: >The scans are interesting, but I'm afraid there isn't much excitement >robotics-wise. > >An interesting note: The serial number on one of the RCX bricks in the >scans is 502273. The earliest serial number (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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>Jeff wrote: > >That means (with some assumptions about completeness) Lego has banged out >over half a million of these yellow bricks.... Really? Even one tenth that number is still a sea of yellow bricks! So where is everybody? Why are there only (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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