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Try Baylit ((URL) ) or Brickbay ((URL) ) or Sanburn Systems ((URL) ). These three are non-auction bricksellers. I haven't bought from them myself, but heard good stories about them. You might want to post this in some of the lugnet.market groups as (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I would like to order some specific lego pieces (I don't want to purchase an entire set). Does anyone know of a good on-line source for this?? Thanks, jim (25 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Right, no connection! Steve's "First Internet Robot Contest" has nothing to do with FIRST, the organization formerly known as "US FIRST," which is presently cooperating with LEGO in the "FIRST LEGO League" (FLL). Todd, thanks for allowing me to (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Fred, Steve, The word "First" here has nothing to do with FIRST[1], right? --Todd [1] (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard, lugnet.robotics)
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Hi all, I am new to Lego, but from what I have seen and read in the newsgroup it seems an easy way to have some fun with robotics. I am getting a HandyBoard as a brain and I wonder which is the best set to get started, something with lots of gears, (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) While not directly related to Lego Software, ME *REALLY* slows down the machine. They must have used blocks of LEAD in their code... I'd recommend against it. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I cannot seem to find the right syntax for const int in NQC. For example, in trying to synchronize LEFTLEGS and RIGHTLEGS in a 6-leg robot, this piece of code does *not* work: int count; //declare a variable 'count' count = 0; //initialize 'count' (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Thanks to the efforts of a number of people, there is a raft of new documents up at the legOS site. Because of the growing amount of documentation, I've organized a new page to keep track of all the available docs: (URL) things up there now: *LegOS (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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I have a Windows Millennium Edition upgrade ready to install onto my Win98 machine. Before I do the deed, I'd just like to check that if there are any known problems the Lego Mindstorms software or NQC in the Windows ME environment. Kerry -- (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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You should psot this in lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc Zhengrong (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I tried to make a proximitysensor with was "direction aware", this means i used two lightsensors on port 1 and 3. And tried to make the change of direction dependable of with sensor(event) was triggert. See code : #define EVENT_PROXL 0 // proximity (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes, almost. It's just a different colour. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.vc)
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I'm new to this newsgroup so I don't know if this has already come up, but is the vision command camera the same as in the movie maker set? (25 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I just posted a message on Thursday about this. I solved this problem in Minerva, in my book _The Unofficial Guide to Lego Mindstorms Robots_. Then I solved it again, in a different way, for the RIS 1.5-compliant version of Minerva. The building (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) This is certainly true - but when I think "I need more I/O" - I also think "I/O should be modular and infinitely expandable". I don't want *any* practical limit to the number of motors and sensors. A mere 'Mark II RCX' with (say) 5 inputs and (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I build these and it solves all my problems for all motors and sensors... (URL) the link to build and see what it's about... (...) Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Could you do something with this trick? (URL) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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The approach I would take would be to use a splitter (ratchet or worm) and make one output shaft a gear selector for a transmission, and the other shaft the input power for the transmission. The transmission design would be tricky, because the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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John, Thanks for that answer. That same question has haunted me for some time. -- Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net The Shop (URL) A. Tamplin" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:Pine.A32.3.91.1...net.com... (...) syntax (...) below. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I don't know if this will help, but i'm currently working on a device that lets one motor drive four seperate axles. Downside is that it's one direction only, and only one axle can be used at one time. Howerver, you could use an extra gear to make (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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