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(...) 3 things: sensors, actuators/motors, controllers. Sensors: measure the environment actuators/motors: chance the environment controllers: input, output, software. If you want your zoo of bricks, it's really a set of sensor/controllers or (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Can't agree with you here Jennifer. I mean, isn't this half the fun of technic building? Working out gear ratio's, how to fit them in your model, changing, compromising.... If you'd write a program like that, link it to some CAD application, and if (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Vihung Marathe" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:3A084DBE.1FBBAD...the.net... (...) Geez, all anybody ever talks about is software. :-) Mike G. (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I made an attempt to put a CyberMaster online on my WebTruck site Using Perl on Win98 was harder than expected, I still am not able to read from the CyberMaster. I used RCXCC and NQC to write a small proggy for the cybermaster, and control it using (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: [ANN] leJOS: Replacement firmware for the RCX
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-- MIME ATTACHMENTS DISCARDED: 1. Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Length: 653 (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I am sure lots of people will have seen this, but Wired has another article on Mindstorms at (URL) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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The first beta release of leJOS is out at (URL) leJOS is a Java based replacement firmware for the RCX, forked out of TinyVM ((URL) practically all of its features, plus: - There is a Windows version (CygWin not required). - Much faster Sensor API. (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Something else I've thought would be handy would be a program which would take as inputs the desired positions of the input and output axles in a gear train and the desired gear ratio. Space constraints in the form of "bricks" blocking off (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) ^*shudder* (URL) a big WOW for the sewer rat! Jürgen (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I have just put a couple of pictures of the Funrise treads in use on my web page - www.borg.com\~pinkmice. I know there were a few people who had expressed interest in them after I described them here the other day. There's also a couple of views of (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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You might take a look around at (URL) or (URL) There is (was? they're a few years old) a fairly active hacking community. The autopsy theme alone is worth visiting the first site for. Complete with toe tags. You'll find a complete schematic and some (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Has anyone scrapped a furby for use with an rcx? There are many components inside furbies that would make good sensor components, tilt sensors, sound sensors, swithes, ect. Does anyone have thoughts on this and has anyone succsefuly taken apart a (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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This may be more appropriate for lugnet.technic. There has been postings or listings of these before, but don't let that stop you. You should add the turntable gears (outside is 56t, I think) somehow. I also would rather see the vertical in mixed (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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"John Heins" <Johnmhiii@aol.com> wrote in message news:G3L5n1.BF9@lugnet.com... (...) If only we had them overhere... (...) ARE those gears called??? Gearballs? Duq (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I've never seen a table of allowed spacings between gear wheels. (For example, two 40t gears will mesh nicely if spaced apart by three studs horizontally and 3 and one-third bricks vertically). I wrote a little program to compute all possible (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Tim Hatch" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:003301c04788$a5...nt87636... (...) Sorry there are no expanders/multiplexes. The sensors part of Extreme Mindstorms book is designed to take a person with limited electronics experience (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Harri 'Junkarn' Manni" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.10.1...vika.se... (...) Sorry for the trauma! I have nightmares about the remaining half. How can I explain its presence in my inventory? What can I do with it? (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thx. (...) I use a 1x3 plate when I want more traction. The problem is that the plates often get ripped of when driving... I prefer the low-friction solution. I am thinking that some glue from my glue gun on each tread link will do the trick. (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Robert, (...) thanks for the pictures. One may call your design a bit untraditional and questionable, but on the other side it is a pragmatic and fairly compact solution. I tried to construct a drive made of a single tire meshed with the focus (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Argh.. A totaly massacred turntable! You should warn more before showing things like this on the web.. :) (Looks excelent btw.) //Harri Manni -"Do not take life too seriously.You will never get out alive." (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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