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If I were Lego and I was looking to avoid people pirating my software, I'd tie it to my own hardware! An awful lot of people have USB webcams. And the Lego software is quite clever, even if in its current form it cannot be used in conjunction with (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Mars Explorer seems quite happy to use any camera windows has, it is even happy to find and use my Pinnacle video capture card. Vision Command on the other hand, was NOT happy. I had the Logitek QuickCam Pro USB up and running on my system quite (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I have a feeling Lego put in a "Ident Chip" that tells what it is. That's why it comes up as a Lego Camera in the USB settings. It may fall back to Logitec mode but I don't know if it works the other way around. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I didn't try it yet (because i have none) but the Logitech Quickcam could (should) work with the VC software because the other way it works. meaning the lego camera works fine with the logitech SDK. Has anybody tries this ???????? I'm very< (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I tried. The quality was so bad I gave up. And no, no other camera can use the VC software... Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Opinions on the Ultimate Accessory set
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kbkids.com has it on sale for $39.99 (...) sale and for (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi All Ive go an X-10 wire less camera , i want to know if any one uses it with the lego , and does it support image recogination with the vision command ?? can i use the softwere and the camera to recognize the opjects?? Patel (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That's good. Any less then 400 bytes would truly be daft. The system vars and pointers are already taken from the 1k of RAM. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes, that looks about the size of it... Any bytes left over? (Use the -l option in NQC) -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Variables don't take up space (unfortunately). They're purely register variables. (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well, if you run "nqc -Ofilename yourprogram.nqc", you'll save the compiled code to 'filename' - look at the length of that file. I don't think it's exactly the right size because it seems to contain ASCII strings for the names of functions (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatic Sub parts
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(...) If you're at all into pneumatics it's a good set, especially if you can get it for $25 like many of us did (many times over) from S@H. It contains: 1 pneumatic hand pump 1 large pneumatic cylinder 1 blue air tank 1 T-junction hose A TON of (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Target -- $50 --- J Austin David austindavid.com austin@gtf.org Life is hard. It's harder if you use NT. (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Over the past few weeks, I have heard people praising the Pneumatic Sub (model #8299) and the parts included with it. Just what are the parts and how much is a reasonable amount to pay for the kit? I have the option of buying the kit, but I want (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Out of curiosity, where did you find the ultimate accessory kit on sale and for how much? Jason (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) It has 400bytes (.4k) for code... I got a twenty line NQC program in there... Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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John, the Sewer Rat is great! How fast does it move? Is there an advantage to having the two separate "units" on either side of the "payload"? Would one of the units work as well on its own? -- Mark Haye, mark_haye(@)tivoli(.)com IBM TSM Server (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Okay, I wrote my first (sophomoric) piece of code for the scout, and I have kind of lame question. I know that there's no good way to answer this question, but about how much code can I stuff in the thing? I've heard that it only has 1kbyte for (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I like the remote. The rotation sensor is good, too (easily lets you tie a motor to a steering wheel, for instance -- or a tach). The pieces themselves are mostly novel; an extra touch sensor, some weird stuff ... but I dig the remote. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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