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(...) The RCX doesn't support radar, but the Handy Board with Expansion Board supports the Polaroid Sonar unit... here is a thread on a recent discussion here on it... (URL) Handy Board is essentially the RCX+++, but it does not come in a Lego (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Another DIY sensor
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Umm. (...) No I didn't! My laptop has a glide point thingy so I don't have box full of dead mice! . But I should investigate! Thanks for the idea. (...) That reminds me. A while ago now, someone here suggested trying out the guts of one of those (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Who was it that built the 'sewer rat' ( a robot that fitted in a pipe, with 4 sets of wheels contacting the walls of the pipe)? It shouldn't be insanely hard to modify into a 'sphere rat'! Did the original sewer rat use synchro drives or fixed (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Who was it that built the 'sewer rat' ( a robot that fitted in a pipe, with 4 sets of wheels contacting the walls of the pipe)? It shouldn't be insanely hard to modify into a 'sphere rat'! Did the original sewer rat use synchro drives or fixed (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Stick it in one of those "hamster balls". They make bigger ones for rats and ferrets. --- J Austin David austindavid.com austin@gtf.org Life is hard. It's harder if you use NT. (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Then: (...) Now you tell me!!!! Just after I finished implementing a set of cheap and cheerful nqc fixed point transcendental functions based on 100 RCX degrees per rev! JB (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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This reminds me of something I was considering building about a year ago, though not out of Lego. (I consider building a lot of things, but nothing ever gets built) I had the idea to build a remote controlled robot completely contained in a sphere. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Use RAW mode. Then you get 2500 to 0 (I think it was) Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: any idea if radar can be used with the rcx?
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(...) Not "radar," but you can couple lights to the drive motors, aim them out front, and use the light-sensor. It will see the reflected light near an object, and react accordingly. On a scout, I make it "avoid light." The thing will get ~ 4 inches (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Clarification of access control
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I'm curently reading Extreme Mindstorms. In listing 4.2 (see below) the seek task acquires the user defined resource and then enters an inner infinite loop looking for a target. It appears to me that if the seek task losing ownership of the user (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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