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Have you adapted the sensor to work with the rcx, or have you just taken out the light sensor? If you have adapted it successfully, how did you do it? (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) and * (...) available (...) the (...) leJOS ((URL) has sqrt, pow, sin, cos, tan, atan, atan2, and log. If Java is not your language of choice, I guess you can translate the code in Math.java to C. It's released under MPL. Regards, --Jose (25 years ago, 1-Jan-96, to lugnet.robotics)
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I think you're exactly correct John. There has to be very low level control of the port. The trick, I suspect, is that the control may not lie within the Palm SDK (which I suspect fully supports only IrDA), but rather with machine coding of the (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I thought the same thing - but I do not understand the technology in any way, shape or form. Scott A (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Something doesn't make sense to me here ..... IF someone sells a piece of software which allows the Palm to learn and speak "arbitrary remotese", then there has to be low level software control over the port. Doesn't that mean that who ever knows (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hmm. I had assumed I could programme the RCX using a palm (via the RIS tower). However, after reading your post, and a good deal of the other 56 messages in this group, it appears this is not the case. I already have a LEGO remote, so that (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.palm, lugnet.robotics)
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Jason writes: >Since the cue >cats are completly, one hundred percent free, (I just walked into a >radio shack, asked for a cat, got one and walked out), they would make a >sensor that you could have as many as you want, an virtualy unlimited >light (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Which Palm?
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The short answer is it doesn't really matter.....'cause none of the Palm or Handspring units really work directly with the RCX. If there is a Holy Grail to this robotics/Palm group, it would be the successful programming of the Palm IrDA port to (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.palm, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Which Palm?
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Is there a list of Palms which I can use with my RCX etc? I am thinking of getting used one just to use with my RCX - but I don't want to by the "wrong" one. I'm grateful for any help given... as always. Scott A (25 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.palm, lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Math
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(...) I am in need of the sqrt function on RCX. I understand that I have to build the function by myself. But it would be great if the math.h and library could be integrated into the legOS. Does anyone know about this? or having other suggestion? (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | cue cat
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everyone knows that radio shack is giving away cue cats free, don't they? The cue cat is an optical reader used for reading barcodes. Inside the cat is a light sensor that might be useful for robotics. I think the light sensor in the cat is fairly (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Tank (Re: Tracks)
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(...) Actually I thought that looked really nice...functons seem like they would work pretty well too. You could try to use a "worm" gear to gear down the turntable; it can usually get the job done without using too much space... (25 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: web-legOS back online
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(...) Three things, all related to the new way 0.2 manages programs: 1) 0.2.x has a separate kernel which must be uploaded prior to any legOS programs, making the procedure somewhat more complex. 2) 0.2.x program files are in a binary format rather (...) (25 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Me too, so I tinkered with the Cybermaster Tracks sunday afternoon. (URL) notes: - The tracks are longer than the RIS tracks, but still too short. - The original support structure from Cybermaster looks awful, due to its wedge shape. - The (...) (25 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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(...) ...and I always figured those "RIS tracks" to short LOL! This can come in handy, thanks for the info! /Tobbe (25 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The Giant Wheelbot (aka 'sphere rat')
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(...) Here is the URL: (URL) luck, I have a funny feeling you'll need it :) /Tobbe (25 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I think I got mine in the USA for $179.98 (or was it 169.98 or 159.98???) at www.ebworld.com. This is the website for electronics boutique. Last I checked, their store fronts also sell the RIS 1.5 for 179.98. However, I don't know if it will work, (...) (25 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Sets with worm gear box?
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Pacbell has some kind of intermittent problem with forwarding e-mail accounts like mine. Sorry you got a bounce. I'm aware of the throwbot worm assemblies, but unfortunately, I need the yellow 7x2x4 worm box. I guess I'll be buying some tread (...) (25 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi, Sorry, but the web server I used died, and they didn't have any backups... But I am able to put up my work at another site, though this one will be temporary: (URL) pyroelectric sensor is a differential sensor, meaning that it can only detect (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RIS 1.5 kit
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Cheapest price I've seen in the UK is at www.maplin.co.uk - £159.99 search with product code LEH99 (...) here in little ---...--- Sent from a WebBox - (URL) Web based Email, Files, Bookmarks, Calendar, People and Great Ways to Share them with (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RIS 1.5 kit
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Something worth checking may be "Dick Smith Electronics" down here in little old New Zealand (please remove the line wrap): (URL) if they ship offshore, but they're doing RIS1.5 for NZ$399. Our crap currency only buys US$0.40, so that works out at (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Another DIY sensor
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(...) Oh, and I forgot to mention, you won't get rotation out of a PS/2 interface. It does (primarily) +x, +y, and however many button events. (25 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Shawn: What are the technical limitations associated with doing this with legOS 0.2.x? I'd love to put something similar (but more up to date) on the legOS.sourceforge.net site (or, more likely, tieguy.org/legos due to quotas at sourceforge) but I'm (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | web-legOS back online
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Due to a server rebuild, the web-legOS compiler at dwarfrune.com has been unavailable for some time now. I'm happy to announce that it's finally back on line. Thanks to all of you for your patience. <A HREF="(2 URLs) -SMQ Shawn Menninga (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: AI in RCX
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This is the first time I have posted and I don't look at my mail very often so I may be late in the conversation, however: Andy, thank you for reminding all of us that there is nothing impossible! Road blocks do not exist in my world nor should they (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I am looking for the lowest priced RIS 1.5 kit. I was wondering if anyone knew of someplace online that is selling it for cheaper than $200. I have heard that it sells for around $150 or $160 at some site, but do not know where. Any help is (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: FW: Another DIY sensor
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Steve I would hope that better mice would have better encoders, but I don't know, I have a Logitech track ball I think I will take it apart and look at it to see how much difference there is.... The guy who suggested duct taping a mouse to the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Radar tends to overkill for most Lego applications. (Large and expensive) I have a couple of infra-red based detectors on the web page below, that are built into a standard 2x4 bump brick. Maximum range is about two feet. (URL) - pete. (...) -- Pete (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I forgot to mention that two optical mice are needed for accurate navigation. With only one sensor you cannot track if the robot turns. I think it’s a good idea to buy a optical mouse because I haven’t seen any suppliers carrying the HD2000 chip. If (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(URL) Too see the store is 100 times more expanse as the web site. Happy surfing... Fred (25 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Tracks.
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Just a swift note: The 5934 "Track Master" from the adventurers' range has some nice *small* rubber tracks. They are about half the width and 2/3rds the length of the RIS tracks...which I found was very useful for making a *small* tracked robot. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | FW: Another DIY sensor
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I was throwing a mouse away the other day and instead took it apart to see what makes it tick, well, it's a perfect rotation sensor. I think it will be almost twice as accurate as the lego rotation sensor, more as this project develops. I think it (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: any idea if radar can be used with the rcx?
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I work at a Mercedes-Benz dealership and checked into the pricing of the radar in the new 2000 S-Class... Retail, $4300!! Just for the control unit, all the other gizmos needed total to about $1500. Guess that puts radar cost into perspective. Might (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Another DIY sensor
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(...) All optical mice use the HDNS-2000 (short: HD 2000) chip from Agilent Technologies. There are two output modes: the rs232 output and the quadrature output mode. The quadrature output gives the Delta X and Delta Y values (how much the x,y (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Sets with worm gear box?
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I just tried to send this reply directly to pavogel@pacbell.net and my message is returned as undeliverable. Is this some kind of "special" email address? So here is my answer, to the more general audience, please forgive; The two odd pieces, in (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Another DIY sensor
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(...) Those cameras have a small, low-resolution CCD in them, and they take snapshots of the mousing surface and compare them to detect the quantity of motion. If you were going to use one of those mice your best bet would be to put together a (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Another DIY sensor
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(...) Did you consider buying a $5 computer mouse and gutting it? That will give you not one but TWO slotted disks and TWO dual optical detectors. It's hard to imagine another solution for $2.50 per sensor! IIRC, most cheap mice are ~200 clicks per (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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The optical mice are still $50. I bought one and ended up taking it back, didn't work so well. But it definitely looked cool. Would probably make a good sensor though I don't know what kind of values it sends out... (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Another DIY sensor
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(...) How about (URL) you filter out the marketing-speak it would appear that the optical sensor is a combination digital camera and signal processor. Dunno what the chances are of getting any sort of intelligle output other than +/- x and y is. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | A technic elevator
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I have updated my Lego page with my new own creation : a Lego elevator. (URL) Klein A Mindstorms fan. (25 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Clarification of access control
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(...) I forgot to show that resources get released, the functionality is more like this: try { grabResource(X); ...body... releaseResource(X); } catch (ResourceLostException e) { } Dave (25 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Does the ratio of the disk track diameter and the seperation between the interuptors allow you get 90 degrees (optical) seperation ? IE could you get quadrature off of it ? BTW, Please post pictures : ) Thanks, -JSM (25 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | BrickBots.Com is launched - New Robotics Contest with Prize
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I have received so much good information by lurking in the LUGNET community, I am finally giving something back. I am pleased to announce both the launch of BrickBots.Com ( (URL) ) and the start of our first contest, the Aluminum Can Stacking (...) (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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You can get pretty good proximity detection using the built in IR port to send (arbitrary) messages out and simultaneously sampling with the stock light sensor to pick up IR returns. Proximity detection out to about 10 inches is possible. Search the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Clarification of access control
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If a task loses its resources (due to an equal or higher priority task acquiring them), then control leaves the body of the acquire statement. If there is a "catch" block following the acquire, then the catch block is executed, otherwise control (...) (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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(...) 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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| | Re: The Giant Wheelbot (aka 'sphere rat')
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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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| | Re: The Giant Wheelbot
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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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| | Re: The Giant Wheelbot
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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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| | Re: The Giant Wheelbot
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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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hi all Any one has used radar with the rcx to sense objects in front ?? does any one have an idea where i can get small radar sensing devices? in the Mercedees benz S class it uses radar to sense an car or ostacle in front , Dr Patel (25 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Another DIY sensor
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My continuing journey into the world of DIY RCX sensors has lead me to a home made rotation sensor which may be of interest. Since the RCX light sensor reports values in the range 0 - 100 and my compass sensors are thus constrained to report 0 - 360 (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Turning a robot 90 degrees
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Hi all, we build a synchrodrive (without turntables) that has a freedom of about 100 degree. We used it in an orthogonal labyrint and it worked well. I'll post a message when our new hompage is available. There will be a detailed howto on this page (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Another Technic Creation
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(...) Easily - in fact my lego collection is very modest, and positively diminutive compared with some of the pictures and lists of other's collections online. The crane was built mainly from the 8480 Space Shuttle, the 8448 Supercar, and the 8266 (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Any one has 2 rcx's?? can a irda prot in a window based machine help in corol of the RCX?
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(...) No, IRDA is incompatible with the RCX. As another possibility for communication you might want to look at the LNP protocol of Legos. Jürgen (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Dario Laverde's page
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does anyone knows why it doesnt work? It was very good page and now i could not find it. Maybe there is new adress? Thanks for help Gawel (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: AI in RCX
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"Tony Hirst" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:3A13AF5D.521434...n.ac.uk... (...) rcx (...) Thanks very interesting, although I 'm approaching the task in different way using a style of Genetic Programming known as Cartesian Genetic (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: AI in RCX
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there's a report on, and some code for, using genetic algorithms with the rcx at: (URL) Hirst mailto:a.j.hirst@open.ac.uk Dept. of Telematics, Faculty of Technology Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK Tel: +44 (0)19086 52789 (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: AI in RCX
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"Tomasz Salamon" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:3A129AC9.304D75...Arch.pl... (...) As another approach to the problem, for my final year disseration I'm currently writing a genetic program, the goal of which will be to make my RCX (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Turning a robot 90 degrees
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You could let your robot drop a block of white bricks (like 8x8x8 studs bug) and then let it turn until the light sensor on the other side picks it up. you could use a wire attached to the block to retrieve it into the original position. (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Turning a robot 90 degrees
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Or make the extending "foot" actually turn the robot and use some mechanical stops to ensure it only moves through 90 degrees. Admittedly, this would not be an elegant solution : ) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Another Technic Creation
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(...) sincerely hope officials from the human resources department at LEGO take note. You could really teach their Technic set designers a thing or two! --Sean (25 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Another Technic Creation
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Well, she's done it again! Definite 10s in both technical merit and artistic impression in my opinion. I just hope Lego have reserved a range of set numbers for "Jennifer's Construction Set" (pun intended) models! I wonder what she does with all (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Any one has 2 rcx's?? can a irda prot in a window based machine help in corol of the RCX?
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>Any one has 2 Rcx ?? can nqc support control of 2 rcx's for work together?? >Does irda port of a windows based machine help in cotrol of a RCX ? To answer part 1. NQC doesn't really know about multiple RCXs. But it does support the built in single (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cheap 9V motors in Holland
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Dank je Ronald, ga morgen meteen even shoppen. Er zit trouwens nuttig spul bij 'die Znap handel': gladde 1/4 rond 8 studs bochten (voor spatborden van vrachtauto's) en gladde 16-studs balken, voor kraanbomen en over elkaar glijdende constructies. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Turning a robot 90 degrees
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>does anyone have a foolproof method of turning an RCX tracked robot 90 >degrees precisely? >I've thought of motor timing, but surely that would be affected by >battery power. >The only solution I can think of is some sort of rotation sensor (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Any one has 2 rcx's?? can a irda prot in a window based machine help in corol of the RCX?
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Hi All , Any one has 2 Rcx ?? can nqc support control of 2 rcx's for work together?? Does irda port of a windows based machine help in cotrol of a RCX ? Mac (25 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Turning a robot 90 degrees
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does anyone have a foolproof method of turning an RCX tracked robot 90 degrees precisely? I've thought of motor timing, but surely that would be affected by battery power. The only solution I can think of is some sort of rotation sensor (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Cheap 9V motors in Holland
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Voor de Hollanders: V&D ruimt ZNAP op voor halve prijzen. 3552 bevat een 9V motor + batterijdoos en twee flex-assen voor f25,- (oja, en je krijgt wat van die ZNAP handel kado). Ik geloof dat de motor los al 40+ kost...... For the rest of you: V&D, a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: AI in RCX
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I hope that the subject of AI in RCX is not discarded yet. The project is really challenging, but I think worth to be taken. Controlling robot is a complex task, or rather a set of tasks. I think that it would be a good (practical) approach to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: AI in RCX
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In fact, I had already worked out the 1st NN by working on the RCX with my PC using VB (after studying NN hardly as I am fresh to it) This NN is in the sturcture of Hamming network that can recognize the environment prototype by reading the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Another Technic Creation
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I find myself half agreeing here. The model is great. Is it something a parent would buy for a ten year old these days for $120? I tend to doubt it, for many of the reasons already discussed on this network before. But; I built my 8480 before its (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Turning a robot 90 degrees
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R.G.Peel asked: (...) Yes - that and wheel slippage and motor mis-match. (...) You can buy 'official' Lego rotation sensors...but they don't come with either RCS or RDS sets. :-( That doesn't solve the wheel slippage problem though. (...) Two (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: X-10 camera interface
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I am using it, not with Vision Command, but with my own barcode recognition software. (See my post (URL).) Compared with the cheap, tethered digital cameras out there, the image quality of XCam2 is quite poor, but it is still workable for my (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Charge!
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(...) I'm not sure if I'm thinking of the same riff as you are, since mine has far fewer notes, but its worth a try... I don't know the "official" key, and I'm doing this without a piano in front of me, but any major chord should do the trick.... C (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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My son, who does the trumpet in school might have it. We programmed ours with Star Wars and Beethoven's 9th from his sheet music. --Jack Gregory Peter A. Vogel <pavogel@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:G3zHu0.IBx@lugnet.com... (...) Baseball, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi! My FLL Team would like to have their robot sign the "Charge!" bugle cry at the start of each mission that the robot attempts. I'm musically challenged. Does anyone have the note sequence for the "Charge!" bugle cry often heard at Baseball, (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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Hi again folks, I've just put my latest creation online, a Technic figure scale small(ish) excavator. The model is powered by motors and pneumatics, and there are MPEG videos of it working to download. You can find it here: (URL) me know what you (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build, lugnet.loc.uk) !!
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(...) No, not now... But then again, that kind up support tends (...) Yes, it does. I was hoping someone would step up for it :) Luis (happily watching Linux slowly creep towards world domination) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.vc)
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(...) No, not now... But then again, that kind up support tends to materialize quite quickly if you provide the developer with the necessary hardware. Which I plan to do ASAP ;-) Regards, Hakan (25 years ago, 12-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.vc)
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(...) I'm on-and-off experimenting with my Vision Command camera (...) So, as I read it, there is no support for this particular chip yet, right? And won't be for the foreseeable future? Luis (25 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| | Re: Vision Command/Movie Maker
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Josh Hunter <optijosh@cs.com> wrote in message news:G3uHoK.5EE@lugnet.com... (...) theres (...) I'm pretty sure they are the same. You might try contacting LEGO, but I'll bet they will tell you that you can't live without the set parts that come (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) navigation: (...) directional (...) compass; (...) even (...) Nice Idea but what is with the f****** cable ?? Rainer (25 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hi, I'm planning of doing this with a light sensor. I'm going to attach a disk with information (stripes of different colors) to the compass, and the light sensor will read the information. I´ll post a message here when I have it ready. Best (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hey. I was wondering if the two pc cameras lego sells are the same model. they look like it and i want to be able to edit movies n stuff with my VC but i dont want to shell out 200 bucks for a whole new set. you think theres a way to get my hands on (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) You are right, the QuickCam Express and the Lego camera have identical vendor IDs (0x046d), but the Product IDs are different (0x0840 for the qce and 0x0850 for the Lego camera). The software can easily check for the right camera ;-) (...) I'm (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.vc)
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Hello, Here's a challenge for those of you with Lego cameras and want compass navigation: Point the camera at a compass and process the visual information into directional input. It's a bit more crude, but you can get away with almost any old (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I have been working away at the compass problem for a while. (I suppose it's only a problem if the kinds of things you're using an RCX for involve knowing which way you're pointing ...) I have built a number of compasses based on both Dinsmore and (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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hi, i've got the same camera, no luck getting vision command to detect it i think lego's not dumb, it's only looking out for its own logitec legocam Eugene Loke -----Original Message----- From: patel [mailto:macx@satyam.net.in] Sent: Friday, 10 (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: X-10 camera interface
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(...) This is standard for USB devices, there are codes and strings for vendor and device, and a code for the device class. (...) Not if the LEGO Software looks for the LEGO id. Jürgen "waiting for a free open source equivalent for Linux" (25 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: X-10 camera interface
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(...) Who told you that VC and NQC doesn't work together ?? look at my post from Sep 26 at (URL)So did I miss a posting, or are we all still waiting for a breakthrough ... Think so !! ;-) Rainer (25 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Isn't the driver responsible for the appearance in the system settings ?!? I'll try to install a logitech driver later. Then we'll see. Rainer P.S.: Hey ! Is nobody out there with a logitech quickcam who can check this out ???? ;-) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: CyberMaster online
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Ok, here's the full code up to now. I'm afraid there are no comments yet and please bear in mind that it has been programmed on a Linux machine. If you want to use it, change the pointer to your python interpreter and the name of your serial port (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatic Sub parts
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S@h sells it 25? Do they have anymore? Also, where can I get the weekly S@H specials? Jason (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That's odd. My Mars set didn't have any packaging in it all all. Everything was just thrown in the box and shipped... 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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