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Hello all, I'm new to mindstorms and I have a few of questions. 1.) anyone know of a lego club in London? 2.) Could someone point me at a good resource that clarifies how to use vb to program a robot. (I have written a tiddly little program that (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi John, some answers to your questions... 1) I don't know of any lego clubs in London - I live west of London and am not aware of any in the area. (maybe we should start one!) 2) I found this web site (URL) excellent for learning VB for Mindstorms (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) This seems like an EXCELLENT project! Send photo's! It would be cool to make it bidirectional and have touch sensors in the 'fingers' of the robot arm that send commands back to the thingy you strap to your arm to make a set of motors press (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I like your 'thinking big' approach. I am sort of wondering why you are wanting to use VB. Even if you are used to using VB, programming for the RCX is so different than standard VB programming problems that I wonder if past experience with VB would (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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At 08:03 15-12-2000 GMT, Monica Stewart wrote: <[snip] (...) If he wants to control the pBrick *directly* through the PC, he'll have to use some kind of PC based language (VB, VC++, Delphi, Nortwoods Software Sanscript or any other ActiveX-enabled (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) oops, "his" (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Yeah It will be vb then, because I want to "Try" and get the robot to find out information and send it to the computer for mapping as one of my projects. Thank you all for your advice... I have a long way to go. (I presently just have a little (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) thank you. (...) Possibly a bit early as neither code nor bricks have been touched.. :) (...) I can see that being a terrifying learning curve.... (mental note, test on other people first) (...) fingers (...) Or intense pain as it crushes the (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) oops, on more :> err... obviously I meant Dave Baum's NQC ((URL) :) At 16:28 15-12-2000 GMT, john best wrote: (...) Try searching some keywords to find some usefull threads on those already talked topics in (URL) :) (I allways say this to (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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