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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 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi folks, On saturdaymorning (12/16/2000 CET) I will put up the final ActiveX for controlling the Vision Command camera from within VB or any other ActiveX-enabled language. You can find more information on (URL) the "new stuff" area. Greetings, (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes - but that's using TWO inputs. With a little thought, you can actually get the direction from a single light sensor. Make your detector wheel white around one half and black around the other half. Looking at the wheel, you'd want: Light (...) (25 years ago, 15-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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 15-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 (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thanks for that explanation, everything is much clearer now. I suppose it is to do with the line perpendicular to the vehicle coinciding with the centre point of the turning circle; with all wheel equal steering, it will intersect the middle (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) If you are parallel and very close to an obstacle, like a curb or a wall, you can't get away from it with all-wheel steering. As soon as you turn the wheel to get the front away from the wall, the back of the vehicle will smash into it. This (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) ... A number of cars have done this in the past, though not many were brought to the US. Amusingly enough, a little-known option on the 240SX (I forget which years) is the HICAS (HIgh CApacity Steering) system which is a 4WS option. The rear (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Heh! I've come to the conclusion that while it is interesting to tinker with suspensions, it is better to use the space in the models for other things. After all, the suspension one can make in a LEGO model is nowhere near realistic in it's (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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