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The Stair Climbing Contest as BrickBots.Com ended last night and 'Slowpoke' by Thatch was the winner! Congratulations on a elegant design that easily could have qualified for the pure RIS 1.0/1.5 bonus with a bit more building time. However, with a (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GPS
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(...) That for sure isn't easy. But there is a serial protocol called NMEA that's used by most GPS manufactures. So with (useful??) time and effort it SHOULD be possible. We used the NMEA protocol with a 6.270 board (little brother of handy board) (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Has the RIS 1.5 been discontinued??
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(...) As Christmas just passed, I (strongly) suspect they were popular holiday gifts. In any case, last Thursday, I called all around the greater Boston area (even into New Hampshire) trying to find an RIS in stock, without much luck. Until, that (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Canadian price goof up...
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(...) The price "mistake" is still there. Don't be fooled by the product listing page. If you add the product to your cart or even view the product details the lowered price is still valid. As for the "instant rebate" it is not available through (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GPS
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All this talk about using GPS is very interesting. And I am sure there is some oem board level product out there that can be adapted. But what I really want to know is; Ok, so you've found your 1 inch square GPS, so how do you get the navigational (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Has the RIS 1.5 been discontinued??
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"Rahul Tarkunde" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:3A558E07.B59431...ptc.com... (...) If it's the same as the 1.0 then it's more like 24 x 12 x 6 inches (working from memory!), it's the biggest LEGO box I've got! Dan (25 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: proximity detection with laser?
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(...) One of the things I'm intending to do is to put two light sources in the robot and measure the distance between the (if available) two reflection "points" (or er... auras) It should work better with laser source, of course. But then, using (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Has the RIS 1.5 been discontinued??
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I asked one of my friend to bring IRS 1.5 for me from US when he comes back in end February, since they are not available in India. I had asked him to buy it on shop.lego.com. From your view I now doubt, if he gets 1.5 in time. What is the size of (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Has the RIS 1.5 been discontinued??
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(...) Sounds like "famous last words" to me. "Shipping in 30 days"? That's a long time for a mass-market consumer product. If i had a dollar for every time a backordered item was eventually cancelled...i could get pizza. A few weeks ago i would see (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Has the RIS 1.5 been discontinued??
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If that was the case why would shop.lego.com would take the backorders ? They are shipping RIS in 30 days. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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