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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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| | Re: Canadian price goof up...
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Just ordered three. They fixed the price mistake just afterwards I guess. (25 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GPS
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Vihung, Now that selective availability is off I routinely get 12-18 feet accuracy from my GPS. And, yes, the more satellites you've acquired and the more spread between those satellites the better your accuracy. Also notice that your relative (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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I can't find the RIS 1.5 (or 1.0) anywhere anymore! Actually they all seemed to disappear in December 2000. All the stores that used to have quite a few RIS sets no have just the DDKs and a few RDSs. Is LEGO getting ready to release RIS 2.0? If this (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) As a footnote: Notably, when SA is turned on, both GPS units must use the same satellites for this to work. (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) First: That is not full military accuracy. As per (URL) provides two levels of service -- a Standard Positioning Service (SPS) for general public use and an encoded Precise Positioning Service (PPS) primarily intended for use by the Department (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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The following idea just came into my mind. Will it work? Put a video camera and a laser projector on the mobile robot. The laser projector beams out a pattern of light. The camera picks up the pattern, then we deduce the robot's proximity by (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Ping Pong Ball Lobber
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Hey! Competition time! I'm fairly new to the online LEGO community and regular competitions like this sound like a great idea. Glad you have the time to put into it. Cheers, Raoul (ICQ 17521252) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: colleges && universities
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I used legOS and the Mindstorms in CPS 196: Programming under Uncertainty here at Duke. The course web page is at (URL) Littman is unfortunately no longer in academics, so I'd ask you not to contact him, but I'm very happy to answer any questions (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GPS
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(...) Since some month the accuracy is about 12 -15 meters. (When I'm right, then there was an error added before to lower accuracy) (...) You get a better resolution if the signal of the aother satellites is better (a higher level) The (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: GPS
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GPS requires a clear, unobstructed view of the satellites in the sky. Forget about using it indoors. Earthquake researches use sensors that can detect movements of less than an inch. I don't know how they work, but it involves GPS to some extent. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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