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Dean wrote: >The 2.0's should be out any time now. 2.0 is WORTH waiting for! Why? I thought it was basically the same thing? Yellow brick with two motors, two touch sensors and a light sensor. They haven't added anything special have they? and (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'm guessing that LEGO's 1.5 stock is about used up. YAY! The 2.0's should be out any time now. 2.0 is WORTH waiting for! Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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.... Can I attach two motors to the same input? I want to the control to be identical, but driven by two different motors so that I dont need to use any axles. ..... (I assume you meant output?) Yes you can, I do, often! There are two things to (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi, Here is a very stupid question. Can I attach two motors to the same input? I want to the control to be identical, but driven by two different motors so that I dont need to use any axles. Also, does anyone know of a source for small DC motors (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Raoul, This has been a great experience for me. Perhaps I am not that creative, but I ran out of building steam for a while and these contest proposals have certainly solved that. I am looking into adding some voting system to the site, but with (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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