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(...) There are only (AFAIK) three Lego motors - the puny "Micromotor", the old Technics motor and the modern Technics/Mindstorms motor. The Mindstorms motor is clearly better than either of the other two (unless you are very short of space or (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Oh no! This is very very bad. Any good will one may direct toward Lego and its products certainly won't be redirected toward Microsoft, at least as far as I am concerned. If and when Lego becomes a small satellite of Microsoft's, it'll all be over (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I called the 1-888-785-8384 number listd on the Contact page of the website and spoke to someone named Gabriel. He was very helpful, and agreed to the price protection without any special effort from me. As mentioned, all I had to do was fax (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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That's a 'plotter' input device you're descibing - it used to be quite a popular input device for CAD (and I think still is at the high end of the market), but for general use, the mouse has replaced it. I remember building something similar for my (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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Hello, Did anybody tried to get RIS from Costco recently ? -Rahul (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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I worked on a robotics project in which my program controlled a very big (18,000 pounds) piece of equipment and need to know its position. It was used for railroad track maintenance and road on the tracks. Even though this was a one dimensional (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) What I'm wondering, is could the timer circuit be eliminated? From previous posts, I know a lot of people would like to have their towers ready to recieve at any time, without it shutting down from lack of activity. People have been adding to (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) - Current RCX switching on will become a boot procedure lasting at least 2 minutes. - Same for switching off. - Attaching sensors and motors will require at least one reboot. This until a new plug&play version will be out, able to properly (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) errr... well, I really don't know. I (unfortunatly) don't own neither a MicroScout nor a CodePilot so I too have some question about the real behavior of these sets when receiving VLL codes. (but I keep watching eBay because I'm always (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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