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(...) Don't worry too much about this. It seems like typical marketing blather and probably won't affect that actual bricks too much. It's probably going to affect games and software, as well as shared web content. Now, if I was Michael Lachmann, (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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I'm glad I finally got my 1.5 version RIS this year. When the MS "enhanced" 2.0 kit arrives, my robots will act like brain-dead zombies, bashing into skirting boards and inexplicably locking up every five minutes. Now they'll have to invent a (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Check here: (URL) Hope this helps... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) Buy "Extreme Mindstorms: an Advanced Guide to Lego Mindstorms" (URL) ---...--- Reply to: rhempel at bmts dot com (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Ken Warren wrote: >Has anyone actually got a circuit diagram? I'd be most interested to see it >as I've got the Robot Development Kit and it doesn't come with an IR tower >and Lego's promise of 'available Autumn 2000' for the upgrade seems to have (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That's what I was afraid of... I'm aware of those three tipes of motors, and I'am trying to acopolate an encoder to Mindstorm motor... but if there were any servos it would be easy... If u have any ideas, sugestions, images, exemples (like the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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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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| | Re: Hammacher/Future Shop Blowout of RIS
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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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