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Greetings all, I am persuing a grad level course in AI agents, and the course requires that I to do a project. One idea I have is to create a robot and have it do something AI-ish. Since I'm not very adept with hardware, using a Mindstorms robot for (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Mechanically, LEGO is beautiful to work with. The components are well selected for rapid prototyping. For example, you will find that the hole spacing in the beams and the center-to-center distances of the gears ...seem to work well together. (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I have only worked with the RCX under windows 98, and then mostly using NQC (Not Quite C, a nice programming language/environment supplied by David Baum)but here is my two cents. The PC communicates with the RCX brick via an infrared tower (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well, the RCX (the computer "brick" that comes with the $200 Mindstorms set) has Infrared communications with the PC. The amount of RAM in the RCX is rather limited for fancy AI stuff - but plenty for taking simple commands *from* the AI (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Agenda Palmtop (was: Very Newbie Question regarding remote control)
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This looks like an incredibly capable little device. Have you already built anything with it? Pictures? (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) that (...) something (...) for (...) PC (...) Good man :) Thats what we like more AI projects on Lego Mindstorms, I myself am finishing a graduate degree off, with my Dissertation centred around Lego mindstorms It's greate almost half my (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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