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(...) Ben, My point was, if I already know a lot about the sort of things you have listed, where do I go now to take it to the next level. I haven't found that the available books on Mindstorms do this. For example, some ideas on robot navigation (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Extreme Mindstorms Book Question
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This may have to do with the (debatable) fact that the Lego Mindstorms RIS is _not_ an "advanced robotic platform" It was engineered so that the average 12+ year old could play around with robotics concepts. It was never meant to to be the be-all of (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | New Group?
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Hey Todd (and others), I was thinking it was time for a sub-group for those of us using 'Gordon's Brick Programmer". Maybe lugnet.robotics.rcx.gbp ? _I_ could sure use some group support... Are there enough of us out there to make it worthwhile? (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Agreed. I think that is a long way though. If you look at a lot of the current research, it is about tiny systems. I don't want information on large and complex systems, but clever systems. I am really keen to have my robots learn for (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The Making of "Creative Projects with LEGO Mindstorms"
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I have your book on order already from booksamillion.com. Alan Alan Carmack Pflugerville, TX "To Russia with Lego": (URL) lugnet member page: (URL) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Mounting non LEGO parts using M6 metric screw
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Hi, you can mount mechanical components to LEGO bricks by using a M6 metric screw. The meassurement of the tubes inside of LEGO bricks is ideal for this size of screws. See (URL) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New Group?
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(...) Well, sometimes there's only one way to find out -- build it and see if they come. If we create a group/list for it and it turns out DOA then we can either delete it or ignore it. If there's a user-base for GBP, and you've got (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Solar Cell Output in Direct Sunlight
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(...) I agree - and another factor is the angle of the panel to the incident light. The amount of light varies as the cosine of the angle of the sun to a line thats perpendicular to the panel. Building some kind of a mechanism that tilts the panel (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Need for chat server?
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Yes, I also like the static facilities of message-boards, newsgroups and mailing-lists, because it becomes a searchable info resource. To me, the use of a LUGnet IRC server (or simply a #LUGnet channel in any other ircnet), would be useful to simply (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: RCX & Cybermaster (VLL comms and MicroScout)
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I think that a pBrick like RCX or CM isn't fast enough to detect PWM cycles. Don't know the speed of a legOS program. On top of that, I think that the sensors detect resistance, not voltage. You can do this test yourself, using two RCX's or one RCX (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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