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(...) The experts say that such a scheme can increase total power collected by up to 40%, though I'm not sure if this includes the power required to drive the steering mechanism. See: (URL) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Solar cells and caps: lego part #s
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(...) Do you have the Lego part numbers for these? Is the capacitor like the commercial MaxCaps or SuperCaps? If so, we use these for NVRAM backup and could use them or might make them available to interested people. Thanks Bruce Boyes ------- (...) (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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| | 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: 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: 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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| | 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: 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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| | Re: Extreme Mindstorms Book Question
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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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| | 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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