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Scientific American Frontiers on PBS ran a show, NATURAL BORN ROBOTS, last year. It was rebroadcast last night here in the Tampa Area. The show ended with a segment called 'Go Team' which covered Robocup 99 held in Stockholm. Teams from around the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'm also a big fan of Junkyard Wars, they give my Rock Raiders figs someone to emulate. I think most of the seeding is done for safety reasons; I wouldn't want to be anywhere near someone trying to make their own rocket fuels/motors. Also, in (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Definately agree on LegOS, my final year Computer Science dissertation was on autonmous learning on an RCX with genetic programming, I used LegOS 2.5, great stuff full C++ if you can do it in ansi you can do it here... But I'd say the best place to (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I didn't realize that expressing an opinion was being defensive. Personally I enjoy the conversation much more if the participants are at least a bit passionate about the subject. I realize this is contrary to U.S. culture with it's emphasis (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Mark Haye <mhaye(@)tivoli(.)com> wrote in message news:GA9p5z.JwG@lugnet.com... (...) 33% more voltage should also give you 33% more current, so power (i.e. voltage times current) should increase by 77%. But higher currents give higher (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) If you go to the website of the show, they say that *everything* in the junkyard is seeded. Everything that's there was put there by the show's producers. Not that it really makes the show less enjoyable. Although for some strange reason a (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yeah, DGPS would probably be accurate enough, assuming you could get around the no-lock problem. (...) I believe the on-board GPS receiver would still need to fix on the Navstar constellation, regardless of whether or not it was a (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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I took some new photos of a couple of my robots, and they came out pretty good so I thought I'd share them. The photos were taken outdoors in indirect sunlight, with a Canon Powershot S20 3.34MP mounted on a Velbon tripod. Post-processing consisted (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.publish.photography)
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I have a Halogen uplight lighting a room and my solar cell will power a motor, with no load up to a distance of around '6 (3' work height) from the light pole. This will fluctuate according to the reflectance's of the ceiling, walls, etc. Rose (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dacta)
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Okay, gotta play the devils advocate and take this a step further. ;) Robot (noun). A robot has to have an onboard computer (processor) that is takes input from sensors and decides what to do with its outputs (actuators). It must be able to sense (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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