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Subject: 
[OT] cats (was RE: Not totally satisfied with the Lego Mindstorm concept: Mathematical variables and direct connection PC/mechanical device)
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Date: 
Wed, 24 Apr 2002 22:36:51 GMT
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Aaron Pelly <apelly@/Spamcake/monkeymasters.co.nz>
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That sort of round-trip can easily take a half second or more
- which can
be a long time if you are rammed against the refrigerator
with your motors
stalled (or your 'MegaDeath Killomatic Blastotron' machine is
dismembering
your cat).

there is a school of thought that says there is no such thing as too much time
spent dismembering cats



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  Re: Not totally satisfied with the Lego Mindstorm concept: Mathematical variables and direct connection PC/mechanical device
 
(...) That's OK so long as the RCX doesn't get out of IR contact with the PC - as can *EASILY* happen. You need to have at least some autonomous code inside the robot that will enable it to regain contact with the PC by (for example) backtracking (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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