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| | | | | Re: Working around the 3 output limitation —Russell Nelson
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| | | | | Linc Smith writes: > The ideas in the later posts of this thread are in my opinion what Lego > **is**. It is innovation in the face of "limited" options. Any device will have limitations. The beauty of Mindstorms is that anything I build with mine, (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —Mark Tarrabain
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| | | | | I have made the following personal observations about LEGO, and why it is my medium of choice for robot building. LEGO is very easy to assemble. You can figure out what you want beforehand, without really needing to worry too much about (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —Linc Smith
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| | | | | | Mark Tarrabain wrote (...) my (...) <snip... a number of good reasons with which I agree (except for the Popsicle sticks and rubber-bands... good-god Man! have you gone _mad_? :) (1) (...) the (...) actually (...) lack (...) with in (...) Ahhh! (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | RE: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —David Colomer
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| | | | | | | Just a question, Where an inmature lego follower can find the Lego Purity Commandments? I am a kind of new in this _religion_, but I hardly try not to be a sinner. Thanks for the Light in the Darkness, David (...) -- Did you check the web site (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —Nick Taylor
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| | | | | | | | Dear David my sinful son, The first step on the path to redemption to for you to tithe ten percent of your LEGOs to *me* every month! - - - Nick - - - (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —Paul Speed
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| | | | | | | | Reverent Legoists, For a mere five percent of your legos I will send you special cans of Lego(tm) air. I bring this down once a week from the top of Mount Lego(tm). This air can be used in all of your pneumatic devices. Also, for those holiest of (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —Fred Read
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| | | | | | | | (...) I've just got one thing to say to you - MEGA BLOX! Yes, it was meant to be funny, don't flame me I've had more than a thousand million of them already... Yes, that was another one - laugh, damn it, or I'll tell another! (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | | RE: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —David Colomer
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| | | | | | | | Let me propose a set of commandments for "Lego Good Style Construction" (blames and riots are allowed): 1.- "You should love your Lego's in the same way you Love your life" 2.- "Any damage to a Lego part is completely forbidden. The home-brew (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | | Ethernet for RCX? —Tony Toyofuku
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| | | | | | | | | Hi, Has anyone put any thought into getting the RCX to output to an Ethernet interface? Of course, what I'm really interested in is an entire TCP/IP stack- Ethernet hardware, RCX Ethernet driver, IP stack, TCP stack, and a BSD sockets API, but I (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Ethernet for RCX? —Ben Laurie
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) When I saw mention of Lisp, I began to suspect I was in the comany of lunatics. This definitely confirms it. :-) Cheers, Ben. -- (URL) grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Ethernet for RCX? —Ben Williamson
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) Let me guess... you want to run Apache on the RCX and serve digital camera images, so that people can drive your bot around from the web? :) Here's a piece of Zen for you: Q: How do you fit a mountain in a teacup? A: Dig for the diamond, then (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Ethernet for RCX? —John A. Tamplin
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) I don't know how you would get to it without hacking hardware and putting an Ethernet controller in external address space, and then writing the code for it. One problem: Ethernet needs a far amount of buffer space to keep up with packets and (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Ethernet for RCX? —Simon Brooke
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) I really don't think you'll do this in 32k and still have space for application layer code (mind you, if I'm wrong, I'll be the first to cheer...) (...) This looks a more promising start. Use a *very* simplified protocol over the IR link, have (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —Linc Smith
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| | | | | | | | | David Colomer wrote in message <000f01be3a59$0bdebe...oup.cl>... (...) This is a good set of "good Style" ideas, but a Lego Purists would only agree with one of your statements... (...) The rest, well.... (...) We like the idea of damaging (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | | | RE: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —David Colomer
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| | | | | | | | | | | This is almost Ok with me! If you allow to mutillate Lego parts, this will be against the 1st statement. I think that a MB brick, multillated in order to build (or help to build) a Lego part will be released from the original sin of MB and converted (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —Mark Tarrabain
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| | | | | | | | | | Geeze... all this because I mentioned popsicle sticks and rubber bands??? Actually, I've never had occasion to use a popsicle stick in any model, I was just trying to make a point. I have used rubber bands, though... and I have used pens or pencils (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | RE: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —David Colomer
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| | | | | | | | | | "Excusatio non petita, acusatio manifesta" (A not requested 'sorry' is like a true 'my fault'). We are not speaking about use pecils (in a Lego structure) or cartridge (in another Lego structure). This is much more religious stuff than that. Join (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Ethernet for RCX? —Peter Ljungstrand
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| | | | | | | | (...) Have a look at this site and I think you are on your way! It's an embedded 10BaseT Ethernet controller using a PIC16C74. (URL) Ljungstrand; PLAY Research Group, Viktoria Institute (URL) Mobile: +46-(0)708-302251 Fax: +46-(0)31-7735530 ICQ: (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —Chris Alas
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| | | | | | Oh no! i have commited a sin! I created a lego light! -Chris (...) religion (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: Working around the 3 output limitation —Simon Brooke
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| | | | (...) I think this is right. After all, we could all start with an asortmaent of bits of metal and plastic and a hobby engineering shop, and build arbitrary robot designs; and *probably*, it wouldn't cost a huge amount more than the mindstorms kit (...) (26 years ago, 16-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Working around the 3 output limitation —Eric Brok
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| | | | snip (...) Actually there is a working LEGO compass, put probably not large and reliable enough to be read by a sensor. Eric Brok (26 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | navigation with compass —Hao-yang Wang
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| | | | | (...) Light sensor with a magnifier? :-) I tried using the differential gear to "remember" the initial heading of my robot, and painfully discovered that the result would drift off after many turns. Now I think compass is the way to go. (I wonder (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | RE: navigation with compass —Kirk Davis
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| | | | | | Here's some info on a compass sensor from Dinsmore Instrument Company for about 12 bucks. FYI (URL) >>Having said that at some stage I'm going to hook a compass up to my RCX, (...) -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 23-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: navigation with compass —Richard Franks
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| | | | | | (...) Richard (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: navigation with compass —Nick Taylor
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| | | | | | | What is a source for your floating compass? - - - Nick - - - Hao-yang Wang wrote: <snip> (...) -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: navigation with compass —Hao-yang Wang
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| | | | | | | | Sorry for this late follow-up to this old thread. Real Life has kept me away from Lego for the whole week, and finally I am back. Searching for "compass" in the LUGNET news archive turns up 28 entries, so this topic has been discussed long ago, and (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | RE: navigation with compass —Simen Svale Skogsrud
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| | | | | | (...) -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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