Robotics : 2443


Robotics / 2443

Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —Linc Smith

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)

RE: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —David Colomer

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)

Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —Nick Taylor

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)

Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —Paul Speed

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)

Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —Fred Read

(...) 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)

RE: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —David Colomer

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)

Ethernet for RCX? —Tony Toyofuku

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)

Re: Ethernet for RCX? —Ben Laurie

(...) 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)

Re: Ethernet for RCX? —Ben Williamson

(...) 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)

Re: Ethernet for RCX? —John A. Tamplin

(...) 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)

Re: Ethernet for RCX? —Simon Brooke

(...) 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)

Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —Linc Smith

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)

RE: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —David Colomer

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)

Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —Mark Tarrabain

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)

RE: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —David Colomer

"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)

Re: Ethernet for RCX? —Peter Ljungstrand

(...) 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)

Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —Chris Alas

Oh no! i have commited a sin! I created a lego light! -Chris (...) religion (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)