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(...) Yeah well I know this has been said many times before, but I'm gonna keep saying it, and maybe one day something will change. I *WILL NOT* be rushing out to pay AU$430 for this set. And I think it sucks that there is still such a discrepancy (...) (20 years ago, 17-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.lego) !
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Pre orders for LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ NXT begins April 1st Place your orders! Beginning Saturday, April 1, you can place an advance order to guarantee receipt of one of the highly anticipated new LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT sets when they release in August. A (...) (20 years ago, 17-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) May I ask what the intended project is? I probably don't have any suggestions, but am curious as to the intended results of mixing toddlers and Mindstorms... Andrew Meyer (20 years ago, 16-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) If you are talking about plain Lego (which rules out wrapping things up in a perspex case with rounded edges and deburred, bevelled holes for ears, and eyes set behind clear area), then my first recommendation is using studless techniques to (...) (20 years ago, 15-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Okay, in the interest of tracking this I have created a poll on OrionRobots: (URL) Lego MDP for NXT Poll>. If a large bunch of people (I have already made my entry) can go over and let us know if you took part, and how you did on it there, (...) (20 years ago, 14-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) Very cool! that would make a nice addition to a GBC module ;-) Philo (20 years ago, 15-Mar-06, to lugnet.build, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) ROSCO (20 years ago, 13-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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From gizmag: (URL) 12, 2006 If there was a list of professions least likely to see humans replaced by machines, the barkeeper would logically be on that list. But students in the final year of a computational linguistics and phonetics course at the (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Does anyone have any plans for robot's eyes/ears/noses etc. that are sturdy enough to survive a toddler chasing after it? Thomas (20 years ago, 13-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Thanks to Michael Barrett Andersen for helping me find the answer: the latest firmware is version 0328, and is available as part of the Mindstorms 2.5 SDK, which is downloadable freely from Lego. (20 years ago, 12-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) historical aspect. I couldn't find anything in there which talks about the Lego robotics lines as a whole and how they relate to each other, nothing I could use in Wikipedia. (20 years ago, 12-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(URL) Good read. -aps (20 years ago, 12-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Have you see this though? (URL) (20 years ago, 11-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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The Wikipedia article about Lego Mindstorms ((URL) is really paltry on the details. There's nothing in there about Spybotics, or Cybermaster, or Micro Scout, or the improvements in the RCX firmware releases, or how the RCX can control the Scout, or (...) (20 years ago, 11-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: On not hearing from LEGO (Was: So, who IS in the MDP?)
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(...) The same goes for me, except for the fact that I used a gmail address. -Joel (20 years ago, 10-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Brian Davis wrote: <snipped> (...) I'll join the list of people who did get a confirmation email when applying but no bummer nor happy email at the end of February. (My email is a comcast thingy.) So, there's that. Rafe (20 years ago, 10-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well I can confirm that I received no reply to my gmail.com address, and as gmail keeps all my spam filtered mail, can confirm that it wasn't filtered either. And as I *did* receive a "sorry try again next time" mail for my ambassador (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.lego)
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(...) Well since this thread is still being watched I'll make two announcments. First, I was also fortunate enough to be in the MDP (actually, I was in the MUP expansion prior to this point, but close enough). And it is an amazing and *busy* group (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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I am in the MDP also. I do feel lucky/honored to be a part of it. Bryan (20 years ago, 10-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | What's the latest RCX firmware?
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What's the latest version of the standard RCX firmware (for use with NQC)? And how do I obtain it? I purchased the original RIS 1.0 and then the 1.5 upgrade. I found a 2.0 beta firmware online for free download from Lego (part of the 2.0 beta SDK); (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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