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(...) I am in favor of creating a new group. Just as we wouldn't want messages about the Spybot brick or the Scout brick getting lost in a sea of messages about the RCX we do not want messages specific to the RCX to be lost in a sea of messages (...) (19 years ago, 7-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thx. Yup, building studless takes a bit of getting used to, but I find it easy now (I find myself quickly forgetting some of the studded tricks I have done in the past..). I started building with studless a year or so ago - mixing studded with (...) (19 years ago, 7-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Dave Astolfo" <dastolfo1@cogeco.ca> wrote in message news:Iyo1HI.1DqD@lugnet.com... More details here: (...) Great MOC! I really enjoyed seeing the various fittings for the studless beams. I was afraid that I could not build a machine, but I see (...) (19 years ago, 7-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Actually I thought the decision was more of a 'wait and see' than a definite 'no reason to'. There were quite a few very enthusiastic responses to having an NXT group created, and three our four equally enthusiastic disagreements initially. (...) (19 years ago, 7-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I disagree. I think there are many things pertaining specifically to NXT which don't need to go in the general robotics group. Which also has a sub-group for all the other programmable bricks. I would certainly like to see a NXT-specofoc (...) (19 years ago, 6-May-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.admin.general)
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Can we get a lugnet.robotics.nxt newsgroup soon? (19 years ago, 6-May-06, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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Sorry for the somewhat off topic post. VEX has been acquired from Radio Shack by Innovation First, the developer of VEX. Press Release (PDF): (URL) is using VEX for one of its competitions: (URL) Shack is selling VEX products for half price (...) (19 years ago, 6-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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It's funny, the NXT thing has been so hyped for the past while I think I hear a drum roll in the bg... Anyway, enough of that. After the initial MPD swarm of emails and discussions, I decided that I could not focus on Bluetooth and all the other TOP (...) (19 years ago, 3-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I've recently added GBC t-shirts and mugs for those GBC fans that want to show their enthusiasm and/or have fun explaining to others just what the ball contraption is! I plan on bringing a bunch of these to Brickfest unless people object for (...) (19 years ago, 6-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I agree about high grade DSP, but frequency discrimination may be quite possible... in the past we had a product based on a puny 8MHz 80C188 that was able to run ISDN stack, transfer 64 kbits/s data on one channel, 64 kbits/s voice on the (...) (19 years ago, 6-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT to NXT communication?
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(...) (URL) (19 years ago, 6-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) <snipity> Jim (...) Did you say SDK?? Please elaborate on this... (19 years ago, 6-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Greetings all -- I am officially introducing www.greatballcontraption.com. It presents a good cross-section of information, images and links related to this crazy obsession. My wife wants to be a soccer mom someday...well she has been for the past (...) (19 years ago, 6-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The memory used by a program while it is running is not the same memory used for storing the program (flash). There isn't any way that I know of at this point to find out how much memory a program uses while it is running or how much of (...) (19 years ago, 6-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) There is a curious 6th wire connection from the sound sensor which sends analog sound to the CPU. I am assuming that using some 3rd party firmware, it might be possible to digitize and process sound data. But I think turning the CPU into a DSP (...) (19 years ago, 6-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) This is the on-screen programming system. It's pretty rudimentary, but it lets you build very simple programs with only your NXT (no computer needed). Slots 1 & 3 let you 'do' something, slots 2 & 4 essentially control how long that action (...) (19 years ago, 5-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The raw mode still just returns one number - essentially the integrated sound energy, where the weighting function is determined by the sensor mode (dB or dBA) and is all done on-board the sound sensor itself, not in the NXT. (...) You only (...) (19 years ago, 5-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hmmm is there a "raw data" mode for the sound sensor? Seems to me, it may be possible (maybe not yet but one day) to write a program that does FFT analysis, as long as it can get the raw wave data from the sensor. I'm assuming the "tone mode" (...) (19 years ago, 5-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Sounds great! Are you able to determine how much memory a program takes up while it's running? And how much memory is free? (...) Hmmm the purpose of these slots are one thing thats not immediately obvious (to my old brain anyway), can you (...) (19 years ago, 5-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Help getting up to speed on robot electronics
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(...) Hi Jeff, I am also in software, but have dabbled for years with the hardware side of things. Maybe a place to start on a little crash course in interfacing are the R. A. Penfold books, which have stuff on interfacing with a PIC Micro (but is (...) (19 years ago, 5-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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