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"John Barnes" <barnes@sensors.com> wrote in message news:Iyx488.1qHC@lugnet.com... (...) part ID? I can hardly wait until we get an official element list for the NXT. Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde (19 years ago, 8-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) As for hints, here are some thoughts: -I found I had to break from the mindset of expecting to make connections that were either parallel or perpendicular to others. With this new approach, there are more options. - I think that the previous (...) (19 years ago, 8-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) (URL) (19 years ago, 7-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Dave Astolfo" <dastolfo1@cogeco.ca> wrote in message news:IywC2s.1o0F@lugnet.com... (...) Can you give new studless technic builders any hints or tips that might help them on their way? I'd also appreciate it if anyone has photos of this new (...) (19 years ago, 7-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Eric Sophie's rather cool Multi-RCX Lego Mindstorms robot Jamocklaquat is currently being exhibited at The Cathedral Arts Festival in the Grace Church Van Vorst in New Jersey until June 2nd 2006. There are pictures, and an in-depth story at (2 URLs) (...) (19 years ago, 7-May-06, to lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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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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| | OT: VEX acquired from Radio Shack
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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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