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| Here are some pics of a technique I've used for many years, driving a technic axle from a 12V train motor: (URL) the advent of the RC Car motor, this was the most power that could be obtained from a single LEGO motor and used on a Technic axle, 12V (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jun-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.uk)
| |  | | Rotation Sensor Accuracy [was Re: Newbie needs Help (diff sensor)]
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| Steve wrote on Tuesday, June 06, 2006 5:59 PM <<snip>> (...) <<snip>> I think what is really meant is that most RCX firmware implementations are poor at filtering hardware transient errors. And the Rotation sensor is very "good" at generating (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| |  | | Re: NBC News for NXT
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| (...) The source code is not yet available because it is not ready to released. At the moment it is extremely ugly Delphi code. I am in the process of refactoring things, re-writing the parsing code, adding a built-in preprocessor, and generally (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| |  | | Re: NBC News for NXT
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| (...) Higher-level languages are in the works. Exactly how close we are is hard to say. John Hansen (19 years ago, 8-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| |  | | Re: NBC News for NXT
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| (...) I looked over the doc and it looks pretty interesting. Perhaps I'm not looking in the right place, but I couldn't find the source code. Is it available yet, or tangled up in a Lego NDA? -dave (19 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| |  | | Re: Newbie needs Help
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| (...) I'm with you until we get here. Attaching at the front of a long nose feels like a bad idea. Any side force on the tow rope will tend to pull the robot off course, and once slightly off course the force only gets worse. In any case, a (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| |  | | Re: NBC News for NXT
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| (...) So... How close are we to having a higher-level language based on this (something with syntax close to C)? Is that in the works? (19 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| |  | | Re: NBC News for NXT
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| I really thought the NXT was going to be on network TV. hmm. Steve (19 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| |  | | NBC News for NXT
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| Over the weekend I got my new Mac Mini G4 up and running, installed lots of development tools, copied over my NBC sourcecode and managed to build a working version of the NBC compiler for the NXT brick. I will have a zip containing the Mac version (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| |  | | Re: Newbie needs Help (diff sensor)
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| (...) I'll get to that, eventually... there's just too much fun stuff going on, and... (...) A historical point on this. The first time I met Steve was at a sumo event, where I had carefully calculated the correct gear ratio, given the torque of a (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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