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(URL) Official Rules to Two Mindstorms Challenges Released! And odds and ends! ===...=== We are pleased to release the rules to two of the upcoming Mindstorms challenges. PDF Rules to these are the (URL) Sumo> and (URL) Ball Gathering.> “Great Ball (...) (19 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | RE: C Programming Solution for NXT - Beta Available
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(...) RCX (...) For a USB tower, it requires Lego's Tower Driver DLL be installed. Robolab is not required. If you use a serial tower, then nothing extra is required. (19 years ago, 14-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) From the install manual: System Requirements: • Windows 2000, XP based computer with 10MB of Hard Drive Space • LEGO NXT Hardware with LEGO Mindstorms NXT Programming Software Installed and/or • LEGO RCX Hardware with Robolab 2.5 or later (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | C Programming Solution for NXT - Beta Available
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This email announces a C language programming solution for the NXT. The solution includes a comprehensive graphical IDE, C compiler, a full featured debugger, and replacement NXT firmware. It runs ina Windows environment and is available for (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics) !
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| | Re: NXT electronic additions
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(...) The cheapest source for LED's that I've found is afer Christmas clearance sales of Philips LED Christmas lights. I picked up several sets of these cheap at Target. Each light socket contains an LED and one of the colors included in the (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: When is "off" off?
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"Mitchell Lichtenberg" <mlichtsr@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:J0sw36.1JAt@lugnet.com... (...) The battery box shorts the connection in the off position. Bob (19 years ago, 13-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: When is "off" off?
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(...) The RCX has the capability to place a resistance accross its output terminals. Removing that resistance provides the free spinning behavior enabled by one of the programmable features. Inserting the resistance gives tighter control of motor (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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If I attach a motor to a battery box and twist the motor arbor I get resistance EVEN if the battery box is switched off. This means that the current,generated by the motor, is getting through, correct? Is the current just bridging the contacts or is (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT electronic additions
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(...) That's a better idea because a yellow LED is just a red and a green LED that are both turned on at the same time. Hence there is no additional information in terms of reflectivity than you would have gained from the red and green LED's used (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NXT electronic additions
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Here's a link to my NXT electronics folder: (URL) , which contains two experiments: My first experiment was to get the NXT to light an LED, in a similar way to the way the light sensor works. My thanks to Philo for sharing a tutorial of how to (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.uk)
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