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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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| | Re: C Programming Solution for NXT - Beta Available
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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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| | When is "off" off?
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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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| | Motor Technique
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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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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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