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(...) I just got back from Robobusiness, where I spoke on OMG Robotics Standards (URL) I attended four hours worth of sessions on the MS Robotics Studio. I was prepared to pooh-pooh it as just another over-hyped lukewarm effort that MS would try to (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: C Programming Solution for NXT - Beta Available
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(...) Dick told me in a private email that RobotC will remain a strictly commercial offering for the foreseeable future due to his desire to earn back all the sweat equity he has invested in the product. He also urged me to not add support for his (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Microsoft recently announced incremental evolution of their earlier "Robotics Studio" platform. See www.microsoft.com/pr...udioPR.msp x. Soren Lund of Lego is quoted in the press release. It appears to me that this initiative is not really (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Microsoft enters robotics race
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(...) Too easy! * Invites burglers into the house - although there is an optional accessory (which unfortunately you can only rent by the month) that will make the robot frown and wag it's finger at them sternly. * If it finds robots from other (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Microsoft enters robotics race
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(...) SNIP will all their robots come with CTRL-ALT-DEL buttons & a monitor to display the 'bluescreen of death'? "Windows cannot find the program 'chores.exe'; please download more virus prone patches for the other patches that didn't work, or else (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Microsoft enters robotics race
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[url=(URL) robotics race[/url] I can imagine it now: -- Rebots that randomly drop pots and pans -- Gives you food poising -- Lets your dog of its lead and doesn't help catch it ect.. Add to the list... :) -- View this message in context: (URL) from (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NXT in stock at S@H USA
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Just got off the phone with LEGO shop at home USA to cancel my NXT order. They said the NXT came in yesterday. Don't know if they will start shipping pre-orders now, or wait till July 1, but if you have your pre order in, there is chance you might (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NXT Sensor and Motor Schematics
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I've posted my schematic diagrams of selected NXT items, namely the Light, Sound and Ultrasound sensors and the motor with position feedback. (URL) to Philippe Hurbain for sketching the motor circuit for me to write up. These schematics are (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.cad)
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| | NXT and Microsoft....
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For those that have not yet seen this, it appears that MS is getting into the Robotics game with a robotics initiative from the app development side. Link: (URL) (19 years ago, 20-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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For those that have not yet seen this, it appears that MS is getting into the Robotics game with a robotics initiative from the app development side. Link: (URL) (19 years ago, 20-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Great Ball Contraption
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Greetings all, I am helping out planning for the GBC event at Brickfest this year and I have a couple questions for the community: 1. Is there enough interest to warrant our own t-shirt/mug sales at the event? 2. Should I bring a bunch to the event (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: C Programming Solution for NXT - Beta Available
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(...) What is the licensing? I can't see anything on the web site. From your comments, I take it that this will be free-as-in-beer, but *not* free-as-in-speech? In other words, is this going to be published under some kind of open source license? (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | incoherence inwards
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000...E.8DF7A68F Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Next....8DF7A69A" ------=_NextPart_001...E.8DF7A69A Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" (...) (19 years ago, 18-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000...A.A8FE6F20 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Next....A8FE6F20" ------=_NextPart_001...A.A8FE6F20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" (...) (19 years ago, 17-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: C Programming Solution for NXT - Beta Available
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(...) In its final form will RobotC be available separately from the curriculum, and if so will it be free of charge. Thanks. (19 years ago, 16-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NBC Mac OSX support & Preprocessor
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I have uploaded zips containing version 1.4.1.B4 of Next Byte Codes (NBC). There is a zip for Win32 as well as a zip for Mac OSX. As of this beta release NBC has a built-in preprocessor with support for #include, #define, #undef, #ifdef, #else, and (...) (19 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Dick, You are awesome! I'm excited to get my hands on RobotC and your alternate firmware. If I understand correctly, you took the sourcecode for the official LEGO firmware and replaced the odd National Instruments VM with a VM that is (...) (19 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: C Programming Solution for NXT - Beta Available
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(...) Sorry you're having trouble. You should download firmware RCX file "fast0610.lgo" which is included as part of the installation. RobotC will not run properly with the standard Lego firmware( "firm0328.lgo"). It has too much missing (...) (19 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Scrub that, found the RobotC firmware. ROSCO (19 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well, yesterday I quickly tried it with just the Mindstorms 2.0 software installed, and it seemed to upload the firmware ok (firm0328.lgo), but I didn't have a chance to test any further. But today I tried to upload the firmware again, and got (...) (19 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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