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(...) FYI, I'm been not following for a long time since the MDP started (ah well, hopefully next time) but mine shipped on Friday which was a shock to me. I thought these sets would be back logged till July/August. Can't wait... -aps (19 years ago, 25-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Great Ball Contraption
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I think the site would be more valuable if it focused JUST on GBC. I gave up on it as a resource after poking around and not finding sufficient GBC information. I'm a complete newbie, no real idea what GBC is. The front page says "It can't be (...) (19 years ago, 25-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) OK...Does the community care one bit about my efforts to centralize GBC at all? I would like to think that I haven't been wasting my time for the past few months. I will take zero responses to this post as a 'no'. Dave (19 years ago, 25-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio
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I guess my postings (here and elsewhere) have been amongst the dozen that are way off topic. But I still don't get it. What is MSRS giving me that I want? It may be well thought-out and implemented but so what? I'll certainly look closely at the (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: C Programming Solution for NXT - Beta Available
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(...) I think I speak for everyone in appreciating the huge effort John has put in on BrickCC with no financial reward. I also appreciate that certain folks would like to get compensated for their efforts, which appears to be the case with RobotC. I (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio
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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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(...) 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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