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All GBCers, This will likely be a long post, so be forwarned. It contains some rambling thoughts on development and reliability of GBC modules. Now that I have started writing, I'm not sure exactly where this is headed, but I have this need to try (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Oh let me tell ya Brian... I have a whole list of non-measurements that just aren't measuring up. (...) I have a feeling my "real" doctor did the exact same thing... there is no bloody way she earned a real degree... she makes Barbie look like (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Exactly. You see, you may have been waiting for the RCX for many years: without proper documentation, you have no data to extrapolate from. Furthermore there is the statistical nature of the shipping process to consider, so there are (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Have you got your NXT yet?
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(...) What exactly seems to be the problem? Can you connect to the NXT from the programming environment? (...) Note that if you don't want the "Try Me" and on-brick programming options, these can all be deleted freeing up some room. From the memory (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'm fairly pleased with that as well, although now I've got big dreams of how to really use it (and then, I'll probably be complaining about how it doesn't have sub-0.1° resolution :-). (...) We all do. NXT-G is a big jump for many of us (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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Hi Brian My impressions: Very nice machine, I love bluetooth, the motor control accuracy and the new sensors, the program environment looks to be very powerful even though I need more practice... Well here is my question, I would like to program a (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Got 4 a few days ago and gave a couple of kits to my advanced robot kids at our summer camps. Actually, they were quite underwhelmed. They didn't like the new motor structure and felt instructions weren't correct and prefer the Mindstorms old (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I been tinkering with mine for the past few hours. Bluetooth isn't functioning very well with mine. Most likely operator error. I thought it had more memory than it does. I had a hard time programming in more than four sound bites at a time. (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Oh nooooo!!!! The Heisenberg Uncertaintanty Principle???? Hmmm HUP, almost sounds like a hoax. Wink. You robotics guys are too technical, and are just adding to my scientific experiment dilemmas.... darn realists popping my bubbles. I supposed (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Don't forget the Heisenberg Uncertaintanty Principle. You know the amount of time that passed during which the NXT or RCX didn't arrive, but you can't simultaneously know where it didn't arrive. Perhaps it's on your porch right now, but you'll (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hmmm, now that has just confused me into thinking about it some more.... Since the NXT is just out now, and the RCX has been out for a very long time... I guess my conclusion of them both strangely being the same was jumped to, at much too (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) This was really funny! Mine came yesterday, wasn't home so its coming today late....back to waiting for the brown truck. -aps (19 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) As long as its over the water and not through the water. (My RCX made a frightening trip through orange juice before). Anyhow, it may have initially been overseas, but the UPS shipment has originated in Hartford, CT. -Tim (19 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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According to Shop@Home, mine shipped out on Sunday and UPS tells me it will be at my house on FRIDAY!!! ...I really need to get more napkins...keep drooling too much... - Jim (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Janey, you need to constrain the test better - the question here is "how *long* did it take the RCX not to arrive?". You have to be specific and scientific on these things... (19 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) There are two issues here. First, the NXT is slightly larger than the RCX, and therefore requires more shipping space. Thus fewer NXTs per UPS truck, etc. The only way around this was to make them smaller (we on the MUP/MDP pushed for making (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well I also ran the same test, with both the RCX and the NXT... and the results were so identical, it's almost shocking. RCX - did not place order at shop&home, and strangely it never arrived. NXT - did not place order at shop&home, and (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Tim, I think you should consider there are other factors that cause the NXT to be slower than the RCX. You may not be able to accurately run this speed test, until the NXT shipping bottleneck is eased. I assume that will be sometime next year. (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) My VERY FIRST impression is that the RCX is faster than the NXT. In my two previous tests with the RCX it took about three days with standard shipping to arrive at my door (counting from when shop@home sends me shipment notification). My test (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Mine arrived yesterday, earlier than I expected. I ordered two for... battle.>:-) First impressions: I need to buy fresh batteries, so I haven't fired it up yet. The packaging seemed a little lower budget than the original RCX RIS. The consumer NXT (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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