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Hi In article <004e01c6a0b2$1ecc34...kdesktop>, Dick Swan <dickswan@sbcglobal.net> wrote (...) This, folks, is what you must shop for. (...) I am sure that everyone interested in the Lego NXT, especially so early in the release cycle, is optimistic (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT compatible bluetooth adapters
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(...) I can confirm the Targus USB Bluetooth 2.0 adapter with EDR (model # ACB10US) works on the PC. $30 at Staples. The adapter is Mac-compatible, but I don't have a Mac to test the NXT connectivity. (19 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Puzzling About NXT
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(...) Well, most of what I've been doing is playing with the software (and beta testing - that takes some time as well) and learning new tricks etc. But if you want new, have you looked at "meet the MDP" and the invention gallery? (URL) I posted (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: thoughts on gbc module reliability
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(...) A simple explaination: the rate in must equal the rate out, or the bucket overflows. Period. (19 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) This is what Steve and I call "clocker" modules, and they have always been present. Here's a good example of Steves: (URL) can also redirect the output to a number of directions and heights. Very useful, in fact critical for the trains, as (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Puzzling About NXT
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(...) Sorry. I've been too busy playing to post. Steve (19 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: thoughts on gbc module reliability
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(...) David, Sorry I can't explain this very well, but the leaky bucket will not provide an acceptable interface between the fast & slow modules, like you're suggesting. Steve (19 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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So, there were BETA TESTERS who now have experience with NXT (but were sworn to silence). But now NXT is shipping and customers have received their sets. So those Beta Testers and those New Customers should be PUBLISHING new and exotic models to (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: thoughts on gbc module reliability
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(...) I have three designs on paper for leaky bucket modules. The basic version of what I had in mind was a simple large hopper to receive balls from either the faster modules, the train, or both. The output would be a simple lifter, which was run (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: thoughts on gbc module reliability
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(...) Or to put it another way, use a GBC train system to handle 0.5 bps at a splitter module, so that downstream of the splitter the thinned stream would be 0.5 bps. This would seem to require (a) a dedicated train (& room for it), (b) a splitter (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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