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(...) Well it sounds promising, I'm going to try it. I really appreciate your input. -Ben (19 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well, sort of. First, what the US sensor returns is the range of the nearest sound-reflecting surface: but it's not a pencil thin laser beam of sound, so the same object might be detected at slightly different angles, making the object apeear (...) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Actually, my counter was mechanical, in that each ball temporarily opened a normally closed touch sensor, and the RCX was just counting touches. For an optical one, you can use a ball breaking a lightbeam (two light sensors pointed at each (...) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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I haven't bought an NXT yet and I have a question about the ultrasonic sensor it comes with. Can I use it to take a bunch of readings and then use them assemble up a 3D picture of what is around the sensor, kind of like how a radar works? How long (...) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) That got me thinking...we had a few ball counters going: Rafe's impressive digital counter, Greg's analog one, and Brian's optical one in the "penalty box" with all of my modules (heh heh). My question is this: is there agreement on what the (...) (19 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Brian, hi everybody, (...) I'd like to suggest to use e.g. Google Video instead of YouTube, as long YouTube requires Flash to view the videos. Google Video allows to download the videos in their native format, so it is usable with free players (...) (19 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) It was quite an impressive array of modules. I wonder where the trains got emptied, and if there ever was an overflow in some module, given the enormous number of balls? Cheers Jürgen (19 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I have a GBC video on YouTube...search for "Brickworkz" - (it's currently being processed so I don't have a URL yet) Unfortunately some of the devices weren't working when I came by. (...) I also posted (URL) footage of Droidy>. Enjoy! Folks, (...) (19 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) Done. (URL) Brian Davis (19 years ago, 3-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Brian, (...) how about Google Video? Jürgen (19 years ago, 3-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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... (it's a 2m31s 35 Mb quicktime (.mov) file right now, and I'm not even sure how I'd upload it to someone else - my emaill won't do it, that's for sure) ... Brian, You can try (URL) to send files up to 100MB for free. The file gets saved on their (...) (19 years ago, 3-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I understand the Flash-avoidance issue. I don't have any personal webspace to host things on, which is why I use BrickShelf and (now) YouTube. But I'd be glad to upload the video to somebody else to host it if they want to (it's a 2m31s 35 Mb (...) (19 years ago, 3-Sep-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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Hi Brian, (...) I don't want to install Flash as there are too many annoying ads using it. Jürgen (19 years ago, 2-Sep-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | NXT Explorer first draft in BricxCC
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I've uploaded a new test_release zip containing BricxCC with a first draft of a new NXT Explorer tool window. It looks pretty slick but it is a long way from being complete. In the next few days it'll have all kinds of features added to it, (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Incredible! Where do these guys store their bricks, I wonder ... ;-) /Matthias Paul (19 years ago, 1-Sep-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) I will have a video available either this weekend or next week, as soon as I get it off the camera's tape. It will be like the one I made last year, where I show the entire sequence while walking along the outside. (19 years ago, 1-Sep-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) So completely useless but absolutly fantastic and mesmorizing! :) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) I think there were 45 modules. This includes a couple that were about 1 table (eight feet) long. Each. Steve (19 years ago, 1-Sep-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Great! It's huge. No NXT module, as far as I can see. /Matthias Paul (19 years ago, 1-Sep-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: TLG & MIT Media Labs spawn another product: PicoCricket
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In lugnet.robotics, Dick Swan wrote: [a whole lot of useful stuff] Thank you! Clearly you'e played with these at some time in the past then. So another qustion... can the picocricket be reprogrammed with custom FW, or made to work with NQC (...) (19 years ago, 31-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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