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(...) While i set up NXT-G to wait for a US detection i held a mini microphone right against the us transmitter, there seems to come a pulse from it every 6 ms. (URL) (19 years ago, 13-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NBC News for NXT
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Last night I uploaded a new beta to the NBC website. This new beta includes support for multi-dimensional arrays. In NBC you can now define arrays of 3 or 4 (or more) dimensions. You can use arrays of structures containing arrays of arrays, etc... (...) (19 years ago, 12-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Sophisticated Toy Robot to Get Mind-Altering Software
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(...) Allowing NXT-G to use arrays and clusters (aka structs) will be a nice addition to the language. Hopefully it is exposed in a way that does not require writing VIs in LabView. Hopefully they will allow for creating variables that are clusters (...) (19 years ago, 12-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Just found this on livescience.com, don't know if this has been mentioned yet. (URL) Gallagher mikeslego (19 years ago, 12-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Fwd: Re: NXT direct commands
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(...) with defacto standards and protocols. No one supports this concept except you. No commercially available (or open source AFAIK) email clients support "Reply List". It is in your imagination only. Your list is simply less useful and more (...) (19 years ago, 11-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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dan miller writes: > [foolish people, fix your list to work in the real world -- reply-to > field==list addr] You need a better email client: (URL) --my blog is at (URL) | The War On Terror will end Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | (...) (19 years ago, 11-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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I have a 40 Khz ultrasonice transmitter reciever pair. I am using the transmitter on a 40Khz oscillator circuit. I do not recieve anything on the reciever. Can anybody please help???? The transmitter am using is SQ40T and the reciever is SQ40R. (19 years ago, 9-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Sobre Bicklink
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Hola busco opiniones Hice un pedido en Bricklink a Alemania. Lo hice sin pagar seguro y no me ha llegado He escrito un feedback en Bricklink señalando que no lo he recibido y que el pedido lo hice sin pagar seguro. Y ahora el vendedor pide que (...) (19 years ago, 5-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | An Analysis of the NXT Bluetooth Communication (with advice)
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I posted an analysis of the NXT's Bluetooth communications protocol at (URL) can be used in three ways. If you are designing NXT programs that communicate via Bluetooth, this article will tell you (perhaps with too many details :-) how to exchange (...) (19 years ago, 5-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hello everyone, I have finally finished a rather large project that has occupied my time for some months now. I started building Annelus when I discovered (URL) Rotundus> and decided to emulate the creation. What I came up with was a month long (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: NXT direct commands
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For better documentation of the various parameters, look in the Executable File Specification.pdf around page 81. Here's the notes I made in ruby-nxt ((URL) # output mode COAST = 0x00 # motor will rotate freely? MOTORON = 0x01 # enables PWM power (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NXT direct commands
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Hi, i'm programing a Python library for remote controlling the NXT, now i'm working with the "set output state" message and i would like to know what means the diferent values of each parameter: #MOTOR MODES MOTORON = 0x01 BRAKE = 0x02 REGULATED = (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: bluetooth and nxt
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Thanks for your responses! I am pleased that I experienced a surprisingly painless and successful connection between my NXT and the Belkin Bluetooth USB Adapter F8T012 (which I bought today). I'm even happier that I can compile and d/l my programs (...) (19 years ago, 30-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: bluetooth and nxt
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In article <J6BAAt.Hz8@lugnet.com>, Alan C <amenpage@earthlink.%stopspam %net> writes (...) Correct. The compatibility lists are required because Windows XP Service Pack 2 is the first time Windows supports Bluetooth. The lists are of Bluetooth (...) (19 years ago, 29-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT Bluetooth on Intel Based Macs
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(...) I haven't tried it using windows on an intel mac (I have a MacBookPro) and I haven't tried robotc, however I am able to communicate with the NXT in OSX on an intel mac, using bluetooth serial ports and ruby. For more info see: (URL) (19 years ago, 29-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: bluetooth and nxt
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(...) Yes, that is correct. (...) The users Manual says, You can use it like a Remote Control (...) No. You can use one Bluetooth-Dongle for connecting to several other Devices. (...) No again. (...) Yes, one NXT can connect to 3 others. (19 years ago, 28-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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I assume most the bluetooth discussion (i.e, the compatibility lists) have been for a bluetooth adapter (?) you install on your computer to communicate with the nxt. Is that correct? What about using a cell phone that is blue tooth ready? What does (...) (19 years ago, 28-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT compatible bluetooth adapters
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(...) Uninstalling the provided driver and then reinstalling using the XP-driver made it work with the NXT. Thanks! Thomas (19 years ago, 26-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: NXT compatible bluetooth adapters
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I've updated the compatibility list at (URL) reflect this update. It APPEARS that as a rule, one should try using the native XP drivers first, and only install the vendor-provided drivers if necessary. Some of those vendor drivers may not uninstall (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT compatible bluetooth adapters
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(...) I had a similar problem. After uninstalling the software that came with the Bluetooth-Stick WinXP detected the Stick again and used its own driver. Now it works. I have a Lutec BTA-6030 and since I use the WinXP-Driver it works quite well. (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NXTender: Extend Your NXT
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NXTender is a Windows program that allows your NXT to control your PC. It allows the NXT to send keyboard keyclicks to the PC (simulating a keyboard), to open windows and display data in them, and to receive joystick input from the PC. When you use (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT compatible bluetooth adapters
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(...) I'm not able to make it work. Have EPoX BT-DG02 and XP SP2. If I scan with the NXT-sw, nothing is detected. If I try to do a manual connection from the NXT, it discovers the PC, but after saying "Connecting" it says "Line is Busy". Any (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Example of two-way NXT-to-PC communication
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During development, it was discovered that the BlueTooth chip apparently has about a 60ms latency when changing directions. I wasn't working directly on this issue, but I don't believe any workaround was found except to avoid round trips for various (...) (19 years ago, 22-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT with 'RCX' rotation sensor
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(...) Just for information. (URL) it's already end of september now. Eric. (19 years ago, 21-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well the same goes for the temp.sensor. Testable but not programable. I sure would like to see such an update. Eric. (19 years ago, 20-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT with 'RCX' rotation sensor
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(...) Another option would be to use NBC which supports the old RCX sensors (if you have the proper adapter cable). John (19 years ago, 20-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT with 'RCX' rotation sensor
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In article <J5uwH0.HyH@lugnet.com>, Eric Wijnsouw <sgtpeppermail@yahoo.com> writes (...) It is supported in the Educational version of the NXT software. Hopefully, now that the conversion cables are available from Lego Shop at Home, an update for (...) (19 years ago, 19-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT and Firmware
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Thanks for the patch, but I solved the issue simply by trying a different computer. More of them gremlins that inhabit computer systems, I guess. Nasty little things... Andrew Meyer (19 years ago, 19-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Example of two-way NXT-to-PC communication
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I created a robot that demonstrates two-way bluetooth communication between a PC and a NXT (and the limitations of such communication). A program on the PC receives input from a joystick and sends commands to the NXT. This controls the movement of (...) (19 years ago, 19-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT with 'RCX' rotation sensor
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(...) I believe it is only supported in the educational software version, not the retail software version, at the moment at least. JB (19 years ago, 19-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NXT with 'RCX' rotation sensor
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I connected a 'RCX' rotation sensor to my NXT. In the 'view' submenu you can test it, select port 1 to 4 and it works just fine. However programming with it isn't possible. When you select the 'rotation sensor' from the 'complete palette', you can (...) (19 years ago, 19-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT Bluetooth on Intel Based Macs
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I have unable to get bluetooth working even under windows running natively on an intel mac. When the autorun started on the lego driver / software disk, it reported that bluetooth would not work on this computer. I setup the pairing manually and (...) (19 years ago, 19-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NBC beta news
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(...) My apologies for the delay. Life gets in the way sometimes. :-) I have just put it up. John Hansen (19 years ago, 19-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NBC beta news
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Hello John, (...) Will the Linux build be available soon ? The link given for beta 8 has a 404 error. Thanks for your great work on NBC and thanks for compiling it under Linux. Jean-Louis Bergamo, who has just received his NXT :-) (19 years ago, 18-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Johnny 5
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(...) He has recently posted a parts list, which is a start: (URL) (19 years ago, 18-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | RE: NXT and Firmware
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Your NXT is partway through the "load new firmware" phase -- that's what the c;licking indicates. Here's what you need to do: 1. Open Robolab. 2. Go into administrator. 3. Download firmware. You should get a couple of screens saying firmware needs (...) (19 years ago, 18-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT and Firmware
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(...) Try downloading the patch from here; (URL) should fix the problem. JB (19 years ago, 18-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NXT and Firmware
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My FLL team just received its NXT kit, and I of course decided to learn how to use it before the kids, so I could help them. I turned it on, loaded up ROBOLAB 2.9, plugged in the NXT, and went to the Administrator panel. I changed the port from COM1 (...) (19 years ago, 18-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Bluetooth Direct and System Commands
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(...) By way of clarification, the two open write commands above (as well as the OpenWrite command) cannot be used to open existing files. They both return error messages if the specified file already exists. Although they are named "OpenWrite..." (...) (19 years ago, 18-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NBC beta news
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(...) Or even (URL) ;) ROSCO (19 years ago, 18-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Bluetooth Direct and System Commands
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(...) MessageRead is used to read a message from one of the 10 message queues (optionally clearing the message after it is read). MessageWrite is used write a message to one of the 10 message queues on the NXT. Neither one of these will do anything (...) (19 years ago, 18-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Bluetooth Direct and System Commands
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From: Brian Bagnall There are some Bluetooth commands that are a little cryptic and sparsely documented in the official Lego docs. I was wondering if anyone could point me to some talk on this or shed some light on what these are used for: See (...) (19 years ago, 18-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Bluetooth Direct and System Commands
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There are some Bluetooth commands that are a little cryptic and sparsely documented in the official Lego docs. I was wondering if anyone could point me to some talk on this or shed some light on what these are used for: Direct Commands: MESSAGEWRITE (...) (19 years ago, 17-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NBC beta news
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(...) toys... <grin>. (19 years ago, 17-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NBC beta news
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Hello Hari, (...) There is a lot of down-gearing in NXT motors ((URL) so you have to overcome a lot of friction to rotate its output. That's why the old RCX rotation sensor still has some uses... Philo (19 years ago, 17-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NBC beta news
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(...) Thanks for your continued work on this John. One question: Even after invoking the Coast() macro, there's still some resistance when manually turning the motor output by hand. Is this unavoidable due to the gearing, or is there a way to lessen (...) (19 years ago, 16-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NBC beta news
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(...) I've been working on a high level compiler for a while, taking a wide variety of different approaches depending on my mood it seems. Several months ago I had fiddled with a Pascal-based compiler tutorial which I worked through. In the end I (...) (19 years ago, 16-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NXT software's "My Portal" tab now actually does something
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I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but the "My Portal" tab in the NXT software now actually has some content. The first is a link to the Classic Cuckoo Clock and SoundBot building instructions on the Mindstorms website, and there are some (...) (19 years ago, 16-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Re: NBC beta news
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HI. (...) What's this password thing? NBC compiler can really parse such high-level-shaped code? Please, forgive me if I haven't understood a joke, since I'm as slow in English as I can be funny in Italian! Bye. (19 years ago, 15-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NBC beta news
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(...) Yeah! Speaking from the minority OS here, Thank You! Drat, another fun way to use gobs of my (rapidly shrinking to non-existance) free time. Thanks for keeping up on this stuff, and providing stuff like Mac builds. You're making me a very (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | BricxCC release news
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I've uploaded a new test release of BricxCC which includes some enhancements in the NXT Explorer tool window as well as a few other minor upgrades. Downloading the NXT firmware from within BricxCC should work in this release (although it has not (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NBC beta news
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I've just uploaded a new NBC beta (b8). The sourcecode and Mac OSX and Linux builds will be up later today. This beta has some cool new features. Unused variable declarations and unused threads/subroutines are removed before generating the (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | GASTON presented to HRH The Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward
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Nice photo to a pretty nice occasion. (URL) (19 years ago, 12-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) That was great! Thank you very much for posting the videos. (19 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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My almost 10 minute long video is ready. Sorry it's a week later than I said, but it's not my camera so I had to borrow it again. (URL) (19 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Johnny 5
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Hello Everyone: Does anyone have or know where I can get the plans to build a Johnny 5 type robot? Dan has plenty of pics on his site but no build plans.I have been searching for days on the web with no luck. Being an old timer I simply do not have (...) (19 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: inverted pendulum
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(...) There are a few nice updates. (19 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) That's the method I used on my own ball counter. During testing, I fed it with (counted) hundreds of balls, it never missed (or over counted) one. During LW2005 it counted about 15000 balls a day during a week... some wear now but still (...) (19 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Keynote speaker
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Hi all, I'm part of the organising committee on a conference all about social interactions between humans and artificial creatures and we're looking for potential keynote speakers we might invite. I suggested to the others as a possible, a 'Lego (...) (19 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT Ultrasonic sensor / Retreiving 8 OBjects at Once
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(...) (URL) Hansen (19 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) LOL!! That may be an idea for next year. To come up with a mindstorms concept/competition that appeals to the other gender as well...maybe Bunnie or our significant others can come up with it! Dave (19 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) I raised this issue in June when discussing GBC reliability, seeing that 1 bps implies a measured time interval. Of course, what is the interval?, I asked. The general consensus is that it is a 30 second time interval. As such, the worst you (...) (19 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT Ultrasonic sensor / Retreiving 8 OBjects at Once
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This here: (...) Is exactly what I want to do! Do you have any links? If any of your friends have any of their work online I'd love to check it out.. Thanks! Ben (19 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: NXT Ultrasonic sensor / Retreiving 8 OBjects at Once
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(...) Unfortunately, you cannot operate a ultrasound sensor at this rate. I think it is much slower than this. Before you start a new "ping" you have to ensure that all the echoes from distant devices on first ping have been received before starting (...) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT Ultrasonic sensor
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(...) Yeah the speed of light is pretty darn fast! Sound is quite turtle-like in comparison ;) Ben (19 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) You're correct, I was streaming it from Google which was probably the issue. (...) It doesn't matter how much quicker than the standard a single module is - if it only gets 1 bps, then it can only pass them to the downstream module at 1 bps... (...) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) I downloaded it completely and don't see any jerkiness, maybe that was due to streaming it as the bandwidth from Google was a bit low (< 100kB/s). (...) But then it may need to accept a lot of balls, if the other modules are quicker. I know (...) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT Ultrasonic sensor
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(...) It never ceases to amaze me how astoundingly slow sound is compared to the speed of a computer. It's one of those rare cases when your view of the universe around you shifts into a completely new perspective. (19 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) There are actually three ways to approach this: 1) Using something reflective on the far side of the ball chute - have the sensors light bounce back into the sensor - so the reading decreases when something gets in the way of the reflected (...) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT Ultrasonic sensor
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Hi, (...) since sound travels at about 333 m/s (depending on temperature and pressure), a meter takes 3 milliseconds. At the maximum range of 2.5 meters, times two that would be 15 milliseconds per reading. Cheers Jürgen (19 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) I found a yellow LEGO rubber band on the TECHNIC table, so I took it home with me since most everyone was gone by that point. That's probably not a big deal, unlike an entire train regulator. :( (19 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) Now that is a nice solution, and not one I'd thought of. Not having the silver brick, I could still use a (non-LEGO! Aaah!) solution of a small pice of reflective tabe or something. Cool. (...) I know that there's one power transformer that is (...) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) I had success with a ball detector using only one light sensor in my little interactive get-the-ball-in-the-hole module. If the ball went into the hole, it rolled past a light sensor (old RCX version; is there a new nxt one?). Across from the (...) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) Yeah, that's suspiciously absent from my video. I'm uploading another one now: (URL) Google version is really jerky I'm afraid.) This one starts with the train being loaded, but then follows the train to the next unloading module so you can (...) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT Ultrasonic sensor
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(...) PS - the thing I would want the radar to do is to guide a bucket for an excavator. The goal being to dig lego bricks from a pile with the bucket. So I think I can get away with it not being super-accurate or resolute. I'm really looking (...) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT Ultrasonic sensor
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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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| | Re: NXT Ultrasonic sensor
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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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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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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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| | NXT Ultrasonic sensor
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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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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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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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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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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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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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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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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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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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(...) Hi John, and thanks! Being one of the unlucky ones that only just got hold of a NXT, I can see I have lots to catch up on, and BricxCC has been my development tool of choice on the RCX for quite a while now. I hope I haven't got too far (...) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) So you give interviews while driving through mountains? Talk about multi-tasking... (...) broken. Overall, it's a pretty nice article. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when folks like this open up a NXT. (19 years ago, 31-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.mediawatch)
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Anybody else get some reasonable video of all or part of the GBC? (URL) you browse the rest, there's some other BrickFest stuff in there, but not the standing Droidy as yet). (19 years ago, 31-Aug-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) So bar power requirements, what is the addressing range of that? It would be cool to be able to daisy chain elements, and jsut add additional power where needed. (...) Each device having its own micro explains the expense, I take it that only (...) (19 years ago, 31-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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On Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:03 AM danny staple wrote: "Question - does anyone know how many output or input modules could be attached, and if there are any plans for seperate motor control boards? I strongly agree with Brian that having the motor (...) (19 years ago, 31-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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