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Hi Steve Hassenplug, Your design is Great!!! Can you put more pics about your structure! Thanks. Juan Antonio Breña Moral (URL) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Whoa, my apologies for leaving out a smiley in the first posting. I was as lazy as you at the fore, thinking "why not mention which set in the initial post?", so I had to look it up myself. A shame that set seems to have been released for such (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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We have compared the sampling and computing speed of NXT and RCX. NXT uses standard firmware 1.03 and is programmed with the LabVIEW toolkit. RCX is programmed with ULTIMATE ROBOLAB. Both bricks do the same thing: computing the DFT on a small (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Very cool Steve... I can also atest the turn radius will stink since I did the same mod to the red tow truck set last year. You said you are using old style light sensors...Interfacing them to the NXT with the converter cables I assume? B (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) This one I guess: (URL) GBC module!!! Philo (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I received a private e-mail from Michael Barrett Andersen with some information about the source of this clip. It is (the opening sequence from?) an old Danish movie from 1979, (URL) This clip was apparently taken from the German dub of the (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I should show this video to people who think LEGO robotics has no practical applications. It certainly does, especially if you need to rob a place. (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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Bah! I was simply too lazy to look it up myself. :D (And Peeron has been loading pages very slowly for me lately.) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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We've been playing around with Rock Crawlers for a while, so I finally put up a web page with a bunch of pictures and descriptions on it. (URL) addition to my Rock Crawler (and a link to John's trucks), about half way down the page, there are (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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Hello; As many of you know I've kept a website for information on homebrew LEGO Mindstorms Sensors since the beginning of time: www.plazaearth.com/u...i/lego.htm . Unfortunately I had to change the host and lost the URL. Here is the new URL for the (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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Maybe this has been posted before, (couldn't find it here) but this is a pretty cool little video anyway. Staged for TV, no doubt, but a great little mechanism here... (URL) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) For the ball used in the video: Go to www.peeron.com Type "golden egg" (from the description) into the search box, click [Search] Find nothing, so reduce that to "egg", click [Search] Skim the results for matching parts that mention metal. (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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"steve" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:45B05D2F.705@ai...ail.net... (...) One thing I have noticed is that if I post to this newsgroup I will get some weird mail delivery failure notice from some blog or RSS feed. Even though I (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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I've noticed that whenever I email this list, I get a bunch of strange messages back from the Amazon.com support line or something. It sounds like someone managed to subscribe amazon.com's autoresponder to the mailing list! Could someone who (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Er, yeah, um, hehe, I meant to say What set has a steel ball? I'm not dumb, I swear! (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) I think it's a magnetic "ball-separator" - not a "magnetic-ball" separator. :-) I have a bunch of steel ball-bearings in my Lego storage system - so they must be used in one set or another - I have no idea which ones though. There are also (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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What set has a magnetic ball? (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Excellent! That looks like a really great addition to any GBC: for one thing, I've often wondered how long it takes to complete "one lap", and you really need a long average (as some modules recycle balls, etc.) I hope it's OK with you if I (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) When you do that, I recommend you not only test the 9 "on-brick" programming options on the page, but also the 18 "off-brick" programming tools, even if they're not allowed in FLL. :) Woops, guess I shouldn't have told you how many there are. (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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We seem to be avoiding the real issue here. This free exchange of hard gained knowledge has got to stop. Haven't you guys ever heard of the computer preisthood? What is the rationale for spending hours searching for alternative programming tools, (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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