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(...) I thought of this immediately, specificly adapting the light sensor / train magent trick to try to get the dragon's egg to register. Alas, I've not gotten it to work (*yet*...), as the ball is not actually magnetic, but just has a piece of (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Steve Hassenplug" <steve@teamhassenplug.org> wrote in message news:6.2.3.4.0.20070...lug.org... (...) way, as my browser displays a 404 File Not Found error. It's title is Unload Truck 2. Other than that I liked the other videos and the pics of (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) You may be able to kick the motor entirely. Have you tried embedding magnets in the floor and walls, close enough to attract, but not so much as to grab the ball? You could increase the slope to help with this also. :-) If the ball is magnetic (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well, all my LEGO is tmeporarily put away for a three-year-old's birthday party, but this morning I finally got a Rock Crawler working... and it immediately stalled out in a pile of NXT kit spare parts :-( Sigh. At least it easily drives over (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) You mean... [LEGOSet 4767-1] :) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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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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