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(...) ...//snip... ...snip// (...) In fact, the whole Internet is a wasteland !! Anybody can do anything there!! For me LUGNET/robotics is an excellent forum. I participate for several years now and I must appreciate the contributions of many (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | This is the cancer that is killing Lugnet (Was Re: Apology)
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OK, so from what I can gather: 1) Someone asks a (URL) question>. 2) Steve tells her to make a (URL). 3) John knocks out a brownie-points (URL) comparison chart> in about ten minutes. 4) Steve, having intended to follow his own advice, loses his (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Re: What do these macros do?
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(...) Thanks for your response, John. That tip about the dirty flag not being IOMAPpable is very, very useful; I could have wasted a lot of time working that out the hard way. I'm working on a graphical display widget to show a 'radar' (well, sonar) (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GBC- Magnetic Ball Separator
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(...) I've tried the no motor thing, but gave up after I could'nt get it to work. The pulling the ball to the side was one of the first things that I tried, but there are too many things that were uncontrollable. For instance, the direction the (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thanks to those of you who filled in the set information. I actually got the balls from Bricklink, and the only thing I knew about them was they were from the Harry Potter sets. Peeron has been loading slow for me as well, and with that darn (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: GBC- Magnetic Ball Separator
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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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| | Re: Like A Rock Crawler Hauler
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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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| | Re: GBC- Magnetic Ball Separator
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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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| | Re: Like A Rock Crawler Hauler
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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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| | Re: GBC- Magnetic Ball Separator
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(...) You mean... [LEGOSet 4767-1] :) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: Like A Rock Crawler Hauler
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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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| | Re: Like A Rock Crawler Hauler
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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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| | Re: GBC- Magnetic Ball Separator
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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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| | Re: Olsenbande Robotic B&E
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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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| | Re: GBC- Magnetic Ball Separator
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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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| | Like A Rock Crawler Hauler
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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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| | Sensor Input Site URL Changed
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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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