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(...) Ha! Methinks you underestimate the talents (not to mention obsession) of the other folks in this event <grin>. Seriously, thanks for the kind words, and I'm very happy with it, but now the rest of you know yet another way to try to do it. Go (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Unit LNE of the dinochrome brigade (Was: Rock Crawling)
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(...) well, in all honesty I shamelessly implemented a solution I had already known about: PackBot by iRobot. I won't remotely claim the idea originated with me, as it didn't. I was inspired by the "real world" here. That said, I'd not run across (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Unit LNE of the dinochrome brigade (Was: Rock Crawling)
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(...) Thank you both Matthias & Philo (and others!). give them an inch indeed... first, I really feel i need to apologize for *not* CADing this up. I've tried to CAD stuff, but the combination of my chosen platform (Mac) coupled with where I like (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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Brian, your rock crawler is quite interesting to me because you've rediscovered the design of a real-world reconnaissance robot: (URL) designer is related to my boss in some manner that I can't recall, but he was up at our office last summer showing (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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(...) go nuts when they see the video! (18 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Oh - really??? ;o) (...) That's something I considered, but not tried. One problem I foresee is that the fov of the US-sensor itself is relatively wide, so I don't know if this could provide much more obstacle direction information. (...) Not (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Unit LNE of the dinochrome brigade (Was: Rock Crawling)
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(...) Same comments and feelings here ;o) Brian, it would help to reproduce your outstanding design (and maybe CAD it!) if you could provide higher resolutions photographs somewhere... Philo (18 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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Brian, (...) Absolutely awesome! /Matthias (deeply impressed) ps Now I'm going to wait day and night for the LDraw file ;-) (give them an inch and they will take a mile...) (18 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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I just ran across these on LEGO's NXTlog: A little Spy rover and a joystick-based remote control: (URL) - nice job Philo! I like the ball caster (OK, I'll admit bias), but I really like using a mechanical linkage to pan the US sensor to widen the (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Unit LNE of the dinochrome brigade (Was: Rock Crawling)
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(...) OK, I hammered on it some more, and made a much more fun video. I updated Brickshelf with some "deconstruction" pictures that show how to build it (hey, I didn't say they made it *easy* to build it): (URL) the video on YouTube, with my son (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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Hi, I'm a user of Open-source NXT Controling program 'OnBrick'. I am really astonished by the program and I appreciate. I want to ask you guys to do a little favor :-) As I wrote before, I watched a video clip from youtube (URL) made my wish come (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: another comparison
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../snip (...) Ah, I forgot, he is trying to do this with an ARM. (18 years ago, 25-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) 1. Indeed. 2. I got an email some time ago from a 16 year old student Korean student, Jimin Sung,living in the US, who is making an autonomous underwater robot. I was so amazed of what he was doing. He sent me his application of the RFT (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Claude, (...) thanks, I found it at (URL) . And pseudocode is fine with me, Java or C were just meant as examples for textual languages. (...) :-) Best is to avoid assignment and modifiable state whenever possible. Jürgen (18 years ago, 25-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hi Jürgen, The document, where I develop the theory of the algorithm has some text-pseudo code ( a mixture of C and PASCAL) that you easily can convert to anything. Since the document is math stuff, I largely prefer the := notation for (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) John - if you've got someone's ear in this, could you also see if a GCC build of the firmware can be released? I know LEGO are unlikely to use GCC themselves as they can afford more specialised tools, but so far, I don't see much of a (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Claude, (...) do you have the DFT algorithm in some programming language like Java or C? I'm just guessing, but maybe it could also be useful for speech recognition? Or maybe telling the cat from the dog? (The sound sensor should be usable as a (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) It is possible to write to the popup buffer but only by using the IOMap routine (SetDisplayPopup). The regular system calls which write to the LCD all write to the normal display memory. Unfortunately, as Dick Swan suggested, the current NXT (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Unit LNE of the dinochrome brigade (Was: Rock Crawling)
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(...) Awesome! Great videos! BTW if you want to know how to make bigger tires, try inserting old school 1" Lego tires into the crevices around the large grey "hula hoops" from the star wars kit. This will make tires at least 8" (20 cm) in diameter (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Controling NXT with Bluetooth Device(such as mouse, etc)
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(...) That actually doesn't address the real problem. The NXT has a "dongle" built-in, so it can receive the Bluetooth messages. It just can't understand what it reads. The NXT requires a very specific message format, and that's not what the mouse (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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