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I am at the Robo Rocks 2007 robotics competition in Edison New Jersey with my team from the School for Enterprise Business and Technology. We are competing at the Middlesex County College and we are moments away from beginning! It is so exciting! (...) (17 years ago, 17-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: NXTLog sumo Event
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The deadline for the NXTLog sumo (Dec 15th) is approaching. The details are posted here: (URL) summarize: Create a sumo robot, and post it to NXTLog (on the LEGO MINDSTORMS web site). Several robots will be selected and built, using instructions & (...) (17 years ago, 5-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: any video of LEGO fire fighting bots?
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(...) (URL) the video can be found here-- (URL) little slow, mind you--sorry about that. Dave K (17 years ago, 5-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: any video of LEGO fire fighting bots?
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Joe, Certainly there have been instances of lego robots in the contest. The department at Trinity College sponsoring the competition sells videos of the competition each year. I have several of those from years long past. I bought them from the (...) (17 years ago, 5-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Need help combining steering with odometry in NXC
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(...) Here is a line follower from my book, NXT Power Programming: #define SLOW_SPEED 25 #define FAST_SPEED 75 #define EYE_PORT S1 #define EYE_VALUE SENSOR_1 int BlackThreshold; int WhiteThreshold; inline int min(int v1, int v2) { return (v1 < v2) ? (...) (17 years ago, 5-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Need help combining steering with odometry in NXC
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(...) If you are really following a line then you should use a traditional line following algorithm rather than try to use motor synchronization and turn ratios. There isn't any reason to synchronize the motors since following a line usually (...) (17 years ago, 5-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | any video of LEGO fire fighting bots?
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I'm giving a demo on Saturday of the Trinity College Robot Fire Fighting contest. There are likely to be a lot of LEGO bot builders there (Fort Collins has one of the biggest FIRST LEGO League followings in the country). I'll be showing some videos (...) (17 years ago, 5-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Need help combining steering with odometry in NXC
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(...) Update: upon a couple more hours' testing, I found that the above command actually prevents the bot from turning at all. It will only turn if I pass at least RESET_BLOCK_COUNT for the last parameter (of course other combinations that include (...) (17 years ago, 4-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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I'm working on an NXT bot to do the Trinity College Fire Fighting Robot Contest ((URL) at least well enough to get through this Saturday's demo at the local science museum. At the moment, I'm just trying to get the robot to follow the wall (which is (...) (17 years ago, 4-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT compatible bluetooth adapters
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I have a older no-name one with BlueSoleil. But that one didn't work with the instruction I followed. (...) (17 years ago, 4-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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