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(...) Only if you're coming to a fest near us. :) (16 years ago, 4-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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Sick. Majorly, majorly sick. Coming to a fest near us sometime soon? (16 years ago, 4-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) No BS Gallery as yet, but here's a YT video: (...) (URL) son and I watched the video through 3 x and his comment every time is "We've gotta learn how to build one for ourselves!" Now you need a companion bot that goes around and cleans up all (...) (16 years ago, 4-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thank you - and don't worry about the cats, they think LEGO robots roaming around the house are normal. All depends on the environment that you are raised in... (...) They don't. The launcher works be squeezing the sides of the spheres as they (...) (16 years ago, 3-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Now, that's just flat out cool...and fun!!! (except for maybe...the cats.) I'm curious if soccer/foot balls and basketballs can work in place of Zamor spheres. Scott (16 years ago, 2-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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OK, it was pointed out to me that I hadn't actually announced this on LUGNET, so... Ogre is the logical (or perhaps I should say "obsessive") conclusion to a series of Zamor shooting robots I've played with for a while. The launching system fires (...) (16 years ago, 2-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics) !!
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(...) Nop, I have seen it. I will try to get more information about it. (16 years ago, 1-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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(...) due to who's catalog arrived at my house first. They look almost identical in functionality except the LabQuest has a stylus and more memory, while the XplorerGLX has I2C sensors (or seomthing like them; it seems they transmit digital (...) (16 years ago, 1-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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(...) I would be interested, but I have no audio equipment (apart from a function generator) Very interesting data BTW! Philo (16 years ago, 28-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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(...) Excellent suggestion!!! We'll open one sensor and try once again. (...) (URL) else interested in repeating the experiment? Philo? Claude P.S. I added a graph to the page, where the sound pressure is maintained constant. (16 years ago, 28-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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(...) Since I was doing this all manually, it was by far the easiest. I realized that a better way would be to vary the signal generator level at each frequency, but often when trying that I simple "maxed out" the reported level from the sound (...) (16 years ago, 28-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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Thanks Brian (...) Your excellent graph shows that you tried to maintain the sound pressure constant. We did the inverse in the last graphs, where we tried to draw the curve for a constant NXT sensor value. We also repeated the experiment, and this (...) (16 years ago, 28-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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(...) anything interesting at 3 kHz... perhaps because I didn't go that high (oops). To figure out the frequency response I did it manually: I borrowed a signal generator and speaker from the university, as well as a sound meter, and then simple (...) (16 years ago, 28-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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We've worked some hours to do some interesting experiments with the NXT sound sensor in order to learn more about the sensor characteristics: Please consult: (URL) and help discussing. Claude Baumann (16 years ago, 27-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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Calling all EE's, robotics nuts, technic gurus, PF fanatics, and electronics geniuses... So by using the PF to 9V connector wire, I can run a PF motor using the 9V Train regulator. This is all wonderful...until I try to put an IR receiver between (...) (16 years ago, 25-Feb-09, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics)
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***Apologies for multiple postings*** Dear Colleagues, I hope you will find this robotics podcast interesting and useful: (URL) podcast interviews are intended as a top-quality information resource for robotics. They target a general technically (...) (16 years ago, 24-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Brickworld - Esther Walner Memorial
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(URL) Share - Learn - Explore - Discover The Brickworld Team is sad to report the passing of Esther Walner. Esther served as Brickworld's newbie and FFOL coordinator. We send our deepest condolences to Esther's family. Esther's smile and enthusiasm (...) (16 years ago, 24-Feb-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.people, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Finally, I found the answer!!
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(...) I am missing the packet length in the command packet. before send a command packet, the length of the packet must be sent first. Size of the packet length is word(2 byte), but value of the packet length is not included itself. (16 years ago, 16-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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I am a hobbyist programmer and trying to make NXT remote control program for PC. anyway, I am succeed open bluetooth SPP, send a command, and got response from the NXT. But the problem is.... sending tons of repeatly command and one response. NXT (...) (16 years ago, 15-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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After helping my son’s school with their FLL team last year I got the wild idea to start my own FLL team this past year. I had no idea what I was in for but I knew that I wanted to put together a team that was dedicated to learning about FLL and (...) (16 years ago, 11-Feb-09, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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Over the nearly 10 years that I've had a MINDSTORMS related website I've noticed that my most popular homebrew sensor is the one for Galvanic Skin Response. This type sensor is used in lie detectors and biofeedback devices. I recently updated the (...) (16 years ago, 11-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I have a Delphi program for communicating with the old Dacta interface 70909 here: (URL) that can be used for Control Lab too? (16 years ago, 7-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes, the response time of the CLI is rather disappointing to say the least. Personally I think the CLI is best suited for controlling things like lights, and motors on someones town layout. For anything that requires precise control use an RCX (...) (16 years ago, 7-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes, the response time of the CLI is rather disappointing to say the least. Personally I think the CLI is best suited for controlling things like lights, and motors on someones town layout. For anything that requires precise control use an RCX (...) (16 years ago, 7-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) IrDA works quite differently from what the RCX is capable of understanding normally under usual firmware. I don't think that you can change the dongle reactions, since on the physical layer it will work according to the IrDA specifications. (...) (16 years ago, 7-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Whoah, a full second?! That's pretty useless! :( I'm trying to find software to program the ControlLab right now, but if this is the case, I might as well abandon any plans I had on using it. Fine motor control would be completly impossible. (...) (16 years ago, 5-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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I've seen many people attempt this, but none who have succeeded. (but I won't say it's not possible) Steve (...) (16 years ago, 5-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi, I can't find my lego mindstorm IR tower and I was thinking if it is possible to hack a generic IR dongle ( (URL) from a computer so that it can communicate with the RCX brick. Is that possible? How do I do this? Thanks (16 years ago, 5-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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We have started playing with implementations of the Kalman filter into NXT robots. This sophisticated data manipulation method appears rather complicated, and most introductions depict an obscure data handling that normally is considered to be out (...) (16 years ago, 3-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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I finally got around to uploading all the BricxCC and NBC/NXC source code to an SVN repository on the BricxCC project page on sourceforge.net. Now all my code changes are done via my local checkout from that repository and changes are checked in as (...) (16 years ago, 2-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Brickworld - Train Drag Racing
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(URL) Share - Learn - Explore - Discover The Brickworld Team is pleased to announce a new competition for this year's event. Train Drag Racing Preregistration for the competition is requested. There are four competition classes. Check out all the (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jan-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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(URL) Share - Learn - Explore - Discover The Brickworld Team welcomes new coordinators and new sponsors to the team this year. For the 2009 event, Mark Peterson, Roy Cook, David Pagano, and Tom Philips have joined the team. Mark Peterson will be (...) (17 years ago, 27-Jan-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, FTX) !!
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I updated the page with a new program based on the LabVIEW toolkit for NXT. Please consult: (URL) (17 years ago, 24-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Mike Gasperi's book "LabVIEW for LEGO Mindstorms NXT"
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Mike has been busy one more time! He proves once again his ability in cutting complex contents into didactically digest slices that fascinate the reader and lead him to continue going further and digging deeper. The book is an excellent tutorial (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: MINDSTORMS SDK2.5
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(...) Philo, Thanks for providing a source for these tools! I will also soon have these tools available to download from my BricxCC page. (URL) Hansen (17 years ago, 22-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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(URL) The LEGO Company does no longer offer technical support to advanced users on the historical MINDSTORMS range, specifically those using the SDK 2.5 (RCX™ and Scout™), and Spybotics™ range. Related tools and documentation were removed from (...) (17 years ago, 22-Jan-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: BricxCC on Linux
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(...) I forgot to mention that at this stage I have been exclusively testing connectivity with the LEGO NXT and I have not tried at all to get the RCX communication layer working correctly. It may not take a lot of work to get it functional but I (...) (17 years ago, 18-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi John, I am running Ubuntu 8.10 intrepid on my laptop and Suse 11.0 on a server maschine I'd like to test your BricxCC on these environments Best regards Klaus -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: BricxCC on Linux Von: John Hansen (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi John, I'd like to help testing it in my Linux system. Best Regards, John Hansen escribió: (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | BricxCC on Linux
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I have a very early version of BricxCC running on my ubuntu hardy heron virtual machine (running in VirtualBox). If anyone is interested in helping me test on Linux platforms please send me an email. Hopefully I will be able to get something similar (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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