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| (...) Some complications i would see w/this is that #1, u would have to use it immediately after pumping because there is no way to stop the air-flow (unless u could cork it w/a needle or something). #2, it will probably not propell the boat evenly. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Ok, I don't think this is too far off-topic. At the JavaOne keynote presentation this morning in S.F., James Gosling and Kay Neuenhofen of Sun Microsystems demonstrated Mindstorm tanks controlled from Palm V's running KJava aka MicroJava. They also (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | Re: Mindstorms at JavaOne
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| For those who want to see how this kind of thing is done, independently I wrote a Jini/MindStorms driver as part of my Jini (...) Jan Newmarch, Information Science and Engineering, University of Canberra, PO Box 1, Belconnen, Act 2616 Australia. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | Re: Mindstorms at JavaOne
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| Since I wrote this, I've seen the setup in person. The Palm V's are connected serially to a Sun PC which broadcasts IR from a standard Lego IR tower to the tanks' combat arena. The messages sent to the tanks use 3 bits for the tank id and 5 bits for (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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