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I was wondering about the speaker as well. The old RCX definitely can beep, and make a whole host of other sounds. Not being an electronics engineer, I'm was uncertain of my ability to identify the speaker on the 1.0 board. It's not the thing that's (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Doug Wrote: (...) SNIP (...) SNIP I was thinking about this last night. It would be very easy to build a dummy battery, using a 7809 voltage regulator, diode bridge on the input, and a shell to put it in. My stumbling block last night was finding (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) You could get a battery adaptor, that is, a device for putting AAA batteries where AA batteries should go. They're available easily here in the UK - Maplins for example. The only irritation I see is that you'll need 6 of them; 5 of which will (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Ummmm, you could buy 2, put one on either end of the battery compartment ann run a wire between them, right? Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) ---...--- Reply to: rhempel at bmts dot com (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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