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| | | Additional observations: - at the start of any program, the Scout emits barcode 004 which triggers a 'steam puff' sound in the Code Pilot (if it's in record mode). The Scout seems to emit no other barcodes (but motor left, motor right, motor float (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: Scout secrets revealed —Eric Brok
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| | | | | Even som more Additional observations: - I made up a program to blink a spot on a computer screen as if it where a barcdode, but didn't succeed in triggering either the Code Pilot or the Scout. Don't know if it's fundamental or just in execution. - (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Site--Comments? —David Pfeffer
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| | | | | | | Hi All, For the ThinkQuest 2000 contest (www.thinkquest.com or org, i forget which) I was putting together a Mindstorms site with a group of two friends. I was wondering what people on the the newsgroup/list thought of the site in its under (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Site--Comments? —John VanZwieten
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| | | | | | | | One comment: rainbow-colored text is irritating and difficult to read. IMHO, it's better to stick with one color for text and another for links. -John Van David Pfeffer <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:NCBBLOCOMLLOOAB...Nik.com... (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: Scout secrets revealed —Robert Munafo
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| | | | | | Just for the record, the real URL is: (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Scout secrets revealed —Eric Brok
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| | | | | | Robert Munafo wrote in message ... (...) The URL I gave is just as real ;-) I prefer people to use the latter URL since it enables them to navigate the site. Eric (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Scout secrets revealed —Robert Munafo
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| | | | | | Sorry Eric -- the frames just take up too way much space in the window (over 50 percent!). Most of the time when I visit such a heavily framed site, I have to use the "Open frame in New Window" command just to read the content. I posted the URL to (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Scout secrets revealed —Eric Brok
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| | | | | | Robert Munafo wrote in message ... (...) (over 50 (...) to (...) posted (...) use (...) to (...) I don't want to get into the frames debate here, but I just like to note that the real-estate issue is different from the frames/no frames debate. Both (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Scout secrets revealed —Paul Speed
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| | | | | | (...) Strictly speaking, not true. A large page with navigation along the top is much better for those with limited screen real estate than a large page in a frame with a navigation frame at the top. Without frames, as soon as the user scrolls down (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Scout secrets revealed —Eric Brok
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| | | | | | Points taken. (...) Main reason for that (I think) is the bookmark/url problem, which indeed started this thread. But it is possible to use frames that *are* bookmarkable[1]. I don't use on my site because of some technical issues, but I would (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: Scout secrets revealed —Hao-yang Wang
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| | | | (...) I don't have the Scout, but I have a funny feeling that the Micro Scout may also respond to these commands when it is in that "P" mode. Could somebody verify this? Thanks, Hao-yang Wang (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Scout secrets revealed —Eric Brok
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| | | | Hao-yang Wang wrote in message ... (...) a (...) So far, the Scout hasn't responded to the barcodes, it only emits it at certain points in its program. As I recall, in power mode it emits a barcode when you touch 'C'-motor on the remote, but this (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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