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Re: Extreme Creatures, Cybermasters, etc?
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:12:24 GMT
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Matthew Miller wrote in message ...
> But you could use the treads without, yeah?
Yup. First thing I did was put the treads on and try to get into the
manual control bit. Unsuccessfully, as it turned out. So I watched about
20 min of video, some of which was cool, then discovered that my nicads
were flat. Just enough grunt to do the radio check, not enough for the
motors. But it is rather good at trouble shooting - the mechanic popped up
and said I had hardware troubles, took me to the troubleshooter area,
which told me that the nicads I scrounged out of my RC gear were flat.
I'm trying to decide whether it's worth perservering with the building
instructions as the program exits (cleanly) at random intervals. And every
now and then freezes the computer. In making the "Crusher" robot I had
six exits and a lockup, then when I went back in just now it locked again.
Not impressed, but then it is running on MS DirectX 5.0.
Still, at least if you hold down the page-down key it skips through
the instructions without actually loading them (you'd never guess
I have a 32x SCSI CDROM from the access speed Lego gets). And there
seems to be no "install everything to hard disk" option. After
paying $200 for the thing, another $40 for 600MB of hard disk is
hardly going to kill me... I could delete the 400MB of Sarah McLaughlan
music videos that I haven't watched for weeks.
> I'd really like some better treads, as the ones that come in Mindstorms
> RIS, Tread Trekker, and Mountain Rambler are too small for a lot of things.
This is them, then. They seem to be a more flexible than the small ones,
which is good. Although a little harder to get hold of :)
> > them. I notice that the motor part of the unit gets somewhat hot after
> > playing with it, so it probably spends batteries quite quickly.
So buy nicads :) 12 AA nicads and a fast charger should be too expensive.
Although a ripple charger is well worth it if you can find one, as
it's faster but much, much kinder to the nicads (I made mine).
> Interesting. The batteries in my Mindstorms creations seem to last forever.
Grr. But then again, how much pounding away with treads on do you do?
Moz
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 | | Re: Extreme Creatures, Cybermasters, etc?
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| "Moz (Chris Moseley)" <moz1@ihug.co.nz> writes: Do you have Cyber Master? Cool! Be sure to watch the lego-robotics list, if you aint already. (...) Is this to keep parts of them for later reference? That may be interesting. Personally, I would like (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Extreme Creatures, Cybermasters, etc?
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| (...) :) Yes. I'm waiting to see what the (frighteningly impressive) reverse-engineering people determine -- if I can program (...) Well, I've had my RoboTag robots going for large portions of the day for lots of days (sorry for being vague -- I've (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Extreme Creatures, Cybermasters, etc?
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| Moz, I couldn't find this reference in the previous posts: (...) I am I understanding that you have treads that are larger and more flexible than the ones that came with the mountain rambler? I am dying to get something bigger for an pneumatic (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Extreme Creatures, Cybermasters, etc?
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| (...) But you could use the treads without, yeah? I'd really like some better treads, as the ones that come in Mindstorms RIS, Tread Trekker, and Mountain Rambler are too small for a lot of things. (Particularly, hard to power and still have a lot (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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