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| I can only speak from experience about programming languages that use the standard firmware, since that's all I've used. *Spirit.OCX (I've used VB and J++): The worst way to program in the standard firmware. non-intuitive syntax (even if you replace (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I'm pretty sure there were no filters involved. This was the basic robot arm that can be built from the 9740(?) Control Lab Starter Set for the Serial Interface Box. She slightly modified it so that there were multiple bins for all of the different (...) (26 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: Spirograph Formulas??
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| You might enjoy the book "Turtle Graphics" - (URL) - uses the Logo language to control robotic turtles - descibes everything not in the mathematics of analysis but in terms of local geometric movement. Not sure if it has spirograph in it or not, but (...) (26 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) It is hard for me to tell. It is not hard for me but I am a programmer with many years under his belt. However forth seems idealy suited for someone getting started. It is a very interactive environment which encourages experimentation. Let me (...) (27 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| I am new to this group so please forgive this reply to an old thread. I've been doing embedded realtime software for over 20 years. A small amount of that has been using FORTH. The question is what does FORTH add to robotics software development? To (...) (27 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | "Floating" a motor
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| Is there any way using the Lego Firmware/software to get a output to float? I have a aplication in which a 'braked' motor will not work...it has to be able to pass over various gears, and I only just clued in to that little fact, as to why it did (...) (27 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Got my Pitsco order today. The Lego Dacta power cube, wall wart, had the Lego logo on it and said Lego Dacta on it several places. It had a warning tag on the wire showing it was not for tape recorders etc. It was marked 12 VAC 7VA output It was (...) (27 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: I'm sick of nqc (fwd)
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| Hi Arjen, (...) Don't confuse patience with experience. There is a reason I would VERY much like to see something like Logo as the entry level language for robotics. And this is one of them. The current toolset for Logo is either simplisticly (...) (27 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: First Lego League Software (fwd)
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| ----- Forwarded message from Matthew Miller ----- From: mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) Subject: Re: First Lego League Software Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 03:33:31 GMT On a related note: it's really unfortunate that the MIT Logo stuff isn't publicly (...) (27 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Well, not to get into "well, when I was a boy" :) but I was in third grade when I started BASIC programming. I didn't have a computer at home; just access to the one Apple ][+ in my classroom at school. I'm not bragging or anything -- while I (...) (27 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hi. I'm 49 have over 15 years of industrial experience in embedded systems and am currently an assistant professor of computer science. I have been trying to talk a school into funding a LEGO based robotics course since at least 1995 when I wrote (...) (27 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| What can it do & Is it worth getting ... It all depends on you. If you are familiar with the Lego / Technics stuff already, use motors with it - now you can automate them. If you like / want to make mechanical things - this is and ideal set I bought (...) (27 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| BrainStorm version 1.1 released. Brainstorm is a version of the LOGO programming language with added commands and functionality to control Lego MindStorms spirit.ocx. The new commands can be used to write Programs for download as well as giving (...) (27 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.logo)
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| Hi Ralph, (...) Yea, no stack-hungry applications... Just to be sure, do you plan to add an automatic stack boundary alignment to HAT word? I think it could be a good solution. And memory, you are right, with Forth we have enough memory ;-> (...) (...) (27 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| (...) Yes, it should. The issue is that you never really know if the stack will blast through the 256 byte boundary, unless HAT checks it. You generally allocate small stacks, so HAT could be modified to FORCE the data stack to start at the boundary (...) (27 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| (...) Standalone loader would be nice. (...) Well, the most important, of course, is the stack bug. BTW, what about multitasker? How many cells would you recommend to allocate? Should be it checked by HAT word or not? (...) Sure, I would like to (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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