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| (...) it got lost somewhere... I slapped together a little web page to serve as an index for my pictures. I don't know if I still have the Control Lab code, but it was in Logo, and is pretty trivial, anyway. (URL) for the page and image quality, (...) (28 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hi, I've just bought Mindstorms to implement a long-standing urge of mine: to acquire a Logo turtle for educational purposes. Seymore Papaert was a long-time proposent of LOGO and directed many thesis on its use in exploring and enhancing the (...) (28 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I've built a room mapper using a CyberMaster with quite success. Au contraire of the RCX, the internal tachometers are very precise and I'm still astonished by the similarity of the pattern drawn in the PC screen (in a program of my own) and (...) (28 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| =>From: Matthew Hunter <mhunter@csl.co.uk> =>... =>Civilian GPS is encrypted such that your position =>is only guaranteed to within ~50-100m - fine for a =>ship or hillwalker but not for an RCX attempting =>to navigate a room! The error varies each (...) (28 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hi, Laurentino, Thanks for the speedy response. (...) of mine: (...) . . . (...) Goed! I'm not quite sure what CyberMaster IS but it seems to be based on RCX and so accessible to what I have. THe LEGO site has a reference to a Cybermaster site but I (...) (28 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Ralph Deal writes :- (...) GPS on a mindstorm would rock completely, but I'd recommend a compass for the following reason - Civilian GPS is encrypted such that your position is only guaranteed to within ~50-100m - fine for a ship or hillwalker but (...) (28 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I just received my Cybermaster cap in the mail yesterday, after having waited for two months. I filled in a form when I bought the set, which was supposed to get me the cap. Anyway, the cap is much to small to fit on my head. Oh, well. It has a (...) (28 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I teach philosophy and I have been waiting for something like Mindstorms for a long time. I am thinking about an "Introduction to AI" class for philosophy or non-computer-science majors. I have been following Papert's (and Piaget's) work since (...) (28 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Well, my (perhaps naive idea) was to start with some very, very simple feedback loops of the kind: a) program a robot to find a fixed target using only reactivity to a gradient (this approach would simulate a very rudimentary sense of smell); (...) (28 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Funnily enough, my first degree was philosophy. It was quite a lift to see a Papert quote printed on a box of Lego! The VB SDK that Lego provide might be OK for a non-technical undergraduate class, although I'd hesitate to introduce nasty MS VB as a (...) (28 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I guess this depends what you're trying to teach. My background's in AI and I bought the set with the intention of keeping that interest going. One of the big debates in AI has always been the difficulty of real world environments for AIs - Lego (...) (28 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I am looking for a place to buy the Logo Robotics Construction Kit, and I have found great online stores in the US, but I believe UK will be cheaper for me being in europe. Any good, reliable, online stores to recommend? thank you, Simen Svale (...) (28 years ago, 13-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Several replies in one go to avoid multiple messages In message <jCKx2LBVjJR2EwcJ@ph...on.co.uk>, Peter Hesketh <pbh@phesk.demon.co.uk> writes (...) It appears that if a sensor gets reactivated before its stack has completed the current execution of (...) (28 years ago, 8-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| In message <199811062316.PAA085...ford.EDU>, Kekoa Proudfoot <kekoa@Graphics.Stanford.EDU> writes (...) Feedback from a 10-year old (entirely his own words including e-mail shouting!) ---...--- I personally like the programming, but, there is a (...) (28 years ago, 7-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I was hoping someone would post a solution to the software platform. I would even kill for just the low level API to the control lab direct and write my own Visual Basic OCX for it. The LOGO development environment is a bit forgien to me and is (...) (28 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hi All, I have been working on controlling LEGO trains thru the Decta Control Lab and I got a tip to pulse the power to the rails to better control the trains speed. There are 8 power settings via the ctrl lab and there are really only 2 or 3 (...) (28 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Well, I've got a Mac, and ordered Robolab from Pitsco last week. Hasn't arrived yet though. I'm looking forward to using an interface other than the in-box CD-ROM one on a friend's PC. I have never used Robolab, but it was only $25. Pitsco they said (...) (28 years ago, 11-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hi It's the first time I join this list, I was wondering if somebody could give me some biography or link about logo and robots. If I'm "off subject" or if you know a list more involved in this subject please let me know. I plan to use a handy board (...) (29 years ago, 17-Dec-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| I am in the process of assembling a Handyboard. All had gone well until I got to the stage where you download the code to the HB for the first time. This is before the memory is installed. I used HBDL to download with the register set to 0x0c. I got (...) (29 years ago, 23-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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