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| That would be *relatively* easy to do with Vision Command, if you make sure the ball is some bright colour (say pink), and the two "teams" are red and blue for example. Mount the camera above the "pitch" and you've got yourself a positioning system. (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Version 0.2 will be released with more software : - MLCAD - Vision command support !! - Burn CD - Xchat - The gimp and other .. I'll post adress to download it when it's done You can go to this page for more information (in french) -> (URL) (23 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Considering that gear ratio is such a fundamental concept, it's disturbing that several authors of Mindstorms books have got it confused. A good explanation is to be found on page 65 of Ben Erwin's "Creative Projects with LEGO Mindstorms". The best (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| Everyone, It's definitely true... LEGO had the installer for Vision Command rebuilt. Also, for those of you with the Studio set, there is supposedly new release of that for XP (mine is on back order, so I can't confirm). Why none of this is posted (...) (23 years ago, 15-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hello, The version 0.1beta of BrickNux (yes that's the new name) is available You can see some screenshot at (URL) and you can download iso at (URL) version with Vision command come early (I've just finished to compile module and make some test) let (...) (23 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| If you have a free PCMCIA slot you may want to get a PCMCIA to USB adapter that can support multiple peripherals for a song. That way you could use multiple towers, or a tower and the LEGO Vision camera. - Mike Steve Karg <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hi Chris, It seems to me that for the first time in history, kids could have a robot that can do the thing they hate most. Putting their toys away. This could be a very effective way to show kids the importance of robotics. Clearly, you have given (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| Hi all. I'm a student in my 4 year, learning electronics. For my final project, I got an approval to make a project with LEGO Mindstorm. Basically it's a standard robotic hand that picks up LEGO parts, recognize them (using Image processing & (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| (...) Well this depends on a number of things, primarily how do you sort: by color, by size/shape, or both? Several books have been published about LEGO MindStorms, and a large percentage of them seem to have plans for a "sort bricks by color" robot (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| Hi All, I am running a little robot discovery group at my local elementary school. When I started the group, all the pieces were sorted in see through plastic ziploc bags. But after only a few days the kids have all the pieces in one big mess. So I (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| Please excuse if this has already been posted. I have just received the Vision Command S/W CDROM for XP from Lego and it works great ! Here is an email I received from them with the details if anyone else is interested. I received this after (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| (...) hmmmm... these jump to mind: Human "sensors": a) global/positional(2D) Light Level (also 3D because we move our head/eyes taking notice of the sampling vector) b) global/positional(stereo) Sound Frequency/Level (might also be considered 3D (...) (23 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| For the second, have you tried VisionGS? (URL) has a free version that can also act as a web server on your machine. I used it with the LEGO Vision Command camera for a while on Win2K Server, but now I use pjWebcam (also free). HTH, Mark Haye "Doug (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Two questions: This one I can handle myself with a little effort (I am a Web developer, after all) - has anyone posted an HTML/JS/NQC remote control package I could swipe? The second is just informational - can anyone recommend a Web cam software (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hi Johnathan, Aside from some very minor changes in the parts and the RIS software, the only difference between kits is the RCX 1.0 has an AC jack, which comes in handy for stationary robots like robotic arms or sorting machines. I've heard that the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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