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| My school principal walked by a display of one of my grade 12 students showing one of his Mindstorms creations. He was so impressed he approached my department head about providing funding for 5 additional RIS sets. I don't think he realizes that (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
| | | | | RE: ABC News coverage of "Astronaut Companion" Robot
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| Not to be a nudge or anything, but I doubt they use fans....there isn't much air up there to push around ;>) The astronaut back packs use compressed nitrogen, I believe. I don't think they use them (after the initial tests), because of the inherent (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| Since Terry asked me over, and I hadn't noticed this group before... On October 23rd I did a robotics demo at a local SF convention in Denver Colorado. I was bummed this was on the same day as the SRS Robothon AND Mindfest, but, I made the best of (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| Since kids will have seen this on TV, it may be part of the current popular view of "Robots".. The link is: (URL) abstract: This Personal Satellite Assistant, or PSA, will hover in the weightlessness of space. It’s like having a buddy there to help (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
| | | | | New newsgroup lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab
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| A new newsgroup/mailing-list lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab has just been created. ROBOLAB is a cross-platform (PC & Mac) graphical environment for programming the LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ Robotics Invention System (e.g., RCX). ROBOLAB, like NQC, does not (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.admin.general)
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