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(...) Robot C has the ability to display what's on the screen, also. You shouldn't need to use NeXtScreen (...) Look in the forums on NXTasy.com for an answer. People (including me) have found re soldering the surface mount caps on the back of the (...) (16 years ago, 6-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Unfortunately, my NXT screen died. I'm getting by with using the NeXTScreen utility to display on the laptop (very nice utility, BTW). However, I am using RobotC and the screen is a bit distorted, for example: (URL) still usable, but I was wondering (...) (16 years ago, 5-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) This is only for debugging purpose! (...) Fortunately the processor has a special boot mode to recover from that without ressorting to JTAG. But I appreciate the concept of "un-bricking a bricked NXT brick" ;o) Philo (16 years ago, 4-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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(...) The download page has this nice little notice: DISCLAIMER: You have to open the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT and solder on PCB. Please note that the LEGO Group warranty of the NXT is invalid after doing this. Neither IAR Systems nor the LEGO Group (...) (16 years ago, 4-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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If you haven't heard yet, IAR has released a free LEGO MINDSTORMS version of their compiler. It happens to be the same compiler that LEGO uses to build the NXT firmware so it makes it extraordinarily simple to build your own modified firmware (...) (16 years ago, 3-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: My Lego Flexpicker Video on YouTube
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Chris, Your story and your efforts make me smile! KUDOS-2-U!! ...keep us posted! yours, Eric Sophie Legomaster Biomechanical Bricks p.s. congrats on the Gizmodo nod, too cool! (16 years ago, 26-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) They found out about it because I ruthlessly, shamelessly sent emails and posts to everywhere I could find, including ABB and some of their partner companies. I had no intentions except saying "Hey, look at this." They did, and they liked it. (...) (16 years ago, 26-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Congrats! That is great! How did they learn about your Robot? Did they see it on Youtube? This is a great opportunity! I bet people will be very very very interested in your robot! Likewise, I am sure it will be equally facinating for you to (...) (16 years ago, 25-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) I just go an invitation to display this robot at the ABB Technology Days in Auburn, MI in April. How cool is that! Chris (16 years ago, 19-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) 35%. That shows how precise these systems are. I bet it would "whip" around higher than that. Additional gearing down would just make it bigger. I think that pause is also advantageous in that, you get a chance to hear and or realize all the (...) (16 years ago, 17-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) The Ohio State University. My alma mater and my second passion. (16 years ago, 16-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) What I want to know is what collegiat logo is that in the background. STATE is all I can see. (16 years ago, 16-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) This one can run much faster. I am running the motors at 35%. I had to choose between realism and speed. If it goes much faster, when it stops suddenly, the loose joints cause it to swing and sway. I would have to put about a one second pause (...) (16 years ago, 14-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Seeing yours helped me to understand these machines a bit more too, thanks! Ugg so many cool parts, all those ball joint control arms, very nice! (...) I see these machines work very quickly indeed! (...) (16 years ago, 14-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) I've made 3-4 different versions as well. I unfortunately don't have any photos of the most recent version. (URL) my efforts have been more focused on speed than specific assembly tasks. They are fantastic robots to work with. We used an ABB (...) (16 years ago, 14-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Crazy cool! (16 years ago, 11-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Pffff, oh man, that is so awesome. The only other flex picker I saw was in Brick Fest 2003: (URL) am very impressed with how you made this. Excellent work. This kind of job really shows how high tech Lego can be. Many thanks for the video! Eric (...) (16 years ago, 8-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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I finally got around to uploading all the BricxCC and NBC/NXC source code to an SVN repository on the BricxCC project page on sourceforge.net. Now all my code changes are done via my local checkout from that repository and changes are checked in as (...) (16 years ago, 2-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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I have a very early version of BricxCC running on my ubuntu hardy heron virtual machine (running in VirtualBox). If anyone is interested in helping me test on Linux platforms please send me an email. Hopefully I will be able to get something similar (...) (16 years ago, 17-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | AW: Bluetooth remote control of NXT from Mac/Windows?
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Joe, there are a lot of options for controlling a NXT remotely from a desktop PC, some of them even working on a MAC - have a look at the second part of Steve Hassenplug's listing of such tools at (URL) (...) Bluetooth-equipped (...) (16 years ago, 6-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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