 | | NXC News
|
|
I have just released a new beta of NBC/NXC. It is available from the NBC website: (URL) has been updated with a few syntax highlighting changes (minor). The latest test release is at (URL) via the link in the NXT News section near the top. Version (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
|
| |
| | Re: Text Based Programming for NXT - pbLua is Available
|
|
(...) This would definitely be useful for me! I am currently programming an interface for controling a train layout. This is the kind of thing that needs good graphics. There is a lot of situation where advanced graphics are useful in robotics. (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
|
| |
| | Re: This is the cancer that is killing Lugnet (Was Re: Apology)
|
|
(...) <snip> (...) 'Cause you know, inserting a little levity to make an otherwise argumentative thread a little brighter never helps. (is the sarcasm filter not working??) Lessons learned? Some people want to get in the last snipe, even after all (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
|
| |
| | Re: This is the cancer that is killing Lugnet (Was Re: Apology)
|
|
(...) Umm... the only person arguing here is you: the original posters had a problem with each other, that they resolved; argument ended. Period. If the two principles have moved beyond this, well... (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
|
| |
| | RE: Another Challenge. Performance Comparison
|
|
(...) Here's my distilled summary of relative execution speeds of various Mindstorms products / environments. All data is normalized to the fastest performance. Relative Platform Product Speed 1X NXT RobotC 2X NXT Robolab 15X NXT NXT-G 5-10X RCX (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
|
| |
| | RE: What do these macros do? [IOMAP Access Execution Times
|
|
(...) You're right. IOMapRead and IOMapWrite are very slow functions. They're slow because you pass a character string for the name of the module you want to access; the NXT-G firmware runs through the list of modules looking for a match on the (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
|
| |
| | Re: This is the cancer that is killing Lugnet (Was Re: Apology)
|
|
(...) ...//snip... ...snip// (...) In fact, the whole Internet is a wasteland !! Anybody can do anything there!! For me LUGNET/robotics is an excellent forum. I participate for several years now and I must appreciate the contributions of many (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
|
| |
| | This is the cancer that is killing Lugnet (Was Re: Apology)
|
|
OK, so from what I can gather: 1) Someone asks a (URL) question>. 2) Steve tells her to make a (URL). 3) John knocks out a brownie-points (URL) comparison chart> in about ten minutes. 4) Steve, having intended to follow his own advice, loses his (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: What do these macros do?
|
|
(...) Thanks for your response, John. That tip about the dirty flag not being IOMAPpable is very, very useful; I could have wasted a lot of time working that out the hard way. I'm working on a graphical display widget to show a 'radar' (well, sonar) (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
|
| |
| | Re: Apology
|
|
(...) Ahhh, I see you are too ;) ROSCO (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
|
| |
| | Re: Apology
|
|
(...) Ooooh... :^I - nose out of joint I do live on the North American continent. However, the word 'American' was hijacked by some country to the south of us. We up here in the 'Great White North' are *not* Americans. Rather we are... ummm... Well, (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
|
| |
| | Re: Any experience with measuring rotations?
|
|
(...) Well put quite simply... The probability of some event A occurring given that event B has occurred is equal to the probability of event B occurring given that event A has occurred, multiplied by the probability of event A occurring and divided (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: Like A Rock Crawler Hauler
|
|
"Steve Hassenplug" <steve@teamhassenplug.org> wrote in message news:6.2.3.4.0.20070...lug.org... (...) way, as my browser displays a 404 File Not Found error. It's title is Unload Truck 2. Other than that I liked the other videos and the pics of (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
|
| |
| | Re: Any experience with measuring rotations?
|
|
(...) What I need to do compute the average position of a number of items across the length of the teeter-totter (!). If, on average, they are in the middle, then there is no rotation and I should get zero. If there are more on the left than the (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
|
| |
| | Re: Any experience with measuring rotations?
|
|
(...) Thanks for the technical details, Claude. It's going to take me some time to get through this! Rafe (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
|
| |
| | Re: Any experience with measuring rotations?
|
|
(...) Hi Tommy, This is a good idea; I'll try the ultrasonic sensor to see what it can do. Thanks! (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
|
| |
| | Re: Any experience with measuring rotations?
|
|
(...) I made a sequence of stacked 1x2 plates, running from black to red, through green dark grey, light grey, tan, white, yellow, and orange on the way there. My nxt gave me reflected light values running from about 12 to about 52. The nine steps (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
|
| |
| | Re: Like A Rock Crawler Hauler
|
|
(...) Well, all my LEGO is tmeporarily put away for a three-year-old's birthday party, but this morning I finally got a Rock Crawler working... and it immediately stalled out in a pile of NXT kit spare parts :-( Sigh. At least it easily drives over (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
|
| |
| | Re: Any experience with measuring rotations?
|
|
(...) Well... there's two things here, and Steve solution actually addresses them both. Do you actually need a continual series of states, and the "weight" of the thing on the end of the beam, or just know if something *is* on the end of the beam? (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
|
| |
| | Re: Any experience with measuring rotations?
|
|
(...) In the document (URL) find a paper-disk with grey gradient. The document was part of my presentation at the 2005 Annual Robolab Conference in Austin/TX. There was a second part (URL) don't remember, if those documents ever have been available (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
|
