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On page 10 of the Direct Commands.pdf, it talks about LS communications on the NXT. Does anyone know what LS communications are? Also, in case anyone is interested, I'm working on a ruby module for communicating with the NXT via bluetooth. It's (...) (18 years ago, 7-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: CBS (Clicking Brick Syndrome) Patch availible
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(...) Yeah, (a) I noticed that too, (b), I have no idea why at this point, and (c) as a Mac user, I wasn't going to gloat, too much. But since you bring it up... ;-). (18 years ago, 7-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Re: CBS (Clicking Brick Syndrome) Patch availible
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(...) I noticed that the PC download is 20 times the size of the Mac download! (18 years ago, 7-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Re: Grööving Röböt
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Hi Brian, (...) I have, and at work I would still use it if IT would allow it (they block all browsers except IE, which is broken w.r.t. CSS). But at home I prefer Mozilla as Firefox has some annoying differences, e.g. when I tried I couldn't (...) (18 years ago, 6-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT avaliable in London
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In article <J3I2sr.9L6@lugnet.com>, Patrick Levy <patrick@omiccron.com.br> wrote (...) Hi Patrick Pre-ordered NXT (Lego web shop) ship in September. Distributors I have spoken to are expecting stock around 15th September, so they should be in the (...) (18 years ago, 5-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Grööving Röböt
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(...) Give Firefox a try! (18 years ago, 5-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NXT avaliable in London
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Hi, Anybody knows if the NXT will be avaliable in London by October? I will be there from day 1 to 7, and I will go to Legoland and Hamleys, But i could not figure if they have it for sell yet. TIA Patrick (18 years ago, 5-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Inventory Checklist for Classrooms
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(...) Got it! Thanks. (18 years ago, 4-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Inventory Checklist for Classrooms
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(...) I made some inventory sheets for some designer sets by highlighting the WHOLE table/list from peeron, copying & pasting into Microsoft Word, then deleting the unwanted coulumns, etc. I believe the document needs the internet connection to open (...) (18 years ago, 4-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Inventory Checklist for Classrooms
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The "inventory" picture on the NXT inside box cover nor the one in the pamphlet are not suitable for classroom use. Is there a lazy way of taking the peeron inventory with pictures (URL) and making an inventory sheet? (18 years ago, 4-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | CBS (Clicking Brick Syndrome) Patch availible
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For those of you that have come down with the crippling "Clicking Brick Syndrome", it seems that there may finally be a fix availible. Take a look at: (URL) you had this problem during a firmware update, please try this and post the results. (18 years ago, 3-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: NXT Motors -- Speed vs Power Level
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(...) I've done the same measurements/plots and found same linearity when 'brake' on inactive PWM cycles is used. Not so good when 'float' is used. This leads to a conundrum that I simply can't explain. If you use 'inactive brake' mode the motors (...) (18 years ago, 3-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT Motors -- Speed vs Power Level
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I tried to plot power levels vs angular speed (in rad/s) and discovered goooood linearity ( remember how non-linear was RCX PWM)? The PID loop is a great idea, and I suppose that PID parameters should be tweakable. In SDK or HDK ( don't remember (...) (18 years ago, 3-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Ruby NXT Bluetooth Data Logger
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I wrote a simple ruby script to listen for messages sent via bluetooth: (URL) is comma delimited - timestamp, mailbox message was sent to, message like: Thu Aug 03 00:27:18 EDT 2006,1,"Chunky Robotic Bacon!" Thu Aug 03 00:28:20 EDT 2006,1,"true" Thu (...) (18 years ago, 3-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT -> OSX Bluetooth Serial Connection
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Oops! Thanks for letting me know. Should be renewed now and working hopefully! (...) (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT -> OSX Bluetooth Serial Connection
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Your domain name has expired as of 7/27 Bob "Tony Buser" <tbuser+lugnet@gmail.com> wrote in message news:J3Csu0.4xA@lugnet.com... (...) (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NXT -> OSX Bluetooth Serial Connection
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In case anyone is interested, I figured out how to communicate via a bluetooth serial connection in OSX. The tricky part was figuring out that you have to create an incoming serial port device under Sharing in Bluetooth Preferences, open that (...) (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT Bluetooth on Intel Based Macs
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(...) Unfortunately no. NXT-G is currently a PPC app so it has to run under rosetta. Bluetooth is unavailable to apps running under rosetta. You can connect to it via bluetooth outside of NXT-G though if you write a program to communicate with it (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NXT Developer Kits released!
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As prior LEGO press releases (URL) have stated>, the NXT developer kits would be available in August. And here they are! (URL) Software Developer Kit (SDK) Includes the NXT driver interface specification and necessary tools for creating third-party (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | NXT Bluetooth on Intel Based Macs
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Has anyone got their NXT to work on one of the "new" Intel based Mac systems using the OSX operating system? Out of the box, I've heard NXT-G only supports USB connections on Intel Macs. But through standard OSX functionality you're able to set up a (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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