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In article <J5C97r.BBF@lugnet.com>, David <dww.robotics@gmail.com> writes (...) This is the guaranteed minimum number, with higher voltages and at higher temperatures than you are likely to use the NXT at. FLASH memory is a pretty mature technology (...) (18 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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In article <J5CrsD.53w@lugnet.com>, Patrick Levy <patrick@omiccron.com.br> writes (...) That is the Lego Company's recommended price. Hamleys sell to many foreign visitors so they can probably help with advice on how to reclaim the VAT (17.5% retail (...) (18 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: Flash Write Cycles
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(...) I researched this topic about eight months ago. I no longer worry about it. I must admit I didn't know about the "lock-bits" specification and was concerned only with the "flash rewrite specification". I have also had other conversations on (...) (18 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) When downloading a program to the NXT using NBC if there is a file with the same name on the NXT already it is first deleted. Then a new file is created and written using the same filename. I don't know whether that means the firmware will (...) (18 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Somebody can point me the best (cheapest) shop to buy the NXT in London? I will be there by october, and I only found it for £179,99 GBP in hamleys. (ouch!). TIA Patrick Levy São Paulo, Brazil (18 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) I don't; John Hansen might. While Flash memory does have a limited number of read/write cycles, it appears that the stated limit is conservative, by a large margin... although some of us have thought about a "test to failure" trial, I've not (...) (18 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Although I haven't tried it, someone has created a perl module for sending commands here: (URL) haven't tried it because I'm working on a ruby module :) (URL) (18 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Does anyone know how the NXT firmware handles writing program files into flash? If you re-flash a program with the same name, does it first erase the sectors that the old program was located in and then re-flash these sectors with the new program? (...) (18 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Hmm, so speed isn't the issue, the issue is that the 'laser' must hit the detector head on. But luckily that was solved by inserting a thin slice of paper inside the 2x1 red transpararent brick and moving it tone stud in front of the sensor. (...) (18 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: Light sensor sampling freq?
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Standard Lego firmware samples every 3 msec. BricOS is much faster. I believe it is faster than once per second. RobotC on NXT is programmable to be 0.5 msec scan, 1 msec, 2 msec, ... up to 255 msec. But remember the readings are not persistent. If (...) (18 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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I'm working on a little nav idea that my robot can find my 'base' which is sweping a bright red led 'laser' over the area. I have to admit that I ventured into the Xacto and crazy glue area by using a 'laser' pointer and glueing four tiny mirrors (...) (18 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: CBS (Clicking Brick Syndrome) Patch availible
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(...) Problem solved! I was worried installing the new driver v1.02 (linked earlier in this thread, because my firmware version said 1.03. But John Hansen confirmed that they are 2 different things, so I installed the update and voila! It might be a (...) (18 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: CBS (Clicking Brick Syndrome) Patch availible
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(...) Well I have a retail set, and decided to try downloading the firmware via USB from the LEGO software, and you guessed it, I got clicking. So I pressed the reset button as they suggest, and tried downloading it again, the progress bars all (...) (18 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NQC Templates
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I am helping John by taking on the task of coming up with some micros for NQC template. If anyone wants to join the effort or already has some that you would like to share with other uses of NQC, e-mail me at lsrgroup@etcmail.com. Thanks Lamar (...) (18 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Scorpion Plans
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(...) The graphic files (if you installed in the "standard" location) are located at: C:\Program Files\LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT\engine\EditorVIs\Academy Content\activities\a...1\bi\*.jpg (plus ..\02\bi\*.jpg, ..\03\bi\*.jpg, and ..\04\bi\*.jpg) You could (...) (18 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Bluetooth Commands via Perl
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(...) I guess no one is using Perl to communicate with the NXT over Bluetooth. Or everyone is busy building bots. I found something that seems to work reliably on my HP Laptop running Windows 2000. It has a built-in CSR Bluetooth module that is 1.1 (...) (18 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Are the plans for the NXT Scorpion available online or anywhere in a printed or printable form? I'd much rather build it from paper plans than from my screen. Thanks, -Jon Gilchrist (18 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Bluetooth COM Ports
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Hi, I noticed there are a lot of COM ports that the Lego Software set up with my computer. (Control Panel, System, Hardware Tab, Device Manager, Ports (COM and LPT). I tried uninstalling all of these and then ran the Lego Software again, and it (...) (18 years ago, 4-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Bluetooth Commands via Perl
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Has anyone successfully been able to send BT commands to the NXT using Perl on Windows and get a response? I've been trying to send the Get Firmware command and have not gotten a successful response. Here is a short script: $data = (...) (18 years ago, 4-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: What to do in route to BF...
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(...) So you give interviews while driving through mountains? Talk about multi-tasking... (...) broken. Overall, it's a pretty nice article. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when folks like this open up a NXT. (18 years ago, 31-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | What to do in route to BF...
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Wanna know what I did on my way to BrickFest? (URL) (18 years ago, 31-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: NXT and Phone Compatibility
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In article <J4J9IK.H27@lugnet.com>, David J. Perdue <david@davidjperdue.com> wrote (...) I shall be writing some tools to run on phones and communicate over Bluetooth. I am in the middle of a writing project at the moment, so this may be a month or (...) (18 years ago, 27-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT and Phone Compatibility
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(...) Okay, thanks for the information Tony! - David (18 years ago, 25-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT and Phone Compatibility
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In article <J4GvJt.oDA@lugnet.com>, David J. Perdue <david@davidjperdue.com> wrote (...) The phone must allow use of Bluetooth for devices beyond just hands free / headsets. The phone must support installable software of some form, (and the operator (...) (18 years ago, 23-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NXT and Phone Compatibility
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Does anyone know the technical requirements for a cell phone that will be communicating with an NXT? That information is not up yet on the MindStorms Bluetooth webpage. Will most phones with Bluetooth capability work with the NXT? Thanks, David (18 years ago, 23-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
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(...) I meant busy in the context of the other subthread in this thread, in which people proposed hacking a way around the master-slave restrictions. But still, that's good news, so we'll have to think of some stuff for the robots to do that will be (...) (18 years ago, 22-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Severe Case of Alkaline Battery Leakage
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(...) Too late for today, but I'll test with a multi-meter tomorrow. First, I'll have to ask the kids which NXT it was ... senior moments, y'know. I grew up with zinc-carbon batteries, which leaked as well but were/are relatively environmentally (...) (18 years ago, 22-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
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(...) Jordan, Sorry to tell you this, but getting NXTs to talk to each other isn't going to take very long. Of course, figuring out what to say may take a bit. People should be able to bring almost any NXT robot, and we'll be able to get them to (...) (18 years ago, 22-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
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(...) I can loan out an iBook with BT - and it has the NXT retail software. Joe Meno Event Coordinator (18 years ago, 22-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
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The NXT Robot Swarm has been scheduled for Saturday at 12:30 in Junior Ballroom 3. It seems the goal of this first event is to get some basic BT communication working, and if there's time, actually try a swarm-like experiment. If anything else, it (...) (18 years ago, 22-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Re: Severe Case of Alkaline Battery Leakage
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(...) This may also indicate a short. It may be prudent to take a multimeter across the battery terminals in the battery box on the NXT before putting any fresh batteries in. If that is the case, I would strongly recommend returning the brick. (...) (18 years ago, 22-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Severe Case of Alkaline Battery Leakage
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I've got Duracell Coppertops on 10 NXTs I use in class. I've just experienced a nasty case of battery leakage. Good thing it leaked on the cover rather than on the electronics. Good thing the student, an 11 year old, brought the leakage to my (...) (18 years ago, 22-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NeXTTool fix & NBC update
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I have updated the zips for BrickTool and NeXTTool to fix a small problem with downloading .ric files to the NXT brick. I also uploaded a new beta for NBC which implements a pseudo wait opcode (which was dropped from the firmware at some point). If (...) (18 years ago, 21-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT avaliable in London
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(...) Went a bit mad, bought three - two as spares to sell when I get back. (18 years ago, 17-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Going to pick up a set tomorrow whilst I'm here in the US, I hadn't realised it wasn't out in the shops in the UK yet! (18 years ago, 17-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | New NXT Utilities
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I have posted a couple new utilities for the NXT on my BricxCC website. One (MidiBatch) is a batch conversion utility for converting MIDI files into NXT Melody (.rmd) files. NXT Melody files can be played via NXT-G simply by renaming them as NXT (...) (18 years ago, 16-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
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In article <J3y0B4.FM0@lugnet.com>, Brian Davis <brdavis@iusb.edu> wrote (...) I shall have PC software to do this, and probably others will have similar tools before I finish. (...) I believe 7 is the number of connections specified in the (...) (18 years ago, 15-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT Motor Encoder Accuracy and Dead Reckoning
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(...) ... (...) Yes. Very easily. I took my floor cleaner robot, Rosie: (URL) a two-block NXT-G program (in a loop): (URL) created a robot that I think has the accuracy of "Peeves", as seen here: (URL) appears to return within a couple cm each time. (...) (18 years ago, 13-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
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(...) My problems with this solution are two-fold. First, NXT-G currently can't send anything back to the PC, as it's not running anything to get the NXT-G message structure (yes, folks could write this... almost certainly will. But likely not me). (...) (18 years ago, 13-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
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Here's an idea of how to get more than 3 NXTs connected via Bluetooth (BT). It involves using a PC as a "relay point". I think standards allow up to seven simultaneous connections per BT device. The limitation to three connections on the NXT may be (...) (18 years ago, 13-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT Motor Encoder Accuracy and Dead Reckoning
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(...) I've played with it a good bit. It seems to be extremely accurate, in that one motor will slavishly follow the other - you can do demos like set a Move block to drive forward 10 rotations, and while it's trying to do that pick up the robot and (...) (18 years ago, 13-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT Motor Encoder Accuracy and Dead Reckoning
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Dick, the article you referenced with the PID controller is excellent. I spent a lot of time trying to do a straight line with an RCX model a few years ago, but with a different approach: It was track-driven and the drive shaft extension on each (...) (18 years ago, 13-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NXT Motor Encoder Accuracy and Dead Reckoning
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Has anyone done any experiments on the accuracy of the NXT motor "move to" block? If so, can they post their results or impressions? I know NXT supports PID calculations to synchronize two motors and run in a straight line. Can you use this to drive (...) (18 years ago, 13-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
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(...) I played around with this a little bit, trying to confirm what I've been told. It is possible to have an NXT connect as either a master or a slave, but not both at the same time. I'm sure this is true. Here's what I did: I took three NXTs with (...) (18 years ago, 13-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
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(...) As I was working on my ruby-nxt module, I managed to get the nxt to connect to my laptop as both a master and a slave. On my laptop (a MacBookPro) I created an incoming bluetooth serial port and an outgoing serial port on the DEV-B device (...) (18 years ago, 11-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
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(...) Jordan, I think swarming would be very fun to explore, but, for me, there isn't enough time before BF. Here's something you could play around with before BF: (URL) by getting your robot to follow the line on the test pad. To answer your (...) (18 years ago, 11-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
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It's good that people are interested! With the RCX couldn't you just have a robot broadcast a message to anything that could see the IR signal and was waiting for specific messages to arrive? Can a similar thing be done with BT? Would we be better (...) (18 years ago, 11-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Re: Spike Building Guide Typo
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(...) The same three girls got confused by the programming instructions for Spike "Reactions". They missed the proper placement of the second switch block within the primary switch block within the loop block in frame 8. Confused? So was I. They saw (...) (18 years ago, 11-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | New Sensors and NI Week
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You may be interested in reading my recent "trip report" from attendance at National Instruments annual sales conference ("NI Week"). It's posted on (URL) highlights of this blog entry include: 1. A first look at the newly announced "Build a Block" (...) (18 years ago, 11-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
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(...) The problem (I think; somebody want to prove me wrong?) is that the "master" NXT can send messages to at most three "slave" NXTs, but the "slaves" can not then act as BT masters to still more units. In other words, it seems very very easy to (...) (18 years ago, 11-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
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The spec says that at most three other Bluetooth units may be connected to each NXT unit for any given program, but with proper setup one unit could act as a message-passing server for all the others in a swarm, or a simple broadcast relay protocol (...) (18 years ago, 11-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Spike Building Guide Typo
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So how do we report a Building Instructions typo? In the Building Instructions for Spike's Tail, frame 8/30, an axle is indentified as a #4 on the parts area and as a #3 on the subset build area. Three girls in my current class pointed out the typo (...) (18 years ago, 10-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Grööving Röböt
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Hi Brian, (...) sure, but I get to make bad jokes about abba being fish in revenge ... (...) Provided it has a plugin for videos, which mine doesn't have (and that won't change). The problem with your JavaScript is that it obfuscates the link to (...) (18 years ago, 8-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: LS Communications? and announcing ruby-nxt
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(...) The pdf docs are great, but having everything split up and in so many files is making figuring things out a pain. It would be nice if we put it all into a wiki or something to link all the info together in an easier to read format. Maybe I'll (...) (18 years ago, 8-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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I'm interested in trying some experiments in (URL) swarm robotics>. The basic idea is that simple robots with simple programming can behave in complex ways, provided that there are 1.) a lot of them, and 2.) they can communicate locally in some (...) (18 years ago, 8-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX) !
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| | New NXT robot instructions posted on mindstorms.com
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Instructions and sample programs for a cuckoo clock and a sound bot (like a DJ system) have been posted: (URL) They both include custom .rso files. (18 years ago, 8-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: LS Communications? and announcing ruby-nxt
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In article <b74cdea0608070838g4...mail.com>, Tony Buser <tbuser@gmail.com> wrote (...) Looks logical to me, both the LS commands and I2C bus transfer up to 16 bytes at a time. I am glad you asked about the LS commands, I had just flipped the page (...) (18 years ago, 8-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: LS Communications? and announcing ruby-nxt
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Oh, ok. So the LS commands would be used to access things like the compass from mindsensors? (...) (18 years ago, 7-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: LS Communications? and announcing ruby-nxt
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In article <b74cdea0608062008n4...mail.com>, Tony Buser <tbuser@gmail.com> wrote (...) LS is presumably Low Speed, which appears to map to the I2C serial comms on each sensor port, pp9 & 10 of the Hardware Dev Kit. Rather than the "High Speed" (HDK (...) (18 years ago, 7-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Grööving Röböt
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Brian, (...) As a matter of fact, I can't see the video by myself, using Mozilla 1.7.13 on Linux (didn't work with konqueror or Cross Office also); apparently, there is no Mozilla quicktime plugin for Linux available presently (is it?). > In (...) (18 years ago, 7-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Grööving Röböt
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(...) 'Should' is subjective here. I made that little video; I get to decide how it's presented. :) I am surprised that you talk about Javascript problems - even Mozilla should be able to access the video on that page just fine. What browser and (...) (18 years ago, 7-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | LS Communications? and announcing ruby-nxt
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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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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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| | Community challenge
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NXTasy.org initiated a community challenge - throwing the blue ball from the NXT set, using only LEGO parts (no rubber bands, springs etc.). Prizes would be awarded to the best 5 robots. Details can be found in www.nxtasy.org website. (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Great Ball Contraption at BrickFest '06
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There has not been a great deal of public discussion about having a Great Ball Contraption at BrickFest '06, but there WILL be a GBC at BF06. If you missed your chance last year, when we had almost fifty modules, now is the time to start building. (...) (18 years ago, 31-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | NXT Motors -- Speed vs Power Level
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An explanation of when to use and when not to use the new NXT motor speed control option. The RCX supports only a motor power level control where the input is the percentage of time that power should be applied to the motor. The NXT supports not (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | lugnet.robotics.nxt Curatorship
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Since I was the person to (URL) this newsgroup's creation>, I'd like to take it on its curatorship. I don't know if it's something I'd like to do for several years, but getting it started is important. I was thinking the other day of volunteering (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.admin.curators, FTX)
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| | wav2rso utility
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As some of you may know I have written a utility which can convert between wav files and rso (NXT sound) files. In response to an urgent call for help a couple days ago I went ahead and extended that utility so that it can convert either direction (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Grööving Röböt
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Hi Brian, (...) the music or the fish? (...) behind all that Javascriptery. Jürgen (18 years ago, 27-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Grööving Röböt
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(...) (URL) this song> instead ;) ROSCO (18 years ago, 27-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | NBC for Linux (intel 32-bit)
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With the assistance of Dwayne Fontenot I now have a binary of NBC which runs on intel 32-bit Linux platforms. You can get a copy from the NBC website. John Hansen (URL) (18 years ago, 27-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Grööving Röböt
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My NXT likes ABBA. (URL) (18 years ago, 27-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Mindstorms Education NXT base set inventory available on Peeron
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Some people may be interested to compare with the shop edition. Yesterday I posted an inventory for the NXT Education base set, and it is now available: (URL) first inventory, so I hope I have not made any mistakes. :-) Many thanks to Philo, for his (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: My First Classroom Use
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Hi Matthias In article <44C61288.5020004@in...ects.com>, Matthias Paul Scholz <matthias.scholz@int...jects.com> wrote (...) a Bluetooth connection, to communicate with the NXT brick. These programs indicate that it is possible, but I have not yet (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | CNET: Lego robots march on Microsoft
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CNET: Lego robots march on Microsoft (URL) (18 years ago, 25-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.mediawatch) !
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| | Re: My First Classroom Use
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Tony, (...) Presently, one could use Microsoft's Robotics Studio (see (URL) for instance) or NeXTTool by John Hansen (see (URL) Matthias Paul Scholz (18 years ago, 25-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Debut of NXT robot in a Singapore robotics competition
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Among other types of robots, Telok Kurau Secondary School fielded an autonomous NXT robot in the finals of the East Zone Robotics Challenge 2006 which was held at the East Zone Science Carnival @ Victoria Junior College on 21 Jul 2006. The NXT robot (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.loc.sg, FTX)
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| | Re: My First Classroom Use
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In article <J2r7BH.31K@lugnet.com>, John Brost <john.brost@gmail.com> wrote (...) Hi John, that's good news. :-) Though it is not clear to me how to control the NXT over Bluetooth at the moment. Hopefully the publication in August of developer (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: My First Classroom Use
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In article <J2q8sH.8Mq@lugnet.com>, gypsy_fly <e_pilobello@yahoo.com> wrote (...) As of Friday I have a NXT Educational kit, and the software arrived on Saturday. (...) The NXT User Guide CD that comes with the Educational kit has document (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: My First Classroom Use
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In lugnet.robotics.nxt, Tony Naggs wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Though I don't know a great deal about the bluetooth part of NXT, I thought I'd respond quash the idea of the NDA being in effect regarding this. That isn't the case (we are still (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: My First Classroom Use
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In article <J2q8sH.8Mq@lugnet.com>, gypsy_fly <e_pilobello@yahoo.com> wrote (...) I imagine that the building skills are quickly learnt, and that this would be rather laborious. (...) Cool. :-) (...) Excellent. (...) The most common usage is for a (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: My First Classroom Use
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At first I thought each student ought to have the experience of building each of the four models. It seems that having 9 kids choose one of four models and build it, saved us some time. They simply learned from each other's experience. Now they come (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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