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(...) Neat. Has anybody else seen this? Kinda difficult to find here at the local bookstores... congradulation, Steve! (18 years ago, 17-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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I just saw Steve Hassenplug's "Mouse", an NXT-based robot in the latest issue (July/Aug 2006) MIT Technology Review. It's a two page spread (p. 22). Congratulations, Steve! -- David Schilling (18 years ago, 16-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Thanks. I'll see if I can get it to work on our Windows XP IBM Thinkpad laptops. (Plug IBM for the donation to Saturday Academy) (18 years ago, 16-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Thanks. I'll have the kids try the slight tilt this coming week. One kid needing to correct a model, was pulling so hard on a #15 beam, I thought he'd bend it out of shape! (18 years ago, 16-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Try using the "Menu: Edit->Manage Profiles" dialog to create individual profiles for the teams. Then use the "User Profile" drop-down at the top of the window to let each team select their profile. [This is divined using the Mac version, but I (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) I find pins go into holes much easier if initially pushed at a slight angle, not more than about 5°. ROSCO (18 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Another 3 hours and "Spike" is complete. "AlphaRex" and "RoboArm T56" had to be torn apart and rebuilt when later modules showed there was something wrong with the base. Both are about halfway done. The AlphaRex team was quite frustrated as (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) a lot (if not all) of the technic instructions list the axles, ruberbands and beams in a small bubble on the page or at the front of the book with a 1:1 picture. Chris (18 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Huh. I always counted holes/studs, as most LEGO instructions are not at "true scale", are they? (...) Well, one nice thing about the content of the Mindstorms software is an *awful* lot of it is stored where you can get to it. For instance, (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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I'll use this space as my blog on my initial classroom experience with the NXT. Today, I had three pairs of boys (ages 10-11), building the arm, scorpion and biped. They had three hours from openning the boxes. Two teams (scorpion and biped) got to (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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