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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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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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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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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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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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(...) A team building AlphaRex had torn down and rebuilt the right leg module twice. Finally, they asked me where they could have gone wrong. Twice now, the leg they built looked like the exact opposite of the finished module on the screen. Why had (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Another new week and a fresh batch of 9 kids in a Lego Team Challenge class. This class is setup to help individuals take on a First Lego League challenge. Starting from scratch, each student (ages 9 - 13) built a model of their choice. No one (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) A very cool model - I really like the 2" ball caster. See: (URL) sure to mouse over the letters in the popup window. -Tim (18 years ago, 18-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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"lledford" <lsrgroup@etcmail.com> wrote in message news:J2K5y2.p5x@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) (18 years ago, 18-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Is this article accessible via the Internet. If so, what is the URL? Thanks Lamar "Brian Davis" <brdavis@iusb.edu> wrote in message news:J2Jxv9.L2v@lugnet.com... : In lugnet.robotics.nxt, David Schilling wrote: : : > the latest issue (July/Aug 2006) (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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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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