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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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