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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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| | NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
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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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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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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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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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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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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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(...) '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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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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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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(...) 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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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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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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(...) (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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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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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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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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| | 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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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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I'm currently teaching a Basic Programming and Pre-Robotics class for Saturday Academy. I've been using the RCX since it's invention. Today, I took a fully built NXT Tribot to class. First, I showed the class how to program a simple "go forward for (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.robotics.nxt
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A new newsgroup/list lugnet.robotics.nxt has been created for the focused discussion of LEGO NXT issues. Feel free to crosspost between .robotics / .robotics.rcx and .robotics.nxt, as appropriate, or just to .robotics if you feel your topic is of a (...) (18 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics.nxt) !
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TERMS OF USE FOR LUGNET.COM OVERVIEW AND DEFINITIONS lugnet.com ("LUGNET") is a privately owned Internet site designed and run primarily for the benefit of those who enjoy building with, discussing, collecting, buying & selling, trading, and (...) (18 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Welcome to lugnet.robotics.nxt, a LUGNET discussion group. CHARTER/PURPOSE: lugnet.robotics.nxt (group): Focused discussion group for NXT™ programmable bricks: Alternative software or firmware, in-depth technical discussions, collaboration, (...) (18 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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