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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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| | 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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| | 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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