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Is there some project to extend LDconfig.ldr to include some recent colors such as Light Stone Gray? Case in point: NXT parts are presently coded in color 383, which works fine with most CAD program but is - as intended - shown as chrome (shiny (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Java for NXT
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LeJOS NXJ 0.3 is out! After a long and painful delay (especially for the developers) the new and improved version of leJOS NXJ is finally available. This new version has many new features including storing programs and data to flash memory, a menu (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | New NXC/NBC release is available
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I have released today beta 31 of NBC/NXC. Lots and lots of fixes and enhancements. Some of your code may not compile due to fixes that I have made to the parser. It used to let things get past which it should not have been allowing such as extra (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Teaching Bluetooth and Protocols
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(...) Sounds like a great way to test. We could probably try the experiment tomorrow. At the moment, the 10 boys in this week's class are more inclined to play "grab the flag" using automonous robots than BT Remote Control. We experienced the 5 pair (...) (17 years ago, 12-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NXTasy challenge #3
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For those not reading TheNXTStep not NXTasy (are there any?) - I organize a new community challenge over NXTasy forums. The challenge is to build a NXT 'ANT' ('ANxT' for short) which carrys a weight over 1 meter distance above ground. The extra fun (...) (17 years ago, 12-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Teaching Bluetooth and Protocols
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(...) As soon as I get ten NXTs handy, I'll be sure to test this. In fact, I may know somebody who could test this (or at least I can think of a place, NI Week, where I might). Very odd. Try this. Establish five pairs, and then establoish a sixth (...) (17 years ago, 12-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Teaching Bluetooth and Protocols
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(...) Strange indeed, But, that's what we experienced. I have faith that more than 5 pairs can communicate all at the same time. On the other hand, maybe we used up all the channels. Perhaps like in RC airplanes, we ran out of crystals. (17 years ago, 11-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Teaching Bluetooth and Protocols
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(...) ... (...) Just to be clear, you got 5 pairs of master/slave NXTs to communicate as pairs? But if you added a 6th pair, then those two could not connect to each other? That's really strange... Ralph (17 years ago, 11-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Teaching Bluetooth and Protocols
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I've reached a goal this summer. Last week, 5 kids got into Bluetooth and made simple remote controls. I provided two simple NXT-G programs, BTSend on the Master NXT Remote Control and BTRecv on the Robot Slave. BTSend uses the left and right NXT (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Introduction of LEJOS OSEK
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LEJOS OSEK ver.1.03 was just released. (URL) 1.03 includes a minor bug fix and a new interesting application example which is called NXT GT. NXT GT is a Bluetooth based R/C car and you can control the NXT GT by using PC analog game pad controller! (17 years ago, 11-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: MINDSTORMS Community Partners
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(...) Is this the same forum that Vernier Software is involved in? The company is making ready as many of their sensors (40+) to work with the NXT. Their Logger Pro is used in a lot of middle and high school science classrooms. The last time I (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Using the NXT with I2C Sensors
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All, I've finally got around to updating my site with a detailed description of connecting the NXT to the ultrasound (sonar) sensor and also to third party sensors like those from HiTechnic and Mindsensors. (URL) Cheers, Ralph (17 years ago, 5-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: MINDSTORMS Community Partners
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(...) I was under the possibly mistaken impression that joining the MCP for round 2 was intended to be a "by invitation only" sort of thing and that it was not intended to be sent out to the general public. I could be wrong and, if so, my humble (...) (17 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | MINDSTORMS Community Partners
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Are You a Hardcore LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT User? Do you want to have a seat in our closed webforum, the Mindstorms Community Partners, where we involve you in our development and tests of new ideas, concepts, prototypes, products and discuss various (...) (17 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Using the NXT with a GPS
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(...) Perhaps Canada skips from the 3rd to the 5th every year. Maybe they just have a Sadie Hawkin's Day (1) every year to make up for it? -Rob www.lifelites.com (1) (URL) (17 years ago, 3-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Using the NXT with a GPS
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(...) Hi Ralph, and all my open questions (3-4 weeks old) are answered now ! It works fine with OSX and WM5 BT-Peers... I've managed it to peer with OSX 10.4.x or WM5 and send simple strings now! Great job Thanks Bye Christian (17 years ago, 2-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NBC/NXC beta 31 Release
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I am about ready to release a new beta of NBC/NXC. There are some very important new features and bug fixes in this release. Here's the current list of fixes and new features. Version 1.0.1.b31 ---...--- - Fixes a boolean expression bug which (...) (17 years ago, 2-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Using the NXT with a GPS
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(...) I guess I need to download the latest version. Thanks Ralph. (...) Don't you have a July 4th in Canada? :) Steve (17 years ago, 2-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Using the NXT with a GPS
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All, I've finally got around to updating my site with a detailed description of connecting the NXT to a Bluetooth GPS unit. It updates the NXT display in real time with lat, long etc. The parsing is really barebones and shows the power of pbLua in a (...) (17 years ago, 2-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: Progressing from RCX to NXT
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Did they use Robolab to teach at the summer camp? If so, he could also use it to program the NXT; just make sure you obtain Robolab 2.9 version which supports both RCX and NXT; version 2.5 is RCX only. -----Original Message----- From: (...) (17 years ago, 1-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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