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(...) I can loan out an iBook with BT - and it has the NXT retail software. Joe Meno Event Coordinator (18 years ago, 22-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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The NXT Robot Swarm has been scheduled for Saturday at 12:30 in Junior Ballroom 3. It seems the goal of this first event is to get some basic BT communication working, and if there's time, actually try a swarm-like experiment. If anything else, it (...) (18 years ago, 22-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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(...) This may also indicate a short. It may be prudent to take a multimeter across the battery terminals in the battery box on the NXT before putting any fresh batteries in. If that is the case, I would strongly recommend returning the brick. (...) (18 years ago, 22-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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I've got Duracell Coppertops on 10 NXTs I use in class. I've just experienced a nasty case of battery leakage. Good thing it leaked on the cover rather than on the electronics. Good thing the student, an 11 year old, brought the leakage to my (...) (18 years ago, 22-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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I have updated the zips for BrickTool and NeXTTool to fix a small problem with downloading .ric files to the NXT brick. I also uploaded a new beta for NBC which implements a pseudo wait opcode (which was dropped from the firmware at some point). If (...) (18 years ago, 21-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT avaliable in London
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(...) Went a bit mad, bought three - two as spares to sell when I get back. (18 years ago, 17-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Going to pick up a set tomorrow whilst I'm here in the US, I hadn't realised it wasn't out in the shops in the UK yet! (18 years ago, 17-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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I have posted a couple new utilities for the NXT on my BricxCC website. One (MidiBatch) is a batch conversion utility for converting MIDI files into NXT Melody (.rmd) files. NXT Melody files can be played via NXT-G simply by renaming them as NXT (...) (18 years ago, 16-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
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In article <J3y0B4.FM0@lugnet.com>, Brian Davis <brdavis@iusb.edu> wrote (...) I shall have PC software to do this, and probably others will have similar tools before I finish. (...) I believe 7 is the number of connections specified in the (...) (18 years ago, 15-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT Motor Encoder Accuracy and Dead Reckoning
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(...) ... (...) Yes. Very easily. I took my floor cleaner robot, Rosie: (URL) a two-block NXT-G program (in a loop): (URL) created a robot that I think has the accuracy of "Peeves", as seen here: (URL) appears to return within a couple cm each time. (...) (18 years ago, 13-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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