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(...) Do you mean Vancouver, BC Canada or Vancouver USA? If you mean Vancouver BC Canada then join the VLC! THere are quite of a few of us Mindstorm'ers around here. See link below. If your Vancouver USA... Oh well. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.loc.us.or.por, lugnet.loc.us.or, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I'm trying to capture data over a period of time that requires more data points than what seems to be the default (approx. 1026 points). I've tried building a level 4 program and increased the data buffer beyong this number, however, I can't seem to (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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I'm looking for other pdx/vancouver mindstorms people to chat/play/invent with. The wargame club I go to has some nice 5x9 foot tables with raised guard rails that make excellent test tracks. I'd like to set up some challenge type events like the (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.loc.us.or.por, lugnet.loc.us.or, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) My mother-in-law runs a toy store chain, and she got a stock-balancing note from TLC requesting the old 1.5 kits back. It stated that the 2.0 kits will be out in Q1 of 2001. No mention of upgrade kits. I suspect that the component bags WILL be (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I suspect there is a combination of things going on here: 1. Christmas rush for the kits that are out there. 2. No further production of 1.5 since 2.0 will be out shortly (anyone know when, exactly?) 3. Possible recycling of kits still in TLC's (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Last week I called S@H about getting a 9719, the Robotics Invention System: version 1.0. No problem, they said they had plenty. This week when I talked to them; they said that they were out of them, that they were now discontinued! I told the lady, (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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pbForth is going great now. It's made this toy just what I had hoped for ! Anyways, I was thinking if I could use my IR port from my PALM3. Or, would the serial port work if plugged ( arrgh...its too wide ) into the IR lego tower & use a terminal (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Kris wrote (...) As stated by Lester and Bernd, navigation in a 'real' world environment is somewhat complicate. Due to limitations in accuracy, it is nearly impossible to perform the 3 basic tasks mentioned by Bernd. (...) First i thought, that it (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Thanks for the flood of email indicating that RCXTCL is broken! My own stupidity kept reloading the cached version, and it was, of course, OK. Once I reloaded Windows on my machine, the problem was obvious. Anyways, the new RCXTCL.ZIP can be loaded (...) (24 years ago, 9-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I got this reply from Kasper: (...) Hi scott... unforunatly, i cannot get the lugnet listserver let me post to the list, so if anybody else is interested, you will have to forward this mail to the list =) anyways, i am the happy owner of a palm5mx.. (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.palm, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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I was reading about these yesterday. They appear to have a serial port: (URL) anyone who understands these things able to get it to interact with our friend the RCX? It means nothing to me, but it appears they will run JAVA in some form. Scott A (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.palm, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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Hi All, I've recently installed the new cygwin distribution on my system, and tried to get legos working with it..... my legos works fine with cygwin b20, but this new distribution seems to kill it :( Now, I think the reason is because the older (...) (24 years ago, 10-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I've set baud to 2400... after reading other messages in this group...where on Earth did it ever mention that ? Hyperterminal works fine now. (24 years ago, 10-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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I am happy to announce that there is a visual interface for leJOS. It is written in Java, and runs on Linux and Java. It has an editor and can do every important command line option. The first release is at www.geocities.com/gombos_2000/ Andy (24 years ago, 10-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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I have the firmware on the brick, as it displays "4th". Trouble is...what do I do next...what settings to use in Hyperterm / crt and to the post itself ? Like baud / error correction / tty terminal ? / echo... I get garbage all the time from the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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tentatively March 2001 (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Ben, when will your book be generally available? --Jack Gregory (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I've read an advance copy of this book (thanks Ben!) and recommend it *highly* in fact, I'll be buying 10 of them as soon as they are available, one for me, and one for each of my LEGO Robotics team members. I considered doing that with Dave Baum's (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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