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Ok, I'll answer my own question: (URL) I think I saw this a long time ago, but I had assumed that the "Mibo in Book!" link was referring to the Mibo on the cover of a Japanese magazine that Jin Sato had on display at Mindfest. I didn't realize it (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.books)
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| | DC output at motor max speed with legOS
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Hi, I am trying to control a stepper motor with LegOS, and I need to have a constant DC output from a motor output, like when I choose speed(8) with the Lego firmware, so I can turn it on and off to make pulses of the duration I choose. Is this (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Lght Sensor & Three colors?
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I saw a 6th grade girl with a lego robot arm that could sort about 10 different lego colors using the light sensor. It was amazing. It wasn't the RCX, but the light sensor was the same. She actually brought in her pink and purple LEGOs from home (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Gearing down a lego motor
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I think a worm gear and a 40-tooth gear worked for me. A string was fixed above, and wound around the axle connected to the 40-tooth gear. This wasn't fast though, more like a slow climb. But I think you definitely want a worm gear or some kind of (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mindstorms for Dummies
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I got Mindstorms for Dummies sent to me as soon as it was ready from Amazon, since I'm curious what my competition looks like. :) And I kept quiet for a while, but I'm glad you wrote something first, Ralph, because I feel the same way. I was (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.books)
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| | Re: Jin Sato Book about Mibo
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Where is this book? URL? I have Joe Nagata's book (japanese version) and have the english book on order, but I didn't know that Jin Sato had a book! I met him at Mindfest and asked him to write a chapter for my book, but then I never got around to (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.books)
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| | Re: Legos 0.2.5 and Win2k
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If you can get in touch with Paolo directly, I believe he said that he had 0.2.5 running under Cygwin 1.0. If you can get his compiler packages for that, the newer Cygwin may help with W2K. And of course you can always go to www.redhat.com for a (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Q: Multitasking, and reacting to sensors
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(...) Sorry Juergen, but that's not quite right. You can start and stop tasks as often as you wish to do. like this int do_s_s = 0; int condition = 0; task main() { while (1) { if (condition && !do_s_s) { start do_something_special; do_s_s = 1; } if (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Q: Multitasking, and reacting to sensors
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Hej Tobias! (...) No, rather you need a While or Until loop. Normal programming languages are different from the RCX code. In RCX code the watchers are running all the time, in NQC you need to program the repetition yourself. A program for simple (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Legos 0.2.5 and Win2k
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Has anyone had any luck getting legos 0.2.5 to work under Windows 2000, I'm running 0.2.4 quite cheerfully under cygwin b20 , but 0.2.5 refuses to compile...and in the new cygwin legos 0.2.4 refuses...argg if only I wasn't so dumb :) - ciaran (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | VLL in legOS 0.2.6?
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Why not add the VLL stuff to 0.2.6 release? The post of the Ben Jackson is in (URL) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: bug fixes
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And of course Paolo can take care of stuff too... I haven't heard from him in a while though either, so I have no idea how much time he has... Paolo? Out there? <waves> hi! ;) Luis (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: bug fixes
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(...) Well, if we collect enough patches from folks then feel free to coordinate a release. It isn't like there are tons of bugs or new functionality floating around, but there were clearly a whole lot of niggling small bugs from 0.2.5, so maybe if (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I would have no objections to taking over some the responsibilities, especially those related to releasing versions. It's what I do best, anyway. I'm sure there is someone more qualified with the administrator aspects, but if no one else volunteers, (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LEGO remote and LNP (legOS 0.2.4)
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Luis, I can do a quick HOWTO (though it'll only cover Linux) & post this patch. I think it'd be useful, anyway. It applies cleanly to 0.2.5 as well. Regards, ROSCO Luis Villa <liv@duke.edu> wrote in message news:Pine.GSO.4.10.1...uke.edu... (...) (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP and Lego Remote
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Hi Paolo, I know this is a kind of old message, but I was just wondering what's happening in this direction? I'm currently using Chris Arquiza's patch (which works fine against 0.2.5) but wondering whether there's something new & improved around the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: bug fixes
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Hey, all. I'm sorry I've been neglecting stuff (Stephen and Rossz, that mainly means you guys :| I've had a combination of a crud-load of work and some serious personal troubles to deal with. Unfortunately, I'll be mainly out of the loop until late (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Luis Villa is the person to grant access. I haven't seen him around recently. I'm sure he'll get back to you when he can. Rossz (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: advice for game of tag?
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(...) The firmware knows what (and when) it has just sent, so it can distinguish between incoming and outcoming messages. (...) That's not exactly true. Infrared light travels at the speed of light (300000 km/s), so you can safely ignore delays. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Q: Multitasking, and reacting to sensors
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Tobias, 'multi-tasking' means that several tasks run simultaneously. For example, a robot arm could grab, lift and swivel, one after the other, as functions, or simultaneously, as tasks. Or, the RCX could play a tune and a walker could walk, one (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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