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(...) As Ben Erwin has said in his reply, this set does not come with huge amount of "plastic". However, this set includes 2 motors, 1 light sensors, 2 touch sensors, and 1 ghost shroud. This makes it an excellent expansion set for Mindstorms RIS. I (...) (25 years ago, 11-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Dacta Amusment park Set
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The amusement park set has really good models, but probably doesn't give you the same amount of plastic for your dollar as some other sets. If you are thinking about using this with kids, I found that even 6th graders (I was teaching 6th, 7th, and (...) (25 years ago, 11-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: NQC 2.0 ready for beta test
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yeah... mostly search-and-replace. Dave Baum wrote in message ... (...) (25 years ago, 11-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Has anyone tried to order some of the kits from the Dacta/Pitsco site? there is an amusement park set that does bumper cars, tourbus that follows a line, and a few other things for like $100. didn't know what it was, or if it would be cool to get. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: IR-Tower and PowerBook-G3 ?
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(...) Yes, AT is set to ethernet. (...) OK, I'll try that also. BTW, I now have nqc running on my *old* SE/30 (8MB) with a version of MPW I found on ETO-20. Everything seems to work fine. Downloads firmware as well as test.nqc Still mystified by the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I use the IR tower with a Wallstreet regularly (NQC was developed on my PowerBook), and I haven't had any problems. Did you make sure that AppleTalk is either set for Ethernet or turned off completely? You also may want to disable other (...) (25 years ago, 11-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Yes. The PB-G3 is plugged into a wall-wart almost all the time. I thought of that also. Very strange. I'm resurecting an old SE/30 in the hopes that I can squeeze MPW into an 8MB machine. I think the serial ports on that machine ought to be (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RE: IR-Tower and PowerBook-G3 ?
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(...) This might sound stupid, but did you try it with the G3 attached to a wall wart? The reason I mention this is that my digital camera only downloads to my laptop if the laptop is plugged in to the wall. The laptop serial levels DO change (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | FW: Building help from TLG
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(...) (URL) DUH!! You are right. I DO know about right clicking, I'm just so used to going to a site and having the URL up there in the window WHERE IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE!!! PS, Thanks to all the others that responded so quickly...what a friendly (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Has anyone else had problems using the IR-Tower with a PowerBook-G3 (WallStreet '98)? I tried for two days and only got 'Problem talking to IR device' messages. Tried different cables, cont-checked both cables. Finally went and tried it on the GFs (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Developing an Explorer Bot with RCX to PC Communication (was: Jack's Explorer Bot)
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I thought this _might_ be of interest to either those in l.r.r.legos or l.r.r.nqc, but I couldn't decide which, so I'll just post it here [in l.r.r]. It's what I came up with given two weeks with a Mindstorms kit and reading the groups here at (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: NQC 2.0 ready for beta test
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(...) Many of the changes were to make NQC similar to RCX Code (at least for the commands that RCX Code supports), and I believe RCX Code has a loose connection to the Lego Logo work. Dave (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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These new commands seem like Lego Logo. Dave Baum wrote in message ... (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I don't have any plans to write such a tool. Really quite a lot of work to build something stand-alone to do this. Should be reasonably easy from within perl, though. Dave (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Will it be possible someday to have an option to upconvert the programs? Dave Baum wrote in message ... (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RE: Handy Board software
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(...) They're both really decent 8bit micros. Similar IO capabilities, and I think the HC11 has better timers, but only 8 bit A/D. I've worked a LOT with the HC11 and it's really a good part. (...) Beleive it or not, there is a FORTH for the HC11 (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) They're both 8-bit microcontrollers with a roughly similar set of peripheral functions (timer, ACD, serial port, etc). But the similarity ends there. The programming model for the H8 is compltely different from the 68xx series. (...) I don't (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Over the past few months, I've been reading with great interest many of the exciting things people here have written about the Handy Board... (10 URLs) I'm really starting to think that one of these would be a great addition to my LEGO collection. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: egcs download problem
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I got it from luis' site, but the version there doesn't support c++, and legos needs c++, doesn't it? John Bauman wrote in message ... (...) compiler (...) (25 years ago, 8-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | egcs download problem
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Has anyone else had this problem?I went to download the linux egcs compiler from the legOS site.I downloaded right, but it only downloaded ~2 megs, while the page said it was supposed to download ~3megs. Later, when i tried to bunzip(with bunzip2, (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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