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(...) Yes I know, and I'm also looking how they do (looks like game is over now, after at most 11 of 229km). So I was not really serious, but neither was I 100% joking. There have been serious robot competitions where Mindstorms based robots have (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: The grand challenge
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Yeah... The only two team got the farthest, ~ 7 miles from the starting point. They both got stuck in gravel embankment, front wheel spun and could not get out. According to some insider info, speculation indicates the possible errors in the GPS (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi! I think many of you wonder what results you get with the command OutputStatus(OUT_x). I have tested it and here are the results: SetPower | Float Fwd | Float Rev | Off Fwd | Off Rev | OnFwd | OnRev ---...--- 0 | 0 | 8 | 72 | 64 | 136 | 128 1 | 1 (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: The grand challenge
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, "Elizabeth Mabrey" <emabrey@storming-robots.com> wrote: (snip) Looks like nobody won. I was watching via the tracking app and no one got farther than 7 miles... According to this article many competitors did not get (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: The grand challenge
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By the way, look at the TerraMax from Ohio-State (well, seems that part of the team members from companies, some graduate students). It looks a gigantum RCX brick :-) (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: The grand challenge
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It is conducted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Participants from across United States invented and built their own autonomous grand vehicles to compete by being the first one to complete the designated route, dessert like (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I'm sure a LEGO Mindstorms robot would have won, if they only had let them participate ;-) Jürgen (21 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi all, I'm sure some of you may have already watching this. Check out the Grand Challenge taken place in CA. The Grand Challenge Events - Autonomous Ground Vehicles, www.grandchallenge.org. I wish they would boardcast this, or have them (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: NQC ideas
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(...) Not me in any case, see my other post. Jürgen (21 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Who says NQC has to be C99 compliant? Thanks for the update though. I've not been following C updates. (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) As of C99 that is no longer true, though still current usage to support older compilers. Jürgen (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I'd say go for it, it is still quite uncommon for C programmers to put their variable declarations elsewhere. Jürgen (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: legousb driver under kernel 2.4.20-athlon
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(...) You can try to add -athlon at the end of EXTRAVERSION so that it becomes -4GB-athlon in the kernel Makefile, and then recompile. Jürgen (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Hi John, C is more restrictive than C++ when it comes to variable declaration. In C, you can only declare variables at the beginning of a block before any executable. Well, lets see..... any variables declared outside a function are by (...) (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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NQC is definitely sticking with its C heritage with respect to semi-colons. Elisabeth mentioned fancier math and IP features. Neither of those seem possible when you consider that the compiler has to generate code that runs on the LEGO firmware (...) (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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How did you do to specify that it is an 2.4.20-4GB-athlon kernel version? When I'm trying to compile it using : ./configure make su make install the complier says : /lib/modules/2.4.20-...usbtower.o was compiled for kernel version 2.4.20-4GB while (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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I tried to install the usb driver on my 2.4.20-4GB-athlon kernel. After the configure and make part I take root identity and try the make install but the compiler give me that error : /lib/modules/2.4.20-...sbtower.o: kernel-module version mismatch (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Voltage>10V????
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Hi, I think it is better to continue the discussion here so everybody can profit. (...) The difference is probably negative, often the voltage increases after batteries get a little exercise, maybe because they get warmer. Can you try to display it (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Change the the parity setting of the IR tower.
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(...) I have a serial IR tower, but what do you mean by "just do it"? Is there a way to alter the hardware or anything else so that the tower understands 8N1? (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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