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Ben, did this designer use any filters? Or was this simply the response of the LED and detector in the Light Sensor? (25 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.books)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.books)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.books)
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(...) Well, if you don't know japanese, this book is 30% readable because it have lot's of interesting pictures. The construction pictures were done in LDRAW. It would be great if it existed a version in English of this book. For a newcomer in the (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Has anybody used the Jin Sato book about Mibo? I want to know how much "readable" it is. (25 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Has anyone taken a close look at all the files on the Mindstorms 1.5 CD?? There seem to be many copies of the same stuff, for different country languages, etc. My school has several Mindstorms sets that are used by different teachers and groups. I (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) If this is the part I think it is there are 2 transparent ones in the 5220 service pack (Extra parts and stickers). This is in the S@H Jan01 catalog on page 49 (25 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I also had this prob. |I think I heard that the RCX1.0 came with RIS 1.5 though not sure. |This part is in some of the convertible models eg 8252 police buggy |Or a substitute can be made as shown on the following web page = | (URL) |For the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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To add to what Rainer said, I also have the RIS 1.0, but I got the RIS 1.0 to RIS 1.5 upgrade kit for free while back from Lego. The upgrade kit comes with the extra blue connector pieces. Talk to lego and see if you can get the upgrade kit. If you (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) That's right ! There are 4 of these parts coming with RIS1.5 and RIS2.0 (and some of this special yellow "double connector pegs") (BTW these parts are also avalable wit the vision command camera) (take a look at : (URL) parts and RIS2.0 parts (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hej Matthias! (...) You can find it at (URL) real life, it's in RIS 1.5 and Vision Command, there are 4 transparently blue ones in the 1.5. There are 3 clear transparent ones in the Vision Command set. (...) Unfortunately not, the RIS 1.5 RCX bricks (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I've just purchases the Ultimate Accessory Set and on going through the manual I've seen a part I can't identify - In the UAS manual on page 8, step 2, what is the blue object and where does it come from? I had originally thought that it might be (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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"Theo van Eijndhoven" <theo@sympro.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:G7o2AM.AFL@lugnet.com... (...) Yippie! That did it! I set RTS to false and now it works! Thank you! -Oli -- "If it ain't broken don't fix it!!" (25 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.cybermaster, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Thank you for your answer Andy. (...) In fact I built my robot (let's call him R2D1 ) for navigation, pathfinding and auto mapping purpose. I restrict his evolution to the (flat) floor of my house. I don't know yet if I'll be able to reach all of my (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) (URL) a great site for all that stuff. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I haven't been reading any of the LUGNET robotics groups until a month or so ago when I bought my first Mindstorms 1.5 kit and entered into this branch of LEGO. (so sorry if this has been posted before and I haven't seen it in any FAQ's) My question (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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"Grath" <jgreene750@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:G7s5LD.Bzq@lugnet.com... (...) thermal (...) 12K at room temperature. I've never found one like this, so you use a 10K at room temp thermistor with a 2K in series. There is a lot on this (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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