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Don’t forget Nostarch Press! They have 2 great books that are definitely worth looking at including Jin Sato's LEGO® MINDSTORMS The Master's Technique. I had the privilege of building his robotic dog last night and really had a lot of fun with it. (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | BricxCC release 3.3.7.2
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Version 3.3.7.2 of BricxCC is now available. It fixes a bug in the Brick Piano (introduced in the previous version) which made it impossible to save the music to a file or to the clipboard. Music saved from the Brick Piano can now be in NQC, (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: no long range IR from laptop says Lego
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(...) Its USB descriptors say there are two configurations with 100mA (I think these are for low and medium power), and two that require 500mA (high power mode). The LEGO USB Tower Interface Reference doesn't go into more details. Jürgen (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Kindly offline I am informed: yes indeed, some laptop designs have been seen to support less than half of the specified 500mA max load for USB bus power. I wonder how many mA the USB IR tower does need. Pat LaVarre (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX assembly instructions of Lego quality
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(...) Hi Pat, Syngress has two books out dedicated to RCX models. (URL) One of the Robots in the Ultimate Builder's book is mine. It is a two legged walker. The newsgroup (URL) is dedicated to building instructions. From there you can get to the (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Does the Lego USB IR tower, when set to long range, sometimes draw more than the 500mA allowed? Or do laptops generally not reliably supply 500mA? Or are we facing some deeper analog issue here, like not ramping up to 500mA from less mA fast enough (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: usb to ris 1.x rcx ir how
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(...) Contributing evidence includes the Lego claim that the entire new kit can be made to work in Win XP: (URL) happy to announce that Robotics Invention System 2.0 will install and run on Windows XP, if special installation instructions are (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Ah, slowly I clue in, thanks, now I have found: Lego Mindstorms(TM) 2.0 Upgrade Kit (3805) (URL) to itself that page appears labelled with only "2.0 Upgrade Kit". (...) Thanks for saying. Back at that link, I see only Win 98/ME mentioned, no (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: reading music thru an RCX
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(...) Thanks for the news, I'll look forward to that release. (...) As yet this I am unable to evaluate. I wonder if I've grabbed the right stuff to convey to my RCX? (URL) Two releases, 2003-01-15: (URL) 2002-12-05: (URL) tried 2003-01-15. I see (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: reading music thru an RCX
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(...) Something quite like what you describe is the Brick Piano in BricxCC. Unfortunately, in the current release there is a nasty bug that I just added which makes the Brick Piano mostly useless at the moment. It is fixed in the next release (which (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: reading music thru an RCX
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(...) Without being able to answer the question, I can add that relevant Unicode may include: (URL) bytes) u1D11A five-line staff u1D11E G clef u1D112 F clef u1D13B whole rest u1D13C half rest u1D13D quarter rest u1D13E eighth rest u1D15D whole note (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Anybody already write code to play notes thru the RCX as they are chosen, keep a history of the notes, replay the assembled tune, etc.? --- I think I mean to be asking for a public domain GUI. Courtesy l.r.r. recently, I've already got .java code (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: spare parts where
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(...) Hi Pat, The hassle-free approaches: www.bricklink.com, www.ebay.com, www.auctionbrick.com and what Lego offers on the www.lego.com website (look under accesories). If you are an educator, find out about the Lego Dacta product line (you can (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: usb to ris 1.x rcx ir how
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1. Hardware upgrade to USB IR tower: Dacta is Lego's educational division. For some reason, in the US it is known as Pitsco. The Pitsco link you have found is the only way I know of getting a USB IR tower on its own. It does not need batteries. 2. (...) (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RCX assembly instructions of Lego quality
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Where do I go to find more RCX assembly instructions of Lego quality? For free or for money? I ask because I know a six year old who can now confidently assemble a robot from the Lego instructions. I think because those instructions show and count (...) (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) ... but I found nothing. Anyone willing & able to fix that? Seems like that might be a service to newbies. Pat LaVarre (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Not in any detail. Please can someone elaborate? (...) Thanks for saying, sorry I need help rewording these questions to get them to be more absolutely unambiguous. (...) Can I somehow fix the Lego software for dramatically less than an (...) (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) From offline: (URL) I before the store shows whether or not the store ships internationally." Searching for: USB infrared transmitter yields "No Item(s) were found". Searching for: USB IR tower yields "New" "Black Electric IR Transmitter Tower (...) (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: usb to ris 1.x rcx ir how
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(...) Thanks for saying. (...) I'm often in the US, thanks for asking. Is an example of "Lego/Dacta" such a thing as: (URL) Transmitter (PC and MAC) W979783 Infrared Transmitter (USB) US$29.99 ? (...) I ask because, searching the web again now, I (...) (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | JoyBricx is updated
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Hi, all, I release new version of the JoyBricx. (URL) I make the program named JoyBricx for remote control (...) The new version support RCX/SCOUT, too. It can export the NQC program. Enjoy ! -- mac (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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