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(...) Keep in mind a "dynamics range" of 10 units is just fine, if the variation is normally only a couple units. In other words, you can reliably determine when you are seeing a light or dark surface. Making sure that the sensor is close (5 mm or (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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hi All, a happy new year to everyone ! My new year started with a broken motor, due to a fall on the ground :-( After cutting it totally open, I've managed to get it running again. For those who also have damaged motors and want to try to fix them, (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hi Thomas facing the same problem since very few days (I'm also a nebie) it seems that this behaviour is 'normal'. However this is not satisfying at all because the sensors dynamic range is to low for reasonable applications. Is there someone (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | New Version of pbForth with DCC Support Released
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All, I've just finished updating the pbForth webiste with information on the latest version of pbForth that supports DCC. Yay! Yes, you can use Mark Riley's excellent train control firmware, but if you want to write code that starts and stops trains (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Sending a message from RCX to Spybotic
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I'm working at a project where I need the ability to send a message from RCX (1.5) to a Spybotic. Do anyone know the Code for this? Andreas (21 years ago, 2-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: installing Robolab under Mac OS X
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(...) Any official word on this? Or just rumor? I think that would make me break down and finally buy a copy instead of fiddling with the MindStorms Software in Virtual PC ... Greetings Horst (21 years ago, 30-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: installing Robolab under Mac OS X
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Hi John, repairing the privilegs is a very good idea ... for the first choice much better then mine. Your second idea .... also ... (...) ... but this ways does not run on newer Mac that do not boot on MacOS 9. Ralf Am 29.12.2003 20:33 Uhr schrieb (...) (21 years ago, 31-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: installing Robolab under Mac OS X
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<snippage> (...) try running the disk utility program found in the application/utilities folder and use it to repair the privilages on the disk. this may or may not help but I know I run into this problem when trying to install OS updates. If the (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: installing Robolab under Mac OS X
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Hi Holger, I definitely know that Robolab 2.5.2 is running in classic mode of MacOS X 10.2.8. So it must be something with the file owner and user rights for a file or a folder in your system (and in every other system where the software should be (...) (21 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | installing Robolab under Mac OS X
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Hello, I just purchased Robolab 2.5.2 from Pitsco and am trying to install it under Mac OS 10.2. When I try the process (while logged in under an account with administrator priviledge) the installer gets to 2 or so files remaining, and then gives (...) (21 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Lightsensor
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If I shine a bright light into the light sensor it gets to 60 sometimes, but if I put the light sensor very close to a lamp, it gets to 100. I could never get a value lower than 25. "Michael Gasperi" <gasperi@alynk.com> wrote in the message (...) (21 years ago, 25-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: ROM image using USB tower
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Okay, I gave in and bought one of the serial towers listed on bricklink. I now have a ROM image, but am unable to disassemble it. Whatever options I pass to h8300-hitachi-hms-objdump I get: BFD: rom.srec:12: Unexpected character `0' in S-record file (...) (21 years ago, 11-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.6
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(...) Wow! I've just discovered Bricxcc! Thank you very much for providing such a useful tool. I'm using PbForth and I was impressed by what you've included in BricxCC. Just to share with you, here's what I did so far. I've renamed the Help file so (...) (21 years ago, 11-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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| | Re: Broken Mindstorms motors
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(...) Call "LEGO Shop at Home" and get four replacement motors. I just called them about a broken motor and a broken "pneumatic double acting cylinder". I called them pistons, but when she finally found them in 8455, she made sure I knew they were (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Broken Mindstorms motors
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We have several broken mindstorms motors. Tw got the shafts broken. Two just stopped turning. So, we decided to steal the shafts from one set to fix the other set. However, putting them back together has stopped the working but shaftless ones from (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | WTF: Broken RCX units
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Anyone have or know where I can find broken RCX units for parts? Thanks, Rand (21 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: multiple motors
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(...) hmm. see rule #1: (URL) my BIGGEST piece of advice for your sumo robot: make SURE it does not leave the sumo area on it's own." :) Steve (21 years ago, 27-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: multiple motors
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(...) Rather well... (...) ...but it was beaten by a simpler but slightly heavier 'bot! And it sometimes committed suicide too :-(( Philo (21 years ago, 27-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: multiple motors
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(...) So, how well did it work? How did the robot do? (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: multiple motors
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(...) (URL) such a mechanism I built in my latest sumobot... (sorry, bad photograph) Two gear shifts are activated at the same time, one for right wheels, the other for left wheels. The gearshift is activated by a motor controlled by RCX, gearing (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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