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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)
| | | | 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)
| | | | 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)
| | | | Re: The grand challenge
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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)
| | | | The grand challenge
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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)
| | | | 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)
| | | | legousb driver under kernel 2.4.20-athlon
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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)
| | | | 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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