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Hi All, I just got a Mindstorms 1.5 and the RCX does *NOT* have an AC jack! So if you plan to power the rails from a stationary location, plan on having a lot of batteries or a rechargable battery setup... I called LEGO Consumer Affairs and they are (...) (26 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Droid Developer Kit and RCX ???
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(...) I modified the original R2-D2 model to use the Scout. As the Scout is just the same size of th RCX, you might want to have a look at my creature. You can find it at the Italian Lego Users Group site (URL) worry, text in English). The site uses (...) (26 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Exploration Mars missing?
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(...) Absolutely. Together with the long delays on delivery dates, and the mysterious 'disappearance' that has now taken place, this makes a product that is exactly in this spirit... (26 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Exploration Mars missing?
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(...) I feel sure there's an opportunity for a really bad joke here, but my hangover is getting in the way... Cheers, Ben. -- SECURE HOSTING AT THE BUNKER! (URL) grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi everybody, Did someone here already included a RCX in the Droid Developer Kit ? - Christophe - Got today a 2nd RCX and a DDK for my son :-) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Exploration Mars missing?
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(...) I would assume that this is so that the US version can use imperial units and the European one can use metric. This would truly allow us to emulate the true spirit of exploring Mars! Cheers, Steve (26 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Exploration Mars missing?
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(...) Exploration Mars, is visible on the European catalogue. However I tried to order it the other day, and the lady at Lego, said that the European release had 'officially' happened, but as yet they had no stock. The US version has a different CD, (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I think I heard some rumblings about sometime early in 2000 for Exploration Mars, but couldn't remember where to confirm or even if this was official. Not much help really. What's more important is - what is going to be in it when it is finally (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) It was planned, and never happened. (As of yet, at least.) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Exploration Mars missing?
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Hi, Using RIS 1.5. It looks as if at some day Exploration Mars was an optional expansion kit. Don't seem to be able to buy it anymore, any experience with it? Regards, Bert. (26 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: FSMs, coding techniques and other goodies
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(...) I was thinking about that. The problem is that I lack the time... for the next couple of months, anyway... The idea of using a higher level language comes from the guess that it would be faster to develop than a graphical tool. Plus that it (...) (26 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Vlad, why don't you write a graphical FSM generator? Textbook FSMs are quite powerful, but in practice, states and transitions are usually augmented with enter/hold/leave actions. This provides plenty of configuration potential. Also, there's a (...) (26 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Interactive C for the RCX?
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Hi again! I was looking at the Handyboard, and thought whether it would be possible to port IC to the RCX. In my humble opinion, it would fit nicely between legOS and pbForth: the power of C and the interactivity of Forth; no fuss with egcs and gcc (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi all! I know that multitasking is reducing the need for using FSMs, but in my case the tasks ended being smaller FSMs after all, and because some parts were overlapping - why not use a single large FSM? [maybe it is my own fault that FSMs appear (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX 1.0 availablilty
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What I don't understand is why does it still say RCX 1.0 on the plastic? The mold is obviously different, why diddn't they change the version stamp? KL (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Jorge Rodriguez <rodriguez.136@osu.edu> wrote in message news:384b69a4.915347...net.com... (...) I was told by LEGO guys that it is totally gone and even the circuit board has been changed. You have to somehow feed power in as though it was coming (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Did they take out the whole jack or just put on a new cover that hides it. (...) Jorge Rodríguez rodriguez.136@osu.edu (26 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | IR tower info
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Hi all, As part of our current lego project we are trying to make a PC another node on a legOS network so that we can control robots from a PC. (the end goal I have in mind is a similarish interface to the RCXCC but that is a long way down the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: PC <> RCX Communication?
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(...) The op-code for sending a message is $F7 "set message". Unfortunately somehow it is left out of spirit.ocx, so you have to go down to the serial protocol in order to use it. See (URL) for the details. If you want to stick to spirit.ocx, you (...) (26 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: PC <> RCX Communication?
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Philippe jadin <philippe.jadin@skynet.be> wrote in message news:FLvD0J.106@lugnet.com... (...) written (...) can (...) features (...) That sounds exactly like what I have done here, although I have mounted the 'gantry' on a large base. At the moment (...) (26 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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