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Hi, I have a 9V adapter that will fit the RCX. It has a current rating of 200mA. What is the current rating for ther RCX? I have seen adapters that are rated from 100mA up to 800mA. Thx...MJ (27 years ago, 4-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX Battery Source
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my rcx works fine with a universal ac to dc wall outlet. it has a switch to change the voltage. i've got it set at 9v and it operates at 800mA max. i figured 6 batteries x 1.5v =9v. i think it was originally for a keyboard (musical instrument, not (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RCX Battery Source
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Hi All, My old cellular "bag-phone" died a while back and I replaced it with a nice teeny tiny PCS phone. I had bought the 12V 2.3Ah sealed lead battery as an option with the original phone. It is WAY smaller than the 4Ah monsters I'm using for (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RCX Image Uploader Wins Contest
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Hmmm - I just got emailed that I won the "Best Lightweight Use" of the TclTk programming language in a contest sponsored by Scriptics (URL) Here's the URL from Scriptics and if you follow the link to me on that page it'll take you right to my (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: MindFest
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Ben wrote... (...) I did the same thing, and noticed that the 24T gears that came with my Mindstorms DON'T look like that, they are missing the little hands. Fortunately I have a lot of the older ones... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check (...) (27 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Dacta Amusment park Set
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(...) As Ben Erwin has said in his reply, this set does not come with huge amount of "plastic". However, this set includes 2 motors, 1 light sensors, 2 touch sensors, and 1 ghost shroud. This makes it an excellent expansion set for Mindstorms RIS. I (...) (27 years ago, 11-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Dacta Amusment park Set
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The amusement park set has really good models, but probably doesn't give you the same amount of plastic for your dollar as some other sets. If you are thinking about using this with kids, I found that even 6th graders (I was teaching 6th, 7th, and (...) (27 years ago, 11-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Dacta Amusment park Set
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Has anyone tried to order some of the kits from the Dacta/Pitsco site? there is an amusement park set that does bumper cars, tourbus that follows a line, and a few other things for like $100. didn't know what it was, or if it would be cool to get. (...) (27 years ago, 11-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | FW: Building help from TLG
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(...) (URL) DUH!! You are right. I DO know about right clicking, I'm just so used to going to a site and having the URL up there in the window WHERE IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE!!! PS, Thanks to all the others that responded so quickly...what a friendly (...) (27 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Developing an Explorer Bot with RCX to PC Communication (was: Jack's Explorer Bot)
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I thought this _might_ be of interest to either those in l.r.r.legos or l.r.r.nqc, but I couldn't decide which, so I'll just post it here [in l.r.r]. It's what I came up with given two weeks with a Mindstorms kit and reading the groups here at (...) (27 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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