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(...) I've "dropped" my RCX & Scout a few times... Mostly when an invention suddenly speeds with all it's might off the table and onto the floor. I've been very lucky not even lost firmware. I had a kid drop the Lego remote and it popped apart. I (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Loss of firmware... perhaps the batteries temporarily lost their connection when you dropped the RCX? Was the RCX on at the time? -Kekoa (26 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I think I dropped it once with loss of its memory, but my memory is faint, wasn't that important. That's because I occasionally drop my Palm III, which is probably in the same league, with the highest drop at about a meter. It never had any (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I've dropped my RCX two times (actually, first mine, then my brothers... Ooops...), and both time, the only thing that happened was that the RCX couldn't remember it's firmware... I thought it would break, but it didn't... Anyone who was not this (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) It's not necessary. The Temp sensor is actually reporting 717 degrees. All they did was move the decimal place. With the 0328 firmware the User Display lets you put the point where ever you want. Need decimal places? Multiply your figures by (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I got Extreme Creatures about a month ago when it was last on special at S@H for $25. I guess for the Fibre Optic unit and the collection of parts, it's not a bad price. As far as I can tell, it's the only way you can get the FOS main unit from (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Is Extreme Creatures Good? (WAS: Re: US S@H Specials, Sep 20 - Sep 26, 2000)
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(...) i'll (...) Not in my opinion, just a random collection of additional parts. There is an inventory at: (URL) I didn't buy the set, so maybe owners of the set would have a contrary opinion. Kerry (26 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Sharp GP2D05 Infrared Ranger and the RCX
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Hey, my GP2D12 just showed up. I ordered it from Acroname. It comes with a nice little booklet with details on how to rig it, and it even has some Handyboard code and interface info. I have test equipment in my lab too. I'll plug it into a power (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Has anyone used the OCX with Visual J++? Have any examples? -ben (26 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) The problem is subtle. Scanbot (at least scanbot2.nqc) assumes that the drive motors are always running. It only alters their direction during steering. In your code you call OnFor(), which turns on the motors, waits a specified amount of (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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"Ram Meenakshisundaram" <rmeenaks@olf.com> wrote in message news:39DA076E.906020...olf.com... (...) Now how did I miss that! Now the only problem would be the power supply current. Like Ralph said, 33mA is right at the upper limit for a LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Sharp GP2D05 Infrared Ranger and the RCX
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Hi, (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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"Ralf Krause" <rkra@gmx.de> wrote in message news:B5FFBD90.545%rk...@gmx.de... (...) Yes the GP2D12 looks like the one to use, but I've never been able to find it. I bought some GP2D05s to play with a few years ago. They require an input control (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Sharp GP2D05 Infrared Ranger and the RCX
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Ooh, you're right. This seems to be too much for battery powered models. Has anybody a better idea? I want to have a sensor with gives a linear (?) signal corresponding to a distance. For an 1-bit boolean signal I saw a plan in elektor 9/2000 (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: Sharp GP2D05 Infrared Ranger and the RCX
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(...) Ralf, If I remember correctly, these sensors draw about 30 mA, which is the limit for a powered sensor for the RCX. You may need to add an additional battery to supply the current.... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi, this seems to be a very good idea for a new RCX sensor. Reading the Sharp data sheets for their infrared distance sensors I want to write some facts about. They have 4 different sensors for measuring distances from 10 to 80 cm. The differences (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi all, Here's a rather long link to a Berlin newspaper that references many of the mst important pages in the Mindstorms canon... (URL) Have you checked your hit counters lately? Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I was programming a "scanbot" from the Definitive Guide and wanted to install a bumper as I noticed the robot would run into things periocically while "searching" for the light. I wrote some code as follows: void check_bump { if (BUMP == 1) { (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) you won't be able to use LNP - those packets are completely different from the Lego firmware ones. You'll need to write bytes directly to the serial port (I'm not sure what support there is for this in legOS since once you start munging the (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) OK, but do i have to create this frame using legos ?? I tried but it doesn't work. (thank you so far dave baum ! I received your book today, hope this will help me.) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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