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(...) I had heard that the actual camera was a Logitech QuickCam, but I could find no Mac drivers on their site that will work with the Lego camera. Any ideas? John (25 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I had good luck with black, green, and yellow. You could probably substitute red or white for the yellow if you wanted. Dave (25 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Why go high-tech when low-tech might work just as well? The last GMLTC layout had a small dump truck that would drive in circles. Here's a thumbnail: (URL) small truck in the center of the picture has a magnet mounted on the front. Underneath (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Note that the Miniland autonomous vehicles do this... every so often they come to a stop at a known place, their whiskers pick up recharge and exchange messages with the central controller, and reset their location (they learn how far they've (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Z. , This will only be possible with limitations. Because you will have several errors every round, you will lose your track after some rounds. This errors are given from (for example) 1. not at once stopping motors when the given value for (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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first message, first error! As this message is about legOS, I repost it in lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos If you have any answer to it, please reply in the lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos thanks. michael. (25 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Matthew Fisher <matthew.fisher@bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:G78nAy.D0A@lugnet.com... (...) The LEGO light sensor is based on a silicon photo transistor. It really doesn't "see" the colors we do. It is sensitive to the near IR. That said, I'd (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hello! I' am french, from Paris ( a way to say: excuse my english... or feel free to correct it!). Few weeks ago I download legOS (v2.5), and I made my first step with it. First all I wish to thank all people involved in this project. This OS is (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Can the light sensor accurately distinguish between THREE colors? All the designs I've seen work with two; e.g. a brick sorter, green & red. And if so, what colors are recommended: Red, Green, Blue? Black, White, Grey? Thanks. (25 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I want to make a truck for my train scene, this truck is controlled byRCX with two rotation sensors and two motors driven rear wheels, it will move straight line, it will turn right 90 degree then go straight when got message m1, turn left 90 degree (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes, it seems a lot of Minidisc players do anyway. (...) This really is how they do it. If you go here you can see the schematic for a Sony remote: (URL) go here and scroll down to the section titled "Portable's Remote Control Interface", you (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I was about to write a reply to your question when, as I was removing some of the quotes, I read the part about your minidisk player having a "wired" remote. "Wired"?! Do they still make home electronics with remotes connected by wire? I (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hello, I am the owner of a minidisc player and thought that it would be cool to have the RCX control it and tell it what to play. Most minidisc players can use a wired remote, which is a little device which allows you to control your player from a (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Hi Ole, Lego offers, what they call service-packs. Unfortunately I was not able to locate those in their online-shop. You should ask them for a catalogue. Regards Frank (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Dear all, My kids (I...) got the RIS 1.5 box (from me...) for Christmas. I am certain that a lot of the little pins, pegs, wheels, rubber bands etc. will be disappearing in the future with 3 kids and a couple of adults playing around. My question (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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hi, thanks for all your help, I'll let you know how I get on nice one Boppyer?;-) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) These two web sites have all of the details about communicating with the RCX. Assuming that you can open a serial port and send/receive some bytes, it shouldn't be very difficult... (URL) posted some more detail on the specific case of sending (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) You LUCKY guy! Well, since it's yours you can crack it open and have a look. It must be a bad contact or diode in backwards or something like that. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Google is your friend: (URL) Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr> (URL) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) been (...) low (...) stay (...) probably (...) you (...) has (...) out (...) DID (...) anyone knows how I can use the bad one. Chris (25 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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