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| Was it last year or the year before that the big competition was the underater robot which had to navigate thru some sort of course. IIRC, the MIT team came in first, but their 'bot cost some outrageous amount--and the second place team used 2 RCX's (...) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
| | | | | Re: Problem with lego pneumatic parts
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| (...) Try Bricklink: (URL) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Comparing the sophistication involved in those vehicles and lego mindstorms based robots are far stretching. The links you provide are not related to lego mindstorms, but they definitely do look interesting, of course. Some of the teams at (...) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
| | | | | Problem with lego pneumatic parts
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| Hi, I am looking for some lego pneumatic parts, such as the pistons, cylinder and the T-connectors for connecting the tubes. First of all, pistco does not sell the T-connectors separate from the kit (~$100). Neither do they sell the pistons, or the (...) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
| | | | | Re: The grand challenge
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| (...) Yes I know, and I'm also looking how they do (looks like game is over now, after at most 11 of 229km). So I was not really serious, but neither was I 100% joking. There have been serious robot competitions where Mindstorms based robots have (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
| | | | | 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)
| | | | | OutputStatus
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| Hi! I think many of you wonder what results you get with the command OutputStatus(OUT_x). I have tested it and here are the results: SetPower | Float Fwd | Float Rev | Off Fwd | Off Rev | OnFwd | OnRev ---...--- 0 | 0 | 8 | 72 | 64 | 136 | 128 1 | 1 (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
| | | | | 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: NQC ideas
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| (...) Not me in any case, see my other post. Jürgen (21 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| (...) Who says NQC has to be C99 compliant? Thanks for the update though. I've not been following C updates. (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| (...) As of C99 that is no longer true, though still current usage to support older compilers. Jürgen (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| (...) I'd say go for it, it is still quite uncommon for C programmers to put their variable declarations elsewhere. Jürgen (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| (...) Hi John, C is more restrictive than C++ when it comes to variable declaration. In C, you can only declare variables at the beginning of a block before any executable. Well, lets see..... any variables declared outside a function are by (...) (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
| | | | | NQC ideas
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| NQC is definitely sticking with its C heritage with respect to semi-colons. Elisabeth mentioned fancier math and IP features. Neither of those seem possible when you consider that the compiler has to generate code that runs on the LEGO firmware (...) (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
| | | | | RE: Ideas for NQC
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| (...) I could not agree more with Kevin. Adding a feature, such as adding in more intricate math functions, or add in tcp/ip socket support, etc. is more fruitful than making the language syntax more like others just because someone is not used to (...) (21 years ago, 9-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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