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(...) Well, here's one: don't buy a Dynex USB-to-serial adapter. The packaging and web site both claim it's Mac compatible, but I tried it on two different machines (a G4 Powerbook running 10.2.8 and a dual G5 desktop running 10.3.9), and two (...) (19 years ago, 2-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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(...) Heh -- if robotics required a PC, I'd take up knitting instead! (...) No need; MacNQC seems to run great and looks like a really nice environment. It goes beyond just compiling & downloading NQC code, and includes various interactive panels (...) (19 years ago, 2-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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(...) Best way to get started would be to buy an RCX and a PC! ;) Seriously, if you can't get NQC to run on your Mac, you might be able to find a decent Windows Emulator that does and use that. Or buy or be given an older PC- doesn't take a lot of (...) (19 years ago, 2-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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(...) What limited Spybots programming I've done has been based on two things. First, this site: (URL) to off the .spybotics frontpage is a great resource as far as it goes (with some examples in NQC even). Second, digging through and testing the (...) (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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I got a surprise birthday present of a Spybotics set #3808 (is my wife cool or what?). I don't have a Windows machine, but I dug around on the CD-ROM, found the building instructions, and got it working. I'm able to drive it around with remote (...) (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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(...) Steve, I think your right. A quick look into the ROM documentation shows "Sub Index 83 (p.139) TurnAway_Bead - Tries to turn the Spybot away from the target. If there is no target, or if the target is in the Anywahere zone, the bead exits (...) (19 years ago, 18-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) I can't find it right now, but I thought I read somewhere that if the direction is "anywhere", it will not have a direction. I believe that's consistant with what you're seeing. Steve (19 years ago, 18-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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Sorry, I forgot to mention I am using nqc 3.1r4 Allen (...) (19 years ago, 18-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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John, perhaps you can help me with the directional capabilities. I have attached a copy of my code below. I am reading the direction to another spybot/beacon and putting it through a simple least squares adjustment. I find over short distance (HERE (...) (19 years ago, 18-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) I have found a copy of the MindScript code for the default program (sort of) and I have ported it to NQC. Here's the default program in MindScript: program SpybotDefaultProgram { main { start 0 } } And here is its NQC equivalent: #pragma (...) (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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