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the_unknown_one wrote:When i saw it, i immediately knew: Yep, Timendus did that :D
That's cool dude :D
Although I can't take that much credit... 99% of the work was done by the VTI Leuven team of course ;)

It still hasn't showed up on ticalc.org, nor have I received any e-mail that it's not worth the newsitem, so I guess they're just a bit lazy :)
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Timendus wrote:It still hasn't showed up on ticalc.org, nor have I received any e-mail that it's not worth the newsitem, so I guess they're just a bit lazy :)
The problem with ticalc.org is that they never reply whether the news item is worthy or not
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Original: Heh, if they don't put it up in a day or two I'll put it up on CG just so there's news, and to one-up ticalc.

Added: http://www.calcgames.org/cgi-bin/threaded.cgi?id=475

I deleted the post and reposted so it would show as new, since editing doesn't do that. :roll:
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Thanks ;)

Oh, and to my knowledge it's a casemodded Ti-83+ :D
That's why it's white :)
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@Timendus: Yep, it was cool.
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you are my new hero.
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lol

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Patori, don't start overreacting :lol:
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Patori wrote:you are my new hero.
Who? Me? 8);)
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A few more neat photos of the CalcuClean bot!
http://timendus.student.utwente.nl/docs/robot/

Let's all bash Ticalc.org for not posting this newsitem 8)
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lol

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Sweet logo, i must say :D
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Awesome :). Could you explain what your program exactly does? It receives input and evaluates it and gives an appropriate response?
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Well, my program doesn't really do that much in all fairness :) What made it complex was that it had to send out something that the CPU they used in the robot could understand.

My part of the software get's the lowest nibble from user variable X, wraps it in a byte, sends it out the link port for the robot to read, waits for a simple acknowledge and gives an error if the acknowledge doesn't come. So it's pretty much one-way communication, but that's because they had trouble with sending data from their CPU. Receiving was implemented in the first versions, and the idea was to use that to read the sensors and such, but we never got to that, unfortunately...

So here's a hint to all of you who plan on building their own Ti robot; don't use a weird processor you're not familiar with ;)

With that little assembly program they wrote a basic program to somewhat randomly roam accross the room, and hopefully clean it :D
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TICalc has indeed posted news on this (finally). CG beat them by over 2.5 days though. :)
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Yeah, and they could hardly have shortened the story any further :D Hooray for CG ;)
But nice to see that they put it up after all...

Edit: The video seems to have been replaced by this week's broadcast :(
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