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Re: RCX and train motors...
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Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:17:36 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Brian Davis wrote:

   How "big" is LDCC? I'm *not* a coder, but it seems to me some enterprizing
soul could make a LDCC add-on for BrickOS, for instance, or the Swan firmware.
that way you could have LDCC as an "output format" on an RCX that otherwise is
just running "normal" RCX programs. Fully programmable, autonomous LDCC.

No need to write it, it already exists!  Find it here:

http://home.surewest.net/markril/lego/dcc/dcc.tar.gz

I never got around to actually posting this code in a public place as I've just
emailed it directly to interested individuals.  Anyways, there's a patch to
BrickOS, the DCC routines themselves and a small demo program in C for
controlling a locomotive to illustrate usage of the routines.

Cheers,

Mark



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  Re: RCX and train motors...
 
(...) Hey Mark, I've been using LDCC for a while now--very happy with it, btw... Anyway, you say you have thins thing for BrickOS-I've never used that--I only program in NQC Is this routine adaptable to NQC so I can have NQC and LDCC running on the (...) (19 years ago, 20-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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(...) Cool to know. (...) Then you need another bank of sensors, perhaps, to tell you when a train is coming "near" the siding, for instance. Cruise speed until near a siding, then slow speed to approach siding, and finally "creeping" speed to (...) (19 years ago, 14-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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