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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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 years ago, 14-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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