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Hi,
I'm new here. My name is Pierluigi and I am a student at the Turin
Polytechnic (http://www.polito.it,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politecnico_di_Torino ).
I've used BrickOS with LNPd for a summer project, and I've recently
bought the Robotics Invention System 2.0, that comes with a USB IR
Tower.
This tower works pretty well with BrickOS (I can download the firmware
and test programs), but AFAIK is not supported at all by LNPd (there's
even a related item in the TODO list).
In order to improve the situation I've been hacking all the day and now
I think I might have a LNPd version that at least lets you download
programs with lnpdllx, at slow speed. It worked with every example
program distributed with BrickOS but rover.lx, and I'm still looking
into the matter.
If anybody is interested please reply to this message; I'm more than
willing to share my findings and my source files. I've used BrickOS and
LNPd version 0.9.0 and the h8300 toolchain that come with Ubuntu 5.10
'Breezy Badger'.
I know that the netiquette requires to lurk for a bit on a list before
posting, so I sincerely apologize if this isn't news. It might be that
there is already extensive support for the LNPd + USB tower, but I
couldn't find any piece of information about it.
HTH,
Pierluigi Rolando
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, Pierluigi Rolando wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new here. My name is Pierluigi and I am a student at the Turin
> Polytechnic (http://www.polito.it,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politecnico_di_Torino ).
> I've used BrickOS with LNPd for a summer project, and I've recently
> bought the Robotics Invention System 2.0, that comes with a USB IR
> Tower.
>
> This tower works pretty well with BrickOS (I can download the firmware
> and test programs), but AFAIK is not supported at all by LNPd (there's
> even a related item in the TODO list).
>
> In order to improve the situation I've been hacking all the day and now
> I think I might have a LNPd version that at least lets you download
> programs with lnpdllx, at slow speed. It worked with every example
> program distributed with BrickOS but rover.lx, and I'm still looking
> into the matter.
>
> If anybody is interested please reply to this message; I'm more than
> willing to share my findings and my source files. I've used BrickOS and
> LNPd version 0.9.0 and the h8300 toolchain that come with Ubuntu 5.10
> 'Breezy Badger'.
>
> I know that the netiquette requires to lurk for a bit on a list before
> posting, so I sincerely apologize if this isn't news. It might be that
> there is already extensive support for the LNPd + USB tower, but I
> couldn't find any piece of information about it.
>
> HTH,
> Pierluigi Rolando
I've never used LNPd, but since it's old enough to have "legOS" as its first
letter, then it must support the serial IR tower. If no one else has info for
you, you might consider buying one. Pitsco sells it new for $31.00:
http://www.legoeducation.com/store/detail.aspx?ID=390
You can get them new or used on BrickLink, too, for under $10:
http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?q=serial
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Hi,
lnpd is a very old program and has several problems, it does not support the
protocol used by brickOS, lacks support for the USB tower and may lose packets
as soon as they get too large (>8 bytes or so). Collision detection does not
work as long as the serial port FIFO is enabled.
Sure, it might be possible to repair most issues, but I have decided to start a
new infrared library from scratch that should have more features and less
problems.
<http://lnphost.sourceforge.net/>
Greetings,
Stephan
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