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Has anyone got messaging from the RCX2 to Spybotics working? Would be great to hear if you have! (20 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Mark Riley wrote a program quite a while ago that sends IR messages to a Spybot from an RCX ((URL) The receiver side of this (running on the Spybot) is implemented in his post in MindScript. I just posted a message a few minutes ago which (...) (20 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) very astute info. You folks, and you J.H. are 'right-on' once again! Yes it works, but SPY seems to react only to very specific code strings (message A: byte 0=0x92, byte1=0x23; message B: byte 0=0x92, byte1=0xab; ... etc.), and immediately (...) (20 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Okay, after banging my head against this for WAY too long I think I have finally figured out (somewhat) a few things that were previously completely lost to my understanding. If you want an RCX (running RCX2 firmware) to simulate a Spybot Ping (...) (20 years ago, 24-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Hi John, I think the low nibble of the first byte contains the Link ID of the Spybot. It is zero if the Spybot is not linked to a controller. 1 if it is linked to controller 1, 2 if controller 2, etc. This should be easy to double check with (...) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Yes, that is what another person told me via email yesterday. So a ping simulation function for an RCX running the RCX2 firmware could be: // nLinkID = 0-7, where 0 = no link, 7 = pc link, 1-6 = controller link // nMyID = 8-255 (minBotID = 8, (...) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I'm a little surprised that the Spybot doesn't need to see the packet header byte - the byte containing the range/orientation bits preceding the 0x8n Ping byte. The header is deliberately generated with the stop bit cleared to force a framing error. (...) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I presume that somewhere that data is being dropped. It isn't showing up as data the tower reports to the operating system. I haven't actually tried the function I posted the other day so it is entirely possible that a Spybot will not (...) (20 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Boy, this RCX to Spy IR comm thing is sure going the right way! The SPYBOTICS are a little known and hidden LEGO gem. Gramps Eddie & Grandson CJ (20 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Hi John, It does work. The RCX appears in the Spybot's World Table. The Range is set to Anywhere. Pretty cool... --Jay (20 years ago, 29-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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