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| (...) And minus a downloadable firmware. (...) From the PC point of view, the tower behaves like the MindStorms tower. The CyberMaster can not send messages like the MindStorms, but the PC can query literally everything in the CyberMaster at any (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hi all, Got a dumb question: Is there a way to download the firmware to the RCX without using the lego mindstorms CD? I run NT 4.0 and can't install/use the new 1.5 CD. Since I plan on using NQC, I didn't think not being able to use the CD would be (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | New robotics sub-groups for RCX-Java, Palm Pilot, Telerobotics, VLL, Scout, Micro Scout, and Code Pilot
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| Seven new subgroups of lugnet.robotics have just been created, covering the following topics: - JVM/Java/Jini for RCX - Palm Pilot / Palm Computing - Telerobotics - LEGO MINDSTORMS Visible Light Link (VLL) protocol - LEGO MINDSTORMS Scout (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: fast firmware downloader
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| (...) I tried to do a DJGPP build of binutils and it didn't work for me. I really didn't want to spend more time futzing with the tools, and I was already using Cygwin, so I used one of the precompiled toolsets. I think you are just a lazy typer, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: fast firmware downloader
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| (...) Great! I was using Borland C++ 3.0 because I happened to have the diskettes around. Remember when a C++ compiler fit on 5 (five) 3.5 diskettes? I have no problem with keeping the existing filename structure. It's readable, it serves the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: Wot no RCX power connector?
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| (...) I've read that the end where the power connector was is "thinner" which is OK since the connector was mounted on the component side and would have added to the hight required. The "smoothing caps" could be eliminated in a battery only design, (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hmm, this is the kind of message I should use for FAQ fodder... (...) You can run it either way. The original intent was to use the dumbest tool possible to interact with the RCX. For DOS this is Procomm Plus or some such tool, for Windows its (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| I have been doing experiments with the Scout brick from the LEGO Robotics Discovery set and have come across a few things that have me scratching my head. Please excuse the length of this post. The Scout can understand two types of messages via it's (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab
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| A new newsgroup/mailing-list lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab has just been created. ROBOLAB is a cross-platform (PC & Mac) graphical environment for programming the LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ Robotics Invention System (e.g., RCX). ROBOLAB, like NQC, does not (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | RE: idea for firmware development
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| (...) Right. pbForth *replaces* the LEGO firmware, but you get a lot of the benefits of user definable functions, lots of varaible space etc. without the hassles of setting up gcc and LegOS. Great for middle school students and teachers who have (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Where is the Firmware?
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| Hi. I have both mindstorms and robolab. Where is the firmware located? (i.e., what is the firmware file called?) I would especially like to know this for robolab as I have a robolab site license. Barbara Nostrand +---...---+ | Barbara Nostrand, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: 8450 Mission / Cybermaster expansion
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| (...) OK, i guess we need to get terminology straight. The ROM is the masked code in the RCX/Scout/Cybermaster. It was "looked at" because I'm pretty sure Kekoa wrote a little dump routine and loaded it into the RCX like replacement firmware - in (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| BrainStorm version 1.1 released. Brainstorm is a version of the LOGO programming language with added commands and functionality to control Lego MindStorms spirit.ocx. The new commands can be used to write Programs for download as well as giving (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.logo)
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| Lego is releasing some details of the Scout OS at the Lego Mindstorms web site. www.legomindstorms.com The article makes reference a Scout SDK, but I couldn't find the link to it. The other stuff looks quite interesting -- fewer and dumber sensors, (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) The almost universal answer to the question "what is the best/easiest alternative programming language for the RCX" is three little letters: "NQC." If you are at all comfortable with programming in a "scripted" language like BASIC, then you (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| (...) Hmmm, kind of like pbForth... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) ---...--- Reply to: rhempel at bmts dot com ---...--- (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: 8450 Mission / Cybermaster expansion
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| (...) Right, Same as in the RCX... (...) Just like in the RCX. When you first power up the RCX, it is running ROM code. (...) This is where it gets interesting. The RCX has an transfer data opcode (45/4d). This is how the "firmware" gets loaded into (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) If the CPU in the Cybermaster is the same as the RCX (minus the extra RAM) or the Scout, and the radio link is alive all the time (not like the narcoleptic tower), I'll bet that I could hack an "umbilical" Forth system, where the bulk of the (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| This answer should be pretty all-inclusive, I should think... (...) Mindstorms is a series of (currently) six sets from Lego that allow you to build homemade robots. Are they worth getting? Yeah, I'd say so; I don't have one yet, but I do plan to. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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