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| (...) Sorry. It has only one passive input (you can't attach light-sensors or rotation-sensors to it). The RCX, as you may know, has three outputs and three active inputs and you can choose from lots of ways on how to program it: Standard (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics.codepilot, FTX)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 - when, where, what??
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| (...) If I remember correctly it was posted to the Mindstorms Web site briefly... I've told all I know about it. (...) My hope is that the new firmware part in ROM will contain Hardware support for new Sensors. Proximity, Compass etc... Hey, I can (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Shared LEGO Calendars on BrickBuildr
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| So a little background on this feature... Joe Meno and I were talking the other night about the idea of 'shared' calendars. I was explaining to him about my 'Central Florida Tech' calendar, that I had invited a person or two to add events to it & (...) (16 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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mindstorms
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| | Re: Updated BrickOS Command Reference
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| (...) Dave, This is good to see. You may have done this intentionally, but 'sleep' and 'msleep' are both listed twice. Also, under cputs and cputw, it says '(only forst 5 characters)' and should be '...first 5..' I've never been able to get the (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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firmware
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| | Re: Check that job offer...
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| (...) My guess is "Your job duties cover development of firmware for DSPs." Pretty much describes the kind of engineer you need for a Mindstorms kit. (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Problem
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| Trent, Make sure the following files exist in the paths listed below (within the main BrickOS folder): boot\brickos.srec util\firmdl3.exe If those do not exist, then you need to run the configuration routine and MAKE to build the firmdl3 application (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problem
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| (...) You'd be up and running already without a hitch if you used my pre-built installers for cygwin & brickOS. Downloading the firmware using BricxCC is very simple as well. (URL) Hansen (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Best stuff to buy for FLL
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| (...) I'd probably recommend the "LEGO Mindstorms Education base set" (URL) than the retail NXT kit or buying things piece-by-piece. The education kit comes with a battery pack & charger and converter cables to hook up to the old 9V LEGO motors, (...) (16 years ago, 15-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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mindstorms
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| | Re: asking
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| Cromok- In the future, direct emails to lugnet.robotics.rcx....ugnet.com. Thanks :) (...) legOS.srec is the file that contains the legOS kernel, which is the "core" of the legOS operating system. (...) When using this, (at least in the HOWTO) it (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RCX firmware vs hardware
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| (...) No problem - all versions of firmware work with all versions of RCX. (...) Also no problem. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- HomeEmail: <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkEmail: <sjbaker@link.com> HomePage : (URL) : (4 URLs) GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GCS (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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firmware
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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| (...) Well, or maybe it's me generalizing from getting lucky once. Looking at PaB, 1x14's are currently 28 cents per piece. On Bricklink, right now, I can find them for as low as 15 cents, but not in anything like the quantities I'd needed. In fact (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: RCX firmware vs hardware
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| Hi, there is no problem! ;-) I have also an "old" rcx1.0 with a mindstorm 1.5 kit. some weeks ago I have to build the 2.0 kit with the rcx1.5 (one reason is, I needed an usb tower). So I update both rcx withe the newest firmware from LEGOs website (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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firmware
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| | Re: Primer on writing NXT-G blocks?
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| Right now I don't know of any better resource than just looking at examples like Steve's. However, there is a book I wrote titled "LabVIEW for LEGO MINDSTORMS" that will be out this Fall that contains a primer on writing NXT-G blocks as well as (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms
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| | Re: BrickOS on Mac OS X (restarted ?)
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| (...) It seems like MacNQC can be used to download a new firmware on the RCX: (URL) you didn't, you should give it a try. I also had problems downloading firmwares to the RCX through the USB tower with many utilities. Only NQC did it right. Please (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | AW: Primer on writing NXT-G blocks?
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| Well, they sometimes need to be inquired after a while - in my case, I never got an answer to my first request. Only when having asked about it on some "informal" channel, they sent it rather quickly. But that's just my personal experience and (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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| (...) This is a little off-topic, but I gotta agree with Mr. Eaton here. I don't think it's fair to blast LEGO for "not catering to the adult market". If we do a real quick review of sets geared more towards adults in the past 5-6 years I come up (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | BrickOS on Mac OS X (restarted ?)
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| 11 months ago, there was a thread in this newsgroup dealing with the implementation of BrickOS on Mac OS X. I was just wondering whether the situation had changed since then. I've downloaded M. Zapp's port of the GCC cross-compiler and tools, have (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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firmware
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| | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO
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| (...) I usually just reply that I don’t "play" with LEGO - I design and build. If they can’t understand that... well, their problem... That being said, I think that TLC could do a bit more to get adults into LEGO. For example, take a look at their (...) (16 years ago, 14-Sep-08, to lugnet.general)
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mindstorms
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| | Help locating RIS 2.0 and updating from 1.5
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| Hi all, My Mindstorms kit has been gathering dust for sometime but I just unpacked it (my daughter is now old enough to join in). However I'm having loads of grief trying to run it under XP. I read that RIS2.0 supports XP and the brick can be (...) (16 years ago, 7-Sep-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms
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| | Re: Using the RCX for animating LEGO Train displays?
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| (...) What can you do with an RCX? That doesn't sound very off-topic. :) (...) One name to start with: Brian Alano. He's a member of IndyLUG, and he's done some amusement park rides, and things like that. (...) Most of these things you can ask about (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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