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| (...) Hi, I am currently working on a Java API for the RCX based on LEGO's firmware. It is basically a model of the RCX with LEGO's firmware, that is, the instruction set described by Kekoa Proudfoot in his RCX Internals. The basics (instruction (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Porting LEGO Robotics Kit.
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| (...) So if your students already know C, why not program the Lego robots in C ? You could either use 'NQC' (which is a C subset specially designed to run on the standard Lego firmware) - or you could replace the standard Lego firmware with BrickOS (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: legOS
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| (...) Er? Since when you rewrite the firmware, you can take full control of the i/o pins of the H8, it seems perfectly possible to me to drive inputs as outputs and fry something you didn't mean to fry... You have to be careful to make sure you (...) (26 years ago, 26-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | legOS?
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| What is the legOS? New firmware? Where can I find it. (26 years ago, 7-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Expression limitations w/bytecode
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| Dave Baum writes: > The firmware does support basic arithmetic operations. You can use them > in NQC like this... Ah, my mistake. I had tried something like "if (a - b > 20)" using NQC, and it failed. I referred to the docs, and my read of the (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Batteries....
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| Try reloading your "Firmware". -- Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net The Shop (URL) Mallory" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:001901bf39fd$a2...tah.edu... (...) on (...) read (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | GPS for RCX
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| The standard RCX firmware with its serial protocol could not talk to a GPS, but LegOS could. With LegOS and a GPS we could make robots that could tell where they were. This would be way cool. I want a solar powered toy robot boat with GPS that can (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| The standard RCX firmware with its serial protocol could not talk to a GPS, but LegOS could. With LegOS and a GPS we could make robots that could tell where they were. This would be way cool. I want a solar powered toy robot boat with GPS that can (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: threads - bug in the firmware?
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| (...) I would strongly suggest changing this to while(1) msleep(bignumber);. Otherwise you're hogging the processor doing nothing important, which could do bad things to any compute-intensive tasks you may have going. It'll also use slightly less (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: ir cars
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| Do any of the "third party" firmware options for the RCX allow one to control what is sent through the H8 serial port? If so, then it should be possible to use an RCX to send/receive any 38KHz IR signal falling within the bps/baud/processing limits (...) (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: IC 4.01
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| Hi Scott, downloading firmware and programs are done automaticly with own menu choices with the rcx. Or do you want to communicate with two rcx? Ralf Am 2002-10-28 2:09 Uhr schrieb "Scott Davis" unter <rcx2man@hotmail.com>: (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Legway and Robolab
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| (...) Apparently, the standard firmware imposes a 100ms delay before a motor can change directions (ostensibly to protect the motors). This might be the source of some of the instability. Dick Swan suggests a possible way around the delay at the (...) (21 years ago, 10-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC API for the new Swan firmware
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| (...) I would in this case prefer the second - I actually use a "kMyNamedConstant" convention in my code, and find it very nice to have the API constants very easily seperable from my constants. (...) Again, personally I would prefer that, as it (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Tacho Limit and Braking
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| (...) The NXT firmware does not support a single operation which has the motor run to a specific tachometer limit and then brake. The only way to do what you would like to do involves several operations. But you can wrap it all up into a reusable (...) (18 years ago, 2-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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