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| (...) ---...--->snip I've not had the time yet to analyze the patch. Seems that you replace the first firmware handler. In Robolab the firmware is found under ..ROBOLAB\Engine\RCX1\Text. They simply have changed the extension .lgo to .txt and call (...) (21 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| Firstly, do you have the firmware on the RCX in question? If the screen shows 00.00.00 then you should be good (i think). Turn on the RCX, and start pressing buttons. Connected motors and lights should start doing "things" repsonding to the (...) (15 years ago, 26-Oct-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Chapters Indigo Coles has 10x the plum points when you spend $30 or more instore and online ending today, May 1st. LEGO mindstorms is excluded. This is noteworthy as they have the new Disney Collectible figs online. Not sure if they are in stores (...) (8 years ago, 1-May-16, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| ---...--->snip (...) Welcome to LEGO Mindstorms robotics: do great things in real world with imperfect tools and objects. That's what makes it so interesting. It's always the Apollo 13 challenge: "Here guys, that's what they have on bord! Come on (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Robolab, byte codes and assembler
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| Thanks for the response. (...) It seems to me it's a design flaw in the entire method of counting rotations, which relies on the theoretical ideal of "instantaneous" voltage changes, which can't be produced. You can't go from 2V to 5V without (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Source Code for Enhanced Firmware 1.28
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| Hi, Recently, John Hansen's Enhanced Firmware version 1.28 was posted to BrixCC. I'm trying to find out if the Source Code is available for that version. The source package (URL) appears to be for the old firmware (1.06) only (as of Sept 16 2009). (...) (15 years ago, 18-Sep-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| (...) Welcome to the world of LEGO robotics! You don't need to program the RCX to use it with the MindStorms remote, but you do need to download the firmware into the RCX before it will recognize the remote commands. When you first take the RCX out (...) (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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| (...) The one thing I would say about this is that anyone who has ever tried to write replacement firmware, or who has programmed in BrickOS/LegOS has encountered situations where the RCX has become completely locked up due to a programming error. (...) (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| You need a computer and either a serial or USB IR tower to download the firmware into the RCX unit before it will respond to the remote control. If all you want to do is drive the motor outputs, you don't need any programming. Also, it doesn't have (...) (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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| External power Flash memory (no more losing the firmware and programming when power is removed or batteries die) An extensible 2-wire sensor bus allowing up to about 16 sensors attached to just one port on the RCX (freeing up 2 port locations) A (...) (21 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| Happy Saint Patrick's Day! Walmart flyer, good Friday 18 through Thursday 24, has a bunch of LEGO in it, but it is all full Walmart price. ----- Superstore is having a tax free day on Saturday March 19. Only some stores have a toy department. ----- (...) (9 years ago, 17-Mar-16, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: More Speed? Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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| (...) I believe that is exactly what legOS does. It compiles your program and stores it in the firmware area. legOS has no firmware, and it ignores the ROM code, too. It accesses all the hardware directly. That's my understanding, at least. (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| All the thoughts on this subject are really interesting reading! As several people have said before, the reality is that LEGO designs things for kids who are probably at the mercy of what their parents will buy. So, anything LEGO does has to (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Agreed. This is critical for LEGO (while I would, of course, prefer that a major corperation design products specificly aimed at *ME*, that might be, well... a tad unrealistic). (...) Perhaps. Personally, I'd like to see a true "sleep" mode (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| (...) As I've pointed out many times in the past, the RCX is faster and has more memory than the comuter in the LEM that allowed astronauts to got to the moon and back. (URL) The difference is that we are missing I/O expansion - and on top of that (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: More Speed? Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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| (...) I like using NQC because of the simplicity of downloading byte code based programs onto the Lego firmware environment. Using NQC, the CPU would need to be at least 10x to 100x faster to run the kind of programs I would like to run at an (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: More Speed? Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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| (...) This could be addressed on the existing hardware with a better programming environment. What I have in mind is a new NQC compiler that generates a firmware file instead of a bytecode file. So you would code in NQC (or something like it) and (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: More Speed? Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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| (...) Your understanding is correct. So why doesn't everybody use BrickOS? There are at least two reasons that I am aware of: 1. Many people, especially "non-programmers" find a full-blown C++ implementation to be intimidating and non-user-friendly. (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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