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| | Re: LDCC and RCX gizmos (long)
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| (...) Argh! Yes, you are right. I was asumimg that since the standard firmware can send arbitrary packets (that is right, isn't it?), it ought to be able to receive them as well. Time to consider alternate firmware. (21 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | eZCIRCUITs
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| Hi All, eZCIRCUITs® is the simple technique of taking basic electronic circuits and interfacing them with the LEGO NXT.I've posted the first eZCIRCUIT application on my blog at (URL). The application note is fully documented with color illustrations (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jun-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: USB Tower Performance [was leJOS/BricxCC news]
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| In a recent post, John Hansen raised some questions about USB Tower [1] quad speed downloading and [2] varioustimeouts and difficulty with certain optocdes. Here's a bit of an explanation. Lots of technical detail for those that are interested. (...) (21 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Versions 2 and 3 of micromotorized crossing gates.
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| (...) I've been thinking about this one. In the current state of LDCC, a fully automated and LDCC-integrated (and pure LEGO) crossing gate could look something like this (ASCII art follows): Train presence sensor------+-------+ + RCX 1 | (...) (21 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Mindstorms RIS 1.5 (9747) price?
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| My sense is that future versions (say in time for Christmas) will have new firmware, but the new firmware will also be available to current users. I'd say you got a good deal. At DM 109, even the Droid kit is a good deal, not even counting the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Windows Vista Mindstorms Compatibility
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| Great! But now I've run into another problem. My USB tower is not detected. It is installed, I can see it under the Control Panel, but none of the programs can find it. I've tried plugging it into different USB ports, I've tried the new setup (...) (17 years ago, 20-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Windows Vista Mindstorms Compatibility
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| I have just bought a laptop with Windows Vista (it's the only OS you can get on a laptop around here) and of course I have immediately tried to install my LEGO software . Here's a short report of the different apps I've tried to install and the (...) (17 years ago, 20-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What TLG set "revolutionized" your building?
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| In lugnet.build, Karl Paulsen wrote: I'm ignoring here things like Mindstorms that *are* the reason I build, and focusing on offical sets that shifted my POV. (...) I'd have to say the one that sticks out the most is the redesigned Technic Front End (...) (17 years ago, 30-May-07, to lugnet.build)
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| | RE: question
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| (...) Jeremy, I think he said he left the box unopened until recently. This means that the air did not get into the box until recently. Clearly, a different failure mechanism is at work here. It's more likely that the electrons in the firmware (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | RE: Windows Vista Mindstorms Compatibility
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| Hi, BrixCC works fine under Vista here, just change the shortcut to "Run as Administrator" (under the "Advanced" button). Regards, Marco -----Original Message----- From: linmix [mailto:linmix@gmail.com] Sent: zondag 20 mei 2007 16:32 To: (...) (17 years ago, 20-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What TLG set "revolutionized" your building?
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| (...) Statue of Liberty and Ollie the Dragon (...) Several of the buildings that have tiles between layers. And Studless Technic has been a bit of a shock, but I'm adapting. (...) Mindstorms. And Cafe Corner. (...) Minifig Sculpture. First big set I (...) (17 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Large Scale Lego Tank RC
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| (...) Nifty. Have you thought about using the newer bigger tread links, from the Snowmobile (and later this year from the Power Functions Bulldozer)? They are much less likely to break apart in my experience, and are closer in look at that scale as (...) (17 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.technic)
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| | leJOS & BricxCC news
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| I have BricxCC compiling and downloading leJOS programs now. The support for leJOS is integrated in much the same way as BrickOS support is. BricxCC generates a Makefile and executes it using Bash. So GNU make and bash are required for it to (...) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Patch for RIS 2.0 SDK (pre-alpha) released
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| Dear All Lego has posted the first patch for the pre-alpha SDK on the Mindstorms site: Patch #1 RCX2_SDK_PRE_ALPHA_PATCH_1.zip contains 2 files, new firmware and Patch documentation (20 KB). You can download it from (URL) by clicking through the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Current state of pbforth
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| (...) Yeah, I haven't quite got around to implementing cut-and-paste... You can use Hyperterminal or any other similar teminal emulator set to 2400,n,8,1 once the firmware is loaded. Unless you have a USB port. OK, if you really need this, then I (...) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: leJOS & BricxCC news
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| (...) works (...) and (...) as to (...) BrickOS (...) both (...) I'm no expert on leJOS, but I've experienced a similar problem with my LDCC firmware and the NQC downloader. Originally the memory sequence in my .srec file was non-contiguous (i.e. (...) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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