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| (...) Lots of interesting ideas in this thread! But I feel the need to point out that the 3.0 has to still be 'kid friendly'. The RCX is designed for ages 12 and up, the 3.0 should be in the same age range, otherwise Lego loses a huge part of their (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | I have RCX 1.0, what more do I need?
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| Hi all. I have recently come into possession of an RCX 1.0 brick (the one with the power socket), but nothing else that would come with it. What other things do I need to purchase to make my new brick useful? I understand that at the very least I (...) (15 years ago, 18-Sep-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 USB Tower on a Mac
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| (...) As long as you are using OS X you'll be fine. NQC includes its own driver code for working with the USB tower under OS X. For Mac OS 9.x you'll need to install a driver from Lego. You'll also need to download firmware to the RCX. MacNQC can (...) (21 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Bibo Rollup Release
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| I've been asked if I could make the patch collection updates available as a full-distribution release. Actually, I can't say that I blame that request. Most of the changes have already been covered in prior lugnet postings under the "BrickOS Patches (...) (15 years ago, 15-Sep-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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firmware
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mindstorms, firmware
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mindstorms
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| | Re: another comparison
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| (...) Now the new LabVIEW NXT tookit 2.0 that includes firmware 1.26 drastically beets the RCX performance ( (URL) ). We repeated the experiment and now the NXT runs the DFT much faster than the RCX with more features: power-spectrum (needs floating (...) (15 years ago, 20-Aug-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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firmware
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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| The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) been updated. New for this update are patches 36 through 39. 36: RCX tty config file - Extends patch 32 so that /etc/rcx/device.conf will also be checked for a default tty. The (...) (15 years ago, 26-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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firmware
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| | Re: Firmware dependent?
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| Hi Romano, (...) yes. (...) Yes. (...) They are for the original firmware from LEGO, I don't know how BrickOS reacts when no program is running. As for Lejos, without a program loaded it reacts only to the command sent by the Mindstorms remote (...) (21 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | pbForth Does DCC!
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| All, I'd like to announce that I have FINALLY had a free day this weekend and managed to add DCC capability into pbForth! Thanks to Mark Riley for showing me his early DCC driver in assembler and to Dave Koudys for lending me a DCC equipped motor (...) (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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| The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) been updated. New for this update are patches 25 through 35. 25: Cleanup in the util subdirectory - Updated lnpmsg to more cleanly handle and process command-line arguments - Removed in (...) (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: leJOS & LDCC IRP
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| Hi, (...) I'm having a bit of difficulty to understand what you are trying to do, as I know Lejos but not the DCC/train side of things. In particular, on which side do you want to use Lejos, sending those remote commands from an RCX or from a PC? (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.trains)
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mindstorms, firmware
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | RE: understanding the opcode
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| Pierre, Matt Jadud has done what you are trying to do on my pbForth firmware for the RCX. (URL) His weblog is here: (URL) You might try to contact him before you go too far down the road :-). The RCX native opcode execution may be too slow for any (...) (21 years ago, 3-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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firmware
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firmware
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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| The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) has been updated. This update adds a handful of patch files--20 through 24. 20: Nice group of Linux error/warning fixes from Carl and posted to SourceForge at (URL) Thanks, Carl! 21: (...) (15 years ago, 24-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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firmware
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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| I have again updated the Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) big change this time is the consolidation of the code bases of util/firmdl and util/dll-src. Working with all the similar-but-different code was getting a bit (...) (15 years ago, 12-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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mindstorms, firmware
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