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| Hi Jim, (...) The basic Mindstorms software does not fully exploit the programming model made available via the Spirit OCX. It imposes tight limits on program complexity and does not provide access to all of the features implemented by the standard (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | CBS (Clicking Brick Syndrome) Patch availible
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| For those of you that have come down with the crippling "Clicking Brick Syndrome", it seems that there may finally be a fix availible. Take a look at: (URL) you had this problem during a firmware update, please try this and post the results. (18 years ago, 3-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: problem downloading srec file to RCX
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| (...) Since I use nqc for non-standard firmware uploads, I vote for 3), with a command line option to suppress in 2) You can never have enough command line options, right? Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: installation problem!
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| (...) I've only verified pbForth being uploaded using the commandline version of NQC. (...) This is good. Has anyone else out there tried RCXCC to upload the pbForth firmware???? Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Using IR Remote within pbFORTH
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| I'm trying to work a project for class using a Mindstorms kit. I want to program the system using Forth, but I've had two minor glitches. 1) Is it possible to download the firmware from an old DOS system? I've had no problem using NQC, but the (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Setting NQC_OPTIONS to Trcx2
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| I am working my way through "Extreme MindStorms". Page 55 indicates that I might be able to set the NQC_OPTIONS to default to Trcx2 and allow me to use RcxCC with Version 2 firmware. I cannot figure out how to tell NQC what I want. How can I (...) (24 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Original Communications Protocol Documentation
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| Hello, I have just finished writing up my little project to discover the protocol for talking to/from the RCX. The finished document as a PDF is at: (URL) I wrote this up to facilitate communications to a PC from an RCX or Spybot with the standard (...) (18 years ago, 23-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | RE: pbForth problems
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| (...) It's working just fine. If the LCD says "4th", then the firmware is in place, now all you need is a terminal set to 2400,n,8,1 By the way, this kind of question should be on the lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth heirarchy... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Robotics in Aussie
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| (...) Yes, but you can always add two (?) extra batteries to the "non supported" sensors, and I think they'll run ok. :-) (...) About the firmware I don't agree. They only made it in ROM because they had lack of RAM with design they chose. I think (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | download speed
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| hi first, i would like to congratulate the Lejos team. When i bought Mindstorms, didn't imagine i was going to use it with my favorite programming language! I noticed that Lejos (2.0.0) is very slow to download programs or firmware to the rcx, (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | RE: RCX.pm questions [and Linux RCX GUI question]
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| (...) Luis, You might want to look at my rcxtcl package. It has all of the stuff you need to make messages for the RCX. Currently, the tcl code makes the messages for uploading firmware bytes to the RCX, but there is a routine that will take a (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Development enviroment...
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| Hi! I'm beginning my degree-ending project and it involves a LEGO Mindstorms. I've been searching the Internet for different "development enviroments" and I've found a few ones. The most interesting ones I've found are NQC, leJOS and leGOS. The (...) (22 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Something else is needed, I think...
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| (...) ^^^...^^^ That is exactly the point that I was trying to make. (...) Again, though, such a system would bear the incredible weight of having a full-blown C/C++ cross-compiler and linking system as being part of the package. Making legos (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: problem downloading srec file to RCX
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| (...) Ok, the first thing I would do is that the known good firmware (firm0309.lgo) loads with all of the tools that you are interested in. The next thing is that any custom image you put in the RCX may or may not respond to the delelte firmware (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: How much memory finally? ADDENDUM
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| (...) There is no user memory from 0x4000 to 0x8000 - It's all ROM space but it might not be used. I look at things in terms of replacement firmware, and the RCX is very flexible in this regard. The RAM for replacement firmware starts at 0x8000. (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: New NQC API for RCX-Spybot or RCX-RC communication
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| Hi Gabriel, (...) the format is 38kHz or 76kHz modulated infrared, with a standard 2400 baud serial format of 1 start bit, 8 data bits, odd parity, 1 stop bit (modulated infrared on = 0, off = 1). The packet format consists of a start byte 0x55, (...) (19 years ago, 29-May-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: remote control and rcx
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| (...) The RCX will not respond to the remote until you succeed in downloading the firmware. The built-in romware does not listen to the remote. The remote can be used with many RCXes at once, since it is a one-way protocol with no response messages. (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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