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| ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Baker" <sjbaker1@airmail.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 6:53 PM Subject: Re: Speed of IR comms? (...) LEGO and CIR (Consumer Infra-Red) send signals on a modulated carrier frequency (36KHz, 38KHz, or (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: Guidance, Advice, etc
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| (...) Acutally that are not ROMs but firmware software. When you buy your mindstorms set, you get a programming system from lego you can start with. To use it, you have to download some software, the firmware, to the RCX brick. With the original (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: Please suggest which RIS version is good
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| (...) Try BrickLink: (URL) of the differences: RIS v1.0 has an RCX w/external power jack that many find useful and includes a serial IR tower. v1.5 RCX (also stamped v1.0) has no external power jack; the set also includes a serial IR tower. v2.0 has (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: brickOS & GNU Pascal (update)
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| (...) <snip> (...) Good work on this. Yes I believe we would like to add this support. We are crunched with trying to get what we want into this next release. We likely can add some of the Makefile mods in this release, maybe the Pascal Units as (...) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: Hardware mods to the RCX
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| (...) FDTI chips are very easy to use, look at (2 URLs) I'm thinking about using the power from the (...) Maybe there some usefull links at the next page under the block "Mindstorms Internals" (URL) the IR components by a serial connection won't be (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
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| Some shameless self-promotion... The 2nd edition of Definitive Guide to Lego Mindstorms has just been published. Most of the RCX Code programs have been updated to take advantage of 2.0 features, and there are some new RCX Code programs as well. (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Spybotics Book Announcement
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| All, While Dave is shamelessly promoting the Second Edition of his now classic "Definitive Guide To LEGO Mindstorms"... (URL) I thought I would take this opportunity to announce my new Spybotics book. It's published by Apress, will be on bookstore (...) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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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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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: LNPD problem
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| Hi Pieter, I'll take a shot at it... It's possible you may be experiencing a transmission problem on the RCX side. That's not to say that your RCX can't transmit IR data correctly... obviously it can since you are able to download BrickOS and that (...) (22 years ago, 4-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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mindstorms, firmware
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mindstorms, firmware
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: Problems with the linux version
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| Hi Reto! I just set it up two weeks ago, here is what I did (in general description): How to set up leJOS in Linux and use the USB Mindstorms Legotower: * get current CVS version because leJOS 2.0 does not support the USB Tower in Linux. Look at (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: Is there a NQC HowTo out there someplace?
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| (...) Well there are books called "Teach yourself C in 5 days", 21 days and so on... try amazon books. NQC is not actually a full C compiler, it has been simplified a great deal and if you learn the basics from a book, you'd be ready to go with NQC (...) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: usb to ris 1.x rcx ir how
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| 1. Hardware upgrade to USB IR tower: Dacta is Lego's educational division. For some reason, in the US it is known as Pitsco. The Pitsco link you have found is the only way I know of getting a USB IR tower on its own. It does not need batteries. 2. (...) (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Another firmware replacement for RCX
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| Hi, my name is Paolo Gai, and I would like to inform you that we just published another firmware replacement for the Lego Mindstorms RCX. The software is written from scratch and distributed under the GPL license, and includes: - support for motors (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Update to nxtgcc toolchain
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| I have updated the toolchain little bit: *the binsert utility reads binary file info directly from the standard firmware image (and you do not have to cut out the file sections manually) *the demo program executes, which is probably what some have (...) (16 years ago, 15-Aug-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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mindstorms, firmware
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mindstorms, firmware
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | linux and the USB IR Tower
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| Hi, I have been trying to use my lego mindstorms kit along with the USB IR Tower in linux. I have had limited success. I managed to patch the distribution so that firmdl3 recognizes the usb device. I compiled a module for the USB tower device. It (...) (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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mindstorms, firmware
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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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mindstorms, firmware
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