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| Rich: this looked real nice. I thought I was the only person melding the cyber cannon and the mindstorms. my first "trick' was to place all 4 in a line, then run a "camshaft" over the firing mech.. it was fun to watch them fire in sequence. then I (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.621)
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| | Re: Star Wars Mindstorms = True
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| (...) This was always a known risk. If LEGO forces us to reverse engineer another product, I think instead the "classic RCX" will become a hot item. Hopefully LEGO will get a clue and release low-level interface documentation next time around. (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.621)
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| | Re: Robotics sub-groups
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| (...) lugnet.robotics.rcxfirmware is certainly more accurate and descriptive than just plain lugnet.robotics.rcx. But I think the 'rcxfirmware' component makes it a bit long, though, in terms of practical limitations on sub-group names -- for (...) (26 years ago, 5-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.619)
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| | Re: NQC v. LegOS
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| (...) It isn't a patch for gcc -- the H8300 is a supported target. The only limitations are that the processor has 16-bit ints, which when you start to include traditional libc functions, can require some porting effort, as with other code that you (...) (26 years ago, 7-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.619)
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| | Re: Firmware Problem
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| (...) Yes, the 'Firm0309.lgo' file is in the /firm directory in your Mindstorms folder. And you can use Dave Baum's Not Quite C (NQC) Compiler to download this file to your RCX. You can then either program using NQC or the Invention System. (URL) (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.618)
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| | Group/list for legOS created
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| [Followups set to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos] A new newsgroup/mailing-list for focused legOS discussions has been created: CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos (group): Focused discussion group for legOS, an unofficial replacement (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.617)
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| | Re: Mindstorms vs. Cybermaster
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| (...) The programming environment of the RCX is more powerful, starting by the fact that you can replace the original firmware. Using the standard firmware, the RCX have about 10 times more memory than the CyberMaster. With the RCX you can also (...) (26 years ago, 19-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.616)
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| | RE: Droid development kit picture at my
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| # From: christy_wailes@hotmail.com # Sent: vendredi 19 février 1999 19:03 # To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com # Subject: Re: Droid development kit picture at my # >I wonder if it brings some Windows driver or are we are # forced to use the # >MindStorms (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.616)
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| | Group/list for pbFORTH created
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| [Followups set to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth] A new newsgroup/mailing-list for focused pbFORTH discussions has been created: CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth (group): Focused discussion group for pbFORTH, an unofficial (...) (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.615)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.614)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.611)
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| | RcxCC version 2.2 available
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| I am happy to announce the public release of version 2.2 of RCX Command Center. RCX Command Center is a Windows (95, 98, NT) program that assist you in programming the Lego MindStorms or CyberMaster Robots. It provides a higher level interface to (...) (26 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.610)
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| | Battery voltage available within NQC?
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| Last night I went out and bought six C cell nicads and wired them up as a power supply for my robot. What I'm wondering is this: is there some way to programmatically obtain the battery voltage, so I could make a decision based on a voltage (...) (26 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.610)
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| | RE: Ir transmission
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| (...) Alas, I only used the firmware timers available as core RCX firmware calls. I can look through Kekoa's disassembly to see if there are higher resolution timers available ( I think the motor timers might be useful ) In general, NQC hooks in (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.606)
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| | Re: loading s/w
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| (...) I skipped something here. The assumption I made is that you want to load new custom firmware. If you want to load the Lego firmware, find the Firm0309.lgo file in your Mindstorms directory, and load that into the RCX exactly as you would (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.606)
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| | RE: Angle Sensor
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| (...) Oh Oh, time to get on the flame suit. I agree with Stuart. Fuzzy logic was one of those fads that was to be applied to ALL control systems. The problem is that many control system problems are well understood and solutions are already in (...) (26 years ago, 28-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.605)
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| | RIS memory usage
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| I'm anxiously awaiting the time when I can buy my Mindstorms package, but until then I'm spending time learning about it. One thing that has gotten me a little confused is how the RCX brick uses memory. I keep reading about the memory usage being: (...) (26 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.604)
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| | Re: Novice group
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| (...) Steve & James, Would you find a group dedicated to LEGO MindStorms (as a self-contained product or a purely-LEGO product) to be helpful? The current robotics group/list has a very strong focus and purpose toward customizing the firmware and (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.601)
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| | RE: Something else is needed, I think...
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| Nick wrote: (using embedded HTML!!!!) (...) Right you are, Nick. I'm the guy that kept discouraging do-it-yourself "general" solutions just before the RCX came out. Then I wrote pbFORTH ..... I've never even cracked the wrapper on my LEGO Mindstorms (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.600)
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| | Something else is needed, I think...
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| I'm just wondering how many people agree with me on this point... I think that another code development system is needed for the RCX. Why? Well, it seems like everything that's already out there is either overkill (legos, pbforth for rcx), or (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 2.599)
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