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| (...) WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!!!!!!! OPEN IT UP!!!!!! NOW!!!!! no stop reading this. open it NOW!!!!!! ahh, (sigh) that better. now on to lesson 12 of the RCX. (...) much like I cant tell you what your favorite TV should be I can only recommend. (...) (21 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Transmitting a message from the RCX to the PC
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| (...) The one-byte messages supported by the RCX are not generally designed to go from the RCX to the PC. They are intended to go from the PC to the RCX, or from one RCX to another. One reason for this is that the original RS-232 IR tower would not (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, 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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| | Porting LEGO Robotics Kit.
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| Dear sir/madam, During the last week at our laboratory at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, we have become interested in using the LEGO Robotics Kit, in order to allow students that take the course of "Computer Vision & Robotics" (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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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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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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| (...) The one thing I would say about this is that anyone who has ever tried to write replacement firmware, or who has programmed in BrickOS/LegOS has encountered situations where the RCX has become completely locked up due to a programming error. (...) (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: More Speed? Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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| (...) I believe that is exactly what legOS does. It compiles your program and stores it in the firmware area. legOS has no firmware, and it ignores the ROM code, too. It accesses all the hardware directly. That's my understanding, at least. (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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| External power Flash memory (no more losing the firmware and programming when power is removed or batteries die) An extensible 2-wire sensor bus allowing up to about 16 sensors attached to just one port on the RCX (freeing up 2 port locations) A (...) (21 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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| All the thoughts on this subject are really interesting reading! As several people have said before, the reality is that LEGO designs things for kids who are probably at the mercy of what their parents will buy. So, anything LEGO does has to (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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| (...) Agreed. This is critical for LEGO (while I would, of course, prefer that a major corperation design products specificly aimed at *ME*, that might be, well... a tad unrealistic). (...) Perhaps. Personally, I'd like to see a true "sleep" mode (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | RE: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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| (...) As I've pointed out many times in the past, the RCX is faster and has more memory than the comuter in the LEM that allowed astronauts to got to the moon and back. (URL) The difference is that we are missing I/O expansion - and on top of that (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: More Speed? Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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| (...) I like using NQC because of the simplicity of downloading byte code based programs onto the Lego firmware environment. Using NQC, the CPU would need to be at least 10x to 100x faster to run the kind of programs I would like to run at an (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: More Speed? Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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| (...) This could be addressed on the existing hardware with a better programming environment. What I have in mind is a new NQC compiler that generates a firmware file instead of a bytecode file. So you would code in NQC (or something like it) and (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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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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