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| (...) No it is not incorrect. You do have to install the USB tower drivers in order for NQC and BricxCC to use the USB tower to talk to the brick. That is not the case for the Serial tower. You can get the tower drivers (along with the firmware) by (...) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.994)
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| | Re: Looking for the Mindstorms software.
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| On Tue, April 5, 2005 4:05 pm, lego-robotics@crynwr.com said: (...) The web page for BricxCC says: "You do NOT need to have spirit.ocx registered on your machine to run BricxCC" And, version 2.0 of the lego firmware can be found in this file: (URL) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.994)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.993)
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| | Re: Holy Mackerel! LEGO survey...
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| (...) Yes, if I was buying toys for someone 0-11, I would definatly consider lego. (...) Because there is some good products on the shelves at the moment. (...) Change the focus away from things that emphasize play and back to sets that emphasize (...) (19 years ago, 17-Apr-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.987)
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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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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.976)
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| (...) Hi All, yes the rumors are strong... Last AFOL Mindstorms Competition (in Billund, LEGO home :) ), the Director of the MS division came and spoke to all the competitors (MS gurus) and asked them: "What do you think is important in a new RCX ?" (...) (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| Some things that I've been pondering: 1. Has anyone created Lego-compatible solenoids? 2. Would a Lego hovercraft be feasible? 3. Where can you get a complete Cybermaster set that is in North America? 4. Is Java a useable language for Mindstorms, (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jul-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.963)
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| | Re: self-propagating RCX program
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| (...) This is just an experiment while we were thinking about micro-controller structures. The H8 is based on a Von Neumann architecture which allows mixtures of data and program code. It seems that only that kind of architecture can be used for (...) (19 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.947)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.944)
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| | Re: Basic NQC Problem
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| (...) While the 2nd edition should indeed have some firmware v2 informations (I don't have this edition), the (very useful) chapter 4 covering the new firmware is actually in the Extreme Mindstorms book (ISBN: 1893115844). Philo (19 years ago, 15-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.931)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.930)
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| | Re: Mindstorms on Slashdot
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| (...) I have a hard time believing that the assertions about LEGO backing away from mindstorms is true. LEGO has done a great thing by creating "First LEGO League". It is successful internationally, and is based on competitions with solutions built (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.mediawatch)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.928)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.923)
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| | Re: Mindstorms NXT programming languages
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| (...) Actually, when using the standard firmware speed is very much a concern with the RCX for me... and others, if things like the Swan firmware are anything to go by. Currently, using NQC, I need to examine the bytecode generated to try to (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.919)
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| | Re: Mindstorms NXT programming languages
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| (...) Yes. And the Swan firmware is about that much faster, with a lot of added things as well, and I can still essentially use all my NQC code and tricks. BrickOS is much faster, etc. I guess my point was that I hope the NXT is faster (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.919)
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| (...) While I realise you mean USB powering the NXT, one thing that also sprang to mind is would it be possible to get the NXT in some cases to act as a USB host as opposed to a device. This would depend on how much of its USB stack is implemented (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.917)
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| Now this I like. The most important thing for LEGO is to make the thing open. Complete documents for the following should be on the LEGO mindstorms web site somewhere: The physical pinout and makeup of the new wire jacks (looks similar to RJ45 or (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.917)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.916)
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| | Re: Mindstorms NXT programming languages
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| Hi Brian, (...) On the RCX Lejos is about that much faster than the standard firmware, and we have 1ms timer resolution. (...) You also get those in Lejos, and compared to NQC it can access more memory. Jürgen (19 years ago, 8-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.916)
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| | Re: Mindstorms 2.0 and MAC users
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| In lugnet.robotics, Eric Sophie forwarded: (...) Eric, feel free to pass along my email to this person if you like - I'll be glad to help (it's brdavis#AT#SIGN#iusb#DOT#edu). The short answer is there are a number of ways to run RIS 2.0 from a Mac. (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.916)
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