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| There is a great project for creating a technic/MINDSTORMS baseplate on Kickstarter that could be a great classroom or hobbydesk testbase as well as provide a sturdy base (or side) for many Robotics projects. Have a look at the (URL) Base website> (...) (12 years ago, 14-May-12, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: Improving the firmware?
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| Thanks Philippe. You definitely asked the questions that I was thinking about and I pretty well understood the answers except I was a little puzzled by the need for "follows" as well. However, we definitely lost functionality in this area with NXT. (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Improving the firmware?
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| (...) I am very interested in a community project to enhance the NXT standard firmware. I've submitted a few bug fixes and enhancements to LEGO already which hopefully will make it into the next official firmware release. Enhancements I plan on (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Improving the firmware?
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| After the release of the source code for NXT firmware version 1.04, I was wondering if anyone is considering to open a community project to create an improved firmware. I think an improved firmware which is compatible with version 1.04 opcodes (so (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Improving the firmware?
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| If anyone is still listening to suggestions, I would like to have the ability to spawn a thread. I don't know how threads are handled in NXT-G, but in NBC, there is no way to create a thread to kick off a task while moving on to other tasks in the (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Spawning threads in NBC
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| (...) Unfortunately, there really isn't any way to implement a mechanism for stopping a thread from another thread (without firmware modifications). John Hansen (18 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: Spawning threads in NBC
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| I don't know how the NXT-G thread/task scheduler works. Just wondering if anyone has any idea on the impact on execution performance when multiple threads are running? And how often threads are scheduled? For example, if you have a "main" thread (...) (18 years ago, 31-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NXC/NBC release news
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| I have posted beta 24 of NBC/NXC. Here's the list of fixes and new features: Version 1.0.1.b24 ---...--- - Fixes a preprocessor bug in NBC and NXC that is triggered by not having a ')' at the end of a macro invocation (or anywhere following in the (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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firmware
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| | Re: What do these macros do?
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| (...) John - if you've got someone's ear in this, could you also see if a GCC build of the firmware can be released? I know LEGO are unlikely to use GCC themselves as they can afford more specialised tools, but so far, I don't see much of a (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: semafori
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| (...) Il nostro diorama di Zwolle aveva varie automazioni ferroviarie, tutte gestite tramite RCX: - Passaggio a livello: un sensore segnalava l'avvicinarsi del treno, attivava i lampeggiatori del passaggio a livello e poi faceva chiudere le sbarre, (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: What do these macros do?
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| (...) It is possible to write to the popup buffer but only by using the IOMap routine (SetDisplayPopup). The regular system calls which write to the LCD all write to the normal display memory. Unfortunately, as Dick Swan suggested, the current NXT (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: another comparison
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| (...) Hi Jürgen, The document, where I develop the theory of the algorithm has some text-pseudo code ( a mixture of C and PASCAL) that you easily can convert to anything. Since the document is math stuff, I largely prefer the := notation for (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Improving the firmware?
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| In article <JBFwGp.30p@lugnet.com>, Guy Ziv <guy@nxtasy.org> writes (...) I would like to be able to rebuild the firmware & experiment with it before I get too ambitious. Has anybody fixed up the code to build with the gcc tools and made it (...) (18 years ago, 8-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Improving the firmware?
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| (...) And I "third" this motion. I've started going through the "fun" process of building GCC for NXT, but don't have enough gigabytes of free space on my LEGO dev machine (under CygWin) to get all the way through the process. Although I don't think (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | another comparison
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| We have compared the sampling and computing speed of NXT and RCX. NXT uses standard firmware 1.03 and is programmed with the LabVIEW toolkit. RCX is programmed with ULTIMATE ROBOLAB. Both bricks do the same thing: computing the DFT on a small (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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