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| (...) Please let your wife know that she has *really* cool tastes in anniversary gifts :). (...) I still like it quite a bit, but it seems among adults I'm a minority (or an aberration... I've been called worse). I agree that the bugs in the IDE in (...) (16 years ago, 13-May-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.674)
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| | Re: I'm missing parts' primitives.
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| (...) Uhh, special trade regulations which prevent the transport of those files across national boundaries? They went to the government as payment of a data-import tariff? Seriously, I'd check the hard drive for errors, redownload and reinstall (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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redownload
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| | Re: Handy Board and 6 legged bots.
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| Greetings, The serial port could be used after downloading the program code into memory for other purposes (such as controlling the mini-ssc board). However, I have not found any reference to RS-232C port IC commands, so one would have to build (...) (28 years ago, 13-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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firmware
(score: 1.665)
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| | Re: LDraw Add-On 2.1.4 Now Available
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| (...) That's the exact same thing that happened to me. In a way, I'm glad to see it's not a problem at my end. (...) Windows (...) Since I have a new machine, it wasn't as much a problem to do that, so I did. Twice. In one day. Luckily, the second (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad)
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redownload
(score: 1.649)
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| | Re: spi serial port.
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| e. crispell wagner spake unto the ether: (...) Please don't laugh at me, folks, you may not believe it, but this problem was solved in 1982 by the ill-fated Coleco ADAM computer. The ADAM's peripherals (disk drive, tape drive, printer, (...) (27 years ago, 27-Jun-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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firmware
(score: 1.648)
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| | RCX infrared broken -- what now?
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| I recently dug my old MindStorms sets out of storage after about five years of inactivity. Naturally the RCXes (I have three) all needed to have their firmware re-installed. I was able to successfully refresh two of the bricks but not the third. I (...) (16 years ago, 20-Aug-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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mindstorms, firmware
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.602)
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| | Free IAR compiler for NXT firmware
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| If you haven't heard yet, IAR has released a free LEGO MINDSTORMS version of their compiler. It happens to be the same compiler that LEGO uses to build the NXT firmware so it makes it extraordinarily simple to build your own modified firmware (...) (16 years ago, 3-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.595)
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| | Re: Free IAR compiler for NXT firmware
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| (...) The download page has this nice little notice: DISCLAIMER: You have to open the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT and solder on PCB. Please note that the LEGO Group warranty of the NXT is invalid after doing this. Neither IAR Systems nor the LEGO Group (...) (16 years ago, 4-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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mindstorms, firmware
(score: 1.594)
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| | Re: legOS
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| (...) In addition to this, read the licence again, and tell me whether or not it can be interpreted to exclude the firmware and ROM image. Does firmware fall under the category of software? Certainly they made it clear that Plug-Ins fall into that (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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firmware
(score: 1.573)
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| | Re: Programming Language for MS
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| (...) A bit ambitious. (And not possible until the firmware is fully reverse-engineered, certainly.) You probably could get a java subset working, however. Luckily, you're not alone in all of this. Check out (URL) Matthew Miller ---> (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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firmware
(score: 1.572)
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| | RE: Firmware: IR transmission demystified
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| I'm curious, and sorry if this has come up before: Any chance someone can get the RCX to communicate with IrDA devices? I'm thinking specifically of small hand-held computers. I don't know much about infrared data transmission, but it based on (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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firmware
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| | How to download firmware file (non-Windows approach?)
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| Is there any way to download the firmware without using the Windows RCX software? If so, please provide instructions. Why? I would like to get away from using a windows machine ASAP. It looks like there are plenty of development tools etc. But I (...) (26 years ago, 16-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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firmware
(score: 1.571)
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firmware
(score: 1.570)
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firmware
(score: 1.570)
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| | Re: Mindstorm and Mac through Virtual PC?
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| (...) A lot. Robolab uses LabView, a very popular graphical programming interface. I heard somewhere that one of the new global satellite networks was programmed using it. It's very full featured and you should be able to use it to do anything the (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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firmware
(score: 1.570)
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| | Firmware: IR transmission demystified
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| IR transmission was pretty tough to get at. Carrier frequency was the final key - there are no crystals to create the IR carrier, so the processor has to provide it. It turns out that 8-bit t1 output is used for just that purpose. Guess I'll have to (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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firmware
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| | Re: Firmware: IR transmission demystified
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| I just checked (URL) The physical link layer is based on the common asynchronous serial (...) If our baby can recognize those 3/16 marks as marks, and the other end won't mind our transmitting 16/16 marks, perhaps. (URL) IrDA physical layer (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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firmware
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| | Re: legOS
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| (...) I'll jump in here and take a shot. One definition of software vs firmware is that firmware talks directly to the hardware (setting bits in registers etc) while software doesn't. This is related to another possible definition that firmware is, (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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firmware
(score: 1.569)
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| | Re: legOS
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| (...) Did you get a ROM image? Did you disassemble the firmware? Even if you did, is there anything to forbid you from using that information to write new firmware? Not that I'm supplying you with an answer, but it seems to me that it's your RCX, (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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firmware
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