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| "Rodrigo Santos" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:4548B36A.305080....edu.ar... (...) A couple of things to note here: 1. RCX original firmware had to have the batteries taken out to reset it. 2. You don't state what version of RCX (...) (18 years ago, 1-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, redownload, firmware
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| | Re: RCX Question
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| (...) What I have found is that, on most 1.0's, it takes two or three tries before the 2.0 firmware "takes". I have no idea why this is, but once you have "broken it in", the 1.0 will not give you problems in the future if you need to redownload (...) (19 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Faulty Output
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| (...) My Scout had one motor port which was rather flaky. It would periodically stop working, but jiggling the wire would often fix it. Lego was willing to fix it but I was too lazy to send it in. So I opened my scout up and saw that the connection (...) (22 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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redownload, firmware
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| | My RCX is HAUNTED
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| so. I'm playing in the rice pit. the robot is doing its thing. ---...---some background-------- I'm at a software point now so all I'm doing is "tweaking." changing all those variables from cycle this task 2 times(for efficient testing) to 8 times (...) (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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redownload, firmware
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Lego "hopes" for Mac Mindstorms in '99
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| Hi, all, Don't know if anyone's snooped around the Mindstorms website recently, but I found this tidbit under the "Store" section (click on the image in the upper left corner at (URL) Macintosh version?: We understand that there are many Macintosh (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Communicating with CyberMaster
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| A number of people have reported having problems when trying to talk to a CyberMaster brick using the SPIRIT ActiveX control. I got my CyberMaster set a couple of days ago and was certainly experiencing the same problems (the radio tower answers (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: more Mindstorms FAQ
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| Excellent outline; however I think it is a too "Mindstorms" focused. Perhaps the name should be changed to "Mindstorms and Lego-robotics FAQ". Many newcomers ask for pointers to using the Mindstorms hardware (RCX/firmware) outside of a pure LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Help with my IR tower
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| Hello everyone, I've had my Mindstorms for about 2 months now. When I first got it everything worked fine, I downloaded the firmware, and my own programs (from the Mindstorms software), but then other pressures forced me to put them away until now. (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: legOS
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| Assuming firmware is "software", the question still remains whether the licensing agreement that came with the Mindstorms kit refers to only the PC-based software (which was my interpretation when I read it) or whether it refers to the firmware too. (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Replacement firmware: legOS-0.1
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| Greetings. Work on my native mode kernel and standard library has progressed to a point where it is time to baptise the offspring. legOS V0.1 beta is now available for download on (URL) allows you to program the LEGO Mindstorms RCX in assembler and (...) (26 years ago, 16-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | RCX Bytecode compiler in Tcl
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| Greetings, I had become quickly frustrated by the limitations of the Mindstorms programming environment. Fueled by the RCX bytecode knowlege provided by Kekoa, I have recently written an RCX program interpreter/compiler in Tcl, a freely available (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: legOS
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| Lageson, Tom wrote in message <813599F6EBBFD011B40...co.com>... (...) This is, in fact, the nub of the question at hand. If I buy ANY single board computer with proprietary firmware on it, I can choose to replace the firmware and as a consequence (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: legOS
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| (...) The issue of the license agreement does state one is not given permission to reverse engineer 'the Software'. The software is defined as 'The Software included on the MINDSTORMS LEGOI product'. I read this as including the firmware. That being (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: Robotics in Aussie
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| In message <3674F1D6.DE43C9BC@ic.ac.uk>, Kin W. Lau <kin.lau@ic.ac.uk> writes (...) The way I understand it is that the firmware which needed to be downloaded to the Mindstorms chip, allowing Lego to issue any fixes or new versions, is now burnt (...) (26 years ago, 14-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | License agreement nuances
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| (...) But, if you read further, the License Agreement also says you may "use the Software on any single computer" and you may "use the Software on a second computer so long as the first and second computers are not used simultaneously". If the (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: License agreement nuances
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| -----Original Message----- From: Brian Stormont [SMTP:brian@projo.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 9:23 AM To: lego Subject: License agreement nuances (...) But, if you read further, the License Agreement also says you may "use the Software on (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Robotics in Aussie
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| (...) Yes, but you can always add two (?) extra batteries to the "non supported" sensors, and I think they'll run ok. :-) (...) About the firmware I don't agree. They only made it in ROM because they had lack of RAM with design they chose. I think (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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