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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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redownload, firmware
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Update to nxtgcc toolchain
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| I have updated the toolchain little bit: *the binsert utility reads binary file info directly from the standard firmware image (and you do not have to cut out the file sections manually) *the demo program executes, which is probably what some have (...) (16 years ago, 15-Aug-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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mindstorms, firmware
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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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| | 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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| | Mindstorms firmware
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| OK... Really DUMB question but I have to give my borrowed RCX back and buy my own so I went to remove legOS from my mates RCX to give it back and guess what... it won't go! :( I looked in the HOWTO and it says hold down Prgm and press the on.off (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Mindstorms firmware
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| (...) I usually just pull out a battery for a second. Note that the RCX draws very little power when turned off, and thus can retain memory for a while even without any batteries (cacitance on the power supply rails hold the RAM for a while). A good (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Mindstorms firmware
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| (...) No idea why that wouldn't work, it always has for me. I hold down prgm and as soon as I hit on/off, there's a little beep and the thing shuts off. When I turn it back on, it's back to the regular stuff. Of course, you can always try taking out (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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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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| | Where is the Firmware?
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| Hi. I have both mindstorms and robolab. Where is the firmware located? (i.e., what is the firmware file called?) I would especially like to know this for robolab as I have a robolab site license. Barbara Nostrand +---...---+ | Barbara Nostrand, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: How do I delete firmware from firmware?
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| (...) Here's a copy of what Kekoa replied with... This sounds correct. In C, this is how I do it: /* Delete the firmware */ *(char *)0xffcc = 1; (*(void (**)(void))0)(); Indeed, *(void (**)(void))0) is the reset vector, whose value is 0x03ae. 0xffcc (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Looking for the Mindstorms software.
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| Actually, it just needs the firmware which can be downloaded from the mindstorms website: (URL) you are referring to is spirit.ocx which is not needed, but if you want a compatible one, you can download phantom: (URL) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: How do I delete firmware from firmware?
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| (...) Actually, BYE is in the h8hforth.asm source now, but it's a no-op. Could you email it to me, Ernst, and then I'll put it into the basic distribution... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: How do I delete firmware from firmware?
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| (...) I think if you do a direct jump to 0x03ae, it will init memory and essentially start the brick from scratch. At least that's what I read from the internals doc... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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