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| (...) It is much simpler to download the pre-built Hitachi H8 tools than it is to try and build the cross-compiler under cygwin. (URL) them under your cygwin directory. Extract the brickOS release under cygwin. Run ./configure from the BASH shell (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| I've downloaded and installed test release 09. Once again things worked very well. But there is one definite problem with this release (as well as 08) when running under Cygwin. In Makefile.Common the lines ifdef BUILDING_HOST_UTILS # ---...--- # (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: This is Where I Build (Quasi Roll Call)
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| (...) Two 6-foot tables in an "L" configuration (purchased at a used office furniture warehouse) with a wall of sorting bins on top and stacks of storage tubs beneath. Overflow building and assembly of larger projects is occasionally performed on (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Installing BrickOS 0.2.6.09.newConf2
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| (...) Unfortunately, that won't fix the bug because later on it says: CFLAGS=-O2 -Wall which will ignore the existing value of CFLAGS. The best fix for cygwin and newConf2 is to change the line in the ifdef BUILDING_HOST_UTILS section to be (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| In lugnet.build, Allan Bedford writes: Oh goodness. This should be interesting. (...) An introduction to the Lego Dungeon (aka the Lego Lair, aka my domain). I recently refurbished my basement to become my ideal Lego building environment. The entire (...) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.build)
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| I've been working on my castle kit ideas again and have posted some prototype pictures to my gallery. Pictured is a central keep, surrounded by some modular castle wall sections. These aren't 100% complete yet, but I thought I'd share the work on (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| One idea that I always wanted to persue was autonomus car racing, nascar style. I thought of setting up a small oval on a 4x8 sheet of plywood and marking the entrance to the corners in one shade, inside boundries(3' from the wall) in a second shade (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Newbie has an idea - Nascar style racing?
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| (...) Inkjet plotters are should be pretty common in mechanical enginnering firms these days. Colleges may also have them. The billboard and sign industry uses huge paint plotters, but those are much more expensive to run than inkjet plotters (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) why? Is line following bad? It will be IMPOSSIBLE to build an autonomus NASCAR style car from Mindstorms. You just can't get enough information about the track & your position into the RCX. (...) With the gray-scale scheme Gus suggested, a (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Now that's a well cool idea! We could set up 'formulas' based on the parts usable by the cars and the programming allowed, something like Formula 3 - standard RIS kit only, regular/NQC RCX code Formula 2 - standard RIS kit only, any (BrickOS, QC, (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Here's an interesting idea from Gus Jansson for that type of track: (URL) allows you to maintain a smooth line around the course, but not all 'cars' have to follow the same line. You have to be carefull not to get to close to the inside, or (unless (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I've considered that concept, but I wanted to avoid a variation of line following. In real racing, drivers go full throttle until a specific braking point. the faster riders generally brake later without screwing up the corner By defining the (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| This is just a quick run down of my thoughts on the new line. Dad and I arrived about 10 minutes after everything opened up to the public; we'd parked at Yorkdale, and went over from there on the subway. o Sheppard-Yonge This station is now the new (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) ensure the red, green and blue would look like different shades to the Lego light sensor. I think this would be easier to achieve (and therefore more reproducible) with shades of grey. Not that it matters much, calibration wouldn't be that (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Yes, the walls are plain gray, but I'm a bit of a traditionalist in that way. We're not looking at some 600 year old pile of ruins, so why not make it look like it was just built and whitewashed yesterday!? (...) I had the forsight to buy 200 (...) (22 years ago, 24-Nov-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) The large bag at St Jacobs is smaller than the bag in the photo linked above. A lot smaller, IIRC. The small bag has a little less volume than a 355ml can of pop. The large bag exceeds the dimensions of the small bag by about two cm in each (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) Now, I remember what I did. I spend the weekend fighting with the install for BrickOS, and I got both these errors (makedepend & font...) because at some point in my messing, I skipped the makedepend and went on. I just need to do this (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) This makes robots have to depend much more on dead-reckoning. If you are steering (say) 10% too much - then that error will build up without limit. You'd come out of a 90 degree turn with a 9 degree error - but unless you have two light (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Ok, I think I figured it out...I don't completely understand the logistics of makefiles, but I changed the following line in Makefile.common: Before: CFLAGS = -O2 -Wall After: CFLAGS += -O2 -Wall I suspect that a later assignment to CFLAGS was (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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