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| "Jake McKee" <jacob.mckee@america.lego.com> wrote in message news:Hx918L.CEz@lugnet.com... (...) anything I (...) Yes, it will most likely be upsetting. But it is my personal belief that we just have not heard the whole story as to how and why this (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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| | NQC's future
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| I'm very interested in hearing from NQC users what their needs/wishes are for future enhancements. Here's my current list of updates/enhancements that I am working on. 1. Built-in and documented Spybot API. 2. Fast firmware download via USB tower (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: NQC's future
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| (...) I am happy to help out as best I can. Unfortunately, there is little chance that I will do as good a job as Dave Baum has done over the years. But I'll try my best. (...) Yes. When I can find the time. I'm also trying to find the time to do a (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Communication between NQC and VisualBasic
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| I would like to experiment with communication between two autonomous robots. Unfortunately I can't afford a second RCX. So I would like to this thing with the RCX and my PC. Is there a way to write a NQC program that interacts with a Visual Basic (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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rcx, communication
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| | Re: Communication between NQC and VisualBasic
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| It seems that you want to run an RCX emulator on the PC side that can use the PC IR Tower as if it was the internal transmitter in the RCX brick. Thus you could run NQC generated bytecode in your robot, and NCQ generated bytecode on your PC. I know (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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rcx, communication
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| | Re: Communication between NQC and VisualBasic
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| (...) Unfortunately, Spirit.ocx doesn't support sending messages. However, the packet protocol is pretty simple so as long as you can access the serial port directly you should be able to build message packets. See the following web pages for more (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Spybot studies: seek a world object
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| /* beacon.nqc Uses World Relation Table to get a fix on and drive to another object. The object can be a Spybot, PC, or Spybot Controller. The program fixes on (i.e. drives to) the first object it finds. If that object disappears from the "radar", (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Spybot studies: SetTxDirection() confusion
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| (...) How *does* the Spybot know the orientation (the ROM SDK calls it "aspect") of another Spybot? My (casual) observations indicate that all three emitters are on simultaneously and synchronously. How does the observing Spybot identify which one (...) (23 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Spybot studies: photoelectric eye
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| John Hansen wrote: [snip] (...) [snip] John, While working with BricxCC on a spybot project (still not done) I encountered an odd situation. 1st) something happened to the comm port that the spybot cable is connected; I couldn't send or receive (or (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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spybot
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| | Re: George Bush has legitimised terrorism
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| (...) I didn't think I was, but if your interpretations of my writing style is 'holier than thou', I shall endeavour to rephrase. As it stands, my interpretations of your debating technique in this thread are--you're firmly ensconsed in what you (...) (23 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | spybot studies: direction testing
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| I needed to know what TargetDirection() meant at different ranges, so I did another study. Graphic results here: (URL) information post-moderation: (URL) of the methodology are in target_direction.nqc (and some in target_direction.xls). I quit after (...) (23 years ago, 14-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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spybot
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| | Re: Some help or advice requested
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| (...) You're quite right in that there's nothing in the pictures to suggest that having the having the motor running after the tray reaches its stop would be a bad idea. However, that would be disastrous for the rest of the machine - think of a (...) (17 years ago, 25-Jan-10, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Some help or advice requested
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| (...) Last year I built a pneumatic excavator module for a GBC display exactly for this reason: doing it with an RCX would have been like cheating when it could be done mechanically :D As for your 'problem', I've been turning this over in my mind (...) (17 years ago, 23-Jan-10, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Spybot studies: seek a world object
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| (...) Or, then again, you might not. As with the vast majority of the ROM subroutines (and all the _Bead subroutines) this subroutine fiddles around with a global variable (via calls to EnterBead and ExitBead). In this case it happens to be global (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Spybot studies: seek a world object
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| (...) Cool program. Keep up the great work! (...) You might be able to use PointToward_Bead without running into problems. __nolist void PointToward_Bead(const int& nTimes) { asm { 0xe3, &nTimes, 0x17, 81, 0x01, 1 }; } This ROM routine monitors an (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Some help or advice requested
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| Hi all. I am currently working on a project (to be revealed in due course!) and I've come across something of a stumbling block. I have a tray that is constrained to move in one dimension, and a series of short liftarms under the tray, all rotating (...) (17 years ago, 19-Jan-10, to lugnet.technic)
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rcx
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| | Re: Spybot studies: photoelectric eye
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| (...) I'm nearly certain that you can't (currently) download programs to a Spybot via the USB tower. The MindScript compiler (LCC32) complains that it can't open the serial port (and unless LEGO releases an update to their vpbrick.dll COM object it (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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