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| | Re: Wireless RCX Communication.
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| (...) "little odd" ? This is totally odd. 1. Possible wireless channels are : infrared or visible light, modulated ultrasonic/sound or radio 2. You don't want to compromise infrared sensors, so there only remains modulated acoustics/ultrasonics or (...) (18 years ago, 11-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| rcx, communication (score: 1.605) |
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| | Spybot communication with Java
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| Hello Everybody, I am writing a java application for 'junior' programmers (my Son) to control the Spybot. My application will support simple commands similar to logo. But I am having some difficulty in getting my java app to talk with the Spybot. My (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| spybot, rcx, communication (score: 1.594) |
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| | Re: Spybots
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| (...) Hardware wise, they have two motors, a touch sensor, and several light/IR sensors. They can hold one program at a time. They use a serial connected interface that uses light (not sure if its IR or not) for program transfer. There is no USB (...) (20 years ago, 31-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| spybot, rcx, communication (score: 1.578) |
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| | RCX communication problem
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| Dear Geoffrey, Thanks fr answering so fast. RCX version is 2. It was working fine until I uploaded the application. Tower and RCX communicate perfectly well. After running the application it stoped the communication. The rest seems to be working (...) (18 years ago, 1-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| rcx, communication (score: 1.573) |
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| | Re: Problem with rcx communication
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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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| rcx, communication (score: 1.572) |
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| | Problem with rcx communication
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| I have uploaded a program based on ERIKA to the RCX. It didn't work properly as I have to take off the batteries to shut it down. When I tried to communicate with it again it seems that the IR is dead. Even if the rcx beeps and I can select the demo (...) (18 years ago, 1-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| rcx, communication (score: 1.570) |
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| | Re: Problem with rcx communication
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| (...) 1. If you can no longer download the original firmware with RIS software: a. First check your tower with another RCX. b. If the tower isn't the problem, than it seems that your IR-channel has suffered! 2. The RCX normally shuts down with weak (...) (18 years ago, 2-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| rcx, communication (score: 1.570) |
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| | os x support for old RCX?
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| Hello I have an old RCX set (with USB infrared tower) and i would like to use it under Mac OS X. I wanted to check NQC but if i understand right i need the Macintosh USB & Ghost communication package for USB tower, which i couldn't find online. (...) (14 years ago, 10-Aug-10, to lugnet.robotics)
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| spybot, rcx (score: 1.551) |
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| | Re: RCX and Micro Scout Communication
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| (...) So, for instance, if I want to use a spybot to control something else, what VLL codes I can to use? Can it also get info back from the other controller? Can VLL be used to make the spybot talk to some other microcontroller like OOPIC or (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jun-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| spybot, rcx, communication (score: 1.547) |
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| | Re: RCX and Micro Scout Communication
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| (...) Gabe, Did you see my other post in this thread? (URL) includes a link to the VLL data format. Using that, it shouldn't be hard to build something that can "talk" VLL to a Spybot. You'd be able to send messages (a number from 1 to 127) from the (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jun-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| spybot, rcx, communication (score: 1.546) |
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| | Re: RCX and Micro Scout Communication
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| (...) A little off topic for this thread, but I thought it was worth mentioning: The microscout can be controlled by a spybot as well. The spybot has both IR comms and VLL I/O. So a spybot has two built in motors and can control a microscout for a (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| spybot, rcx, communication (score: 1.540) |
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| spybot, rcx, communication (score: 1.519) |
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| spybot, rcx, communication (score: 1.512) |
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| | Re: Spybots communication
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| (...) To send and receive IR or VLL messages using NQC and Spybots you would write a program something like this: #define VLLEvent 1 #define MessageEvent 2 void DebugOut(const int &x) { SetLED(LED_MODE_ON, (x & 0x17) | ((x & 8) * 4) | ((x & 32) / (...) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| spybot, rcx, communication (score: 1.500) |
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| | Bibo Rollup Release
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| I've been asked if I could make the patch collection updates available as a full-distribution release. Actually, I can't say that I blame that request. Most of the changes have already been covered in prior lugnet postings under the "BrickOS Patches (...) (15 years ago, 15-Sep-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| rcx, communication (score: 1.471) |
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| | Re: NQC Linux Patches
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| I have updated the earlier NQC patch and uploaded two additional patches. Patch 1 - Update of the NQC USB and TCP Patch (URL) * Updated for compatibility with gcc 4.4.x * Removed the DESTDIR patch for the Makefile (moved to another patch) Patch 2 - (...) (15 years ago, 7-Aug-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| rcx, communication (score: 1.460) |
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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| I have again updated the Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) big change this time is the consolidation of the code bases of util/firmdl and util/dll-src. Working with all the similar-but-different code was getting a bit (...) (16 years ago, 12-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| rcx, communication (score: 1.435) |
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| | Re: IR Sensitivity - Was: 1.5/2.0 infrared problem
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| (...) Mine have been apart more often than I'd like, too! :-) (...) My guess would be mostly for increased communication speed. With the higher baud rate, the duration of the 2-byte Spybot/Manas packets is halved. This allows for fewer collisions (...) (21 years ago, 26-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| spybot, rcx, communication (score: 1.434) |