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| (...) Hi Jordan, while this sounds like an interesting solution, it also sounds like a very expensive one as opposed to going for RF in the first place (yep, I know that RF remote controls have their own issues, power consumption being a significant (...) (17 years ago, 19-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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rcx, communication
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| | Re: LEGO 9V Train Communication II
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| (...) On second thought, that doesn't look all that bad actually. Provided there is a way to eventually control more than one train and set up several IR interfaces (for positions where the optical link would otherwise fail) with a single RCX, the (...) (17 years ago, 19-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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rcx, communication
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| | Re: Spybotics Comms
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| (...) Sorry, think I have mixed some things up. People from the Lego hotline told me the ir-interface of the RIS 2.0 RCX has been changed and communication to a spybot is not possible. Are these changes only because of the usb-tower and do they have (...) (22 years ago, 11-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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spybot, rcx, communication
(score: 1.287)
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| | Re: The Future of Trains
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| (...) Stalled, the train motor pulls 950 mA, while the stall current of the NXT motor is a whopping 2 Amps. So a single NXT motor output should easily handle a twin-engine train loaded to the point where it stalls the engine(s)... there's the matter (...) (17 years ago, 7-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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rcx, communication
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rcx, communication
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| | Windows Vista Mindstorms Compatibility
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| I have just bought a laptop with Windows Vista (it's the only OS you can get on a laptop around here) and of course I have immediately tried to install my LEGO software . Here's a short report of the different apps I've tried to install and the (...) (18 years ago, 20-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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spybot, rcx
(score: 1.270)
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| | Re: NRLink reading RCX response
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| (...) Thanks for the recommendation John, I think we met in '99 at Mindfest at MIT, but I'm sure you met way too many to remember. I'm a long-time user of NQC and I evaluated NXC right after I got the NXT, along with RobotC. I've been focusing on (...) (17 years ago, 5-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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rcx, communication
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| | Re: SSClagorpion
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| (...) Ok, I think we just need to proceed with the full-blown plan, and worry about where the parts are coming from later. (maybe it was just me that was thinking about that) I've just wrapped up a local event, and am ready to focus a great deal (...) (21 years ago, 3-May-04, to lugnet.technic)
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spybot, rcx
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| | Re: Sending spybot messages from PC?
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| (...) The NQC API for sending Spybot messages from an RCX may shed some light on what you need to send. #define SERIAL_PACKET_SPYBOT 0 // raw serial, no checksum, no preamble #define SERIAL_COMM_SPYBOT 7 // 4800/76KHZ/25% // API for interacting with (...) (18 years ago, 8-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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spybot, rcx
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| | Re: stop task
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| (...) It hasn't, Elizabeth - I'm not upset at John, and he knows *far* more about programming than I do. I just wanted to point out that there are process where abruptly "killing" a thread was one of the best solutions I ever found, due to the speed (...) (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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rcx, communication
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rcx, communication
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| | pc to rcx communication
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| Hi all, I am working on my graduation project and I am stuck at one problem. I want to send commands to my rcx from a win32 aplication(Visual C++ 6.0). Firmware is Brickos. The only way I colud find was lnp. But for the Pc side there is no solution (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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rcx, communication
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| | Sending spybot messages from PC?
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| To all, I know how to send RCX messages from the PC over the IR port, but has anyone ever tried and succeeded in sending SPYBOT messages from the PC. I'm trying to write some cross-brick software here and so it is kind of important that I can. I (...) (18 years ago, 8-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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spybot, rcx
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| | Re: Sending spybot messages from PC?
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| (...) Nice idea John, I just wish I had a USB tower! (Or not!). Handling the USB tower in VB is stupidly hard, and I can't use my existing code for the RCX. I just wish LEGO had decided on one simple protocol and speed and everything else! It is so (...) (18 years ago, 8-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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spybot, rcx
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| | Re: NQC vs. NXC vs. MS-VC vs. RobotC
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| (...) The NQC solution supports all LEGO programable bricks from the CyberMaster to the Spybot, including the RCX. The Scout, RCX, and Spybot platforms supports event monitoring (for the RCX this requires the 2.0 firmware). If you obtain NQC by (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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spybot, rcx
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| | Ultimate ROBOLAB for PICs
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| We added a special programming environment for a series of PICs to the Ultimate ROBOLAB site www.ultimaterobolab.com. To distinguish it from RCX-Ultimate Robolab, we called it PICLab. This is a powerful tool for PIC programming. The result is .asm (...) (17 years ago, 30-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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rcx, communication
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| | Re: Ultimate ROBOLAB for PICs
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| (...) ...snip (...) Perhaps I'll answer with a short list of projects that we have realized so far: 1.The most complicated thing I've done with Ultimate_PIC -I have to familiarize with that name now- using the 16F628A is a bi-directional half-duplex (...) (17 years ago, 31-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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rcx, communication
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| | Re: nqc compilation errors
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| (...) Gus is correct, although there are other targets which support arrays and indirect variables. NQC defaults to RCX as the target. You need to use the -TRCX2 switch if you are running the 2.0 firmware on your RCX and you want to use arrays and (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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spybot, rcx
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| | Re: IR Problems
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| (...) Thank you for the excellent information concerning communication with more than one RCX. Last night in a dream I realized that I could just bypass communication placing two push button sensors where needed driving the additional RCX. The (...) (18 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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rcx, communication
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| | Re: IR Problems
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| (...) tom@tomlohre.com Dear Claude, Thanks for your message. I have delayed in replying to the excellent advice concerning communication with more than one RCX. Last night in a dream I realized that I could just bypass communication placing two push (...) (18 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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rcx, communication
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