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(...) I am working on a program for the Palm OS that will provide remote control of the RCX and the Scout. As to not duplicate the efforts of others, my program will use the internal IR port of the PalmIII series and above. The focus of this program (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | New pbForth 1.1.0
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Finally, the pesky stack bug and the goofy double echo byte problem has been fixed. Thanks to Sergey Udovenko I have also integrated a little "splash screen" on the LCD that lets you know pbForth is up and running. (URL) Will get you there. Please (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego Protocol Patent
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(...) I agree. But I'm pretty sure that a patent only prevents someone else from doing everything mentioned in _all_ of the claims put together. For example, if I were granted a patent containing two claims: 1. Walking 2. Chewing gum. ...then I (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RCX-enhanced egcs
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I just downloaded the new rcx tools, unfotunately the gcc dies (segmentation fault, even if I run the gcc only (with no parameters). any ideas what's going on? does it require glibc2.1? any settings? TIA erik (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | rcx tools setup
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I have following problem with setting up the rcx tools (the old ones, distributed with legOS-0.1.7): I set up the Makefile.common to properly point to my paths: TOOLPREFIX=/home/eri...tachi-hms- LEGOS_ROOT=/home/eri...gOS-0.1.7/ when I run make I (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Mindstorms in Germany
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Hallo all around, there is a great pricing for Mindstorms at Toys"r"us this week. I got my package with the german version 1.5 for 399 DM. The price is now 50 DM under the normal price they had last week. I don't know how long they will have this (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New pbForth 1.1.0
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Hi Ralph, Nice to see a new release! Only question, why did you remove sources from the package? Would be really nice if you can publish the sources too. Sergey Udovenko (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Connecting two RCX's
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|>I have two RCX bricks and would like them to co-operate without using the |>IR-Port. Is it possible to communicate by attaching a motor port of the |>first RCX to a sensor port of the second? As far as I know the motors work |>on 9V and the (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: building a remote debugger for win32 -- need help
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(...) I've check with teh other guys in the team and a few of them know Delphi rather well. Do you think you could give me the source of hbdl? Regards, Hans (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Palm Pilot to RCX remote controller
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Hi Robert, If I had known you were working on this too, I probably wouldn't have started my program: (URL) have an older Palm without the IR but I had heard bad things about the range of the IR for practical remote control. Do you have the IR (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: C++
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Tony, If you want to write in C++ to control the RCX from your computer you have two options. You can call the spirit.ocx from C++ just like visual basic does. Or you can write the commands directly to the serial port. It sounds like you are just (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | LegOS 0.2.1
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Okay.. Aparently I've bitten off more than I can chew again. I've tried to use the cygwin 20beta1 install with legOS 0.2.1 and It not working.. I put the paths properly in, and it seems to kinda work. but make and all the others spit out errors like (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: New pbForth 1.1.0
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(...) Thanks! How does it work for you? I'll put in some release notes on the website in a few days. (...) I took the sources out for now until I can really clean them up. If you REALLY need them, I can email them to you. Next on the block is (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Microphone
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Hey, what a coincidence... I was just having a look on the web and found this page... (URL) a simple circuit hooked up to the handyboard analog port. hope this helps Adam PS has some other cool stuff too, like an rf link etc :-) ----- Original (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Palm Pilot to RCX remote controller
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Hi Mike, I have found that the range on the PalmIIIx to the RCX is quite useable. In medium to low light levels the RCX will respond consistently up to 20 feet away. When I started working on the Palm Remote program I had no idea you were doing the (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | 0.2.1 API
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I seem to remember that someone here installed doxygen and generated a new set of API docs for 0.2.0. Am I correct in that? Or am I smoking something? If that is the case, I'd love to hear from you- a copy would be real nice to re-link from the (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Lego Protocol Patent
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(...) Not true. Each claim acts as its own mini-patent. For an accessible article and discussion, check out: (URL) the comments section make sure to set it sort high moderation scores to the top... otherwise it will take years to weed through. -Paul (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 0.2.1 API
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Never mind- did it myself. Thanks anyway... -Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous ###...### (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Mindstorm Software under Linux-VMware ???
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Has anybody tried to run the Mindstorm Software under Linux with VMware ? Does it work ? Martin (26 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Control Lab - Visual Basic source code
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I have found the source code in Visual Basic for mindstorms. But ...... Does anyone know if source code in Visual Basic for control Lab exist? If so, can you point me in that direction. Thankyou Johan jgb@eng.rau.ac.za (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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