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(...) Well, I have a fully functional RIS 1.5 including the serial tower. I got the RIS2 "Upgrade" disk from S@H. It's installer checks for OS and bails when it finds W95. And, of course, the .cab files are password protected, so, none of this (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Great ideas there! The Window Walker is a really nice practical application of the one-way split-valve. So that's how the old pre-1989 pneumatic systems operated...:-) -Gaurav Thakur, raving madman cp5670@home.com (URL) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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I don't post to these groups very often, being mostly a lurker, but I am attempting to make a contribution to the world of lego robotics. I am working on what will be an open source version of the spirit.ocx. In fact it's been available as an alpha (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I tried the patch and still get the error "Error 6 GetCommState". Anyone know what this error means and what I can do to correct it? I would really like to get legOS running. (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) It was suggested by some of my 'c++' co-workers that this was the case (shared memory was available). However, I don't deal with that in my Visual Basic world. They also suggested there were 'unused' memory blocks in LegOS where data could be (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Scout SDK missing from mindstorms.lego.com?
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Hi Chris, I seem to be hosting the only copy in existance :) Try here: (URL) down to the downloads!) Phil. (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.scout, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) As there is no memory management, any memory not on the stack is by definition shared between any threads. Concurrency control is up to you however. John A. Tamplin jat@jaet.org 770/436-5387 HOME 4116 Manson Ave 770/431-9459 FAX Smyrna, GA (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Mindsensors has developed a two servo motor control for the RCX. This interface works on IR message Sent from RCX. It can control tow servo motors with 1 degree resolution, and can move from 0 to 180 degrees. You can have look at it (URL) this page (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Agreed! (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Dear LUGnetters and LEGO MINDSTORMS users You can download our new LEGO MINDSTORMS SDK from: (URL) non-standard location is because we were delayed in getting it up and running on the official mindstorms.lego.com pages before X-mas. However, we felt (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) What you request is shared memory and shared memory is not a part of legOS. My way to simulate shared mem is to put the two (or more) tasks into one legOS program. Each task is started as a thread by an execi() call, triggered by the user via (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) (URL) interesting robot - and it works! BEN (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Wow, I didn't realise that Christophe's home-made one-way valve would lead us into such deep discussion into vacuum storage and the like... On a more practical plane, here are some uses for the one-way valve (URL) they don't require you to have a (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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If the surrounding environment is the same as what should be in the tank if not for the vacuum - since all are partial anyway - the the vacuum doesn't increase. The matter has to be the same. Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Baker" (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RIS2 Upgrade on W95 & Pentium(I)
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(...) Yes - that'll be the problem. Win95 definitely doesn't support USB. There was a patch put out by M$ to add USB to Win95 but it didn't work well. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- Mail : <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkMail: <sjbaker@link.com> URLs : (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | announcing the Handy Cricket!
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(a little late for X-mas, but maybe in time for New Year's...) As many of you know, when I was at MIT one of the last things I worked on (from 1996 to 2000, actually) was a tiny robotics controller called the Cricket. In May, 2001, I obtained rights (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: RIS2 Upgrade on W95 & Pentium(I)
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Well the concern there is that RIS2.0 uses a USB IR tower - which is not natively supported by W95. If you can get USB working, then you might be alright... HTH, James. (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) So you are happy to say that you can increase the amount of vacuum in a sealed tank by placing it at the bottom of a bucket of water? Mmm'K. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- Mail : <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkMail: <sjbaker@link.com> URLs : (8 (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Has anyone succeeded in getting the upgrade to work on less-than-minimum-requirement PCs? In their infinite wisdom, LEGO has "upgraded" the minimum platform for the RIS. I'd like to be able to run it on my existing machine. Moving up to W98 is (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) If you had a 1 atmosphere vacuum in a blue LEGO tank and you took it to the bottom of the Mariana Trench you would have about 13,000 atmospheres of vacuum in it. And if you took it out into space you would have *no* atmospheres in it. All this (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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