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(...) I've seen this kind of problem before. The difficulty is that PC's only have two interrupt lines for the four possible serial ports. Generally, ttyS1 and ttyS3 share a line and ttyS2 and ttyS4 share the other. That means that by default, you (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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I'm organizing a Mindstorms robot competition for BricksWest and it would make it easier, planning wise, to have a rough idea of how many people might be attending. If you think you might go, or better yet, know you will be, could you please let me (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I misspoke. In the BIOS it can be either COM2 or COM4 and it is set to COM4. I saw it listed in the RH6 startup as ttyS03, and misremembered it as COM3. It is COM4, I am using /dev/ttyS03. No go. Thanks for the suggestion, and sorry for the (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC and RedHat linux 6 on laptop
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(...) Umm... COM3 is /dev/ttyS02, and COM4 is /dev/ttyS03. (Remember, COM* starts at 1, ttyS* starts at 0). Could that be your problem? (24 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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As far as I know, any functionality that uses the webcam will not work in version 2.5. As a temporary solution, you could use an external program to capture a webcam image, and then use the image loading VI in RoboLab to work with it. I haven't (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | NQC and RedHat linux 6 on laptop
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Hi all. I've been successfully using NQC on an old NEC 486/50 laptop with only 16MB of RAM for a while. The laptop was running muLinux, a very limited floppy-based distro. Everything worked ok, other than the fact that Nqc would segfault after each (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi, I'm struggling to get threads working (in a simple motor speed matching program), the code just keeps hanging up. I've isolated the problem to when I restart the threads after killing them if a bumper is hit in the bumper_task() function. The (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I made a speciaal Loco, it is 8-wide and controll by on board RCX with two geared motors, it will stop when back and IR sensor (made by John Barnes) detect train car, magnet will couple loco and train car, it also has a auto decoupler function, (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Anyone there?
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(...) We mean radio, and we want to have a system that is invisible to the lego software (ideally), so that everything that the IR can do, we can do with much extended range. In addition, we want to have wireless digital video and maybe audio as (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.tele)
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| | Re: Some remarks / questions about Brixcc
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(...) I'll make this an option on the Watch window in the next release. Another user had requested that the Watch window only Poll when it was active. (...) This turned out to be a bug in the TFakeSpirit.SetSensorMode function. It will be fixed in (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Remote Turnouts and Decouplers
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One of the new features of the MichLTC layout was Steve Ringe's home layout module "plopped in" to a section of the show layout. (it therefore contained a "local loop" to allow I think he might be posting further about it. But just to whet people's (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.michlug) !
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| | Re: Using the Differential to drive straight.
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(...) Actuially the solution that we describe in our book is similar but not identical to Dave's one. Starting from the well known setup in which a differential gear is used to measure the difference in speed between the main wheels of a (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: site update
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(...) I've also made a torsen diff based on the basic diff in your sight, I believe it has a few improvements over the one made by Rob. see: (URL) David (24 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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<snip> (...) </snip> well, you could try the adder/subtractor (shameless plug here (URL) > or i think that i have another idea but i have to build it before i can CAD it so give me a week or so. mike (24 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Rob Stehlik" <robbby31@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GpsJwA.F2y@lugnet.com... (...) me (...) page: (...) I forgot who made the original, I do have a (minor) deisgn change but I lost the *.dat. now that Mike has changed the extension i seem to (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Precise turns of any angle! -- Rotation Sensor Information
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(...) Yes. Actually it's two step, the A/D interrupt sets a flag and a routine in the firmware checks the flag periodically and does the processing, most of it being calling the ROM routine. (...) No. You can read height in the diagram as voltage, (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Assembly Language Programming on the RCX
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(...) When the RCX 2.0 firmware came out, LEGO released an updated SDK ((URL) to take advantage of all the new stuff. One of the new features they provided was a new language called LEGO Assembler (LASM). This is as close to the hardware as you can (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Assembly Language Programming on the RCX
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I'm interested in programming the RCX in assembly. I'm trying to get total control over the hardware in the manner I'm most familliar with. Everyting I've seen so far seems to use higher level languages (Java/variants of C/etc.) Does anyone know of (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Off Topic Posts
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My sincerest appologies to you all. When I replied to all I had intended to remove the mailing list so as to avoid filling it with crap, but when I got done writing the email, I forgot to do so. I also do not like when this sort of material is (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Fwd: FW: Social Security
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(...) *PLEASE* Stop sending this crap to the Lego Robotics mailing list. We simply are not interested in your political views. Go find another mailing list. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- Mail : <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkMail: <sjbaker@link.com> (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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