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two of your threads terminate shortly after being started (...) as far as I know, legOS provides no functionality for determining whether or not a thread is alive or not. You need to keep track of this yourself (e.g. using a variable/flag that gets (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: threads - bug in the firmware?
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Hi again I have now totally stripped down my code to a minimum and I am still having problems with the code hanging up. I can see nowhere where there can be a fault. I am a long way from being an expert, but is it possible there is a bug in the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Help! Hanyboard Assembly Testing problem!---I think solved!
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so there was a bridge between Rx and Tx! that would do it. let us know if things are working now. fred (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi there, The more serious problem observed when trying to get legousbtower, usb-uhci and nqc to work togeher was that the tower hanged after one complete round trip. (nqc and legousbtower works with uhci on my setup but not with usb-uhci.) Usb-uhci (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | The USB tower toggle question.
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Hi there, As not everybody was able to get the legousbtower to work with nqc, I am trying to look into what make usb-uhci failed to work with nqc on my setup while uhci worked. One observation I made was that usb-uhci would skip dma'ing the data (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Legousbtower configuration 4.
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Dear Juergen, As a response to the question on your webpage, I've tried configuration 4 of the legusbtower (legusbtower + uhci + nqc). I had no issues in using my setup to download the firmware to the brick. The response from the RCX brick sometimes (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: wireless RF RCX communication?
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There are devices sold by Radio Shack/Future Shop/etc called (i think) "remote extenders". Basically, they have 2 pieces. 1 is an infrared receiver and radio transmitter, and the other is a radio reciever and ir transmitter. I think they are one-way (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cygwin problems
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Ben I recommend you read the Howto from the sourceforge docs section, or even better buy the Extreme Mindstorms book (Extreme Mindstorms; D. Baum, M. Gasperi, R. Hempel, L. Villa; Apress; ISBN: 1893115844 ) . Both give a good explanation of legOS. (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Cygwin problems
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Hi all, i am having problems with cygwin. It doesnt help that i dont know what all these linux commands mean but i will explain my problems now. I have intstalled all the software to my system ok and the linux emulator seems to work fine(i can use (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Cybermaster CD
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(...) Lego were not able to find me an english Cybermaster CD, so my Cybermaster is sitting there unused as I can't figure out how to use the german software. Is anyone on this group willing to lend me a CD-R of an english CD? I would reimburse you (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.cybermaster)
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| | SDK 2.0
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Hi everybody. Does anyone downloaded the new SDK 2.0 for RIS2.0? When i try to download the zip file, everything seems to work, but when i launch the EXE inside i get an error message "Corrupt Cabinet file" The download address is: (URL) in advance. (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Help! Hanyboard Assembly Testing problem!---I think solved!
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There was a very undetcible component-side solder bridge between pins 2 and 3 of RP4. I might not know until tomorrow when I can get a replacement for RP4 (apparently I'm not very good at desoldering, and I didn't see the bridge at all until I (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: threads
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Thanks Albert (...) still (...) How do I check this? There are no other tasks that can kill threads apart from this one. I also checked process IDs after creation and before killing. Best regards, mike (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Best source is other Mindstorms Sets - preferrably heavily discounted. Older RIS sets have gone in chain stores for as low as $69. Expansion sets are available through a range of places online as closeouts at varying discounts. CompUSA and BestBuy (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi, Thanks for your reply. RP4 has the part # 88102G, and adjacent pairs of pins have resistance of 1k (ie, 4 discrete resistors). Ok, Tell me if this sounds really strange... R15 is installed, but tested at about 1k ohms, not 47k. I remove the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | LNP routing daemon for Cybermaster/NQC and RCX/legOS
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Dear NG, i try to develop a LNP routing daemon (LNPoI - Lego Network Protocol over Internet)and i think this peace of software can be also usefull to other people using legOS, RCX and Cybermasters. For now it´s only available as a binarie file for (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.cybermaster)
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(...) Ahh. yes the AT-AT and R2D2. I forgot those. For some reason I was thinking the UCS TIE fighter and X-Wing. My brain was asleep. (...) Yeah the Camera really needs the CDROM and therefore Windows. :( But the Exploration Mars (which was one of (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The AT-AT was OK (apart from the 'microscout' heap of junk). (...) What upset me about those was that a large fraction of the benefit of them was in the CD-ROM - which being a Linux user, I have no use for. (...) Yes - that was one *sweet* (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: I'm sure this has been done to death
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(...) Except for the Mana's ;^) They're good with the RIS. (...) Which Star wars sets are good? Maybe I'm short on sleep but none of them come to mind. (...) Maybe not the best deal, but some of the expansion packs are pretty good. Actually if you (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: newbie again part 2
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(...) You could try David Baum's (creator of NQC) simulator, found here: (URL) is 'very alpha', meaning that it's in its early stages of development and uses Java, so be ready to ask more questions :) Good luck and hope you get your RCX soon! Robert (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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