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Actually, I wouldn't recommend using the simulator. My original intention was to develop the core of a simulator thus enabling other people to make a full-fledged application with nice menus and dialog boxes. Since that hasn't happened, the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: SDK 2.0
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(...) Umm. When I installed the new SDK it worked just fine, but I downloaded it from a different site: (URL) you could try replacing the troublesome file with the original one on your Windows installation CD. --Ian (24 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Row of Racks and 8T Gear, HELP!
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I suggest you rework and use a 16T gear. I have used rack drives a lot and they do not mesh well with the 8T gear. -- Bob Fay THE SHOP (URL) Barile" <sebarile@sstanamera.com> wrote in message news:Gq1tFE.DHF@lugnet.com... (...) a (...) obstructions (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: threads - bug in the firmware?
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(...) As pointed by Albert Huang, you cannot call kill() with an "invalid" pid. Actually, the comment above kill() in tm.c says: //! kill a process /*! \param pid must be valid process ID, or undefined behaviour will result! The function updates (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Row of Racks and 8T Gear, HELP!
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Hi All, I'm basically making a plotter. I'm using 2 parallel rows of 1x4 racks as a track. When the powered 8 tooth gear crosses from one rack to the next it tends ride up on top of the teeth of the rack. I can't seem to find out what's going on. (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: threads
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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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| | USB tower flow control question
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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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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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| | Re: I'm sure this has been done to death
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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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| | Re: Help! Hanyboard Assembly Testing problem!
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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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