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Posted on behalf of Jørgen Rygh: --- FYI - LEGO is considering to make the Studio CD available separately as they have received a lot of requests from Vision Command owners. And, the Pinnacle Studio Action kit (URL) NOT work with the LEGO camera (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| | NQC 2.4 r1 released
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It seems like NQC 2.4 has been stuck in beta test for a very long time...I wanted to wait for Mac OS 9 and Linux USB support, but at the moment Lego hasn't released their Mac OS 9 driver and the Linux situation is probably best addressed right now (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Cheap Mindstorms
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Zainy Brainey seems to be clearing out Mindstorms at half price. Extreme Creatures @$25, Acccessory pack @$25 and Vision Command @$50 (half price for them but the usual price pretty much anywhere else now). This was in metro NY area. (24 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.robotics)
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| | One shot interrupt urb issue - usb-uhci.c
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Dear USB development team, In integrating of nqc and the legousbtower under linux, I found the usb-uhci module could only message to transmit one single interrupt usb with interval=0 (i.e. single-shot) to the usbtower. Then the tower would stop (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: More RCX's controled by one tower ?
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LegOS is supposed to have a communication protocol that can send a message to a specific RCX. This could be handy if you want to run the exact same program on the RCXs. You just give them different IDs when you compile Legos. (URL) Message----- (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: More RCX's controled by one tower ?
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Software for individual control of several RCX's, through one IR tower, via a multi-joypad setup, is available at (URL) Thomas Hoeg-Jensen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rene Virsik" <virsik@sco.svf.stuba.sk> To: <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | More on threads
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(...) Of course you are right. I think it is a bad programming style not to give your program the ability to terminate but to run in an endless loop. But what is the penalty for this bad style? I've done some investigations and here are the results: (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: More RCX's controled by one tower ?
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(...) Sure - if the programs in the two RCX's are slightly different, one of them could be programmed to (say)ignore message bytes containing odd numbers and the other RCX could ignore message bytes containing even numbers. Then the PC can talk to (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Deleting Programs
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I am using legOS to program a robot for a uni project because the other stuff is aparently too simple but i cant delete the current programs off the RCX to download the new firmware. Is there any other way of doing this without just leaving the (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | More RCX's controled by one tower ?
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Heya all ! Sorry if this was discused before but is it possible to control or program for example two RCX bricks with one tower from one PC so they work indifferently from eachothers in ONE model ? - Thanx ! - Rene (24 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: thread class for legOS
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(...) IRC, every method in C++ has an implicit parameter wich is the object itself; that's why you can't cast it. Try the following (does someone have a nicer solution?): Put runWrapper() outside the class: int runWrapper(int, char **th) { (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | thread class for legOS
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I write a Thread class for LegOs with a simple interface like in Java or CommonC++. I'm using LegOs 0.2.4. Below are my work till yet. The problem is in the Method Start(). The line is marked with !!. The error message is at the end of the file. I (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Routing daemon with tcp/ip for RCX/legOS, Cybermaster/NQC
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"Freddy" <mail-nowak@web.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:GpzyB6.Kpt@lugnet.com... (...) A C++ class to build client application without knowing the LNPoI protocol is available for Windows and Linux now. (URL) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Several questions
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Dear Mindstormers, For months I didn't find the time to do some work with my Mindstorms equipment. So some things have changed and also new products came onto the market. I have just started work with Mindstorms again and have some (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: threads - bug in the firmware?
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(...) I would strongly suggest changing this to while(1) msleep(bignumber);. Otherwise you're hogging the processor doing nothing important, which could do bad things to any compute-intensive tasks you may have going. It'll also use slightly less (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: threads - bug in the firmware?
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Hi Ross (...) you (...) What are the advantages and disadvantages of this method as opposed to the one I used? mike (24 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: My Ambulators
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Welcome Brian! This is fun right? Your Walkers are great and it takes real skill to build them. You certainly have a talent for it as well as an understanding of the sheer mechanical principals involved. I applaud you. Wow, I can't wait to see this (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | RE: My Ambulators
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I used the datalog to upload a batch of data to the PC and then used Excel's import to make it into a spreadsheet. It was easy and worked well. I used the spreadsheet to precisely characterize my motors so that I could match motors to each other in (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego Studios Cam and Macintosh
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In lugnet.robotics, Dave Johann writes: [Snip] (...) I'm interested in buying the CD since you can't use it. Martin (24 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: threads - bug in the firmware?
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(...) Note also since bumper_task() is an infinite loop, and you never use pid1, you could save one thread by doing this: int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { pid2 = execi (&left_task, 0, NULL, PRIO_NORMAL+2, DEFAULT_STACK_SIZE); pid3 = execi (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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