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I saw your post on RTLToronto.... You didn't indicate whether you tried to use batteries again afterward. I'm assuming you did. I'm also assuming you hooked the terminals up backward. That could be trouble. The 7805 regulator will protect the (...) (23 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'm highly interested in seeing your results. The RCX obviously is not brainy enough to process and use the 3D data, but a host computer could be. I'd be interested in helping with the host software on a project like this. I've thought about (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That file should just be a soft link to /etc/rc/init.d/gpm (or ../init.d/gpm), so there's no need to keep it. ROSCO (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi Till, Am Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2002 19:31 schrieb Till Harbaum: (...) Do you think it is possible to implement the legOS network protocol for palmOS? Michael. (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Not really. I believe this enough to try it soon. :) Two motors to turn and tilt the camera, and one for a differential drive setup(possibly using the reverse differential device). All the sensor ports would be used however - 1 for the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thanks, Mario. Love your work too, BTW. (...) I think this would be a very useful modification. Wish I had an ultrasonic sensor to do it with myself. ;) I will point out that the reason the entire assembly rotates is because I wanted it to (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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John Hansen wrote: > In lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, Stef Mientki writes: > >>I know the cause, you know the solution ;-) >> >>The size of BricxCC when opening the first file, depends on the SIZE of >>the file to be opened. >> 8 bytes, window stays as (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Yes that's exactly what I'm trying to say !! To day I had an even stranger experiences: 1. the size of BricxCC became smaller after opening the first file, still depending on the size (or is it the content) of the file 2. in one of the tests I (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Nice idea, Chris, very interesting project. I'd like to replicate your setup using John Barnes' Ultrasonic distance sensor instead of the light sensor. This should increase the radius of the scanned area, and make the device return the true (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Steven B. Combs" <stevencombs@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GrquFB.3IM@lugnet.com... (...) program (...) the (...) the problem with trying to hack the IR port on a Windows CE machine is that the IR is part of the chip architecture. There were (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.palm)
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| | Re: problems using firmdl3 and dll on Red Hat 6.2
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(...) Oh, on the console you might have gpm running, which allows copy-paste on the console with the mouse. As root, run '/etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm stop' and see if it gets better. To turn that off completely edit /etc/sysconfig/mouse and set (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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It is working! In case anyone else encounters this issue... here is the solution. Per Geoff Gerrietts: (...) I just moved the file to /unused (in case I wanted it back) and reboot'd. IR communication is working perfect. Thank You Geoff! <snip> (next (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Well, my first serious Mindstorms project is complete. (URL) Go to "Lego Robotics Projects". Thanks to everyone who has given me suggestions on getting my Linux laptop serial port happy, and on IR comms issues and to everyone who did light-based (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well, I'm stumped. I cannot get the behavior you describe to occur no matter how hard I try. I'm not sure what you mean by "I know the cause, you know the solution". Have I understood your description of the problem correctly? Are you saying (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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"Joseph Woolley" <jwoolley@spamblock....ht.rr.com> wrote in message news:GrqxJG.Cwq@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) Also, when I installed RH, I had a mouse connected to the same serial port. I am wondering if the mouse driver is still loading and (...) (23 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I recently cleared off my laptop HD and installed Red Hat 6.2, then downloaded and installed all the packages listed in the legOS HOWTO... but have run into a couple snags. 1st and most important, I am not able to send anything via the IR Tower. (...) (23 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Bricks in my Pocket, the PDA e-journal for Advanced LEGO Users is searching for article submissions. If you are interested in submitting an article to BimP review the submission guidelines at: (URL) can review BimP without a PDA by pointing your web (...) (23 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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I applied power to the last capacitor towards the back...and it works!!! Should I connect to this capacitor using a fuse or anything first or is it safe to solder leads directly from this capacitor? thanks -----Original Message----- From: (...) (23 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Any hope for my RCX?
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I have(had…)-:) a 1.0 RCX without an adapter-plug on it and I tried to connect an 9V adapter to the battery-connectors. It all worked fine, but when I put the RCX back together and tried to turn the RCX back on whit the adapter it didn’t work. Now (...) (23 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.3.8
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hi John, thanks for your attention. I know the cause, you know the solution ;-) The size of BricxCC when opening the first file, depends on the SIZE of the file to be opened. 8 bytes, window stays as it is 256 bytes, blows the window up to about (...) (23 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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