 | | Report on BrickHeap Wars: Robot Challenge #1
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Ever since my brother forced me to watch an episode of Junk Yard Wars last year, I've been wanting to do something similar as a robot competition. BricksWest was finally an opportunity to try. I modified the concept slightly, to allow using LEGO (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickswest)
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| | RE: rotation sensors
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(...) Yes, you need to read the rotation sensor continuously. Be careful to not read it TOO quickly, especially if the sensor is turning slowly or you get the jumpy count problem. There is a fix for it and I might add it too the rotation sensor code (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: problems with communications
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(...) Keep digging. Try using a PC first and get that working. (...) Yep. (...) Sounds like pbForth is picking up steam again. Good. It's emails like this that keep me motivated to keep development going. I'm just back from a vacation, so I'll do (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: h8/300 16-bit multiply
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(...) The easiest thing is to cast your 16 bit values to 32 bits and use the built-in 32x32 multiply... Here's the code from pbForth that does it. (It's written in a pseudo- assebler, but you can probably figure it out...) #---...--- # UM* UM* ( u1 (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: Support for pbForth in BricxCC
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(...) John, This is great news! My own Tcl based GUI is a bit lacking, and a grand unified firmware uploader sounds like a great idea. I've been away on holidays and conferences most of the month, so I've missed most of this thread. Quick question, (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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