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(...) Wow, that must have been a truly exciting event. Just reading the report made me feel I was there. Now, if only I were really there :-) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickswest)
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| | RE: h8/300 16-bit multiply
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(...) <snipped code...> Are you sure that it works for signed numbers :-) (...) If you like, I can give you some notes on how my Forth was developed. I'm using a simple pseudo-assembler that lets me port this Forth to a new processor in less than a (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Running Vision Command on XP
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(...) etc... Thanks for the instructions, I followed them all except the bit on VCS VERSION 1.1, so I was only partly successfull. LegoCam is working. Any other suggestions as to where one gets this ? Any idea what the update actually contains ? (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| | Re: h8/300 16-bit multiply
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Thanks. I have a version just 2 words longer that doesn't use the ROM code. Basically it's the ROM's code, trimmed down after assuming high words are zero initially. It's completely untested though, so there may be a bug. CODE UM* \ 16x16=32 (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | JBug11 - new freeware Windows HC11 monitor/debugger
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Hey all, People looking for HC11 utilities should be real interested in this one. JBug11 by John Beatty is a Windows 32-bit monitor/debugger for 68HC11 MCU's. As John states on his site, "Its development was inspired by the difficulty of running (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | 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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| | Tip for cutting electric plates
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To everyone, In case anyone has experienced as much trouble as I have attempting to sever the conductive strips in electric plates, I've posted the method I now use. (URL) a lot easier and a lot safer than severing with a knife and it doesn't mess (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatics: the old and the new
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(...) Exactly! (...) That's right! (...) Oh oh! Methinks you have not had the simple pleasure of playing with a hand pump (the new type of course) and an air tank like in the 8250 Submarine or 8462 Tow Truck or such like. Try it! (...) No need, just (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Support for pbForth in BricxCC
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(...) I wrote a hack to dump all the words, and here's the result for version 2.0.0. The word list has changed since 1999. I think the list is complete, but no guarantees. ?DUP 2SWAP 2OVER 2DROP 2DUP RSHIFT DLShift LSHIFT MOD / * */ SM/REM /MOD (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Support for pbForth in BricxCC
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(...) My plan is to simply have the editor syntax highlight the built-in words in various (configurable) ways. Comments, for instance, () and \ would be highlighter in a certain way. Numbers in another. Standard Forth words that are not simple (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Support for pbForth in BricxCC
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(...) I'm also playing with interfaces to pbforth at the moment. What you're doing and I'm not is syntax highlighting. I'm not actually sure how well that works in pbforth, since I'm not sure how the editor knows which words have been defined (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Do I have to manually frequently read the values from rotation sensors for the count to work, or does the firmware monitor the sensor for me? I have home-brew passive sensors, touch sensors and light sensors working fine, but the rotation sensor is (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Support for pbForth in BricxCC
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I've started a project recently related to pbForth. And I'm interested in some community feedback. Last night I wrote a preliminary pbForth syntax highlighter for the editor component I use in BricxCC. And I modified BricxCC slightly so that you can (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Are these Robolab parts?
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Hope this is the correct newsgroup... The URL below is a picture in which some kind of sensor is displayed... The brick is 2*3 studs, and 1 1/3 brick high. The big hole in the side is big enough for a Technic axle to go through. The small hole seems (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: Pneumatics: the old and the new
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"c s soh" <cssoh@singnet.com.sg> wrote in message news:3C8076A2.E27D98....com.sg... (...) You most certainly can store vacuum. How would a TV set work, otherwise? When the tube is finally smashed or broken at the end of it's life, the vacuum (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | new EmuLegOS release 1.2.5.0
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I just posted a new release of EmuLegOS, if you're interested you can grab it from (URL) of the changes were just adding support for additional sensor types. Here is the changelog. 1.2.5.0 03/02/02 Mark Falco - added include for semaphore.h so user (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Pneumatics: the old and the new
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(...) Now things get a little philosophical :) The air tank itself has no idea about vacuum or pressure. The only thing the tank stores is a pressure difference. The difference between the outer pressure and the inner presure. This difference might (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatics: the old and the new
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Hi there, Rob That thread led to an extensive discussion into the depths of "vacuum storage". It would appear that storing compressed air is no problem but 'the whole concept of "storing vacuum" is a little disturbing.' Well, you can certainly pump (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatics: the old and the new
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Wow!! That is a fantastic model, it's a shame they're not produced anymore - I wonder if TLG would be capable of manufacturing parts which function the same way as the old ones did? If it were possible to obtain new parts that performed the same (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | VOTE: Technic Model of the Month - February
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FUT: lugnet.technic Hi there! As it is a new month it's not only time to select the best MOTM on ldraw.org but also time to vote for the best _Technic_ MOTM! I got nine entries this first very short premier month, see them and judge them here: (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.publish, lugnet.fun, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Pneumatics: the old and the new
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Hello pneumatics fans, I have been working a lot with pneumatics lately, and have made some interesting discoveries. I think the most notable is a method of using the old style red cylinders with the new pneumatics system. I came across this as I (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: pbrick.dll
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(...) spirit.ocx (...) as for the spirit.ocx? (...) comes in the (...) Hi, I don't know about pbrick.dll, but Lego finally made the RIS2 SDK available. Besides a linkable API dll ("Ghost") it also contains a COM server with functionality similar to (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: reliability of quad speed LNP
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(...) Probably depends on the make-up of the data you're transferring. ROSCO (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | burned chip?
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Hi everyone, I've recently put together a handyboard kit. The construction went fine and I was very impressed with the step by step instructions provided from handyboard.com. Anyway, the board just stopped working after just two days of usage. I (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: reliability of quad speed LNP
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So with inverting every other message byte were you able to work at 4x? Were you then also able to work at close range at 4x? It would seem easy to patch LNP to automatically do this inversion. I'll have to give this a try. thanks, mark (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RFC: Creation of Version 0.2.6
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(...) We asked our lawyers about this many months ago, when the whole issue first came up. It's okay with them if the name "legOS" is used in a "formerly known as" context. Just like what you describe, basically - to make sure people understand that (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | h8/300 16-bit multiply
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I'm trying to implement a 16bit multiply that leaves a 32bit result on the H8/300. The RCX ROM includes 16x16=16 and 32x32=32 multiplication routines, but not the intermediate step. Any hints or pointers? (it should be straightforward, but my eyes (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | pbrick.dll
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Hi everyone, I found this replacement controller of the spirit.ocx Does anyone know if there is any documentation for pbrick.dll?Or is it the same as for the spirit.ocx? Another question:Does the pbrick.dll support the USB tower that comes in the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Power to RCX
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Hi every one, Thanks for all your help on my previous inquiery. My other idea is, to power my newly acquired Scout with a Solar panel. The Solar panel (car battery saver) is 12V at ~70mA; which I intend to connect a Voltage converter (ready made (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: reliability of quad speed LNP
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"Mark Falco" <falcom@onebox.com> wrote in message news:Gs44C0.MGL@lugnet.com... (...) <<snip>> I'm not familiar with LNP but I have also experienced similar messaging problems. I have an old RCX 1.0 (S/N 22751) with serial tower and a newer RCX 2.0 (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | analog ports on handyboard?
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We are trying to use the Analog Ports with the Sharp GP2D12 and a potentiometer and are having difficulty with ports 0 -3. When we write to the ADCTL register to read any ports 0 - 3, it reads the respective high ports. For example, when we want to (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Communication between 2 Robots - Movement transmition
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I did something simple in my book where each robot had an angle sensor, and could copy each other's 1D movement. Some grad students at Tufts did the same thing with 2 angle sensors on each robot and 2D movement. Both projects also then expanded to (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.3.8
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(...) It looks like the "slowness on shutdown" that I was experiencing when I closed BricxCC while multiple editor windows were open was causing access violations on your machine. What was happening was the code explorer would kick off a thread to (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Java Mindstorms API
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Hi Keith, (...) on the site I saw: To build an equivalent system for on-board ML programming of the RCX using the Lejos operating system Great project, finally there will be a decent programming language for the RCX ;-) Should better get going with (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: reliability of quad speed LNP
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I have found that between a rather old PC and a RCX I cannot use quad speed transfer of data as the RCX cannot keep up. When a different (faster) PC and the same RCX I can use quad speed transfer. I guess it comes down to protocol timing. LNP does (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.3.8
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hi John, getting the latest video driver (Geforce 2MX, driver DetonatorXP v23.11) didn't help :-(, but .... you're new version 3.3.3.9 DID help :-) So thanks again ! I can't see any relevant changes from your "enhancements" list, but maybe you (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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