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c s soh wrote: > (...) Umm... you still need the recharge the pressure in the tank once in a while, dont you? (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: A link of interrest
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(...) Toronto, Ontario, Canada isn't terribly far from you, I think, and there are regular robotics competitions put on by the rtlToronto club. That's the only one I know of. --Bill. (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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HI: After programing a lot of robots with an RCX, I thought I'd sit down and try the scout. I use the first (rcx) SDK and the 'script' language to program. The documentation discusses the ability to program the scout. The editor has a drop down (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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| | Strengthening Gears
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I recently received an email from someone about strengthening gears. This person claims that by boiling the gears and then cooling them with cold water, their strength will increase. Has anyone tried this? What were your results? TJ (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Running Vision Command on XP
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Well, it would be nice if Lego would make this "update" available on-line. AFAIK, this update is only on the RIS 2.0 CD. Perhaps, you could order the RIS 2.0 updgrade from Lego. I suppose this update was to make VCS compatible with RIS 2.0 which (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| | Re: Report on BrickHeap Wars: Robot Challenge #1
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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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