 | | Psion 5mx and pbForth
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I've mentioned my attempts to get a psion series 5 to talk to pbForth before. I've finally got it sorted enough to be useful. Anyone with a Psion Series 5mx machine (possibly a series 5 also) may like to look at (URL) It transfers firmware and text (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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 | | Re: Single acting pneumatics with spring return
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(...) True, but there is one notable difference, as others have pointed out before: When compressiong air, the pressure difference is limited only by implementation details. The pressure inside the tank usually is not just slightly higher than (...) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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 | | New Book - Core Lego Mindstorms
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As some of you know I've been working on a Lego Mindstorms book for Java programmers. The official release date is March 15, 2002 so it seems like a good time to announce it. The intent of this book is to get Java programmers interested in Lego (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics) !
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 | | Re: RCX as a PGP engine
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(...) If you need floating point numbers the leJOS JVM for the RCX uses floating point: (URL) seems like a very intersting idea. I actually wanted to skip the RCX altogether and somehow link up a networking protocol using just the IR Towers. One (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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 | | Re: RCX as a PGP engine
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(...) It really isn't that limited when you consider other platforms that run full PK systems, such as the Dallas Semiconductor iButton. It has a much more limited processors, more limited RAM, and you write your code in Java so it has to be (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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