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I have verified that the following configuration works (but not without some minor modifications). I am hoping to submit and include the modifications in a future release of legOS (maybe 0.2.7). Apparently, the GNU Toolchain available from the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Release candidate legos-0.2.5.2 avail for testing
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(...) Well... see... now you boxed me in. ;-) of course you are correct. I was trying to give the benefit of the doubt to our author or to the cygwin developers. I really didn't think the version number should be in the path, but it was there, so I (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Ultimate Builders Set
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You can buy this set thru Amazon.com for less than 45.00 shipped. Please email me for the coupon codes if you want this price. Have fun shopping (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Where can I find the proper transmitter for the IR Transmission port on the Handyboard. What must the transmitter's specifications be? (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Ultimate Builders Set
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(...) (URL) of other Mindstorms stuff too! FUT market.b-s-t -Rob. (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: What the f...
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I just set my email to block the address. Robb, (...) (URL) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Bogus Antigen virus messages
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(...) They should know about it affecting them - I told them about four hours ago and sent a sample message along with it. (...) Indeed! ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- Mail : <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkMail: <sjbaker@link.com> URLs : (8 URLs) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Antigen Notification:Antigen found VIRUS= Malign.575 (CA(InoculateIT)) virus
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I *was,* until I wrote a mail rule to delete them from my pop3 server. ;) Doug Wilcox 30 George Street Brockton, MA 02302 508-584-6853 508-284-4408 cell Put a Versatile Web Designer/Developer on *your* staff: (URL) Web designer, with a love for (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Antigen Notification:Antigen found VIRUS= Malign.575 (CA(InoculateIT)) virus
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yes, where is the list manager when you need her/him. we need to filter everything from this wisc.edu address. they obviously have a problem with their virus detection software. (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RES: Antigen Notification:Antigen found VIRUS= VHP-361 (CA(InoculateIT )) virus
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Well, During the day all I got were messages (about one hundred) referring to virus stuff. Fortunately our messaging servers are all protected against virus and all messages from the list were cleaned before reaching my mailbox. Good luck to all! (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Antigen Notification:Antigen found VIRUS= VHP-361 (CA(InoculateIT )) virus
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Roland, The problem is because Antigen (a virus scanning program) isn't configured properly at on an Exchange 2000 mail server in a university in Wisconsin. None of the messages it claims had virii were infected. I called the University earlier to (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Anyone else getting these Antigen Virus things????/
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I've gotten like 100 of them this morning. How can i/we make it stop????? -b (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Brian Connors writes: > Okay, what's going on with this antivirus message spam > here? I've removed the subscriber whose email system seems to have injected these emails. Sorry for allowing so many of them through. (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Anti-virus message
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I've brought this to our sys-admins' attention. -Suz Suzanne Rich LUGNET Admin (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Okay, what's going on with this antivirus message spam here? /Brian ===== -- (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Ultimate Builders Set
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Time for me to get some antibiotics.... Anyone have a lead on the best place/best price for the Ultimate Builders Set? Thanx. (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Bogus Antigen virus messages
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Everyone: I called wisc.edu's computer department to see if they could shed some light on these Antigen messages. They are aware of the problem (although they didn't know this email group was affected) and are attempting to resolve the issue. Let's (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Could some one please make the anti-virus messages from ANTIGEN_PELLIG [ANTIGEN_PELLIG@fpm.wisc.edu] stop. This is very annoying. Bill Weiss ASSET InterTech Inc. bweiss@asset-intertech.com (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Antigen Notification:Antigen found VIRUS= FormatFD (CA(InoculateIT)) virus
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PLEASE STOP THESE MESSAGES -----Original Message----- From: ANTIGEN_PELLIG [mailto:ANTIGEN_PELL....wisc.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 9:50 AM To: 'goatrider@spambegon...ider.com'; 'lego-robotics@crynwr.com' Subject: Antigen (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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what is this flood of "Antigen" msgs ? Who/What is "PINK, Nathaniel\Lego located at FPM Netops/FPMMAIL/PELLIG" ? (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Antigen Notification:Antigen found VIRUS= Malign.575 (CA(InoculateIT)) virus
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These bogus notifications are becoming troublesome... Is everyone getting these? -----Original Message----- From: ANTIGEN_PELLIG [mailto:ANTIGEN_PELL....wisc.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 10:50 AM To: 'lego-robotics@crynwr.com' Subject: (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Makefile patch
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Here's the latest on this end: I have some kind of incomplete cross compiler that I build using Max Bowsher's script.... I unpacked the legOS directory did 'make OSTYPE=cygwin' And now I can download helloworld (which is compiled for some reason) (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Final prep. for 0.2.6 release
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(...) I've modified my old patch "LNP checksum optimizations" so it can be applied against version 0.2.5.2, as Stephen asked me to. I've noticed that an older LNP patch -- see (URL) -- has been partly lost. That patch fixed some race conditions in (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Antigen Notification:Antigen found VIRUS= VHP-361 (CA(InoculateIT )) virus
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<lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:5.1.0.14.2.2002...ols.org... (...) was (...) yeah, i got one too. for some reason it seems that i am the source because of the timing but my system is clean. i'm going to try again and scan for (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Makefile patch
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Kingsley, I did encounter this error, but didn't specifically list the error in my description. You will need to: (...) *** this is the specific fix for "No rule to make target" (...) *** I included the following steps in case you run into these (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Makefile patch
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I just tried the 2000r1_i686-cygwin32...00-hms.zip and now I get "make: *** No rule to make target I think during my tinkering I'm after deleting some necessary makefile or something, if there's anyone who can pinpoint what I'm missing it would be (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Makefile patch
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I used binutils-2.12 and gcc-2.95.3 and Max Bowsher's build-h8x script. I got what I thought was a successful "ALL DONE" message, but I still can not make new .lx files for the RCX. Are there additional directories I need to add to my path...or (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Antigen Notification:Antigen found VIRUS= VHP-361 (CA(InoculateIT )) virus
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I assume everyone else is getting these both on the list and in their email. I'm pretty sure the messages I sent out (which were weeks ago) were clean. Has someone's mail system got a virus which is infecting all their old mail? Note I got two viral (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Well, after a fairly frustrating couple of days, I was finally able to build legOS-0.2.5 yesterday evening. I will get to the details in a minute. The whole experience made me question the stability of Cygwin/GCC. Basically, I tried at least 3 (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello im new user on this mailing- list, as you see:). I'm student from Poland, Warsaw University of Technology. I'm just doing my graduate work, the part of it is remote-controlling of LEGO Mindstorms robot with RCX. I will be grateful i anyone of (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Release candidate legos-0.2.5.2 avail for testing
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(...) No it doesn't! Cygwin stores some info in the registry. Besides, why would you want multiple cygwin versions? Max. (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Ooops. Forgot to remove that before I sent it to you. Delete that line. (...) Well, I wrote the script, so I guess it makes sense to me. (...) True... BUT: You are using the cygwin versions of binutils and gcc. I don't know why, and don't have (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Release candidate legos-0.2.5.2 avail for testing
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(...) My recent patch should fix this. If you have the time and inclination, please test it. Max. Patch included again for convenience's sake: ### BEGIN PATCH ### diff -mru cvs-legOS/Makefile.common work-legOS/Makefile.common --- (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Release candidate legos-0.2.5.2 avail for testing
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My test results as first time cygwin/legos user on Windows sytem. Environment: Windows XP Version 5.1.2600 Serial IR tower on COM2: Following INSTALL-cygwin.html: Cygwin installed from www.cygwin.com using setup.exe and internet install as shown in (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Makefile patch
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I can get binutils done, but in gcc make ALL_TARGET_MODULES="" and make INSTALL_TARGET_MODULES="" install do not work...they come up with errors. I'm using the most recent version of cygwin. As for the script, all I get is Building h8x tools from (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: SUMO at WAMALUG Meeting
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Yes! I'm interested, and there is at least one other person who would enter such a contest. At the very least we can do an exhibition. I have a SUMO arena I can toss in the truck and bring up. (We live in SE Virginia, so we're fairly close to (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | Re: Release candidate legos-0.2.5.2 avail for testing
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Dear legOS people, i am using cygwin-1.3.10-1 ( cygcheck -c) and h8300-hms-gcc 3.0.3 Here are some notes on legos-0.2.5.2 . I think first point must be fixed, other points are suggestions kernel/lnp.c doesnt compile because of missing "volatile" (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problems installing in Win98
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(...) This problem goes away with the latest version of Cygwin. Max. (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Makefile patch
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Well problem 1, you need configure, not config. You may be interested in the attached script, which when invoked with the paths to unpacked binutils and gcc source directories, automates the process. Something like: ./build-h8x binutils-2.12 (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Final prep. for 0.2.6 release
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(...) The makefiles do still not detect cygwin properly in all circumstances. This patch should fix this. It is against current CVS. ### BEGIN PATCH ### diff -mru cvs-legOS/Makefile.common work-legOS/Makefile.common --- cvs-legOS/Makefile.common Thu (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Interesting but slightly off topic
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Hey Guys, Has anyone got the Webcamera Running Online along with the Lego Mindstorm if so do send me the link. Thanks Shibu (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RoboLab newsgroup page updates
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(...) The first two links to Ben Erwin, Tufts University are resources to LEGO ENGINEER rather than ROBOLAB. The links have moved to: (URL) and (URL) Engineer is still relevant although ROBOLAB 2.5 is now able to work with the Control Lab Interface (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.dacta)
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| | Re: LEGO Satellite Uplink
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Jerry... Being a satellite systems engineer and a beginning Mindstorms enthusiast...I find this design *very* cool. Well done. Thanks M7 (...) ___...___ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: (URL) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: cygwin
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I'm still following the instructions from (URL) far I've got legOS compiled and working (I can transfer the kernel and previously compiled programs to the rcx) And I've got binutils installed...i think, no error messages at least. I can not get gcc (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: cgywin
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Another possibility might be modules, I was missing mawk, bison, and byacc. Any other modules that I might need that aren't installed by default? thanks -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: cgywin
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I can get the makefiles made for the cross compiller. ../binutils-version/configure --target=h8300-hms --disable-nls --prefix=/lego-ms as per Max Bowsher's instructions at (URL) when I do "make" I get lots of errors Then after "make install" I get (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | SUMO at WAMALUG Meeting
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At the WAMALUG meeting on April 14, 2002, a couple of people brought sumo robots. It was a lot of fun. See (URL) for some pictures from the meeting (thanks to Abe Friedman for taking and posting the pictures). Brian Carpenter posted the rules we (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | Re: cgywin
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I have been following the instructions at (URL) have experienced the same issues as you Kingsley. At the end of the binutils/gcc build, I noticed the following error(s): <snip>/libiberty/cho...temp.c:29: stdio.h: No such file or directory (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: New Book - Core Lego Mindstorms
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Awesome book, got it, read it cover-to-cover. Well written, good projects, very comprehensive. Kinda took the wind out of my sails, really, knowing somebody else had already done so much! Still I guess if you want to produce a really awesome robot (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | third party sensor patches submited
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I've submited the patches for the swmux and dirpd sensors sold at www.techo-stuff.com. Please send me any comments you have on them as they are to be considered for inclusion in 0.2.7. You can find them in the patches section of legOS project at (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Final prep. for 0.2.6 release
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We are working to release 0.2.6 by the end of this week. If you have not yet had time to test 0.2.5.2 (the current test version) please take time to do so and let us know what you find. You can dowload from (URL) you know of anything we are missing, (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Release candidate legos-0.2.5.2 avail for testing
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(...) This is a great idea. We will post binary packages for at least the windows platform. Regards, Stephen for the legOS team -- (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | .lis files
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I am working on a program that will envolve several different files. So I have been trying to figure out how to creat a (.lis), file that could be used to load all the files together; lessing the pain on loading them one, by one. Anyway, I can't (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Release candidate legos-0.2.5.2 avail for testing
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(...) Kingsley about setting up a "upload only" environment on his windoze laptop, I searched & was unable find a pre-compiled version of dll.exe & firmdl3.exe. I know I must've found them somewhere before, 'cos I've never had a development (...) (23 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: MacNQC - iBook with USB tower
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Hi Jenny and all other Mac users, I 've got no problems with my PowerBook G3/400 and the usb tower running MacNQC 3.0a4. I don't know if anyone must know that my Mac works with MacOS 9.2.2. I installed the driver and the four additional 4 ghost (...) (23 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | MacNQC - iBook with USB tower
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I'm using an iBook running MacOS 9.1 I've installed MacNQC 3.0a4. It worked fine with a serial tower prior to installing the USB drivers. I installed the USB drivers and placed the cooresponding files in the extensions folder. I restarted the system (...) (23 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: IR comm. RCX en Handyboard
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Hi, you might consider talking english in this list ... (...) It somehow both. It standard, since it's 2400bps 8E1 but it's non standard in the way, that lego uses a 38kHz modulated IR signal to transmit this data. This kind of modulation is usually (...) (23 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | IR comm. RCX en Handyboard
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Hallo, Kan iemand mij misschien vertellen welk infrarood protocol de RCX gebruikt? Is het een standaard protocol of heeft Lego zelf iets verzonnen? Ik heb ook een HandyBoard en ook daar weet ik niet van welk infrarood protocol er wordt gebruikt. (...) (23 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Looking for Snoozy...
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Help! I've downloaded the VC activeX component from snoozysplace.be.tf, and send an e-mail to Snoozysplace@be.tf for the password, but my 'mail administrator' returns the mail because he can't find this mail-host. Is snoozy listening? or does anyone (...) (23 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | UK Television Appearance
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Did any of the UK Lugnuts see the piece on LEGO Mindstorms on ITV's Cybernet last night? It was on at around 2.30am and the spot on LEGO was very interesting. It featured an event at the Rainforest Cafe in London's Picadilly Circus and stars of the (...) (23 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: cgywin
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Hi, I installed legOS and cygwin a while ago ... OK, it was version 0.2.4 ;-) But what I've done differently is that I didn't took the original gcc-sources from gnu.org, but the sources of the compiler in cygwin. Maybe you would also like to check (...) (23 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Ultimate Builder's Set
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Check this out: (URL) like it's 3 (Black Rubber Belt, K3) Ivan Carlos Cavanna <cdcavanna@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3CB9CA62.5ECCEA...hoo.com... (...) (23 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: cgywin
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WinXP I just tried 0.2.5.2, no luck uname gives me "CGYWIN_NT-5.1" any of this help? thanks -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of Paolo Masetti Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 6:02 PM (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: cgywin
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(...) I don't use cygwin but linux. But in this group, several cygwin problems were discussed over the time. One problem seems to be the PATH env. variable for the cygwin bash shell. With wrong set PATH, bash doesn't find what it needs to work (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Ultimate Builder's Set
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Hi, I got a Ultimate Builder's Set kit and I wonder if any of you could tell me how many of the Rubber Band o16 should come with it. I checked mindstorms.lego.com but it seems they forgot to publish it. It is not listed in the CD either (they have (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: cgywin
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(...) beginning. Windows 9x? Win2k? WinXP? Which version of legOS? For latest cygwin you need the latest available version 0.2.5.2 that you can find here: (URL) is your output for "uname" command? Bye, Paolo. --- Keyboard failure....Press F1 to (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: cgywin
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after about an hour it finished ...but i'm still having problems when i type "make realclean" i get a big mess of stuff with the only noticable error being "gccw32: not found" and that occurs at the beginning. then i type "make depend" i get a small (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: cgywin
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it seems make dosn't install by default with the cgywin setup file. i reinstalled cgywin with "make" and other needed modules: ash autoconf automake bash binutils cpio cygwin diff file fileutils findutils flex gcc grep less login make mingw patch (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Robolab programming for Official remote message buttons
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(...) Yes, that was my first guess, but the RCX never responded to my test program. Hmmm... I could remote control the motors, but the batteries were low. Maybe I should try again? I will let you know what happens. (23 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: LeJOS resource question
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(...) https://lists.source...discussion (23 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Workshop 3D RCX Challenge #4 Results
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Earlier today was the Workshop 3D RCX Challenge #4. There were dozens of competitors, and even more robots. This was the best turnout yet for the number of competitors and robots at this event! Below is a summary of the results. For the full (and (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | cgywin
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Hi all, I currently use legOS on my linux machine. I want to be able to use it on my laptop, so i'm not always tied to my desktop. I purchased a Serial USB adapter since my laptop does not have a serial port. $80!!! I decided that it would be much (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Code-only Line-tracking event results
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It's time for the Workshop 3D RCX Challenge again. The main event will take place tomorrow, from 1pm to about 4pm. It should be webcast. Check out (URL) and (URL) for details tomorrow morning. This year the Code-Only Line-Tracking event was held the (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | RE: Release candidate legos-0.2.5.2 avail for testing
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I've test it and think that there i a serious bug (or i don't know how to use legOS :)) When i change the lnp hostadress config, I can't download any program, I've remark that DLL src use config.h should i change it ? And finaly i think i have a (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LeJOS resource question
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Hi (...) yes, it's a very nice book, and covering a lot of ground, I got it on Monday (thanks, Brian). I wish I had more time to build things. (...) Yes, that's quite a distance, though both are imperative languages. For a start you can stay mostly (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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I recently purchased Brian Bagnall's book on LeJOS programming, and was both impressed by what JAVA can do as well as frustrated with trying to learn something new. (The only programming course I have taken was FORTRAN, back in the Jurrassic era). (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Of course you are right. <shame on me> (...) Hm? You don't use the gcc toolchain for the H8 but another compiler? Can you tell a bit more about your compiler? I revised my testings without optimizing out the calculation and the empty loop took (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Details regarding release content, download instructions and how to provide feedback are at (URL) change detail specific to 0.2.5.2 see the file: ChangeLog Highlights: Added missing file TODO Repaired slow-mode IR comm. for Linux We look forward to (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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"Michael Obenland" <obenland@t-online.de> wrote in message news:GuEtHr.M39@lugnet.com... (...) but only (...) assume (...) I was surprized at the wide disparity between 'empty loop' and loop with 'reading the sensor'. I suspect there is significant (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hello All, Many thanks to all who replied to my original post on this topic. The hardware is build (and works - sometimes(!!!)) and I am now writing the thesis for the project. It is due for submission next week, and if anyone would be interested in (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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The discussion about the Firmware speed is intresting indeed. So I did a fast, by no means representative, reserch. The following program is a legOS program reading the light sensor, calculating some values and printing the elapsed time: ---...--- (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Turning the RCX off and on again (was: New pbForth 2.1.0 (and firmware speed))
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For the Workshop3D Event I use the following construct, the button handling is from the book "Extreme Mindstorms": : main ( -- ) \ Main Task init \ do main initialize ( ... ) BEGIN ( ... ) BUTTON_SCAN BUTTON_RUN? IF ( ... ) \ Calibrating BEGIN ( ... (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I need to look at some items for Joerg, but I'll also look at a small supervisor that integrates the View,Run,Prgm,and On/Off buttons. This hsould be pretty easy and would be a good bit of example code. Cheers, Ralph (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) off (...) True. But I find not very practical to be forced to use the terminal to switch off the RCX or start the program again, expecially when you are attending a contest or take your robot to an exhibit. What I meant by "supervisor" is some (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hello, I want to control two RCX with one ir-tower. The problem is that the RCX should send back status information. Sending information to the RCX is quite easy: Both RCX receive the message but only one will perform the command. I found (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) If you have the new version 2.1 the POWER-OFF word via terminal to shut off and the red button to power on works fine. If you have an earlier version (1.2x) you have to use the words RCX_INIT and POWER_INIT to initialize the brick and the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Mario, i'm interested in pbForth example scripts, too. Furthermore, the "supervisor" you suggested could be the answer to one of my questions in (URL) concerning turning the RCX off and on without loosing pbForth: 2) According to Knudsen, i have to (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Imagine what happens when a TV truck pulls up to a crime scene and the technician has to establish a Satellite Uplink for his live news feed. My latest project is a LEGO Dish that is motor driven, both in azimuth and elevation. It scans back and (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hey folks, Just read this and thought it was interesting enough to pass on. Not exactly Lego related but it might give some people ideas on directions to build in. (URL) Baydar bbaydar@hfx.eastlink.ca (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Thanks Ralph, this is great news. I just got the new USB tower, and considering my revived interest for pbForth your new version arrives really at the right time. What IMHO would really boost the spreading of pbForth, is the availability of some (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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At the risk of digressing and sounding horribly stupid, has there been any (pseudo-/semi-)official word yet on the computer type/capabilities of the SpyBots? Andrew Burton phone. (334) 876-9259 email. superboy@wccs.cc.al.us (...) (URL) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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For everyone that has been interested in firmware speed over the last few days, I am ready to announce the latest version of pbForth. This version supports the USB tower under Windows!!!! (URL) An empty loop of 20,000 interations takes less than 1 (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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"Steve Baker" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:3CB39250.8CC16B...ail.net... (...) what (...) you (...) storage (...) If you need to use a lookup table where you know the values of the table at compile time, using a case statement (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Dick, Nice post, and an iteresting topic. My timings differ a little for v2.0 beta, but they are basically the same. My timings use an interal timer as do yours. My multi-task measurement shows that the 3mS framework does not apply to every (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Firstly, thanks very much for that detailed answer. That was exactly the information I was looking for. Somewhere in the thread it was suggested that each task gets one opcode executed every 3ms, actually, as you show, they all get one opcode (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) 16 MHz AFAIK, and I bet it could go much faster, at the price of a less reproducible timing. leJOS executes some tens of Java bytecodes per millisecond, an empty 10000 iterations loop containing four relatively simple byte codes runs in 1.4 (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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This is a follow up to many of the recent posts on the speed of Lego's RCX byte code interpreter. It's a long post but the salient items are in the first few paragraphs. The interpreter is very slow because of all the overhead required to execute a (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics) !
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(...) Hrm. Looks like I need to be more thorough with my multi-task timing tests... my results (which seemed to show only one task getting run in any given timeslice) differ from yours. Unfortunately, I didn't keep good notes of all my measurements, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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The upcoming SpyBots are listed for preorder at Amazon. No pictures yet, but the names and a short description are given for each. MSRP looks to be $60 each. Check it out: (URL) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RoboLab newsgroup page updates
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The RoboLab newsgroup page (URL) some updating. The first two links on the left pane don't work anymore. The following two links should replace those first two links: Tufts RoboLab site (URL) or (URL) Education (Dacta) RoboLab site (URL) Pitsco site (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.dacta)
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