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Fredrik, You can check to see what Cygwin packages have been installed on your system by using the cygcheck command. Try cygcheck -c If the output is too large for your dos window you can export it to a file by using the following command cygcheck (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, Ralph Hempel writes: [...snip...] (...) Ralph, your recent additions to pbForth and to its documentation are simply great. Can't wait to see the next article... I'm currently in a "pbForth phase". Not only I do (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Thanks, I'm going to test out the Adder-Subtractor as soon as i get my hands on a second differential. Looks like that will do the trick. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Baker" <sjbaker1@airmail.net> To: "Lego Robotics" (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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You need "make" installed on your system. Run the cygwin setup.exe and install it. Good luck. -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of Fredrik Helin Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 6:48 AM (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi! The "make" command in Cygwin returns a: "command not found" after installing legOS 0.2.6 on a Windows 98 machine. I'm currently in the legos-0.2.6 catalogue and the Makefile, Makefile.common, Makefile.user, Makefile.kernel files are all there. (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Are you sure you got the usbcore module? I'm also not quite sure it will work with 2.4.9 . Jürgen (23 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Was wondering if anyone knows of a way to drive 2 axles together. What i mean is, using 2 motors and a differential or some other gear mechanism have them both move forward, both backward, or in opposite directions. I'm sure this has been done (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Co-operative Multi tasking in pbforth 2.1
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Hi Ralph Thanks for you reply. I have just started into the article on background monitoring, its great. I am looking forward to your articles on hooking into the one millisecond timer and use of using John Barnes' ultrasonic sensor. I was going to (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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The volunteer organizers would like to officially announce that (URL) has been updated and registration is now online. BrickFest 2002 July 19-21 Washington DC(Arlington, VA) George Mason University - Arlington Campus When you register make sure you (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org, lugnet.robotics.events) !!
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I've just upgraded to the kernel 2.4.9-31 and tried to compile this driver. I get the following errors: [root@kelcsts38b usb_lego]# make install /sbin/modprobe -r usb_lego cp usb_lego.o /lib/modules/2.4.9-3...rivers/usb /sbin/modprobe usb_lego (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Yes. It is updated from an interrupt routine that fires every 1 ms (IIRC). However.... (...) wait_event is only accurate to 20ms or so, depending on what your other tasks do. So your timing is very accurate, but you're not timing what you (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'd like to see build instructions for your Calipers. I can just about figure it out from the pictures, but I can't figure out the depth gauge. (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Taking a second look at this and noticing some past post about this issue with WinXP ((URL) a much cleaner code might look like the following # # WindowsNT/Cygnwin, test against several values: # ifneq (,$(findstring $(OSTYPE),cygwin32 cygwin (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Co-operative Multi tasking in pbforth 2.1
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Phil, I have some hooks in the current version of pbForth that you can use to implement cooperative multi-tasking. Have you read the article on implementing a background monitor to check for button presses? It's at: (URL) I was going to write (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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I am compiling under windows 98 using cygwin version 1.3.10. In Makefile.common (/legOS-0.2.6,/legOS....2.6/util) the logic to determine whether the OS is a windows system fails due to the fact that uname returns CYGWIN_98-4.10. I submitted a bug (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I would add another question to Steve's valuable list. Do you really want to do tracking? With one or two degrees of freedom, ie; azimuth or azimuth and elevation. IF that's what you're trying to do, then your sonar/radar sensor is going to have to (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Accurate msleep and timeslicing - was Re: sys_timer
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"Michael Obenland" <obenland@t-online.de> wrote in message news:GvJ5vD.7MC@lugnet.com... <snip> (...) switch. (...) I made some modifications to the tm_sleep_wakeup that allows high priority tasks to wake up at exactly the time specified for msleep (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Yes. (...) That is right. (...) It does, actually. The timer itself counts the millisec. But if you do a wait_event() call, your running program gives up its time slice, the OS waits for the event and then continues your task with the next (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Just a quick post to let anyone who's interested in this book and hasn't got it yet that my company has this on offer at 25% off RRP for the next 7 days. Probably not much use to anyone outside Europe due to shipping charges, but I thought I'd let (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Co-operative Multi tasking in pbforth 2.1
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I am have been programming the brick in nqc but have started to find this a little restrictive. I have just started using pbFORTH. Would anyone be able to help me with a sample script to impliment Multi-Tasking. I am using this to set up an "infra (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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