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My comments are interspersed, with no delimeters. I hate OE. :P ----- Original Message ----- From: "PeterBalch" <PeterBalch@compuserve.com> Cc: "[unknown]" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 5:27 PM Subject: Designing a bipedal (...) (23 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: remote control
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(...) It also works with the Scout - except that A & B drive the motors and the C buttons turn on the red LED. I havn't quite figured out what the P1..P5 buttons do - they evidently activate some of the built-in functionality - but I can't be (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Multi-robot communication
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(...) Thanks very much Jürgen. Error-free typewriting seems to be a more difficult art than I thought. Claude (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Designing a bipedal robot leg
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Andy (...) Would (...) Both. Many years ago, in the days before RCXs, I constructed a few walking bipeds with knees. I found the problem with swinging a large weight around to maintain balance was that the momentum of the weight often toppled the (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Setting LNP host address
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I've experimented with a couple of choices which were relatively easy to implement. Let me know if we should keep any these: 1. You can choose to set the host address at build time with a command-line option to make. Example: make LNP_HOSTADDR=2 (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | main() not defined?
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I get this error - "main() not defined" - when compiling. The code is copied straight from the Ferrari book. While C is the language of my choice, the line of code isn't so obtuse as to hide errors from me. So probably there is some other requisite (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: remote control
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The buttons "1", "2" & "3" send a IR message to the RCX. The RCX must be running a program that will respond to one or more of those messages. The A, B, C buttons will activate the RCX outputs forward or reverse. This requires only the installed (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Powering motors from the mains
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(...) One other thought here (and I'm not sure how "good" it is for the motors and I know that efficiency is not the best) is that you will note if you connect two motors together with the typical electrical connection wire (with no RCX in the (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | lnpd and mandrake 8.2
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Hi, I have install the last legOS and have install lnpd to. But i have a problem when i run an applcation lnptest for example : it don't work.... Here is the problem "lnp_init: Network is unreachable". I run lnpd with the command "lnpd --nolock (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC "No reply from RCX" Help Please
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(...) I'm about to go ahead and wipe the laptop hard drive and just reinstall WinXP and see if I can get everything working from a clean install. I've done a LOT of things on this lap top and had quite a few USB devices installed... -Jeff McClain (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC "No reply from RCX" Help Please
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(...) It definately said "could not open serial port" (I typed it in quotes even and copied it directly from the program). The NQC version is the latest off your page (2.4_r2). And I was using the -SUSB (I'll have to go back and double check that I (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Powering motors from the mains
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I've got (URL) with a AC/DC-plug. Works fine for me to power 9V motors. /Pehter (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Serial cable for Dacta Interface 70909?
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(...) Thanks! I'll fix that when I go back to work tomorrow (today - monday - is holiday here in Sweden, so I have not had a chance to get the stuff for making my own cable yet). I got it working though, by loose wires connecting female <--> female. (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | remote control
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I have a couple of questions about the remote control that comes with the Ultimate Accessory Kit. I am assuming it is the same one that can be purchased on its own (#9738). At (URL) there is a jpeg image of the remote control that indicates there (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | lets drop exec
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I'd like to make a suggestion and see what everyone thinks. I'd like us to drop our current thread interface (exec/kill) in favor of a pthead interface. Since theading entered legOS I've wondered why the exec style was adopted, the functionality of (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | colibri - an alternative RCX RTOS
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Hi all, This might not be the right place to announce new lego-related software, but I thought some of you might be interested. colibri is a free RTOS which currently runs on the RCX. One cool hardware-related thing about colibri is that the LCD (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC "No reply from RCX" Help Please
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(...) <snip> (...) The most likely thing I can think of is some program is running that is holding open the USB Tower port. I think Jeff told me via e-mail that he is using the latest release of BricxCC/NQC. A less likely alternative would be a (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | lnpd and mandrake 8.2
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Hi, I have install the last legOS and have install lnpd to. But i have a problem when i run an applcation lnptest for example : it don't work.... Here is the problem "lnp_init: Network is unreachable". I run lnpd with the command "lnpd --nolock (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Multi-robot communication
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(...) (URL) protocol is at (URL) Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr> (URL) (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Serial cable for Dacta Interface 70909?
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(...) a (...) cable (...) Hi Anders The standard RIS Tower cable works. You just need a gender changer to make it male at one side. I made a dedicated cable from a standard modem cable, changing a few connections. You find the cable wiring of the (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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