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Hi Wayne, I do not know of any events in that area, but I wanted to tell you that I have had great luck with (URL) for misc. pieces. Since you order the parts directly from the individual stores/storeowners, it doesn't really matter where you are (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Is DJGPP easier to use from DOS (Windows)? Can CygWin be executed from a command line? When I set up my PC with LegOS (about a year ago) I installed DJGPP (with the help of a Unix friend), and I've been very happy with it. Recently, I just set-up a (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) There's been enough research to suggest that Forth is an excellent first language that I would disagree. As a second or third language, there's much more to unlearn. -- Matt (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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I wondered why they included NQC in the Ada/Mindstorms distribution so I d/led all 26MB or so and tried it out. In turns out that they compile the ADA code into NQC code. They they run NQC over that to produce code which runs on the RCX. It offers a (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Steve, Could you share a little more about what you have done with the Visual Studio setup? Thanks! Ed Steve Hassenplug <hassenplug@mail.com> wrote in message news:20020615231547....ail.com... (...) writing programs with LegOS. (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Michael, What I am hearing here and have heard in the past, along with my own personal experience, is that developing for legOS under Windows and more specific cygwin can be or is a pretty difficult task. Compounded on top of that is if you have (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Are there any Lego events going on in N. Calif. in the next month? Are there any used part sources in this area? I'd like to pick up some misc. bricks for RIS 2.0. -- Wayne T. Watson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N, 2,701 feet), Nevada City, CA Crop (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) (URL) and (URL) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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I have just finished L-Rex a new biped that I have created using technic/mindstorms check out www.lbrick.com (in the projects section) for more information/pictures and feel free to let me know what you think. (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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This is totally out of the blue (or the grey, or something like that). Several months ago, there was a discussion in this group about the different types of universal joints LEGO has made. One person claimed to have seen a red universal joint in a (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Any fellow bot-builders working at Kronos, Inc., in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA? Just curious, as I start in the Engineering building tomorrow. Doug Wilcox 30 George Street Brockton, MA 02302 508-584-6853 508-284-4408 cell (23 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Forth was my second language (after Basic). The hours I spent at user group lectures sweating the fine points of stack management and memory allocation were a fabulous preparation for programming. If you survive the experience, that is. You (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) You change a bit, ask questions, re-write the code to solve the problem differently. Then go back and figure out what conceptual mistake was made the first time through. This is EXACTLY the same process you go through on a PC. (...) By trying (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) It's a fine language as long as the potential user understands how to use dual-stack based languages/systems (ie TIL's). I suggest folks who want to learn Forth get themselves a good grounding in RPN. From there it's the same old same old with (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The problem with learning on an embedded system is not *what* you have to learn - its *how* you have to learn it. If you make any of a dozen basic programming mistakes on an RCX, what's going to happen? Well, maybe a motor will turn on when it (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Forth isn't by any stretch of the imagination a good language to learn as your *first* language - although it *is* pretty cool for writing embedded system software on teeny-tiny processors once you grok the whole programming thing. ---...--- (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The paper you refer to cites two basic reasons why he considers NQC difficult for novices: poor error messages and a command line interface. The first criticism is true, and probably not going to be remedied anytime soon. Most people get the (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Mario (and all other pbForth users - both of you :-) I'm very happy to include ANY contributions that you may have in the source archive. Even if I don't update the actual core, I still add useful scripts to the distribution all the time. Any (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) saving the system (SAVESYS) and I would like to test it with another Terminal Emulator. Thanks Mario (23 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) I agree that the core should be kept small, I'm sorry for not thinking this through all the way. Please do post the definitions on this message board so we can all benefit from your work. I will do the same. (...) No ignorance on your part, a (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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