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While searching around recently for information on ROBOLAB I found this URL that lists available products for purchase. One that caught my eye was a case, called waterproof housing, to use the RCX underwater (it is the last item at the bottom of the (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | re: intro and question
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Thanks to all those who replied. I think the consensus is to move forward with the NQC. I am relieved that there is a GUI for it and will look into this. Steve - as for your point about there being easier ways to learn how to program, this is no (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Linux, Cygwin, DJGPP: what is it all about?
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Ok, lets try to fiddle some things out. There seems to be a confusion about the software needed for running legOS and why. And there seems to be some confusion about what cygwin and DJGPP are. legOS runs user programs written in C and compiled to (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: N. California Sites/Events?
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Thanks. I'm new to this game. I'm aware of bricklink but my initial take is that one needs to search their list on the home page for a dealer and then order through them. Maybe this isn't true. Maybe one just orders on bricklink and a dealer (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Transmit Frequency
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Perhaps this link will help you: (URL) is a detailed description in the tips & tricks section. It shows how to change the frequency. The description is also available in english. Greetings, Bart (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.cybermaster)
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| | Re: N. California Sites/Events?
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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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| | Re: GUI for legOS
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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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| | Re: intro and question
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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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| | RE: intro and question
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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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| | Re: GUI for legOS
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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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| | Re: GUI for 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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| | N. California Sites/Events?
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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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| | Re: red universal joint
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(...) (URL) and (URL) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | L-Rex Escapes
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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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| | red universal joint
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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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| | Kronos
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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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| | Re: intro and question
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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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