 | | Re: Several hardware questions.. Laser link Hardware expansion n' more
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The Ferarri book yalks about some ways to add input or output ports. The option that looks most promising to me is detailed at (URL) that site: "I'm very Pleased to announce that my latest project the '(MS)2 Expander' will expand your RCX's ports (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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interesting navigation document!!! (URL) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: IR Tower and USB-Serial adapter
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Mauro, PCMCIA serial port cards are available (just search the net for them). Here is one such card that has two serial ports: (URL) those cards aren't too cheap but old 14.4/28.8kbps PCMCIA modems are, perhaps making your own will suffice: (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: IR Tower and USB-Serial adapter
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The USB tower gets its power from the USB port. It has no battery, AND it stay "alive" all the time (unlike the old serial tower that timed out to save battery life). The only problems I've read about in the sdk package about using the USB tower on (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: IR Tower and USB-Serial adapter
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Unfortunatelly I can't buy that at Brazil. I want to buy a RIS 2.0 when possible but if I buy it here it would cost over US$300! I prefer to buy the whole set than individual pieces. It is more cost effective. Meanwhile I'm using my desktop (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Ant pheromones
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It does work - drywipe pens and horizontal white boards I mean - I worte a paper on my Lego ant laying trails for Ants 2002; sadly rejected. However, this combination works well, and my robot can raise and lower a pen depending on its internal (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Linux driver for USB tower
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Hi, (...) Good point. The tar file can be found at (URL) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Displaying info while debugging
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Here it is... : wait 15 0 timer_SET BEGIN 0 timer_GET 0= UNTIL ; I go with 0,15 seconds to be on the safe side; 0,10 seconds is too border line. So now, the first example becomes: : TEST 100 0 DO I CR . wait 7 1 0 MOTOR_SET LOOP 7 4 0 MOTOR_SET ; (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Displaying info while debugging
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Thanks a lot Ralph, And I'm sure you're right. I tried this: 10000 VALUE CTR : test 100 0 DO I CR . CTR 0 DO LOOP LOOP ; For CTR > 11000, the numbers are displayed one at a time. Below 11000, they're displayed in batch. So, it probably means that (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: IR Tower and USB-Serial adapter
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I solved that problem before I encountered it altogether. I just bought the usb IR tower from Lego Dacta www.pldstore.com and the RIS 2.0 upgrade kit from Lego S@H. cost me about $40 US, but that USB/Serial adapter was twice that when I went looking (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | IR Tower and USB-Serial adapter
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Hi, all I have a problem trying to connect a serial IR tower to my notebook. The notebook has no serial port, so I'm using an USB-serial adapter. Although this adapter worked for another device, it seens it is not working properly with the IR tower. (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Displaying info while debugging
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(...) Mario, I did some checking and I think the real issue is with the USB driver from LEGO. The serial tower does not exhibit this behaviour. It has its own problems, which include falling asleep after 2 seconds of inactivity. So, as far as I can (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | The clock is ticking
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Don't forget that BrickFest 2002 is only a couple of weeks away, and there are some good prizes just waiting to be picked up. Friday, July 19 The Technic Competition - Scree Runner 1st - 8466 4x4 Off-Roader 2nd - 8735 Power Pack Saturday, July 20 (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | make a mindstorms robot as telerobot!
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Hello, everyone! It's my first time to send a message here! I've a project which requires me to make a mindstorms robot as telerobot. I'd like to use Java as core control programming language! So far, I just know there're several kinds of (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Ant pheromones
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See, I told you it was a good idea... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Albert Huang" <sfitw@hotmail.com> "Steve Hassenplug" <hassenplug@mail.com> wrote in message news:20020701181335....ail.com... (...) funny. (URL) ___...___ Talk More, Pay Less (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | HOWTO Demo.c
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I was able to fix the previous problem regarding the light sensor Thank u Joseph Woolley for your reply. I have another one In the legOS Howto their is a demo code demo.c which has some task switching examples I am having trouble with the following (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I was able to fix the previous problem regarding the light sensor Thank u Joseph Woolley for your reply. I have another one In the legOS Howto their is a demo code demo.c which has some task switching examples I am having trouble with the following (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: pbForth vs RCX 1.0
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(...) Yes, please :-) I actually knew the EMIT and KEY words, but had never thought of using them to make two RCXs communicate. For some stupid reason in my head I was expecting some special API words was necessary to manage this communcation, while (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: Linux driver for USB tower
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(...) Richard, That's great, but I just realized there is no URL....how can we test it if we can't find it? :-) Cheers, Ralph (23 years ago, 2-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Ant pheromones
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"Steve Hassenplug" <hassenplug@mail.com> wrote in message news:20020701181335....ail.com... (...) 'wall' around the edge, to keep your robot inside. (...) or a test sumo ring. (...) funny. (URL) me if you want more info. cheers, albert (23 years ago, 2-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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