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(...) Thanks for the link, your solution of proportional timeslicing is more straightforward than mine which I like. The only downside would be that a high prioritized process would have it's wakeup conditions checked less frequently than a low (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Sorry, the message is in Italian because it was addressed to lugnet.loc.it. Didn't realize I was on the .robotics ng when I clickked the New button... Mario "Mario Ferrari" <mario.ferrari@edis.it> ha scritto: (...) su (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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kenneth, I believe the code you are looking for is used in program.c (for LegOS v0.2.6) When you press the View button (with no program running) LegOS will show you "FREE", press again, you will get the most significant portion of the free memory (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Navigation using landmarks (Was: Re: lasers and RCX)
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(...) When I said "three degrees of freedom" - I didn't mean "X-Y-Z", I mean't X, Y and Rotation-about-Z. Whilst (in theory) a Killough platform moves in X and Y only - they do rotate a little in practice. (...) From reading the specifications for (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I don't think anyone has actually *tried* this yet - but it's still worth discussing the *other* issues since we wouldn't want to go to the hassle of ripping apart mice until it's evident that it *could* work. The data stream from the mouse is (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Along the same lines, you can get sports floor tape at various sporting good stores. It doesn't leave sticky stuff on wooden gym floors and comes in a lot of colours. -- Baha Baydar bbaydar@hfx.eastlink.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: kits on sale (Toronto) Vision Command 29.99 at KBtoys.com
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BOO! They won't take orders from or ship to Canada. *grumbles* -- Baha Baydar bbaydar@hfx.eastlink.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: <JMccor5760@aol.com> (...) a (...) a (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Intervista su BimP
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Io e Giulio siamo protagonisti dell'ultima intervista di Steven B. Combs su Bimp (Bricks in my Pocket): (URL) un intervista interattiva, siamo solo alla terza domanda di venti. E potete anche porre le vostre domande :-) Ciao Mario (23 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Is there any way voting could be cut down to one week? It would be really nice to have a formal new name before Brickfest (July 19-21). Please send your vote, (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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You may wish to use Gaffers Tap or Spike Tape (they are the same kind of tape, but Gaffers tape is wide and Spike tape is narrow). Both are available at theatrical supply stores. This tape is designed to hold well but remove without leaving a (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | *** legOS new name - second ballot ***
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Wow, the LEGOS group folks are fast! Both osmOS and brickOS are good for them, so I start the last and ultimate ballot. Please send your vote, either for brickOS or for osmOS, with the usual identification phrase, to legOS-namepoll@gmx.de The last (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Black electrical tape works very well on a mostly white kitchen floor. However, there may be some scrubbing required when the tape is removed. ----- Original Message ----- From: lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Jonathan Spitz) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: kits on sale (Toronto) Vision Command 29.99 at KBtoys.com
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This is a listing for a search for mindstorms at KBtoys.com (6/27/02). I think the Vision Command has been on sale since January for 29.99. LEGO MindStorms: Vision Command Ages 12-17 years Vision Command, featuring the new LEGO Cam, lets you (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | legOS new name - result and new problems
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Hi out there, I know you are anxious to hear about the new name of legOS. Good news first: you don't have to flood my mail folder, here it goes... Here is the list of the names together with the phrases, if I got one. So everyone can see if his vote (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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hi all...after a while my RCX hangs and i think i might have a memory leak somewhere. anyone have, or know of, a function which i can use to check the available memory while my program is running ? regards kenneth johansen kennethj@stud.cs.uit.no (23 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Can you tell which line it's locking up on? Try commenting out lines until it doesn't lock up (or until you run out of lines) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shehryar Shaheen" <shehryar.shaheen@ul.ie> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:42:56 GMT To: (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I was hoping, since the thread was already onto how to modify and mount the mouse guts, that it would have been preceeded by a successful attempt to interface the little beast. Since I already know quite a lot about how tedious it is to get data (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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That is correct each Task started has a higher priority and they all have a higher prority than task_swapper like Prio Task 1 -- Task Swapper 2 -- Motor Driver Task 3 -- Light Sensor Task 4 -- Touch Sensor I changed the all the priorities to 1 but I (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Nothing yet. I have a guy in England that's trying to use pbForth to do I2C comms. As I see it, there are two possiblilities here. One is a bit-bang interface on a sensor input port. Tricky to do with pbForth because it allows the normal 1 (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Navigation using landmarks (Was: Re: lasers and RCX)
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I see all this nice stuff about trimming mouse bottoms and mounting the device off of the central steering axis and stuff to try and catch rotation, but I haven't spotted the posting about how people are actually getting the x and y values from the (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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