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(...) FYI. The RCX normally runs at 2400 baud, but it is effectively 1200 baud because the protocol sends every byte twice. Markus and I were able to get downloads to run at a true 4800 baud by downloading a short program to hack some registers and (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | BrickOS & BricxCC - coming soon to a Windows PC near you
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So, I recently installed cygwin (again) and the pre-built Hitachi cross compiler (which someone recently posted about here). I installed the latest BrickOS release from SourceForge. Everything in the BrickOS for Windows instructions worked (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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It means u don't have a cat! No :) cat is a utility for concatanating files u need to get that. It would be available from where u downloaded cygwin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Germán Rojas" <ge-rojas@uniandes.edu.co> To: (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello what mean the follow error: (thanks!!) :---...--- Begin Fri Oct 4 11:40:22 2002 ---...---: Fri Oct 4 11:40:22 2002 Source code installation start Fri Oct 4 11:43:07 2002 Source code installation end Fri Oct 4 11:43:08 2002 Binutils (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Their first book was the inspiration for the pseudo-submarine that I did for the Creative Projects book. Mine was definitely not as cool since the RCX was above water and just controlling the sub via wires. :) there is a video of it tooling around (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Web controlled Legobots
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This is a chapter in my book "Creative Projects with LEGO Mindstorms" (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) With preamble, complement bytes and checksum, it takes 9 bytes to send the 8 bits of data for a standard RCX message. That's only about 25 or so messages a second! The protocol used by Spybots & Manas eliminates the preamble and complement (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Robolab 2.5.0 -> 2.5.1 ???
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Mike, As recommended by others in this thread I contacted Lego Dacta and they sent me (free of charge) a CD-ROM with the 2.5.1 upgrade on it. This can only be applied to an installed copy of 2.5.0. I have not found the 2.5.1 upgrade anywhere on the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.dacta)
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| | [OT] Surplus LEGO Mindstorms Parts for sale
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Hello, We have several LEGO Mindstorms parts (bricks, RCX 1.5, RCX 2.0 and more...)for sale. All parts are brand new and we have limited quantities. For more details, please check: (URL) STORE (HK) info@robotstorehk.com (23 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Robolab 2.5.0 -> 2.5.1 ???
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I grow confused about all this. Can you tell me how to get 2.5.1 from a patch/update off the net? Alternatively, can you tell me who to contact in the UK (or for the UK) to get the update files please? Mike Reddy, Senior Lecturer -- Web: (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.dacta)
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| | Re: Mindstorms/Bluetooth mentioned
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Hi, We are just in the kit acquisition stage of integrating bluetooth, Mindtorms and Vision Command via wireless networks for a remote sensor project. We call it "Legless" for obvious reasons. Will keep you all informed. Mike Reddy, Senior Lecturer (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.tele)
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Liam, What exactly are your errors using cygwin? Post them here. I might take a couple of posts back and forth but I do believe it is possible. I have it running on Windows 98 and I know other have been successful with Windows. What windows OS are (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Cross-machine cross-compiling
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I have tried posting about the pre-built tools for Win32-cygwin before, however, I think the person I was talking to was too frustrated by then to try it. If you head over to the hitachi web site, they have a link for third party compilers. They (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Speed of IR comms?
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Baker" <sjbaker1@airmail.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 6:53 PM Subject: Re: Speed of IR comms? (...) LEGO and CIR (Consumer Infra-Red) send signals on a modulated carrier frequency (36KHz, 38KHz, or (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | MacNQC Beta Release 3.0a6
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Hi All, I've uploaded MacNQC 3.0a6. New features are: * Tooltips for the Toolbar. Bugs fixed: * Disabled the Fast Firmware checkbox when the USB tower is selected as the output device. * Fixed a crash if while compiling a one line error message is (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: How to setup gcc and make in cygwin
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I, too, have been at it for three weeks. gcc and bintools build OK under cygwin, but when it gets to the cross-compiler, the whole make process craps out. The compile fails because some of the cross-compiler sources are (complaining about) missing (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Speed of IR comms?
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(...) Bad news I'm afraid: Your laptop and phone are using IrDA which is a vastly different technology than the RCX uses. The RCX protocol is more like a TV remote. (In fact, if you have a 'learning' remote, you can use it to drive your RCX!) I (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Cross-machine cross-compiling
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No matter how hard I try - or how many different "this is how to do legOS under Win32" web sites I visit - I cannot get legOS and its associated cross-compiler to build. The stuff from brickOS dies during the make process because of "missing" (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Development enviroment...
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(...) I don't think you'll run out of memory, unless you let the RCX play songs. But you'll run out of sensor and actuator ports soon ;-) Stef Mientki (23 years ago, 2-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Development enviroment...
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(...) I think you are much too negative there, leJOS is just a different tradeoff in the middle between NQC/LEGO firmware and brickOS (formerly legOS): - It's faster than NQC/firmware but slower than brickOS (I've not measured it, but a factor of 10 (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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