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(...) Hi, I have the book for review - pending approval for use at University level teaching - If people would like to know my opinion, they can email me directly. Mike Reddy Family motto: The best time to kick someone is when they are down! (23 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Mindstorm 1.5 CD
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I have about six or eight of these CDs. We are currently using 2.0. If you would cover postage, I would send you one. Liz Bilbro CyberStorm Robotics Class and FIRST LEGO League Teams Sports for the Mind for Lubbock Homeschoolers www.cyberstorm.us (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Magnetic Coupling
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(...) That's it, thanks. Somehow I combined the 2 figures on that page into one image in my mind... (...) (URL) is a bottom mounting version also: (URL) Doucette. (23 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cygwin/Gcc/Legos-0.2.6 Installation
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(...) Something is definitely not quite right with your setup. Makefile.common in the util subdirectory of the BrickOS tree has the following code in it: # # WindowsNT/Cygnwin, test against several values: # ifneq (,$(findstring $(OSTYPE),cygwin32 (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Mindstorm 1.5 CD
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Contact LEGO and have them send you a replacement CD. Their support numbers can be found here: (URL) what it's worth, you may want to consider purchasing the 2.0 upgrade instead. The software does not require a working 1.5 installation at all. Also, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Dear List, My Mindstorm 1.5 CD is broken. Where can I find the software to download? Regards, Douwe Lycklama. (23 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Quick reference for NQC?
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(...) Thank you everyone for the responses. Now I know where to get NQC along with the other goodies... -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (23 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Tony, I'm sure eventually once you get past the installation and compiling and downloading and all that stuff a reference sheet with NQC commands will come in handy. I've found a few of them for you: (URL) it helps you somewhat. :-) ~Mike (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cygwin/Gcc/Legos-0.2.6 Installation
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Rick, I have never used 'make strip' and have been using legOS/BrickOS for quite some time now. So, if it doesn't work, that should not stop you from continuing. However, with BrickOS, the make strip command now executes 'strip fontdesign.exe (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Quick reference for NQC?
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(...) Also, if you are running a Windows PC then you can use BricxCC ((URL) which ships with an NQC tutorial written by Marc Overmars. It is a nice intro to using NQC. The sample programs which come with BricxCC are tied to the tutorial. If you have (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Quick reference for NQC?
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(...) The manual that comes with NQC is well written and quite concise - it's hard to imagine something smaller that would still tell you all you need to know. I recommend that you RTFM. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- Mail : <sjbaker1@airmail.net> (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | problems with USB tower
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Hi!, Ive managed to get gcc, binutils and legOs 0.2.6 installed on my machine. As I connect with a USB tower, i also compiled and installed Bret Thaeler's USB driver. I presume it works, I get some unresolved symbol version errors from module (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | I just did a quick scout around and....
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(...) A few minutes ago, my curiosity got the better of me about this, so I did a quick scout about on the web and found this: (URL) I'm not trying to endorse this company in particular, I'm mentioning it here as an example of what I was referring (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Cygwin/Gcc/Legos-0.2.6 Installation
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Hello, I finally got make to complete without any apparent errors. At the end of the process, no errors were shown. I had to move the proper copy of objcopy.exe to the required directory and I also had to copy the proper copy of g++.exe to the same (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Handyboards for Dummies, etc.
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(...) Well, first of all, injection moulding may not have to be the only option. Thermoforming may be another alternative that to my understanding does not carry anywhere near the initial expense as injection moulding. Secondly, what might make it (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Quick reference for NQC?
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This may not help, but try BricX. I believe it comes with NQC built in, along with a nice little GUI. The firmware is the same as what came with your lego software. I don't know about you, but I was pretty much able to learn how by looking at the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Quick reference for NQC?
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Where would I find a simple reference for getting started with NQC? I'm looking for something that lists what software/firmware you need to get NQC code into the RCX and walks you through getting a program running. Thanks! -- Tony Hafner (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Adapting mini-rc reciever to an RCX sensor
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(...) Most toy and model R/C interfaces use pulse-width modulation. You could simply send that data stream into the RCX which would take a fair amount of software decoding (I doubt you could do it with the Lego Firmware - you'd C and LegOS or (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Gcc Problems
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Rick, It sounds as if you have gcc working, however, the version of objcopy that you copied from another folder is incompatible with the hitachi h8 version of gcc. You need to have a special version of objcopy that is designed for the h8 (the RCX). (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Gcc Problems
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Hello, There is a line under Hitachi H8 tool prefix that goes like this: HMSTOOLDIR=/usr/local/crossgcc. I changed it to HMSTOOLDIR=/usr/local and I changed TOOLPREFIX=$(HMSTOOL...tachi-hms- to TOOLPREFIX=$(HMSTOOL...i-hms/bin. After looking through (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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