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(...) It might be possible to run an IR transmitter directly off it, IIRC John Barnes posted a circuit diagram for that a while ago (he might also sell these things). Then you only need the software, where you need to send/receive single characters, (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | BrickOS issues
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First off, I'd like to say that I had ZERO problems installing, building, and testing BrickOS on my PC. That's even with the BrickOS name change release and the pre-built Hitachi tools. You guys do good work! There are a few issues I have come (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RCX and GPS systems
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(...) Also see the ACE-II from Trimble which could be powered and output directly to the normal sensor plugs; and can be run slow enough for it to nor be a problem to read. However... you are going to have issues with resolution and reception. (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX and GPS systems
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A big question is if the positioning resolution you could achieve would be worth the cost or effort. The GPS hardware I've seen tell you where you are within a few yards. Unless you can get that down to a few inches what's the point? Plus you still (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RCX and GPS systems
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For sometime I have thought that a GPS interfaced with the RCX would be the answer to my navigational prayers. I have not found any information on an interface for the RCX (GPS-RCX or GPS-PC-RCX). I realize that this is not a trivial task with (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: The LEGO Mindstorms Interfacing Book is available
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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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| | Mindstorm 1.5 CD
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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=$(HMSTOOL...i-hms/bin. After looking through (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Gcc Problems
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Some versions of the gcc executables are named h8300-hms-*.exe (ex: h8300-hms-gcc.exe) The Makefile.common, as you pointed out expects h8300-hitachi-hms-*.exe If this is what you are experiencing, then you have two options: 1) make copies of them, (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Thunderbots Infrared Sensor Circuit Diagram!
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(...) Typo. Should be "about 4 reading/sec" (23 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Adapting mini-rc reciever to an RCX sensor
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I've noticed you can now buy little RC cars and was wondering if anyone has thought about converting one into an RC unit for the RCX. You could take the steering and motor control outputs and covert it into a seven state analog output for the RCX (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Gcc Problems
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(...) Your previous post indicated that you were running under cygwin, iirc, so the line to which you refer above is not where your problem lies. In Makefile.common there are several sections that only apply to a particular operating system, cygwin, (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Gcc Problems
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Hello, I looked at the Makefile.common file and there is a line that goes as follows: TOOLPREFIX=$(HMSTOOL...tachi-hms- Could this be where my problem lies according to what I said in the previous post earlier today? Thanks Much, Rick Bonari (23 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Corrected URL - FLL Coaches Training Materials
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(...) I don't know how this got changed during cut and paste operation, but the correct address is: www.hightechkids.org...LLV1.0.pdf (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | FLL Coaches Training Materials
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If anyone's interested, I posted my First Lego League training materials on the web at: www.hightechkids.org...LLV1.0.pdf It's kind of a big PDF file (somewhere around 5M), so don't try to download unless you have a high bandwidth link or a lot of (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Cygwin/Gcc/Legos Installation
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Hello, Need some help on deciphering the following Errors: Errors when executing the Make Depend Command: ...../h8300-hitachi-hms-gcc: not found make [1]: ***[depend] Error 127 make: ***[depend] Error 2 Errors when executing the Make Command: (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Thunderbots Infrared Sensor Circuit Diagram!
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If you'd like to save using an output port or external power supply to power your the sensor, check out Nitin's GP2D12 interface brick at (URL) also posted his circuit diagram. I bought a few of these last year for a class I was teaching and they (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Magnetic Coupling
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"Rob Doucette" <lego@nospam.doucettenet.com> wrote in message news:H3pu6E.4J@lugnet.com... (...) know (...) Page 284 of Jin Sato's Lego Mindstorms Book I never could figure out where the mounts came from for this device. -- Bob Fay (URL) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Handyboards for Dummies, etc.
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A case as you describe it would be nice. To me it's largely a cost issue. Custom plastic is expensive to set up -- thousands of dollars for an injection mold. Anyone care to open-source a design? That would be a start :-). Fred (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Magnetic Coupling
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Some time ago, there was a post describing a magnetic shaft coupling constructed with 3-blade technic rotors and train magnets. Does anyone know where this information and/or pictures are posted? TIA, -Rob. (23 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Thunderbots Infrared Sensor Circuit Diagram!
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Hi everyone, Click here to see the Thunderbots prototype circuit for a infrared range detector. (URL) Robot.htm Regards Carson Au carsonau@excite.com (23 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | microscout programs
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Just received a free microscout courtesy of LEGO. Does anyone know what the 7 programs do? I have figured out power mode. (23 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Handyboards for Dummies, etc.
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Can someone please enlighten me as to why the handyboard is only available as a bare motherboard? Although that may be fine for experiments in controlled environments, it doesn't work at all well for less than ideal circumstances such as out of (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | finally works
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finally works.... the problem was in the Makefile.common file, finally change the line: # LEGOS_ROOT=$(HOME)/legOS/ with: LEGOS_ROOT=/legOS-0.2.6/ thanks a lot for your posts!! :-) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS library path
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(...) Ok. So for cygwin, the path is /legos-0.2.6 (...) Is that right? I think it must read c:\cygwin\legos-0.2.6\mycode. (...) Ok. (...) That is ok. (...) First the good news: Makefile.common and Makefile.user are correctly included. Otherwise, the (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS library path
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(...) To make it so that your code can live anywhere (i.e., not necessarily beneath the cygwin and/or BrickOS root directory you should make the following changes to your Makefile. 1. replace any relative paths (i.e., ../ or ../../ etc.) with (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Handyboard and 1400 mAh NiMH battery
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Hey -- I like your device. That's a nice addition to the HB. I would like if you would modify your assertion "However these days NiCd battery are hard to find and not very effecient" (sic). This is not true. Despite the technical superiority of (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Handyboard and 1400 mAh NiMH battery
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Hi I have developed Handyboard battery charger addon ckt which replaces the 47 ohm resistor on handy board battery charger. this battery charger ckt let you put NiMH battery up to 1600 mAh without woring overcharging and other problem. if you are (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Battery voltage levels
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"Barney Hilken" <b.hilken@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:H3MuHC.2CM@lugnet.com... (...) volts (...) The (...) circuits. [snip] (...) alkalines? (...) I use Nickel Hydride rechargeables in an RCX1.0, at least that's what it says on the top - (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: legOS library path
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"Germán Rojas" <ge-rojas@uniandes.edu.co> wrote in message news:H3MD68.M72@lugnet.com... (...) Hi there! (...) [snip] (...) [snip] (...) [snip] This broke for me between legOS 0.2.5 and 0.2.6 I belive (and is still broken in the current brickos (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS library path
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"Germán Rojas" <ge-rojas@uniandes.edu.co> wrote in message news:H3Mp27.CBz@lugnet.com... (...) <snip> (...) <snip> You should add 'mycode' to the list of directories found in Makefile, just after demo. Then always run make from the legOS root (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Battery voltage levels
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(...) Thanks, this explains the difference. However, I'm still interested in the voltage levels people get. Does anyone use NiCads? Or rechargeable alkalines? Or something else I've not thought of? Barney. (23 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RCX as programmable battery charger
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I was looking at my 1 years old cell phone, its battery is deteriorationg so fast cause of a bad recharger. I wondered about building a "hardware" charger, but i never found a design without a IC with good features: without an IC its quite difficult (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: legOS library path
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I install legOS in the follow directory: C:\cygwin\legos-0.2.6 (the same like the windows instructions) Create the follow directory: C:\legos-0.2.6\mycode Copy the *.c and Makefile files in C:\legos-0.2.6\mycode In the Makefile default file i think (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Legomaster @ JCAT
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Dear Freinds, The 2002 Jersey City Artist Studio Tour was a great experience. I had su much fun. Special thanks to Cindy, my Mother Ruth, Mr. Lexx and Tina for all their help and support. Special thanks to Lugnetter Rob L. for comming down to the (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.us.gardenslug, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| | Re: Battery voltage levels
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"Barney Hilken" <b.hilken@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:H3LyHy.76H@lugnet.com... (...) version 2.0 (...) batteries: the (...) variation (...) on (...) email (...) Robot (...) don't (...) There is going to be a difference between the 1.0's (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Mindstorms RIS1.5 $140 at KBToys
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Just what the subject line says: (URL) is free shipping on $99 and up too. Roy (23 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: legOS library path
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(...) You have to look where you are and where the makefile searches for other needed files. In the moment, you makefile hopes to find the include files under /legos/include. Is that ok? If you installed legos into your home directory, the path must (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Controlling larger motors from RCX ??
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We need to control larger motors with a separate 12V power supply, from the RCX outputs. We would like to 'mirror' the RCX bipolar, pulse-width-modulated outputs to a separate circuit with a larger H-bridge that is (probably) electrically isolated (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | legOS library path
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Hello!! Testing the instalation of legOS-0.2.6 (cygwin) after download succesfully the firmware and some sample programs of demo directory to the RCX, i create a new directory called mycode, i put all the *.c and Makefile files from demo directory, (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: error compiling egcs for use with legOs/BrickOs..
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(...) Too much work! Egcs is sort of old, you better try to get a newer compiler version, ready to start, as rpm. You will need the gcc-rpm and the binutils rpm. A start for searching could be rpmfind, look at (URL) warning: On my SuSE Linux, (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | error compiling egcs for use with legOs/BrickOs..
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Hi! Im trying to compile egcs on a Mandrake 8.2 machine, following the instructions on (URL) under the Build *nix Executables section BinUtils were made and installed ok, however when making egcs, it makes a couple of files and then ends with the (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Battery voltage levels
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I have two RCXs: a version 1.0 with external power connector, and a version 2.0 without. They consistently report different voltages on the same batteries: the 2.0 puts all batteries about 0.3v higher. I want to know how much variation there is (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | HB and Pocket PC
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Hi, I’d like to get my Handy Board communicating with my Pocket PC(HP Jornada) via the Pocket PC’s IrDA and the Handy Board’s IR port. Has anyone of you ever tried that? Your help would be really appreciated! Best regards, Jan (23 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Remotely starting RCX
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Thanks!!! (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS & BricxCC - coming soon to a Windows PC near you
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(...) You manage your projects now, I'm guessing, simply by directory structure and the contents of your make file? Do you put targets in your make file which execute dll to download the .lx to the brick or do you usually perform that step as a (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: not found
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Shehryar Shaheen <shehryar.shaheen@ul.ie> wrote in message news:000901c26bd4$fe...SHAHEEN... (...) You should find this utility in the fileutils package. Ed (23 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS & BricxCC - coming soon to a Windows PC near you
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Hello John, (...) That would be real real great! (...) That should work. At my system, bigger projects are broken into several source files. It is easier for me to work with them then with a huge single source file. (...) Why not? BrickOS can handle (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Remotely starting RCX
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Hello Henk, (...) If you run "dll" without a file name to download, dll will tell you all it's switches. One is the -e switch, that executes the program you download. So "dll -e helloworld.lx" will download helloworld and run it. Another possible (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS & BricxCC - coming soon to a Windows PC near you
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(...) My goal would be to have BricxCC work with C/C++ BrickOS programs much like it works with NQC & MindScript programs now. You have a file open in the editor. You press the compile button and it either performs a make without errors or a little (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Remotely starting RCX
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Hello, As an unexperienced unix programmer it took me 16 hours to download and install LegOS on my XP and make the 'Hello World' message appear on the RCX. (Oh joy!) After another 4 hours I managed to compile my first program. So thinks go slow but (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS & BricxCC - coming soon to a Windows PC near you
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This will be quite nice! I would be awesome if we could package a single "install" that would place precompiled GCC and Binutil files on the drive. That way, the user would simply install some cygwin support, then this program, download BrickOS, and (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS & BricxCC - coming soon to a Windows PC near you
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Could you expand on what you want to do with BrickOS? Something about project files? generating make file? If this has anything to do with having a file anywhere on your hard-drive and having it compile leaving an *.LX file behind, I may be of some (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Speed of IR comms?
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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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| | Re: not found
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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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| | cat: not found
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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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| | Re: Build Your Own Lego Submersible
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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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| | Re: How to setup gcc and make in cygwin
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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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| | Re:Development enviroment...
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Thanks! I could have problems with program size but until I begin to code it I wouldn't know it so... I will stand on NQC for my "training period" (I'm new on this kinds of projects so I need to learn the basic things before getting into more (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: HB Sun tracking system
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Hi You need 4 photo-resistor and two small plattes like "walls" (e.g. built with lego). On your device you mount one platte horizontal and the other vertical. The two small walls have to be mounted rectangular to your device in the direction to the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | PCMCIA Card USB Adapter and VC not working
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Anyone ever use a PCMCIA Card w/ USB to connect the Lego Cam to your computer? I recently had the cord from my IR tower impede the direction of my knee. Thusly, ripping the USB connection right out of the back of my Lap-Top. So my USB ports are (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.vc, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Development enviroment...
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(...) Well, NQC makes use of ALL the facilities of the device that you can reach with the standard firmware - so within those parameters, it's pretty complete. If you want to go so far as to toss out the Lego firmware then LegOS is a good choice - (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Development enviroment...
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Hi! I'm beginning my degree-ending project and it involves a LEGO Mindstorms. I've been searching the Internet for different "development enviroments" and I've found a few ones. The most interesting ones I've found are NQC, leJOS and leGOS. The (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Interactive C Version 4
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Fred, Can you tell me if Randy upgraded InteractiveC in version 4 to handle the 64k hack for the Handyboard? You wrote about the hack in the Handyboard FAQ in '98, and that was two IC versions ago. Is it possible that Randy took into acount the 64k (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | a suggestion for BrickOS
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Who would I contact about creating a library of math functions? (sqrt, sin, cos, tan, invsin, invcos, invtan, and ect.) Would they be able to add the library to the standard files in the BrickOS project? Timothy (23 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Instructions for building DJGPP H8300 cross compiler
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Steve Hassenplug <hassenplug@mail.com> wrote in message news:20020930130735....ail.com... (...) Steve, Not yet. As I mentioned at the end of the post I have only gotten so far with the gcc cross compiler. I get several warnings about conflicting (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RC Motors
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(...) I believe those are just two stages of gearing down. The hole by the motor goes at ~4x the final hole (used by the buggy wheels). Actually, I'm sure TLG made it exactly 4x, not just close. That could be very useful, if you want different (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RC Motors
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(...) [snip] (...) Thanks Steve, very useful info. My friend Marco Berti inspected the inside of the new RC motors (he's an expert of small electric motors) and told me that they are of a cheaper kind than the Mindstorms ones: they draw more current (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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