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Hi I have just received a 2nd hand box of technic parts. I have almost a full set of cybermaster kit, but I am requiring the following items: 1 english CD 1 english Instruction book 2 antennae for the coms tower 6 tread wheels 1 tank tread for the (...) (23 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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 | | Re: events or infinite loops... which is better?
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(...) Events are generally going to be more efficient since no bytecodes need to be executed to continually check for a condition. However, efficiency is not always the most important factor. I don't think either one is necessarily "better". A lot (...) (23 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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 | | Re: More Battery Questions
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Replacement battery options are listed on the HB FAQ, at: (URL) don't you get the 1000 mAh packs from Radio Shack? That would give you 2x the run time of the 500 mAh packs. Take longer to charge, but would require no other board mods. Fred (...) (23 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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 | | Re: Starting Over
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(...) The BrickOS for cygwin instructions ((URL) describe downloading the source code for gcc & binutils and building the Hitachi cross-compiler and associated tools in step 2. If you use the pre-built hitachi tools that Joseph Wooley posted about a (...) (23 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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 | | Starting Over
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Hello, According to John Hansens' instructions, I am assuming you do not need to download the bin-utils as called out in the original sourceforge instructions. Is this correct? Thanks again for the help. Here goes. Rick Bonari (23 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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 | | Re: Strip Command
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(...) In Makefile.common in the util subdirectory this code ifneq (,$(findstring $(OSTYPE),cygwin32 cygwin CYGWIN_NT-4.0 CYGWIN_NT-5.0 CYGWIN_NT-5.1 WindowsNT Windows_NT)) EXT=.exe CC =gcc CFLAGS+=-D_WIN32 endif pretty much guarantees that your (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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 | | events or infinite loops... which is better?
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Hi Everyone, I just recently learned how to use event monitoring, and I really like it. My question is whether or not this method is more efficient than infinite loops. I always used to check for sensor readings using an infinite loop something like (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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 | | Strip Command
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Hello, When I do a uname command, I get CYGWIN_98-4.10. It definitely appears that makefile.common has some problems with paths, etc. When I type the command: strip fontdesign.exe dll.exe makelx.exe fixdeps.exe genlds.exe firmdl3.exe as I mentioned (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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 | | More Battery Questions
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Hi, First I wanted to thank the handful of people that responded to my previous question about HB batteries. We seem to be getting by using Fred's suggestions, basically being more careful about charging, using ZAP mode to pull up really dead packs, (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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 | | monitor and control external voltage
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Could you build a voltage controlled switch out of the RCX? Do this: Monitor a voltage, when the monitored voltage does something, switch a motor output. 1) What would you have to do to monitor a voltage (safely)? Connect an input sensor to your (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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