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(...) The brickOS team thanks you for mentioning this. It is our goal to continue to simplify this experience. We always enjoy hearing that we are making progress. (...) We hear you and have addressed some of them... (...) This is intentional for (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Project WIRRL Update
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I have used the Radiometrix BIM-433-F transceiver which is sold via the usual elecrtonics catalogues. It's a 433MHz half-duplex transmitter/receiver (34x23x8mm) at 56 UK pounds. We tested it in a stone building and found we could just communicate at (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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I built a simple clock that displays the minutes and seconds on the LCD and chimes the hours by striking a triangle (the musical instrument) by running a motor for 20 thousanths of a second, as suggested by the Drummer example in the Farrari book. I (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Personally, I think this is great. If a GUI can be developed for BrickOS, it will be a huge boost to BrickOS, because it should be MUCH easier for people to use it. Between this, the DJGPP compiler Ed's working on, and the whole new surge in (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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This is extremely preliminary, but I can't wait to share the news. I've managed to build a Hitachi H8 cross compiler for GNU Pascal (under cygwin on W2K) and have successfully downloaded and ran the following Pascal program on brickOS. program (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Another update for WIRRL
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(...) I guess that's because of regulatory issues. Getting anything with radio transmission approved for all countries Lego wants to sell in can prove a daunting task... And IR can prove very effective: did you try Spybotics remote control? it (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Another update for WIRRL
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"Gareth Bestor" <bestorga@us.ibm.com> wrote in message news:H4E4uq.JvL@lugnet.com... (...) in (...) eyeing (...) receiver (...) reveiver (...) I've also followed this intresting thread. And now I'm wondering why Lego have used the infrared (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Another update for WIRRL
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I should have removed the word "messenger". After all, doing something by "proxy" would imply a messenger-type role. What I meant was, for DeviceA to send a message to DeviceB, they would have to use some sort of proxy or router between them (the (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mindstorm Telerobot
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(...) (URL) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cracking open the RCX
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(URL) B" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:E1846MB-0007HP-...url.com... (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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