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Mark, Excellent Post ! Ok, I will admit it; I was the one that put the sys_time handler on the NMI. 8-) I guess I will want to think about this a bit; but I see that you have done a good bit of that yourself. ... Could the 'Get' function do the (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I need help in designing a motor-driven hammer for my RCX Tank Base Two. The hammer should be forced down to create a greater impact than that as if it were simply dropped. The hammer should have a length of about 28 studs from its point of rotation (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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I have always thought that LEGO should have built the Vision Command camera housing such that the focus could be motorized. I know I'm not the only one ... In this thread, Bob Fay (of LEGO milling machine fame) suggests using half of a large Technic (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Collin, This post by John Hansen fixed things for me: (URL) Spencer" <cspencer@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote in message news:H71CzB.Ipu@lugnet.com... (...) USB (...) them or (...) to (...) the (...) the (...) USB (...) that (...) the (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Ok, I think I figured it out...I don't completely understand the logistics of makefiles, but I changed the following line in Makefile.common: Before: CFLAGS = -O2 -Wall After: CFLAGS += -O2 -Wall I suspect that a later assignment to CFLAGS was (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello, I recently bought the LEGO mindstorms Invention System kit and I am trying to get brickOS v0.2.6 working on my PC (Win98). I also have the USB tower. So far, I have found 4 bugs in the current script. I was able to fix 3 them or work around (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RIS 1.5 85 at UK S@H
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In message <H64qy2.A44@lugnet.com>, Tim Auton <tim.lugnet@uton.org> writes (...) I can confirm Non UK European RIS 1.5 is still available for 85 quid. I ordered one today. (23 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickOS Threading...
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The motor handler is only called once ever 2ms in the latest version of BrickOS (as opposed to every 1ms in earlier versions). This is a fairly recent change and it could be causing a "granularity" type problem with certain speed settings in your (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'm having a problem, and I hope someone can help me. I've been running winLegOS, and I've switched to the latest version of BrickOS. I created a way to control the motors, which will reliably speed them up, and slow them down by using different (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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As I was poking around in the BrickOS kernel, it occurred to me that using the sys_time variable isn't entirely safe. Since sys_time is 32-bits and the processor can only read 16-bits at a time into a register, there is a period of time between the (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) David, I was not sure how you tried to build the cross compiler but I know that Apple provides several gnu tools that work under Darwin. Darwin from my understanding is the underlying code for the Mac OS X (See FAQ at (URL) So one might be (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Hammer Help
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What problems are you having? (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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Oops, Sorry if I accidentally gave anyone false hope, I ment to say: I have not found any cross compiler packages for LegOS or the Hitachi H8 that are buildable under OS X (but would love to find one). Anyone know of any? (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Spybotics Comms
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(...) I haven't tried it, so no definite answer, but see (URL) Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr> (URL) åa ä e ö å i öa ä e å. (23 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Hammer Help
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Hello All, I'm looking for some mechanical design help. I am attempting to build a hammer device for my RCX Tank Base Two, kind of a 'Robot Warriors' thing. I'm looking for ideas on how to do this, so far I have failed at my own attemps. The way I (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego® Technic Motor (43362) internals
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Nice page, I enjoyed your site too. e www.mylegomaster.com (23 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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I was asked to write an article about me for the Lego Mindstorms Monthly Web Site. (Unoffical Fan Web-Site) Check it out. :) (URL) Legomaster Sophie Thank you. (23 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.people)
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(...) Sorry, think I have mixed some things up. People from the Lego hotline told me the ir-interface of the RIS 2.0 RCX has been changed and communication to a spybot is not possible. Are these changes only because of the usb-tower and do they have (...) (23 years ago, 11-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | legOS and QNX
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I got two simple questions: 1. Anyone tried to compile legOS & LNPD Deamon under QNX. 2. Anyone tried to comunicate with LNPD from other computer, tcp/ip? (i mean exactly: QNX <-> linux (LNPD here) ) pleasy send me any adresses or information Tomasz (...) (23 years ago, 11-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Lego® Technic Motor (43362) internals
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I received two new 9V mini-motors from S@H, that was of the new variety described by Mark Riley ((URL) lead me to remove back cover, but it was wired to the rest of the motor. So I put it back in place... no luck, the motor didn't turn any more :c( (...) (23 years ago, 11-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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