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(...) It's funny that you should bring this up - I've had exactly the same problems with several RCX's and downloading firmware from BrixCC. The only solution I've been able to find is to download the firmware using the RIS2.0 software and then (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: sys_time (long post)
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(...) It turns out that the nature of the glitch depends on the order you read the upper and lower 16-bits of sys_time. If the compiler generates code that reads the high word first (which it seems to do), then your example will work. However, if (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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----- Original Message ----- From: <x01101001@yahoo.com> To: <handyboard@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 8:19 PM Subject: [handyboard] xmas songs (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Working motorized focus for Vision Command
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I was wondering if anybody would improve the power focus for the Lego camera. You have accomplished this very well. I especially like your tilt drive. Sticking that 40 tooth gear without glue is super. Congratulations! Bob Fay (URL) Haye" (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickOS Threading...
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(...) In trying to balance an RCX on two wheels, every little bit makes a difference. I didn't think it would matter quite that much, but my robot really shakes more with the new version. Thanks for the work, Steve (23 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Hammer Help
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winding and unwinding string seems to be to slow if i understand it good so my idea is here: use two wheels (pulleys) especiali as big as you can put into your design they should be with flat surface so it meand they should be from old sets like: (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Hammer Help
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Roy I thought about designing such a thing a while ago. My decision was that I'd make something like a Roman ballista. I'd wind up a string on a winch to cock the hammer then unwind the string all the way back again. The catch would be released by (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi all, I am currently attending to a lecture in real time system on my university and we were assigned the homework to do exception handling in C on the RCX using setjmp and longjmp. Of course those are not available in brickOS so that task (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Threading...
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(...) <snip> (...) Steve, Yes, infact I had tested a couple different applications with the motor controller being called every 1 ms and the same ones with a 2 ms interval. I didn't see a difference with those applications, but did recognize the (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Threading...
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(...) ... (...) This change seem to improve things. Can I change it back to the way it was before? Thanks Steve (23 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: sys_time (long post)
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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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| | Re: Hammer Help
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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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| | Working motorized focus for Vision Command
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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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| | Re: Win98 cygwin USB installation
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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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| | Re: Win98 cygwin USB installation
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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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| | Win98 cygwin USB installation
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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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| | BrickOS Threading...
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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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| | sys_time (long post)
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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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