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I just got my Ultimate builders set last week and found that the plotter model is way too cool. I built it, but the sample program didn't work the way it was supposed to. I looked at the program and it had programming for sensor ports 1 and 2. So I (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) Tom, Max, I have seen the "Permission Denied" message before. I ussually get this error message after I have done some upgrading Cygwin packages or installling new parts, etc. The best answer I have (and the one I use) is to reinstall Cygwin. (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) Odd. I don't understand where that "Permission denied" message came from. What happens if you simply run "less"? Does less work on any files at all? Perhaps you would like to take this to the Cygwin mailing list (cygwin@cygwin.com). (I (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) Max, Here's one of your suggestions, and the cygcheck.out file is in the email (the check is in the mail) ;) Most of this is greek to me; it's been a long time since I've been able to deal with a Unix system. Tom Pugsley ===...=== (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) If you use "./configure && make", then make will only run if ./configure completes successfully. (...) ... (...) This suggests that your compiler is broken. Personally, I have never used the prebuilt compiler from Hitachi, preferring to (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2003 Presentations
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(...) I'll second the question and add...will anybody be videotaping their presentations? I know there are webcams available but I simply don't have the time to sit and watch them 60/24. :-) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Brickfest 2003 Presentations
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Just wondering how many of the presenters at Brickfest 2003 are planning to put their presentations on their respective web pages, for those of us unable to attend? Max (22 years ago, 8-Aug-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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Ed, John, and Max, (et.al.?), Here's the output from one of my sessions. I started to follow some of John's instructions (got through the make strip alright, even though it's unnecessary), but I didn't want to go too deep until you people see the (...) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Is it a LEGO compatible robot ??
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"Michael Obenland" <obenland@t-online.de> wrote in message news:HJAo64.1toB@lugnet.com... (...) Actually, I wasn't referring specifically to the pincer robot in the photo, but more so to other parts of their product line. I find the various gear (...) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Is it a LEGO compatible robot ??
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(...) Really? From what I see, it is far beyond any LEGO kit. The so called remote control is wire-driven; if I translate the Construction Set to Lego it looks really poor. The good old 8485 set or the plotter with control center had a lot more bang (...) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Is it a LEGO compatible robot ??
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Also, if you look closely at the controller, you can see the label on the D cell batteries inside: Tamiya Here's the web page of interest: (URL) stuff. I've seen some of their kits at the local Fry's. Mark "Steve Baker" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> (...) (22 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Is it a LEGO compatible robot ??
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(...) beams seem a little thin. The yellow connectors also look very un-Lego. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- HomeEmail: <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkEmail: <sjbaker@link.com> HomePage : (URL) : (4 URLs) GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GCS d-- s:+ a+ C++++$ (...) (22 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | LNP under Cygwin(Windows)
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Hi everyone, Me again.Does anyone know how I can get LNP to work under Cygwin(Windows)? Most of the documentation I've found make references to Linux. I'm planning to use LPD for communication between 2 RCXs. Has anyone tried that yet using LNP (...) (22 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Ball Passing between RCX Robots
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Hello everyone, I'm currently fooling around with my Mindstorms to get two RCX robots to ball pass between them. As there are only 3 inputs on RCX, I've used 1 for ball sensing, 1 for a touch sensor(to feel for the ball) and 1 which I'm planning to (...) (22 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Is it a LEGO compatible robot ??
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I find a strange picture on robotstore, what do you think about it??? (URL) (22 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) My favorite means of grabbing the commands I type and their output is to set the buffer size of my DOS window to something very large and just select the text with my mouse via click and drag. Then I right click in the DOS window to copy the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | BrickVista August Update
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Hello all, A New month sees further refinment and improvment to the site along with the addion of a NEW area to BrickVista - Features. The first feature highlights large scale Rover wheels. Originally developed to meet the requirments of my second (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic) !!
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) Tom, You can always use the classic pipe to command, >. For example $ make strip > output.txt But I don't think this dumps any error messages to the file; only to the screen. So I would try something similar to the commands in buildgcc.sh, (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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Thanks, Max, John, and Ed for your help. I will try some of the suggestions this afternoon after work. I will also post some more helpful output if someone will remind me how to port Cygwin output to a text file (and DOS output?) I read the command (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: sys_time not working
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It works! My mistake was that i only checked the "Command Reference" link that obviously refers to a previous version of legOS. So thank you very much. See you at the Olympic Games in our city Athens . "John Hansen" <JohnBinder@aol.com> wrote in (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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