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(...) hmm. That's a good idea. I wish I'd have thought about it. That's going to make all my programs shorter, now. At least by 28 entries. :) Actually, one reason to have it that way is because it should process faster. I think. Is it faster to (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RCX convert from AA to Wall power.
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all the Batterys are in RCX are like this. I think don't have mine around to look at right now + + + + + + _ _ _ _ _ _ So what if you moded the set up useing some wires and a fitting from radio shack to accept a 9.0vdc power jack? attach a wire to (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RIS 3.0
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(...) When the new RIS will arrive ? Hey LEGO we want "more professional"parts: - servo-motors... - solenoid-valve.. - gyroscopic-sensor.. - ultrasonic-sensor - sound-sensor - The RIS 1.0 contains a main adaptator pin, what a shame it does not exist (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | LEGWAY software questions
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Steve, I've got some questions about the LEGWAY software. I've read it many times, and spent many miles on the road to and from BrickFest reading the code. Why is the motor speed array 32 entries instead of four? Since the array has 4 groups of 8 (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatic Magic Presetnation Maertials
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(...) Yes it is. It is all those pictures. (...) In the presentation, I talked about pneumatic pistons as actuators for things like back hoes, simulating the hyraulics that are often used in heavy machinery. I didn't spend time there because I think (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Pneumatic card on LEGOTIC
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I' ve added pneumatic card to my site. (URL) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatic Magic Presetnation Maertials
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(...) Great, hope more will follow your example! (...) Note: File size is close to 30 MB! Most of it went above my head, it started out really basic but had a somewhat steep attack of things. Looks like it's tuned for computer programmers/designers (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | RIS 3.0
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Dear LEGO, I was just woundering how the work on RIS 3.0 is coming along? About two years ago you told us that is was in the works (acording to this post (URL) So, what has happend during these two years? Is the project nearing completision? Or is (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatic Magic Presetnation Maertials
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(...) Cool! Thanks for posting that. I enjoyed attending your presentation, although I admit I didn't fully understand all of it right then. I think some studying of the AND, OR, and the other type of OR (I forget what it's called- you can have one (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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Hi all, I've uploaded the power point presentation that I gave at BrickFest 2003. I is on this page: (URL) file is named pneumatics_magic.ppt. Enjoy! Kevin (22 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | emulego + lnp running without any h/w
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Hi, I have modified the lnp daemon (lnpd) to work with emulegos even when there is no IR tower. It will transmit all received messages to all other clients. This is (I think) an improvement on the patched version of lnpd delivered with emulegos (...) (22 years ago, 12-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | USB Range shorter than Serial!?
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Since I do the whole web-controllable-rover deal with my bot, it tends to go quite a distance. I recently purchased a USB tower from Pitsco and I must say, even WITH the long-range enabled on the control panel, the Serial tower still beats it. In (...) (22 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: 1/4 circle icon flashing on the LCD
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Thanks a lot! So THATs what it is... Now to make use of it ;-) (...) (22 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Question about mm.C in BrickOS
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Thanks to both of you, I was pretty close to my understanding of it, but I did not know about the "new block creation behind the current block" but it makes sense now, if I have any other question (I am sure I will) I will def. ask. Thanks again, (...) (22 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: 1/4 circle icon flashing on the LCD
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(...) This is the indicator that you are using the datalog. It will fill in more of the circle as you use more of the datalog. It's a very useful debugging aid, as you can tell programs to save values in the datalog, and then download them onto a PC (...) (22 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hmm, didn't even know that icon existed on the LCD....what does it mean? If you'd like a picture I might be able to get one... -AK -- ---...--- My website: (URL) LEGOCam: (URL) (22 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: USB/Serial Converter
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Somewhere on the LEGO site it says that Serial > USB is not compatable -- If you must, why not just buy a USB IR tower from PITSCO LEGODacta for $30? If you have the SDK 2.5, or even the SDK 2.0, it comes with the driver for the USB tower (in the (...) (22 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS on Mac OS X
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Man, this is fantastic. Since moving over to OS X about a year and a half ago, I've been ignoring my RCX (retired the tired/crash prone PC forever!! Running Linux now though) and haven't played with it for lack of a development environment for OS X. (...) (22 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Question about mm.C in BrickOS
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Hi, (...) Ptr points to the length byte of the first free block (...) *(ptr-1) actually is MM_FREE and is now set to the callers id. (...) Now we can do two things: We could grab all memory we found in this block or we could allocate only the memory (...) (22 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Question about mm.C in BrickOS
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(...) <snip> (...) I've never looked at brickOS code, but here is my take: By the time you hit line 2, you've found a free block that is big enough. Line 2 sets the owner of the block. Line 5 decides if the block is oversized enough to split. Line 6 (...) (22 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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