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Several recent posts have mentioned significantly slower performance of the USB Tower when compared to the serial Tower. After several measurements, I've concluded that the USB Tower is "natively" only slightly slower (~20 milliseconds per message) (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX & RIS, a fading glory?
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-snip-. (...) -snip- (...) -snip- (...) -snip- (...) I'm an AFOL in training :-). Seriously, I've been angry at what Lego's been pumping out since I was in 5th grade (I'm going into 10th now, but still the same matter), and I really think they need (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatic Magic Presetnation Maertials
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(...) Happy to play my part! (...) LOL! Well I'm sure I've heard of Pascal's Law, but didn't remeber the theory, it was just a "gut feeling" that it didn't seem right! (...) I've also been a bit worried about putting a big load on the contract (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatic Magic Presetnation Maertials
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(...) Hey Kevin! Welcome back. My own vanity had me curious to see how you would cover the 2 cylinder full adder I came up with, or how you would describe the procedure I use for hooking up the switches in "reverse", but I didn't see anything about (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Current state of pbforth
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Dave, Check out the most recent version of pbForth and the docs and sample programs here.... (URL) Ralph (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Pneumatic Magic Presetnation Maertials
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(...) update. That is what I love about LEGO, learning and discovery. I'm a computer engineer, not a physicist, and the things I make are highly physical. In this case, incomplete comprehension of the theory got in the way of practical (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) Tom, What is this two-day workshop on RCX code that you mentioned? Ed (22 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Spybot Zones
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Can anyone tell me how to set-up byte code commands in NQC? I want to use some of the Spybot Firmware commands for robot distance and direction to make two spybots work together, but I don't think that functionality has been added to NQC, yet. If (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatic Magic Presetnation Maertials
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(...) Whew! Glad we got that worked out! But that contradicts what you say in the PPT presentation, as I pointed out originally! (URL) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego Mindstorms Mars Rover Robotics Camp
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(...) Tonya, Did you know that Lego is assisting with the www.redrovergoestomars.org website? Lego ran the competition to name MER-1 and MER-2 as "Spirit" and "Opportunity". If you go to the planetary society's website, and look at archives (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) Christoph, No, I have not yet solved the problem, but I intend to get back on it soon. I've been busy the past week preparing to present a two-day workshop on RCX Code. Now back to BrickOS (if I can get it working). What a change of gears! Let (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: light scout
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(...) Or maybe you got a Spybot? (URL) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatic Magic Presetnation Maertials
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(...) Yes. The contract face of the piston has less area than the expand face. (...) Kevin (22 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: gcc-3.3 - multi-line string literals
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Thanks for the patch....but... Sorry to be such a NOOB but...how does one go about using this patch? I've gotten things to compile/make, generating .srecs and .lx's but sick and tired of scrolling through those deprecated multiline warnings. I'll (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Current state of pbforth
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Hi I'm new to pbforth and after trying it out I'm not sure what state it is in. I'm baseing what I do on the guide in extreme mindstorms. After some research I find a number of words no longer exist. Is there a way to produce a library check word (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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.... (...) Hi Tom, I've exactly the same error coming up istalling brickOS 0.2.6.10 or 0.2.6.9 and cygwin 1.3.22 on an WinME machine. If I delete the code in random.c make hangs up at the next file... Did you fix the problem already?? Christoph (22 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Errors compiling BrickOS Demos
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(...) ... (...) Binutils, from 2.12 (IIRC) up to 2.13.1 produced malformed symbolsrec files. Use a later version of binutils. Max. (22 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | better algorithimo
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I need a good algorithimo for vision, my robot need see a red or whiti "block", and pick up, but a have problem with light...and my robo dont see the "block" or see early... I need some algorithimo, or idea to resolve this problem Tks Luiz (22 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Errors compiling BrickOS Demos
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Hi, I'm trying to get brickos working on a linux box running mandrake. I downloaded gcc-2.95.3 and binutils-2.13.1 and compiled them to make a cross compiler. That seems to have worked successfully. Then I ran ./configure;make to make brickos (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Pneumatic Magic Presetnation Maertials
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(...) Which was the basis of my original suggestion, that the smaller volume on the "contract" side of pistons (both large and small) would imply that they contract slightly faster than they expand, but with slightly less force? ROSCO (22 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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