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(...) Me too. Without any program loaded, it seems to do funny things with the motors. But once I get a program downloaded, it works fine. The only thing that I find freaky is the different values for light sensors. There's hex percentages and dec (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickOS motor port horrors
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(...) Rob, I've had the same problem with BrickOS. The installation I used came with BrickOS already built. I reloaded the RCX with LEGO firmware and all three motor ports worked fine. I concluded it was a BrickOS problem that I would wrestle with (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: IR Sensitivity - Was: 1.5/2.0 infrared problem
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(...) Mine have been apart more often than I'd like, too! :-) (...) My guess would be mostly for increased communication speed. With the higher baud rate, the duration of the 2-byte Spybot/Manas packets is halved. This allows for fewer collisions (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: BrickOS motor port horrors
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(...) That is the part that really bites me. Are you able to reproduce the error? If yes, try to put out the batteries for a longer time. Anyway, it seems worthwile to have a look at the brickOS initialization code for the motors. If you can (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I've developed an LDCC protocol stack for lejOS. Well, 1/4 of it. It's currently receive-only and only on the RCX platform. It needs another pair of eyes to make sure I haven't done anything stupid or inefficient, as this is only my second Java (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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Well, I don't know much about it being possessed, but you should try to divide the problem probabilities in half. Try loading the original lego firmware. (Yes I know, this brings horror to some of you fellow programmers out there, but its just (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I was writing some simple programs to test out BrickOS last night, and had some really strange behavior. I hooked up a motor to port B and a rotation sensor to port 2. My programs were just testing out various motor speeds and positioning accuracy. (...) (22 years ago, 25-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Correcting some misinformation in "LEGO Software Power Tools, With LDraw, MLCad, and LPub"
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I just tested Amazon.com's new "Search inside this book" feature (which provides a cool new full-text search across the content of its books) by doing a search for "LUGNET". I found a few references in various books that I hadn't yet known about. In (...) (22 years ago, 24-Oct-03, to lugnet.books, lugnet.cad, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general) !
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| | Re: Serial port control in Robolab
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(...) something wrong. I tried to open new inventor vindow, and insert this using "select a vi" icon from tools bar - did I something wrong? I guess I still didn't cross even beginners level (just looked throuhg your page - it'a awesome. Too pity (...) (22 years ago, 24-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes, have a look in ..\Robolab\Engine\VI...Serial.llb You'll find some applications about this theme on our site (URL) (22 years ago, 24-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RIS2.0 and win 2000, tips and trick
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The file name that is executed is LaunchRIS2.exe. By default it is located under "C:\Program Files\LEGO MINDSTORMS\RIS 2.0\". The file launches at startup because of a key in "\HKEY_Local_Machine...sion\Run". The REG_SZ key name is "RIS2PostReboot". (...) (22 years ago, 24-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Did anybody try to open any of the *.lif files located in HDDATA directory of RIS 2.0 software? -- I tried to translate RIS 2.0 to czech since there aren't many kids aged 9+ with such a good skills in english to have fun with RIS, but I succeed only (...) (22 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Here's the registry information for Windows 2000 and launchris.exe: (URL) <chrismaker@noos.fr> wrote in message news:Hn6F3A.1CIG@lugnet.com... (...) turn (...) on (...) (22 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: IR Sensitivity - Was: 1.5/2.0 infrared problem
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(...) Hello Mark, Thanks for your answer, this will keep me from dismantling once again my RCXs ! So it seems that LEGO modified RCX2.0 to get better compatibility with Spybots/Manas. Now a question remains, why did they increased carrier frequency (...) (22 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) OK thanks for your reply! But the bad thing is that two RCX2.0 could not communicate properly....Am I wrong?? Chris. (22 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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chip 1138 / chip 1176 Strange... 38 + 38 = 76 What does that mean? Rob "Mark Riley" <markril@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Hn6xKJ.1o68@lugnet.com... (...) its (...) reflected (...) axle (...) same (...) post on (...) on (...) messages. (...) (...) (22 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I think there might be an explanation for this and I've been meaning to post on this topic, but never seem to have gotten around to it! :-) I've opened up my RCX 1.0 and the IR receiver has the markings "TSOP 1138" on it. After looking this (...) (22 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) we ' ve told about this thing with Philo few days ago cause he had the same problem. So I' ve made several tests with 4 RCX: 2 RCXv1.0 and 2 RCXv2.0 . It seems RCX emitter is the same in 1.0 and 2.0 versions. But 2.0 receiver is less sensitive (...) (22 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: RIS2.0 and win 2000, tips and trick
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(...) Yes. Note that you can auto simply disable the auto startup, rather than deleting the file, if you want. There are various utilities around that let you control the items that launch on startup (Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel is excellent), (...) (22 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Spybot NQC API file
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In case anyone would like to have it, here is my spy.nqh file in its entirety. With respect to the ROM subroutines, it is important to note that most of them use global variables, timers, and events which must be assigned a particular number by the (...) (22 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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