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(...) There's no fault involved from my perspective. The idea is to have fun. You can't do that without some sort of risk (at least I've never experienced 'fun' without some risk). The problem comes when people mix emotion/ego with curiosity. Very (...) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Ah, I do suspect that my data was a little out of date. However the information I see ((URL) Word ".doc" file, or (URL) ) list the housefly at 10^5 or 100,000, to 10^6 or 1 million neurons. This is a little bigger than "400 neurons." In fact the (...) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That was true 20 years ago. A housefly's brain contains just 400 neurons. Your PC can easily simulate a 400 neuron neural network at faster update rates than biological neurons. The problem isn't the raw computational power. ---...--- Steve (...) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) True. (...) I was just picking on you since you've spent your day publicly humiliating people (dripping with sarcasm :^) I have plenty of silly and/or stupid ideas..... Some of them lead to really great ideas. (...) No doubt. Flaws are a (...) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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I would like functions to be able to return something other than zero. (If there's a way to do this (other than global variables) already, please let me know!) (...) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Symmetry is when something 'balances', it's a kind of equilibrium. Let's look at a six legged walker for a moment and see what sort of symmetry it has. First off we have six legs and many of them (at least three in the right location) must (...) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hello out there, maybe someone can explain to me why the current brickOS release seems to have msleep()-amnesia ;-) We've been testing the data transfer to our Lepomux device. For some strange reason we were still using kernel 0.2.6.07nmChg with a (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) hard. (...) About 15 years ago - in the days before RCX - I built a 6-legged walker that used "ackerman" steering on the front legs. Power to the front legs went through the kingpins. (I think "kingpin" is called something different in US (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Sebastian, (...) I don't know the schematics of that sensor interface, but I think it's basically a bad idea to drive a device that needs 30 to 50 mA from a powersource that can only output about 10 mA. I've experienced similar effects while (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Done. -- -- Open Forge, LLC 24/365 Onsite Support for PCs, Networks, & Game Consoles 512-695-4126 (Austin, Tx.) help@open-forge.com irc.open-forge.com Hangar 18 Open Source Distributed Computing Using Plan 9 & Linux 512-451-7087 (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Please do. Thanks, Kevin (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Please do. Thanks, Kevin (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I agree. (...) Sorry, I made -no- statement about your Qaud242. Build it however you like. You expanded the scope of my comment from general legged walker design to something specific, where it wasn't intended to go. I was talking strictly (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I am happy to help out as best I can. Unfortunately, there is little chance that I will do as good a job as Dave Baum has done over the years. But I'll try my best. (...) Yes. When I can find the time. I'm also trying to find the time to do a (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) I've never been lost, I always know where I'm at if I'm awake. Right here. May not know where other things are in relation but, hey, the sun rises in the E. and sets in the W. everywhere; and I know how to read stars. :) (...) I'm often lost, (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I guess we're talking different things here. You were telling me to use all three motor/sensors. I claim I only need two for my Quad242. I have to see WWW to know what you are talking about I guess, or else you lost me. Static balance requires (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Doug Carlson has working examples: (URL) (...) I understand it. (...) Kevin (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well I was restricting the discussion to modifying my Quad242. I think you are talking about something else. I think you were proposing using all three inputs and outputs to run the motors and control switches. I was proposing using less of (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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<SNIP> (...) Look up Tri-Star Wheel. Instead of driving wheels, drive gears that move legs (or pneumatic pumps). Remember that a Tri-Star Wheel uses a differential. When the input shaft is turned, it spins the body of the differential which turns (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Bad assumption but it would work, the RCX is too limited on I/O to be doing that sort of stuff except in the case of simple rollers/walker. Since legs have symmetry it's silly not to take advantage of it here, you've got to use it to keep the (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Nope, it's actually pretty easy. Sel-Syn. It's been used on naval ships to control guns since sometime in the mid-1800's. -- -- Open Forge, LLC 24/365 Onsite Support for PCs, Networks, & Game Consoles 512-695-4126 (Austin, Tx.) (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) A man after my own heart ;) It seems to be the way nature works too, start simple only add complexity when a energy capture issue arises and forces an adaptive response. Most adaptions are neutral, despite the dribble they teach all the way up (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Call "LEGO Shop at Home" and get four replacement motors. I just called them about a broken motor and a broken "pneumatic double acting cylinder". I called them pistons, but when she finally found them in 8455, she made sure I knew they were (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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That's "scene analysis", not "seen analysis". I knew I had a typo like that, but could not find it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Elliott" <gelliott@csisc.cc> To: <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 2:21 PM (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Earlier, Jim Choate said: (...) I think it is important to understand both simplicity and complexity here. For example a fluidic (e.g. pneumatic) cylinders have the potential for redistribution between cylinders of load force. This is equivalent to (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) When driving I'm sometimes not where I want to be but am rarely lost. When lost I have no problem asking directions :^) When it comes time to make complicated robots out of LEGO I'm often lost and don't like to ask directions! I know this post (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) What if we assume that each output drives a motor, through a differential which drives a pneumatic switch and a compressor. The compressor does not care which rotational direction it is driven, but the switch does. When we are mostly up to (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I gotta see the movie to really appreciate what you'd like to see. (...) The foot on the obstacle is not in the air but on the ground. If you mean that one foot is on the obstacle and the other can't reach the ground, I see your point. I was (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) One of my design goals when making robots is to not use the RCX unless it is needed. I program computers and debug hardware all day at work, so I can write NQC programs in my sleep. For me it is much more of a challenge (and therefore more (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) A* works just fine under legOS. I haven't tried it in NQC, where I'd expect to have some minor issues with the list management. - Alex (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, John Hansen wrote: John, thanks for taking on the maintenance and improvement of NQC. (...) I'd definitely like to see this one implemented, when you can find the time. :-) Mark (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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I'm very interested in hearing from NQC users what their needs/wishes are for future enhancements. Here's my current list of updates/enhancements that I am working on. 1. Built-in and documented Spybot API. 2. Fast firmware download via USB tower (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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On "complexity", I would point out that the computational power of the neural pathways of the house fly thoroughly exceeds the computational throughput of our most massive supercomputer clusters at the moment. True "adaptation" would require (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Just checked, yep. Not counting this one I sent three responses to -your- request for input on your project. -ALL- of them went to the list. Me thinks he protest too much. -- -- Open Forge, LLC 24/365 Onsite Support for PCs, Networks, & Game (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Nothing, you asked a question and I explained the situation. (...) I have no interest in your mental state. (...) I've actually sent you nothing I didn't CC to the group as far as I'm aware. (...) -technical- toys. (...) You asked a question, (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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We have several broken mindstorms motors. Tw got the shafts broken. Two just stopped turning. So, we decided to steal the shafts from one set to fix the other set. However, putting them back together has stopped the working but shaftless ones from (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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i'm sorry to all about using this forum to resolve private issues but i have to say one word to jim what is going on with you? if you want to get me down - do it here on the group!!! send you really smart and wise posts on the group!!! if you want (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Use a watchdog timer instead, if you want to stop don't send any outputs. Once the timer trips the bot stops. You still get your third sensor, you'll need it for a bump switch, otherwise you won't know when to turn/back-up. Each output is (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Hp9qnp.Cn6@lugnet.com... (...) i know what you mean but i thought about walking through obstacles in fact walking over obstacles because we were talking about WWW and the spider from (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Ahh, yes. Not walking is an important part of the behavior :^) I'll probably have the third output control a pole reversor switch. Battery power -> pole reversor -> RC racer motor (or two?) -> pumps. I want a powerful compressor. (...) Kevin (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That's not what I meant! Silly fingers. I can't suggest Ilya's book strongly enough. This guy 'got it'. -- -- Open Forge, LLC 24/365 Onsite Support for PCs, Networks, & Game Consoles 512-695-4126 (Austin, Tx.) help@open-forge.com (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Much lighter than 1 RCX per leg !!! (...) I guess the third output should control the Walk/Don't Walk function, perhaps directly driving compressor motor? Philo (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) My Quad242 has the ability to walk forward and backward, as well as turn right or left. Currently pneumatic switches, acting as pneumatic polarity reversors, need to be manually flipped to change from behavior to behavior. These behavior (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Hp8uqD.8yM@lugnet.com... (...) but pneumatics gives you just automation you dont have "adaptation" i can imagine sensor-like pneumatic valve configuration but it would be much more (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Search algorithms
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Has anyone tried A* or D* on an RCX Lester Witter (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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I found some picture from the event. It has been really hard to find any information at all. All pictures: (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'd recommend pneumatics instead of large number of RCX's. Kevin (22 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes (...) Not really, if you start with a hexapod and break the legs down into two groups of three (you get stability that way) you should be able to do it with two outputs (one for start/stop the other for for/rev). As an aside, and a rather (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That's one approach, probably the wrong one considering the limitations of the RCX. Instead of trying to solve your problems with the RCX why not take the approach of the original; pullies, gears, differentials, gear trains, etc. As I made (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Nathan, I have done this trouble shooting step, ie. changing the timing. Unfortunately, it did not work. But, thank you though. Well, the a W2Kpro virtual machine approach did not work either... I guess my only alternative will be getting the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Pneumatic Quadraped 242
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(...) snip (...) I started working on articulated head and tail. Quad242 has a very large footprint, and walks inefficiently. One of the reasons for large feet is center of gravity. The center of gravity on Quad242 is just a little behind the center (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) Even more impressive now than the prototype I saw some time ago... Very clever use of Bionicle parts, would be a winner if a "Technic lame parts" contest was organized! XP to lugnet.robotics Philo (22 years ago, 1-Dec-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Plenty of people have build eight legged walkers - that's not all that hard. However, the machine in WWW is supposedly very flexible and could climb near vertical cliff-faces, etc. You'd need at least two or three motors per leg to get that (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Or, provide suggestions on how to do it? I saw Wild Wild West the other day and was looking at the giant spider robot and wondered if making such a "sipder" robot is possible with lego robotics? Would it be possible? Has anyone done it? Does anyone (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Tyler, Happy to be of help! Regarding Garbage Collection, I'm not usually one to criticise without being able to suggest a better alternative. In this case, I think most GC systems could be improved by mimicking the concept of "smart pointers" (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Disagree. It's a matter of habitudes. Once you're familiar with the whole environment, you may write extremely complex programs without getting lost. For example, in our recent "Mars-mission" telerobotics project the complete programming -the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) They do work! But they are usually used with two quadrature outputs (hence the name), while on RCX only one wire is used and the 4 states are encoded as 4 voltages levels. (URL) (Image courtesy Michael Gasperi) The sequence (clockwise) is (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, FTX)
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(...) The way I understand it, it's really not the sensor's fault. The RCX and firmware together either can't or doesn't deal with the ambiguous voltage levels sometimes returned during two of the four transitions. If the RCX were fast enough that (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Could someone explain to me technically why this sort of of problem with the rotation sensor occurs? I know how quadrature shaft encoders are _supposed_ to work, and I can't see why this sort of thing should happen in the first place. >> Mark (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) Still waiting to hear from Dick about that. (...) I disagree that it's easier to understand and use. Possibly easier to learn or figure out without documentation, up to a point. But ease of learning is not the same as ease of use. Graphical (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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An easy one, that has already be done numerous times... anyway, here is my implementation of a fully RCX-compatible temperature sensor, that provides correct values when used with standard RCX temperature routines. (2 URLs) RCX-compatible (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) ---...--->snip I've not had the time yet to analyze the patch. Seems that you replace the first firmware handler. In Robolab the firmware is found under ..ROBOLAB\Engine\RCX1\Text. They simply have changed the extension .lgo to .txt and call (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | WTF: Broken RCX units
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Anyone have or know where I can find broken RCX units for parts? Thanks, Rand (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, Chris Phillips wrote: Hahaha, Your passionate condemnation of GC makes entertaining reading in light of the amount of work I have to do with lejos,Java,C++, etc for my final year undergraduate project. I will certainly (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Patched firmware to improve rotation sensor, was Re: Robolab, byte codes and assembler
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(...) It took me some time to figure out why, but you are right, the ambiguous transitions occur only while counting up. What you could do though would be to count +1 while going from state3 to state2_ambiguous, and correct "phantom transition" by (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Hello all. About a year ago I researched math functions so I could write some for the RCX. I found some power series functions that work really well. I see another message here posted by "nanobapt" has also posted some functions so I tested his (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I've been experimenting with some of the LabView icons available in "Investigator" mode in Robolab (under the "hourglass" item on the outermost menu). They seem to cause some odd behavior sometimes. It seems like it's especially a problem if one of (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Patched firmware to improve rotation sensor, was Re: Robolab, byte codes and assembler
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(...) Doesn't that mean that at any given count, you could still be off by 1, but now the odds of having an incorrect count are 50-50 instead of about one in 500? (...) There has been some discussion about whether this patch will work with Robolab, (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Patched firmware to improve rotation sensor, was Re: Robolab, byte codes and assembler
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(...) If FIRST doesn't allow NQC - I can't see it allowing patched RCX firmware. ---...--- 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, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Patched firmware to improve rotation sensor, was Re: Robolab, byte codes and assembler
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"Philippe Hurbain" <philohome@free.fr> wrote in message news:Hp4JAs.oK8@lugnet.com... (...) Much to my embarassment, I have to agree with Philippe that the patch doesn't work very well. I try to figure out what went wrong. (...) This is the expected (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Patched firmware to improve rotation sensor, was Re: Robolab, byte codes and assembler
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(...) <snip> That would be disappointing! I discarded the RIS software very early on. Dick, can you clarify this issue? (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Patched firmware to improve rotation sensor, was Re: Robolab, byte codes and assembler
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(...) I think RoboLab uses its own firmware, so patching FIRM0328.LGO won't help you unless you use the RIS programming environment. (Or NQC, but that apparently isn't allowed by FIRST?) (...) I've used FIRM0328.LGO with older (version 1.0) RCXes (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Robolab, byte codes and assembler
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(...) Should be legal, perhaps. But I was just suggesting that before sending him off to try to patch the firmware, he might want to make sure it was legal to do so. Although RIS and RoboLab may not use the same identical firmware, that doesn't (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Hello Don, (...) firm0309.lgo is firmware from RIS 1.5, while firm0328.lgo comes from RIS 2.0. Maybe RIS 1.5 can't download 2.0 firmware, never tried that... (...) I suggest you download BricxCC from (URL) and use its download utility (located in (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) Yes. I taught my Sony learning remote from the Lego remote and it works perfectly. (...) > remote be used to save additional commands? Yes - it can learn from the IR tower or from the RCX itself. (...) > Possibly a macro of sorts. (...) Yes - (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Yes it works! I was curious and have done this last week... The 'learning' remotes are capable of remembering the codes needed for your IR bricks. You can programm the RCX to sent a code (message) and let the remote learn this. Later on your RCX can (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'm having trouble downloading the patched firmware. Robolab doesn't have a .lgo file anywhere in the program directory structure, so I don't have a filename to replace with the patched file. Downloading in Robolab seems to work, but I see no (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) Wow, that's far more than I expected! And thanks for the detailed explanation. I may have to look at it tomorrow - my daughter's birthday is today. <snip> (22 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) My arguments would be: 1. The firmware/sensor arrangement is _broken_. Fixing it should be legal. 2. The FIRST rules permit using different firmware implicitly, because they permit using RIS or Robolab, which requires different firmware. 3. (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Hello Dick, Looks great, but it doesn't seem to work well here: - counts up 2 by 2, but counts down correctly one by one - loses count, especially when counting up. My tests were done with a brand new, unmodified rotation sensor. I mounted a wheel (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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I'm very new to the whole robotics thing so forgive me if the answer to my question is obvious. Can a universal remote, the type that "learns" the function of other remotes, be used to "learn" the functions of the Lego remote? and.. If the IR tower (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Wow! This is a truly wonderful gift to the group. I know how hard it can be to patch raw binary like that. Many thanks for your efforts. I'm off to try it **now** ! ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- HomeEmail: <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkEmail: (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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I found an Adobe PDF describing the 'AI Motor' part in English - there is some great detail there: (URL) that this unit is a motor with an integrated position sensor and a torque sensor with a daisy-chained serial bus to allow either a PC or their (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Wow! It seems to be exactly what I've been hoping to see for *years*. Motors and sensors daisy-chained together with some kind of serial protocol for addressing them. This system seems to allow you to have 31 sensors and motors connected (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Following up from my earlier post, I have completed a firmware patch for the rotation sensors. This post contains the patch with installation instructions followed by a technical description. A long post but hopefully more than made up by the value (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) Ahh, Garbage Collection. <rant soapbox="on" eyes="glazed" dinosaur="true"> In my mind the worst thing that has happened to modern compiler languages is excessive reliance on Garbage Collection. This is analogous to leaving half-empty soda cans (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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Please help. I just recently got a Sharp GP2D12 ir distance ranger plus RCX interface device from mindsensors. It is pretty cool, however I am getting alot of flucuation in the readings and in turn I think that i am losing out on range. The maximum (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Hi Chris, Thanks for your reply. You're reply confirmed my suspicion about leaving the port object lying around. I think I'll try your first suggestion of 'deleting' the port object at the end of each routine. I hope you dont mind me asking (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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(...) All this talk of patching firmware to correct for problems in rotation sensor readings is very interesting, but I think you may be approaching the problem a bit too directly. First, if the competition rules specify the programming environments (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, Claude Baumann wrote: <snip> (...) The main need is to return to the starting point after completing various challenges. I think the challenges also involve objects at known positions compared to the starting point (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) Hi Kevin, Here is a simple circuit that also require some initialisation: (URL) didn't find the digital equivalent of the .IC (initial condition) used in analog simulations, but if you use the probe tool (arrow on the screen capture) and click (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) My laptop is a Satellite 2455 series. Maybe laptops of this serie don't crash but produces the strange behaviour that I had with the USB Tower. I'd like to know if someone else had the same problems that I had. Anyway, it's good to know that (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Bricklink (...) make (...) I (...) transmit (...) an (...) brickCC). (...) 300 (...) this (...) I'd be interested in seing if your laptop was a p series (P15, P25, etc). There is another person on the lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab who has had (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) This probably is an issue of leaving your Port object around after you're done using it. You have a memory leak in each routine, because you call 'new RCXPort();' without ever calling 'delete port;' on the object. You should definitely call (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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(...) Philo, I downloaded the tools, and entered the base schematic for Quad242. Quad242 depends on some initial conditions where 4 of the 5 flops have a value of 1. I've read the docs and not found a way to preset the flops. Any ideas? Your choice (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hi Rob, I have a Toshiba Laptop with a USB 2.0 and I bought a USB Tower at Bricklink because my Laptop doesn't have a serial output (I think that they do not make laptops with it anymore). At my first try my computer didn't lock up, but I (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi guys, First of all, thanx Brian, but I managed to solve the weird firmdl.bat problem by fooling around with different batteries and IR range levels. Secondly,I'm trying to send data packets to the RCX through java methods called from a C++ (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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---...--->snip (...) I guess the competition asks you to run a certain distance as precisely as possible, or/and do some precise turns. We often experienced this kind of challenges in our school. The best way seemed to be to collect statistical (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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hi i just found this (URL) looks like robitic bricks :) pixel (22 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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(...) <snip> (...) I'm quite interested in the alternative firmware for myself. However, for this particular problem, if a correct rotation count is my "Apollo 13's needed filter", then Robolab is the "cover of the flight manual" - it's what I have (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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