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The Robolab manual says "This command stops the program from watching for events" and gives an example which is essentially identical to the example for the "Start Monitoring for an Event" icon except it adds a "Stop Event Monitoring" icon after the (...) (22 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | What is "Reset Event" for?
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What exactly does the Robolab "Reset Event" icon do? Under what circumstances would or should it be used? The Robolab manual gives only a Microsoft-esque useless restatement of the name of the icon: "Event This command resets monitoring for an (...) (22 years ago, 27-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Pseudo Proportional Control Re: RC Nitro Flash and RCX
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(...) Hi Andrea, I have not tried, but I don't think it would work well because of the delays involved in IR remote transmission. Movement would probably be quite shaky! Philo (22 years ago, 27-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: (Some) HiTechnic Sensors to be Produced Once Again?
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(...) This is true. I got confirmation from John Barnes when Steve Hassenplug announced this a few weeks back. (...) Kevin (22 years ago, 27-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Fwd: Pneumatic valve mystery
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Michael, Thanks to you as well. The little system just keeps chugging along; very tight. Every bit of tweaking helps. Walt (22 years ago, 27-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Looks like it to me. (URL) know more? Max (22 years ago, 27-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Pneumatic valve mystery
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(...) What about tighten the things a bit more with: int pos = whichPosition; valveMotor.forward(); while( pos != 1 ) { pos = whichPosition; } valveMotor.stop(); LCD.showNumber( pos ); This should be the fastest loop I can think of in terms of (...) (22 years ago, 26-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatic valve mystery
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Alex, Many thanks! Your improved code has been chugging along nicely; probably 100 cycles with no mysteries! Walt White (22 years ago, 26-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatic valve mystery
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(...) I suspect you're having problems with indeterminate values in the whichPosition variable. This might happen due to the SensorListener getting called in the middle of one of the tests for your while loops... or it might have some other cause. (...) (22 years ago, 26-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pneumatic valve mystery
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(...) touch (...) to? (...) not (...) Kevin, Thanks for the reply. As you might guess, I am also a novice at posting and replying to a "list." Took two trys to get it posted! I do get the touch sensor pressed every time the drum passes it. I can see (...) (22 years ago, 26-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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