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(...) Try make fontdesign in the util directory to build fontdesign.exe, and then do the make strip again. (22 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How Many Mindstorms Have Been Sold? Or What's the Highest RCX Product Serial Number?
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I bought one new 10 or 11/2003; SN is 766128. Rand "Dick Swan" <dickswan@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:HrIwBo.12wM@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Uhmm... coincidence, or no?
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(...) It's just a coincidence. I was working at LEGO at the time and it had nothing to do with NASA. Also, as others have pointed out, the name Spirit came from a contest for schoolkids, and is one of a pair of rovers, the other being Opportunity. (22 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Cooperative Cybernetic Crate Contraption
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Cooperative Cybernetic Crate Contraption ===...=== In June of 2003 SMART put on a massive display of robots at a local shopping mall. After the show a few of us got together for dinner to decide what would be cool to do for our next show. Instead of (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics, FTX) !
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| | Re: BrickOS Assembler
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(...) Volatile tells the compiler that should assume the value can change without the compiler's knowledge. So yes, it gets reloaded every time. (...) To find this stuff, you need to read through documentation for GCC. It has been a few years since (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: WORDLIST
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(...) Long time no see:) Below is source for .S DUMP WORDS and SEE. Usage of the individual words should be basically clear, but I have some remarks nontheless: - Those words were originally embedded in a collection of words that I always load. I (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Balancing robots
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Hello PeterBalch, Tuesday, January 20, 2004, 9:19:20 PM, you wrote: P> How does a balancing robot like Legway balance on a patterned floor? Or can P> it? P> I've got some of the way there. P> My understanding from reading the web descriptions of (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: External power supply ?
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(...) It sounds like what you're wanting to do is to effectively turn a battery-powered RCX into the rough equivalent of a multi-function smart-solenoid. All final output devices (lights, motors, etc.) are powered by switched 9v AC supplies, and the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Balancing robots
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How does a balancing robot like Legway balance on a patterned floor? Or can it? I've got some of the way there. My understanding from reading the web descriptions of various projects is that you _ought_ to measure - angle of tilt - rate of change (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 USB Tower freezing on XP
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(...) I posted solutions/work-arounds on the 17th: (URL) needs to be uninstalled. I've never had to choose "compatibility" mode or force 256 colors (even before the HT issue). - Rob (22 years ago, 20-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: External power supply ?
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(...) Right. But that's not what I was asking or suggesting. The idea was...elave the RCX2.0 as is on batteries. Run some other devices off of whatever power source, but control that power source via program logic from the RCX. The RCX could run (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickOS Assembler
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(...) Oh, I see. That's nifty. So a 'volatile' keyword ensures that it's reloaded every time? (...) Which doc is this? The only ones I have are the BrickOS command reference (it's a shorter HTML one), and the software manual from Hitachi. (...) (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: how to get vision command update for win XP and win 2000
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(...) Hello, I found this on the internet: (URL) it helps, Ruth (22 years ago, 20-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| | Re: BrickOS Assembler
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(...) Glad to help! (...) However, it *does* work for bytes... See the program below. In your example program, you declared the "total" variable as an unsigned short (which is a 16-bit word), but accessed it using an 8-bit move instruction. Instead, (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Assembler
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(...) PERFECT. That was exactly what I was looking for. Clearly, the @_variablename method only works for words and not bytes. This had been my problem. Thanks very much. And thanks to everyone else who contributed too... I'm just a sucker for the (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Assembler
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(...) One more answer... :-) Mark #include <unistd.h> #include <conio.h> int x = 10; int y = 5; int z; int main() { __asm__(" mov @_x,r0 mov @_y,r1 add r1,r0 mov r0,@_z "); lcd_int(z); msleep(5); return 0; } (22 years ago, 19-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RIS 2.0 USB Tower freezing on XP
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Yippee Windows XP Pro / Mindstorm / USB Tower freezing system problem resolved. Commenced my frustrating journey on 15th October 2003, resolved 17th January 2004 ! My system specifically - Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.4GHz (Intel D865PERL Hyperthreading (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickOS Assembler
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(...) In rethinking I think that compiling with the -S option will do what you want. It should create a file with a .s suffix. -S makes the compiler compile, but not assemble. Kevin "YOU ARE A GENIUS!!!!!! you can put that in your sig file!!!" Chris (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Assembler
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(...) I recommend compiling with the -gstabs+ option (by modifying the makefile). After your .lx file is generated use "h8300-hms-objdump --disassemble-all --source > my.lst" to get a disassembled file with the C source intermixed.into the file (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Assembler
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(...) Hi Mike, Check out the source for memcpy.c in the C library. It's not immediately clear, but the directives at the end of the __asm__ section beginning with "r" associate the %n macros with the given variables. I'm not sure of the exact syntax (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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