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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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| | Re: BrickOS Assembler
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(...) I need to access elements of a 2d array. I don't think this is an option for that. Nevertheless, could you post code that demonstrates this? (...) How do I do that? (...) ??? (...) Hmm... this sounds more like what I'm trying to do. Someone? (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Where can I find Ultimate Builders Set?
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(...) I have found a person in Norway that might be able to help me. Thanks for your help! I am really impressed with the fast responses and interest that everybody shows in this forum.Great community! Best Regards, Ruth (22 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickOS Assembler
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Hi, Michael. I had some trouble with getting variables into registers, as well. I can think of three ways: 1) Pass the variable to a function - the first function argument seems to be r0. You can easily experiment with this by inspecting the (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Where can I find Ultimate Builders Set?
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(...) Hello Øyvind, Could you please send me the prices for both sets (3801 and vision command) plus shipping costs from Norway? Thanks in advance for your help, Ruth (22 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: HELLO?!, LEGO CO. ! was: Will the educational arm of Technic & Mindstorms continue?
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(...) Probobly the ill-fated Movie Maker set (remember, they had to pay $$$ to Logitec for the camera and also $$$ to Speilberg to use his name) and such like will also disappear. (22 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Robo Waiter - a BrickFest PDX Robot competition
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(...) As Steve pointed out, (Thanks Steve!) the starting line will not be something that your robot will really be able to notice. I'll use a thin red line, which your light sensor probably won't be able to detect. But us humans can see it easily (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: vision command/macintosh question
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(...) Hi. I don't know anything about the mac questions, but assuming this question is actually related to the competition which I announced (and which your post was in reply to) perhaps I might point out that the competition rules say you can only (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: What's Mindstorms Futures? or Re: How Many Mindstorms Have Been Sold?
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(...) A lower price would help a great deal. Who wants to dish out $200 for something when you could just as easily buy the individual motors, sensors, etc and then a BASIC Stamp from Parallax and use that. (...) Some of that would be useful like (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: how to get vision command update for win XP and win 2000
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I am having the same problem on Win2K, but even worst is that I am living in asia, the LEGO branch here, told me that they does not help to order anything for individuals... Any place I can download it? "chrismaker" <chrismaker@noos.fr> (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| | Re: Ultrasonic Sensor
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(...) In my experience, the loss of "headroom" when using rechargeable batteries can cause serious problems for active sensors. They run from a current limited copy of the battery voltage when in the power phase of the active sensor interface mode. (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Follow-Up to USB IT Tower issue on Hyperthreaded XP systems
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Everyone, This is a follow-up and suggested work-arounds for the USB IR Tower problem on computer systems that have Hyperthreaded CPU(s) and are running Windows XP. My apologies for the length of this post. Please understand the following: * This is (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Where can I find Ultimate Builders Set?
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(...) Sorry, I checked here in Eskilstuna today, and found nothing :-( Why don't you write a message in (URL) to activate a search by more people? -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: WORDLIST
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Ernst! Good to see you're still among us. I'd be happy to post your WORDS and SEE (with appropraite credit) and write up a little tutorial on their usage. You can post them here and also email them to me directly. Cheers, Ralph (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Ultrasonic Sensor
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(...) That suggestion makes no sense at all given what your problem is. The voltage and current to the sensors is regulated by the electronics in the RCX, and is not governed directly by the type of battery that you are using. This would only make (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Brickos fun and games!
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(...) I actually had this exact problem at the Hobby Show. I was in a hurry and didn't want to think about it (all I was doing was tweaking the light sensor thresh), so I just rebooted every time. Chris: I had lots of trouble too, but the final (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, FTX)
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| | Ultrasonic Sensor
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Hi all, I recently got an ultrasonic sensor from MindSensors, the problem is that I don't have a stable value and they overlap with different distances. Nitin suggested me to use alkaline batteries rather than rechargeable ones. I have done it with (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NEWBIE question : installing BrickOS
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I hate to see questions go unanswered. Steve H replied to me saying it took him 12 hours under these conditions, and now that I have done it I can say it took my P233 laptop a full 24 hours to install brickOS under Paolo's instructions. I'm also sad (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: WORDLIST
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(...) I wrote WORDS and SEE and some other useful stuff for pbforth 1.21. SEE is a bit rough, it doesn't handle IF, LOOP etc. very graciously but just dumps out bytes. If the dictionary structure hasn't changed in 2.0 they should still work. If (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | BrickOS Assembler
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Okay, I'm working on a proc in ASM, and I need help with using MOV to move stuff back and forth between memory and registers. I have the following (very simple) program working, but I can't for the life of me get the MOV to work. I've got the (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | What's Mindstorms Futures? or Re: How Many Mindstorms Have Been Sold?
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This post is a follow up on earlier post wondering about the sales success (i.e. highest serial number) of Mindstorms. Looking at the various replies, I've derived some data on Mindstorm's limited sales success. The post also contains some (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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