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(...) Thanks a lot ! I'm not in a hurry ;o) Philo (22 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hangar 18 - Open Source Distributed Technology A global informal co-operative of amateur and professional computer and technology users focused on using Open Source technology for our problem solutions. In particular we use Linux, Plan 9, & Inferno (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hello Philippe, (...) PH> Hi Allen, PH> Could you post the actual code and perhaps a photograph of your robot, I want to PH> try that for a while and it would eliminate some fiddling! PH> TIA, PH> Philo Hi, I'll try and find the code and grab a (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hi Allen, Could you post the actual code and perhaps a photograph of your robot, I want to try that for a while and it would eliminate some fiddling! TIA, Philo (22 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NEWBIE question : installing BrickOS
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(...) Or you can just skip the make strip step entirely. All it does is reduce the size of your executables but that has no bearing whatsoever on whether they function. Try opening a DOS box, change directory (without entering the BASH shell) into (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: NEWBIE question : installing BrickOS
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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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(...) 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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