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| |I downloaded RobotC from CMU - www-education.rec.ri.cmu.edu. It does |have a great long term potential. It does not have the capability to do |a lot of more advanced stuff though, such as events/interrupt. | |I'd like to compare 3 software in (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Ok, well, replying to my own message in the best of internet style... I got impatient and starting prodding. After a few hard resets, I came up with the following: Yes, the Get/SetDisplayNormal() permits you to write directly to screen memory. This (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) YES jeff, you need to do your own firmare.. AND it needs to be a form of BASIC!!!!! :) Chris 10 ? clr 20 goto 10 (19 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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I've been poking around with my NXT, and as usual I've decided to bite off more than I can chew. In trying to discover a way to *unset* pixels on the display without wiping the whole thing, I've been sifting through some of the less-discussed macros (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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| | New York City NXT Meet-up
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I have the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT ROBOTICS SET and since I'm so "into it", my father and I were thinking we could start up a Lego MindStorms NXT Meet up group/club in New York City where we could meet once a month (or every other month), build, (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) There is a problem with v1.01 of the LEGO firmware. You must have either V1.03 or V1.04. (I had that problem, also) The compass works fine with the newer firmware. It does say that on the HiTechnic web site, but it's not very obvious. Steve (19 years ago, 10-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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If anyone is having trouble with the HiTechnic Compass Sensor you would not be the only one. I could not get it to work no matter what I tried. Before contacting Lego I checked for new updates and remembered the firmware 1.04 that I never did it (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Not eXactly C beta news (NBC)
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I have released a new beta (b21) of NBC with built-in support for the Not eXactly C (NXC) programming language. The sourcecode and the Win32 binary are already up on the NBC website. The Mac OSX binary and Linux binary will be up later this evening. (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The presence of both opcodes comes from the early days of NBC when I was trying to understand the executable file format (before the days of documentation) and I knew that in the NXT-G compiler a clump had both upstream and downstream (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thanks John - quite clear now. Though I still don't understand why there are 2 different opcodes that can be used for more or less the same thing??? Philo (19 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) linxt - (URL) - (URL) are others that I have heard about but can't find links for (or recall the names of) at the moment. My nexttool utility runs on Mac OSX and on Linux and it can do all kinds of cool things but it is built on top of libusb (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Ok, I'll bite: which external tools work well on OS X and Linux? Thanks, -Tim (19 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Whoops. The duration values in each of the PlayTone calls should be 400 rather than 40. John Hansen (19 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Here is a simple multi-threaded NQC program: task music() { while (true) { PlayTone(262,40); Wait(50); PlayTone(294,40); Wait(50); PlayTone(330,40); Wait(50); PlayTone(294,40); Wait(50); } } task main() { start music; while(true) { (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hello John, Could you comment a little the use of Precedes/Follows for task switching? I have trouble figuring when to use one or the other (or both?) Thanks in advance, Philo (19 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) NXC is something like NQC and it is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms. While NXC is not yet complete, it is very functional with a large API for the NXT. Not eXactly C (NXC) is currently available in the form of NBC beta 20. (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | ReMix of LEGO NXT Starter Robot
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Hi All, I've just posted an entry on my blog (URL) on a ReMix project using the LEGO NXT Starter Robot kit. I'm creating a PoC (Proof Of Concept) bot that can measure distances using a "STRAIT LINE" eRolling Tape. To see the PoC "Measurebot!" device (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) I second this. I know there are several people working on revised firmware, though I suspect they all started quite a while ago through the developer programme. I've got experience of developing for embedded systems and can make some sense of (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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In lugnet.robotics, Kevin L. Clague wrote: (...) Yes; besides the ones I've personally seen, there are a bunch of them listed on NXTlog. It seems that style of robot is fairly popular. (...) No it doesn't. One solution that works pretty well is just (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Improving the firmware?
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In article <JBFwGp.30p@lugnet.com>, Guy Ziv <guy@nxtasy.org> writes (...) I would like to be able to rebuild the firmware & experiment with it before I get too ambitious. Has anybody fixed up the code to build with the gcc tools and made it (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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