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Hello Community, I try to realize some kind of debugging interface for NXT NBC/NXC... Idea: sending clear text messages like syslog to PC Is this possible with NXC ? My problem is the understanding how to do it the right way... 1. setup connection (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Drive types
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(...) The problem is that the standard firmware doesn't support starting and stopping of threads AFAIK. But you can start multiple threads by putting precedes thread1, thread2 in your main thread, when it exits both threads will start getting time (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Besides Precedes and Follows, are there other ways to start additional threads? Specifically, I'd like to start additional threads and then continue the execution of the current thread. I might be misinterpreting this, but it seems that (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC vs. NXC vs. MS-VC vs. RobotC
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(...) Elizabeth, It may be very useful to create a table, with columns for these different programming environments, and then you could have rows for all the features. That would make it easy for people to help you fill in the blanks. You may want (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: NQC vs. NXC vs. MS-VC vs. RobotC
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(...) The NQC solution supports all LEGO programable bricks from the CyberMaster to the Spybot, including the RCX. The Scout, RCX, and Spybot platforms supports event monitoring (for the RCX this requires the 2.0 firmware). If you obtain NQC by (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | NQC vs. NXC vs. MS-VC vs. RobotC
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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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| | Re: What do these macros do?
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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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| | Re: What do these macros do?
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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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| | What do these macros do?
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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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| | Re: HiTechnic Compass Sensor Problems
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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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| | HiTechnic Compass Sensor Problems
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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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