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Dear All, I have installed a Belkin Bluetooth USB-adapter. The Bluetooth connection is installed as Com11. When I start the Bricx Command Centre the max Comport is "9" I can't change the comport of the Bluetooth adapter. And I switch the check bock (...) (19 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Brickworld Announcement - Area Attractions and baseball
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(...) Unfortunately the ultrasonic sensor can't even detect the red and blue balls when stationary. (Unless you're REAL close: within an inch or two.) Their surface doesn't reflect much sound (perhaps something to do with the index of refraction), (...) (19 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.16
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And when i am trying to download the program to the bricx it says no (or invalid) reply from rcx (...) (19 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | re: Baseball
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(...) Yes, that could work. We just need someone to design a "standard" pitching machine that can toss balls a foot or two. Then, we need a "regulation" bat size. We could do the whole base-ball, but I doubt very many people could field a whole (...) (19 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.16
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Hallo, I am using your bricxcc version 3.3.7.16 and my brick version is RCX 1.0 I have some problem here with the task transfer! when i start the programm it ask me witch port do use and and my brick type and my firmware. i fill it with the (...) (19 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Brickworld Announcement - Area Attractions and baseball
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(...) Ok, thinking out loud now: Well, what about a home run derby or the like? Maybe a machine that pitches and a machine that hits... We could use those red and blue spheres that come with the nxt... Would ultrasonic sensor work for detecting the (...) (19 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: GCC vs. IAR compiler: Could GCC be tweaked to generate code as tight as IAR?
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(...) OK. This is good info!!! It is hard to guess that this was the way to do it. It also makes some sense for LEGO to use their file manager to do this rather than having a second tool replicate a filemanager on the host and insert it at compile (...) (19 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: GCC vs. IAR compiler: Could GCC be tweaked to generate code as tight as IAR?
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(...) Hi Dick Swan, That is a nice flexible way of doing it. I will see if I can figure it out in gcc. Thanks for the idea. (...) Well...I have -=Os on, which are all size reducing features. The actual "problem" can also be this packed stuff that we (...) (19 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: NeXT-A-Sketch - My second program/first Dave-built NXT 'bot(ish...)
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(...) Or do what I did. Change the program so you only have to tap the button to clear the screen so you can easily reset it while shaking upside down. (19 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: GCC vs. IAR compiler: Could GCC be tweaked to generate code as tight as IAR?
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(...) LEGO is using a slightly older version of IAR Embedded Workbench. Maybe that explains it. Or maybe its a 1.03 vs 1.04 source code difference. (...) I have been told that the following is the standard operating procedure for generating the (...) (19 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | RoboLab 2.9 Install on Server
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Has anyone had success in installing RoboLab on a server? After installing on a windows based server the message "visa32.dll is missing" occurs. Assuming RoboLab 2.9 can be run from a server are there any maximum user limitations? (19 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: GCC vs. IAR compiler: Could GCC be tweaked to generate code as tight as IAR?
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Regarrding overwriting the flash system. I encountered the problem of flash file system overwriting user code as well. It's because it is hard coded in the code the starting address of the file system. There's a constant named "STARTOFUSERFLASH" (...) (19 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: GCC vs. IAR compiler: Could GCC be tweaked to generate code as tight as IAR?
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... (...) I have not done that. Well, just a little bit:-). The best one (not surprisingly) is the "-Os" optimization, which does this "Optimize for size. -Os enables all -O2 optimizations that do not typically increase code size." (...) I tried (...) (19 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: GCC vs. IAR compiler: Could GCC be tweaked to generate code as tight as IAR?
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(...) I did not do so. The memory map in LEGO_MINDSTORMS_NXT_..._v1.03.bin is like this for the files: 0x11F000-0x12E99D Actual files like Demo.rxe 0x13FF00-0x13FF37 FILE_HANDLE(s) 0x13FFFC-0c13FFFF FILEVERSION The nxtgcc stuff compiles to 126176 (...) (19 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: GCC vs. IAR compiler: Could GCC be tweaked to generate code as tight as IAR?
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(...) Have you experimented at all with the compiler optimisation flags? I don't know if all of them are supported for the ARM architecture, and some options cause problems on other architectures, but there's a bit of a list here: (URL) removing (...) (19 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: Robot events at BrickFest 2007
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i just checked the schedule, looks like the Mosaic speed build ends at 12:30 and the sumo competition starts at 1pm. that gives me 30 minutes to get something built and programmed. you better bring your batteries, cause now i do have time to make (...) (19 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GCC vs. IAR compiler: Could GCC be tweaked to generate code as tight as IAR?
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(...) More precisely, I was told to increase the STARTOFUSERFLASH value if I increased the firmware size beyond the current value. The unmodified source code compiles to 121324 bytes using the current evaluation version of the IAR Embedded Workbench (...) (19 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: My first(ish) program
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(...) (URL) that I think you need to buy any more LEGO or anything... 8?) ROSCO (19 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: GCC vs. IAR compiler: Could GCC be tweaked to generate code as tight as IAR?
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(...) Are you adjusting these values in d_loader.h? #define STARTOFFILETABLE (0x13FF00L) #define STARTOFUSERFLASH (0x11F000L) #define SIZEOFUSERFLASH (STARTOFFILETABLE - STARTOFUSERFLASH) I've been told by folks at LEGO that if I grow the size of (...) (19 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: My first(ish) program
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(...) LOL... Hand eye coordination is a gift. Although, I'm not doing any better... I had the pleasure of playing Mr. Cowdice's rabbit game last friday, and scored a big fat -2. Dave, Im thinking you need to start scoring on the bell curve. Just saw (...) (19 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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