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Having had to dismantle an RCX at one stage, I would point out that the battery connectors are not solidly attached to the main circuit board inside the RCX. (I have noted a lot of Lego electrics are built along those lines - relying on mechanical (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) With regards to your comment about sensor watchers, yes they are slow. If I remember correctly, they are implemented by a task that loops forever polling the sensors and starting other tasks whenever an event of the proper type occurs. Tasks (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) If you can find <set:6979> on clearance at TRU for $30, it's arguably a better deal, since it also has a Micromotor. It's not Technic, but my feeling is that the parts in it have more potential for making "pretty" bots. Ran (25 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.market.shopping)
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Ah hah! That's where they come from! I had seen the $40 ones mentioned in this news group a while back and then found Walmart selling complete motion detector systems for $8. So I bought a couple and pulled the sensors out. So they only cost $4! (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi all, Somebody pointed out to me a REALLY inexpensive pyroelectric sensor, to be found here: (URL) specs are here: (URL) he was asking if the sensor can be used with my interface circuit, to be found here: (URL) answer is no, at least not without (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) make that four, one more than the number of sensors (...) It's on Michael Gasperi's site ((URL) Schumm has figured out how to orient the wires to allow two or more Touch sensors to be hooked in series to create the AND function. Here is his (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) (URL) Is a note I posted a while back on pbForth speed. It really is very fast - not as quick as legOS, but fast enough for what we're doing. In fact, NQC and native firmware is fast enough - we just don't have enough variables.... As a point (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I've seen no discussions of drivers either, if any finds out anything...please post. Thanks, Doug (...) Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at (URL) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) This is correct. (...) Hehe :) Yes, this is correct. LegOS is also faster for some other reasons- it samples the sensors at a much faster rate than the standard firmware, so legOS programs can react much more quickly than standard bytecode (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Thanks very much, everyone, for the detailed answers. I suspect that, due to the huge performance gain I seem to get using NQC (in one observable area: touch sensor response time using two touch sensors on two separate ports), that the RCX Code (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hello listers, Once again Lego has made a product that is without Mac support. I have tried all the Logitec drivers, but the camera must be a model without mac support. Have any of You found a solution for getting it to work ? Regards Mikkel --- (25 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) As I understand it, the situation is this: * Using the Windoze graphical environment - your 'programs' are translated into a special 'byte-code' that's interpreted by the RCX's firmware. * Using NQC, your C programs are translated into the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) At the RCX level, there is no difference. Both use the standard Lego firmware to execute programs specified using a byte code. The byte code is something like an instruction set, except that it's interpreted and it has operations that are (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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That was it! Thanks so much. --Jack Gregory Juergen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr> wrote in message news:87d7hf5sny.fsf@loria.fr... (...) problem. (...) If (...) breaking (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I got Extreme Creatures about a month ago when it was last on special at S@H for $25. I guess for the Fibre Optic unit and the collection of parts, it's not a bad price. As far as I can tell, it's the only way you can get the FOS main unit from (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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(...) No, the Lego GUI software and NQC both produce code for the same target -- a simple interpreted virtual machine implemented in the firmware. I have never looked at the code produced by the Lego GUI, but I can't imagine it would be that much (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Wilcox, Doug (11:04 AM 10.05.2000) wrote: >Hmm. This question seems to have gone the way of my PC-->IR Tower cable >question. > >Let me try to get at the point that most interests me--what is the >difference, at the RCX level, between programs coded (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hmm. This question seems to have gone the way of my PC-->IR Tower cable question. Let me try to get at the point that most interests me--what is the difference, at the RCX level, between programs coded in NQC and programs coded in RCX Code. Is the (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Yesterday I saw that the Cybermaster is on sale at the Bart Smit toy shops in the Netherlands, now only fl. 169,- (approx US$ 70) instead of fl. 449,-. I bought just one... Emile. (25 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Remote dead, what to do?
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(...) Are you sure it is the remote? Maybe your RCX forgot its firmware, then the remote won't work. Jürgen (25 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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