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(...) When you reboot your computer, does the green light on the tower light up? If not, make sure you have your Serial ports turned on in Windows and the Bios. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Usually these circuits are protected against reversed polarity. Does the green light work after the battery was properly installed. Have you succeeded in installing the firmware? Try different settings on the tower switch. Short range and Long (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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I use the L293D in my Lego Automation Controller. PWM works fine with this chip. (I built several variations of the controller before Mindstorms was available.) - pete. (...) -- Pete Sevcik sevcik@flash.net Techno-stuff Robotics (URL) for FUN ! (25 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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"John Phillips" <buckwheatphillips@msn.com> wrote in message news:G6Hpxs.1uH@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) John, I think you're OK. The 9V terminals inside of the IR Tower are different sizes - one small hole, and one large one (in the plastic (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hello All, I'm new to all this so please forgive me if I breach any format or protocal. I'm having some trouble with downloading my Mindstrorms 1.0 RCX. Every time I try a message says IR trans. not working. I tried all the suggestions it gave and (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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For anyone annoyed by the lack of motor outputs on the RCX who has some electronic engineering experience, a device can be built using a 4017B decade counter, some relays and a few other parts that will give a total of 1 original motor connection (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That sounds believable. I send 6 one-byte messages in each comms cycle. That's gotta be a good 150ms - which is probably about what I'm seeing. How depressing. :-( (...) So, the first major speedup would be to send a 3-byte message containing (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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I just recently built the grabber arm with my new RIS 1.5 set, and I didnt have any problems with not having enough pieces. If i get time later ill see how many 6-length bars my set has, but I had plenty to build the grabber arm as far as i can (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I have recently used my RCX with a Train Transformer and ran it for 10 days. No worries. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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I too Had this problem. I had 8 w/ a length of six. I had to substitute these parts. I wonder why?? I have the 1.5 RCX also. (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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