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Subject:	Re: IR Port as night/day detector (Was: Re: IR Port as Proximity detector.)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics
Date:	Thu, 14 Jan 1999 20:15:35 GMT
Original-From:	Laurentino Martins <lmartins@STOPSPAMMERSmarktest.pt>
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At 18:35 14-01-1999 Thursday , John A. Tamplin wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Laurentino Martins wrote: > > > I though the RCX had a internal clock. > > I don't have a RCX so I can not tell. The CyberMaster doesn't. > > Not a time of day clock, but you have the materials to do your own once you > tell it what time it is. This would probably require you to use something > like legOS. How's that? The SDK has the function SetWatch( Hours, Min ). Also, in page 47 (printed page 45) we can read in the table that the source 14-0 : "RCX. Watch. Integer where MSB=hours and LSB=minutes" If this isn't a time of day clock, tell me what it is... Laurentino Martins *<||:-) [mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt] [http://www.terravista.pt/Enseada/2808/] -- Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics

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		RE: IR Port as night/day detector (Was: Re: IR Port as Proximity detector.)
(...) Yes, it's a time of day clock, but you still need to tell it what time it is after turning it on. The clock only runs while the RCX is powered up. If you turn it off and on for whatever reason, the clock starts with 00:00. Tilman -- Did you (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

		Re: IR Port as night/day detector (Was: Re: IR Port as Proximity detector.)
(...) The RCX hardware does not have a time of day clock. I haven't fooled with the standard RCX bytecode interpreter, so I wasn't aware that it implemented one in software, but it is doing just what I said you could do -- you get the initial (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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		Re: IR Port as night/day detector (Was: Re: IR Port as Proximity detector.)
(...) I though the RCX had a internal clock. I don't have a RCX so I can not tell. The CyberMaster doesn't. Laurentino Martins *<\|\|:-) [mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt] [(URL) you check the web site first?: (URL) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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