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I just got my RIS as well as some pneumatic parts yesterday. The timing couldn't be worse as I'm in the middle of finals and can't spare much time for non-studying activities. However, your suggestion inspired me to take a study break and open up my (...) (26 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Pics of 1999 Mindstorms items
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The press room at www.legomindstorms.com has some new pictures of the two new kits due out this year. From these pictures, it's clear that the "Scout" unit - in the Robotics Discovery Kit - is very similar to the RCX; it has only 2 inputs, and (...) (26 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Reading sensors at equal intervals.
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Is it possible (with the standard firmware) to read the RCX sensors (actually, ideally, to run any old subroutine) at equal intervals, ie like every 100ms or something? (I assume it must be, otherwise you couldn't measure speed with the angle (...) (26 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) By standard firmware, I assume you mean using the byte codes ala NQC or something similar. If you only want semi-precise timing, you can use the wait opcode to delay for approximately 100 ms between sensor samples. If you want something more (...) (26 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I though that the four "Timer()" values read out in 100ms increments only. Is there a way to get a 1ms timer with NQC? thanks, DLC (26 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) You are right, the timer values as seen by the firmware are in 1/10ths of a second. I lost myself in H8-land, which has a 1 ms timer that gets divided down before being seen by the firmware. -Kekoa (26 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pics of 1999 Mindstorms items
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S. Crawshaw wrote in message ... (...) I offered an explanation for that in a previous post. May want to look it up. Eric Brok (26 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Reading sensors at equal intervals.
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(...) <snip> (...) That looks like a "no" then... How does the timing of tasks work? I seem to recall reading somewhere that the firmware executes the tasks in sequence - is there any timing element to this, or does it just do task 1, then (...) (26 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) IIRC, it preferentially executes a single instruction received from the IR connection, otherwise takes the next instruction from the next task and executes that instead. (...) Probably. I don't think LegOS supports (what I'd call) a software (...) (26 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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