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| (...) I think he meants risks as in "I installed LegOS, and it got wedged, and I can't reinstall the official Lego stuff, so now I've got a very very expensive lego brick that does nothing". It seems to me that Lego's position would logically be "If (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Such risks are unknown. You have to trust, in the case of LegOS, that Markus did a reasonable job. He in turn probably has some amount of trust that I did a reasonable job, at least with regards to some aspects. If you're not sure about (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Guys, Everyone seems to be missing one point: The RCX does have ROM code (this is what loads the firmware the first time, right?). If you were to "jam up" the firmware, you could just simply remove the batteries, let the firmware (which must be in (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Er? Since when you rewrite the firmware, you can take full control of the i/o pins of the H8, it seems perfectly possible to me to drive inputs as outputs and fry something you didn't mean to fry... You have to be careful to make sure you (...) (26 years ago, 26-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I managed to get my Cybermaster into a "vibrating" state with the motors humming and the unit shaking! (downloaded some commands while it was running) None of the buttons worked and it did not sound very healthy so I ripped the batteries out (...) (26 years ago, 26-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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