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(...) This is a fantastic development! Not too long ago, I was involved in Sony PSP hacking. Although the GCC toolchain was relatively easy to build, and lots of sample code was around for writing C++ programs for the PSP, the rate of new software (...) (18 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Re: Text Based Programming for NXT - pbLua is Available
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(...) I am very excited about the availability of pbLua. It looks extremely cool. And fast. BricxCC already has built-in support for Lua syntax highlighting. You can also have BricxCC claim the .lua file extension via the Preferences dialog if you (...) (18 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: ReMix of LEGO NXT Starter Robot
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(...) Yes... (...) Unfortunately no, the digital motor port signals are input only (they are buffered by a Schmitt trigger). Philo (18 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) I would add that it will take some experimenting to get the parameters correct. Pick your operating conditions (parallel outputs, or no, etc...) and then given the supply voltage and maximum current allowance, you know the coil resistance you (...) (18 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Text Based Programming for NXT - pbLua is Available
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All, For those of you that have been asking the question: "When will we get a simple text-based programming environment for the NXT?" I can now announce the availability of pbLua Beta 1 at: (URL) This is an implementation of Lua 5.1 for the NXT, and (...) (18 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt) !
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| | Re: Electromagnetic device
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"Patrick Levy" <patrick@omiccron.com.br> wrote in message news:JBxJ1I.En@lugnet.com... (...) when you use an electromagnet with the RCX. You didn't post the technical specifications of the electromagnet you have wired up to the sensors, did it have (...) (18 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) supply. You might want to measure the coil resistance to see what kind of current it is trying to draw from your RCX. I do notice from your picture that you have a version 1.0 RCX equipped with an AC power input jack. Have you tried running (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Re: ReMix of LEGO NXT Starter Robot
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(...) Ah, thanks for the correction. I've only studied portions of the hardware docs so far, mostly regarding the sensor ports. I realized after I posted that I hadn't completely checked my facts. (I hate when that happens!) So does this mean that (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Hi Chris, (...) that is not quite right, there is an ATMEGA48 microcontroller insider the NXT Brick which generates the waveforms. It is connected to the main processor via an I2C-style interface. Besides that it also controls power to the NXT, (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: ReMix of LEGO NXT Starter Robot
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(...) I am curious if you have tried measuring distance travelled simply by reading back the NXT motor encoder values? You would need to calibrate your 'bot so that you know the ratio of encoder units to centimeters or inches travelled (which would (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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OK, sent you an email with the NBC program and the Perl script. If anyone else would like it let me know. (18 years ago, 15-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Hi David, yes please... I'm very interessed in setting up BT-Communication-Parameters... Is there a snapshot of your code public available ? Thanx Christian (18 years ago, 14-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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I have written a quick-and-dirty NBC program that sends messages via BT to the PC. Then I have another quick-and-dirty Perl script on the PC that captures the messages and displays them to the screen or you can redirect to a file. I've been using it (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Yes, I've seen it, but I have no Win32 system ... I'd like to create a general soltution for any system (e.g. OSX and Linux). NXT-->BT-->Serial2Net-->Syslog Simple Serial2Net-functionality can be realized with socat. Thanx for more (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) There is a debugger available for NBC, I'm pretty sure it supports bluetooth, but I don't have a BT device on my computer (yet) so haven't tried that. You can download it here: (URL) has lots of features and works very well over USB link. (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Improving the firmware?
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(...) And I "third" this motion. I've started going through the "fun" process of building GCC for NXT, but don't have enough gigabytes of free space on my LEGO dev machine (under CygWin) to get all the way through the process. Although I don't think (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Hello Community, I try to realize some kind of debugging interface for NXT NBC/NXC... Idea: sending clear text messages like syslog to PC Is this possible with NXC ? My problem is the understanding how to do it the right way... 1. setup connection (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: What do these macros do?
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Ok, well, replying to my own message in the best of internet style... I got impatient and starting prodding. After a few hard resets, I came up with the following: Yes, the Get/SetDisplayNormal() permits you to write directly to screen memory. This (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What do these macros do?
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(...) YES jeff, you need to do your own firmare.. AND it needs to be a form of BASIC!!!!! :) Chris 10 ? clr 20 goto 10 (18 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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I've been poking around with my NXT, and as usual I've decided to bite off more than I can chew. In trying to discover a way to *unset* pixels on the display without wiping the whole thing, I've been sifting through some of the less-discussed macros (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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