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(...) Theo, Even though I live in Indiana and can't be part of your team, I want to applaud your efforts to start a new robotics group. I wish you guys all the best in growing your skills while having a lot of fun. IMHO - for an early competitive (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: New York City NXT Meet-up
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(...) I am interested. Please let me know when you have enough people for the first meeting. Thanks. Rey Parma (18 years ago, 25-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: What do these macros do?
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(...) John - if you've got someone's ear in this, could you also see if a GCC build of the firmware can be released? I know LEGO are unlikely to use GCC themselves as they can afford more specialised tools, but so far, I don't see much of a (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What do these macros do?
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(...) It is possible to write to the popup buffer but only by using the IOMap routine (SetDisplayPopup). The regular system calls which write to the LCD all write to the normal display memory. Unfortunately, as Dick Swan suggested, the current NXT (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Improving the firmware?
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David Wallace wrote on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 7:34 PM: (...) This is an opportunity for the open source community to improve the firmware. Enhanced firmware does not need to have any dependency on the LEGO or NI development teams. The challenge (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Improving the firmware?
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Thanks Philippe. You definitely asked the questions that I was thinking about and I pretty well understood the answers except I was a little puzzled by the need for "follows" as well. However, we definitely lost functionality in this area with NXT. (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: What do these macros do?
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(...) Is it possible to write in the display popup buffer? So that we can do double buffering? I made some quick tests, but it seems the drawing routines always write in the normal display buffer... Julien (18 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Improving the firmware?
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(...) I asked about the same questions some time ago, here is John's answer: (URL) (18 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Apology
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(...) Hoser! Kev P.S. Dave, my friend, I knew this was a sore spot. I was just tickling it a bit, not meaning to pour salt. I'm so open minded that I have a Canadian friend that lives here in the lower 48. It is clear from him that this horrible (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Improving the firmware?
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If anyone is still listening to suggestions, I would like to have the ability to spawn a thread. I don't know how threads are handled in NXT-G, but in NBC, there is no way to create a thread to kick off a task while moving on to other tasks in the (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXC News
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(...) Great sites! I have asked Danny Benedettelli to put together an NXC Tutorial based on the existing NQC Tutorial and NBC Tutorial. He's making great progress on that so it should be available soon. And I'm feverishly working on finishing the (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Matthias, you forgot the other german Workshops and FAQ's ;-) FAQ, Workshop und Tutorial zu NXC gibt es hier: (URL) FAQ, Workshop zu pbLua (URL) Regards Christian (18 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Someone sent me a link today to what I guess is one of the first existing tutorials for NXC, at least the first one in German (please correct me if I'm wrong): (URL) if this here allegedly is an "American forum" (HOOOTS!), it might be of interest (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Text Based Programming for NXT - pbLua is Available
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(...) Thanks for the support - I thought I was the only one! My main aim was to go for the sort of graphics libraries that support games, so if you could spare the memory you could draw on hidden screens, copy chunks of screens around, display (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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I have just released a new beta of NBC/NXC. It is available from the NBC website: (URL) has been updated with a few syntax highlighting changes (minor). The latest test release is at (URL) via the link in the NXT News section near the top. Version (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Text Based Programming for NXT - pbLua is Available
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(...) This would definitely be useful for me! I am currently programming an interface for controling a train layout. This is the kind of thing that needs good graphics. There is a lot of situation where advanced graphics are useful in robotics. (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: This is the cancer that is killing Lugnet (Was Re: Apology)
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(...) <snip> (...) 'Cause you know, inserting a little levity to make an otherwise argumentative thread a little brighter never helps. (is the sarcasm filter not working??) Lessons learned? Some people want to get in the last snipe, even after all (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: This is the cancer that is killing Lugnet (Was Re: Apology)
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(...) Umm... the only person arguing here is you: the original posters had a problem with each other, that they resolved; argument ended. Period. If the two principles have moved beyond this, well... (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | RE: Another Challenge. Performance Comparison
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(...) Here's my distilled summary of relative execution speeds of various Mindstorms products / environments. All data is normalized to the fastest performance. Relative Platform Product Speed 1X NXT RobotC 2X NXT Robolab 15X NXT NXT-G 5-10X RCX (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: What do these macros do? [IOMAP Access Execution Times
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(...) You're right. IOMapRead and IOMapWrite are very slow functions. They're slow because you pass a character string for the name of the module you want to access; the NXT-G firmware runs through the list of modules looking for a match on the (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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