 | | leJOS NXJ 0.4.0 is Released
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NXJ version 0.4.0 now includes a full suite of graphical widgets in the java.microedition.lcdui package, a multi-level menu system, wireless NXT to NXT communications using Bluetooth, primitive wav file sound support, and many more enhancements. (...) (17 years ago, 5-Sep-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | US-Sensor I2C-address
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Hello Community, is there currently a known way to change the I2C-Address of the Ultrasonic sensor ? What's the magic with the ADAP ? Thanks for some informations Bye Christian (17 years ago, 4-Sep-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: pbLua GUI ???
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(...) This is starting to look pretty promising as a standard IDE. I will do my part and install Eclipse here and get the instructions updated from Christian's instructions. Once we get a decent IDE the pbLua system may be almost ready for "everyone (...) (17 years ago, 3-Sep-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: pbLua GUI ???
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(...) ;-) currently I'm extending Eclipse with simple terminalprogram and pbLuaAPI... With pbLuaAPI-Wrapper(maps pbLua nxt.* to native Lua routines) you can test and run pbLua code at local PC before transfering to NXT... Christian (17 years ago, 3-Sep-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: pbLua GUI ???
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Zitat von Christian Mock <chrimo-@-moccy.xdsnet.de>: (...) pbLua/NXT support there is rather sparse, isn't? Matthias "why don't I do that myself, though?" ---...--- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. (17 years ago, 3-Sep-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Ooops! NXT Software Comparison correction
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I can further manipulate the numbers for this timing test by using the enhanced standard firmware's support for adjusting a thread's priority. Here's the results when I tweak priorities: W/O LCD LCD Priorities ---...--- 50617 22608 40/5 63211 27375 (...) (17 years ago, 2-Sep-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Ooops! NXT Software Comparison correction
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(...) So if I cheat I can move the I2C transaction out of the actual timing loop (which may be what some other folks are doing, effectively) then with a "read" of the Ultrasonic sensor value in the loop and all sensors and motors attached I get (...) (17 years ago, 2-Sep-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Ooops! NXT Software Comparison correction
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(...) Nearly all of the speed test numbers on Steve's page are wrong. That's because Steve's loop boils down to "how fast can you reliably read the LEGO Ultrasonic Sensor". You can't reliably read a value from that device faster than about once (...) (17 years ago, 2-Sep-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Ooops! NXT Software Comparison correction
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My bad. When I fiddled with the pbLua code I forgot to turn on the motors and neglected to change the Motor A speed. So when you ran the program, the motors didn't move. I also had uploaded the wrong version to my web site of the version that shows (...) (17 years ago, 1-Sep-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | pbLua GUI ???
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Hi, do you think pbLua needs an IDE/GUI for development ? Normaly, pbLua just needs a working terminal emulation for development... BUT, I've learned from Lego-NXT-Users: that's not enough, NBC/NXC has "bricxcc" !!! pbLua has more than ONE GUI for (...) (17 years ago, 31-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: pbLua Beta 13c Team Hassenplug NXT Software Comparison Results
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"Ralph Hempel" <rhempel@bmts.com> wrote in message news:46D819C6.700000...mts.com... (...) Ralph, Feel free to pull and reformat the code. You should be the primary credit. I just fiddled around, and I expect that a bit of tweaking by you will (...) (17 years ago, 31-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: pbLua Beta 13c Team Hassenplug NXT Software Comparison Results
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(...) Walt, Thanks a LOT for updating the example. Do you mind if I pull the code from your site, reformat if necessary and include it in the test code section of my distribution? You will, of course, retain primary credit in the source file. This (...) (17 years ago, 31-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Update: Team Hassenplug NXT Software Comparison Results
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(...) Thanks Steve for listing up LEJOS OSEK too! LEJOS OSEK V1.04 also supports Bluetooth based data logging with NXT GamePad. (17 years ago, 30-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Update: Team Hassenplug NXT Software Comparison Results
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(...) That's easy. I was updating the page, and when I got about 90% done, Visual Studio crashed, so I had to start over. It would appear the second time through, I skipped that. :) Thanks for checking Steve (17 years ago, 30-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Update: Team Hassenplug NXT Software Comparison Results
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(...) Hi Steve, why are pbLua BT-states for NXT->NXT and NXT->PC marked as "NOT YET" ? Thanks for your work Bye Christian (17 years ago, 30-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: The standard NXT firmware & the case of the missing opcodes
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(...) Could you, please, confirm, that the latest version of NBC then translates the following two commands with three arguments listed in the NBC manual: shr shl to the correct new opcodes of the enhanced firmware (depending on the type of the (...) (17 years ago, 30-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: Update: Team Hassenplug NXT Software Comparison Results
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I just updated a bunch of things on the NXT Software page. (URL) to everyone who has posted updated stats. Steve (17 years ago, 30-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: pbLua Beta 13c Team Hassenplug NXT Software Comparison Results
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(...) I've clocked some of the blocks in 1.1 to compare against similar measurements I did in 1.0, and find a speed increase of rouhgly 30-40% or so. Some blocks do even better than this, but some don't speed up as much. There's almost certainly a (...) (17 years ago, 30-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: pbLua Beta 13c Team Hassenplug NXT Software Comparison Results
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(...) These numbers are quite good. pbLUA is fast. Walt: thanks for doing the analysis. Now that NXT-G 1.1 is out, I wonder how fast it runs. Faster execution performance was one of the features in this release. Perhaps someone can do this (...) (17 years ago, 30-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | pbLua Beta 13c Team Hassenplug NXT Software Comparison Results
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The Team Hassenplug web site has an NXT Software Comparison at (URL) to help people compare features of different programming languages. The pbLua Beta 13c distribution includes steveTest.txt which was written by Ralph Hempel so pbLua could be (...) (17 years ago, 30-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: already stumped by NXC :(
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Maybe you just need an NXT browser (universal binary; bluetooth only): (URL) (17 years ago, 29-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: already stumped by NXC :(
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OK, I've already found part of the answer (shortly after posting, of course...). It appears that the "nbc" executable is both the NBC and the NXC compiler. I still can't find any documentation for how to use it, but if you invoke it with a "-help" (...) (17 years ago, 29-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | already stumped by NXC :(
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OK, NXC sounds great, but I can't for the life of me figure out where to obtain it, or how I would use it once I had it. Note that I'm on Mac OS X, so (for example) the tutorial by Daniele Benedettelli doesn't do me any good, since it only describes (...) (17 years ago, 29-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Newbie Q's about development environments
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Thanks, everyone, this is very helpful. (Thanks to Steve especially for that very handy comparison table.) I should have mentioned up front that I'm using a Mac, so that rules out a couple of otherwise interesting options. But NXC looks like a good (...) (17 years ago, 29-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NYC Mindstorms NXT Meet-up
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I have the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT ROBOTICS SET and since I'm so "into it", my father and I were thinking we could start up a Lego MindStorms NXT Meet up group/club in New York City where we could meet once a month (or every other month), build, (...) (17 years ago, 27-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Re: Newbie Q's about development environments
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(...) And even beyond this, John has added some enhancements to the FW, so that it will target the standard FW or the modified FW that John has built things into. Correct, John? (17 years ago, 24-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Newbie Q's about development environments
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(...) NXC provides all the features available to you in NXT-G, including all the items you mention, plus many that you cannot access in that programming language. It is freely available and it targets the standard NXT firmware. John Hansen (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: Newbie Q's about development environments
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If you go to Steve Hassenplug's site ((URL) you'll find a comparison of the various text based programming environments including NXC, ROBOTC, LUA, and JAVA. These solutions are all virtual machine based. ROBOTC has the fastest execution speed of (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Newbie Q's about development environments
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(...) Joe, This may not answer your question, but hopefully, it will help narrow the field... (URL) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Newbie Q's about development environments
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Hi all, I recently got an NXT and have been having a blast. The iconic programming environment is driving me up a tree, however. So I'm looking for something else, but I'd like to avoid evaluating them all -- thus I turn to you for advice. I'm also (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: mindstorms sdk
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John, I regret to admit that, between work and this, 16 hrs a day and 7 days a week, I got so frustrated that files were deleted... I won't have time to reproduce it until next weekend. To put it shortly.... nxc_guide.pdf .. 3.13.3.... (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: The standard NXT firmware & the case of the missing opcodes
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(...) If you download the test_release.zip that I uploaded late last night you will be able to use these new opcodes (after installing the enhanced firmware in lms_arm_jch.zip) in both NBC and NXC programs. Here is some sample NXC code: task goofy() (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: mindstorms sdk
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(...) Unfortunately, I have verified beyond any possible doubt that the comm module offsets in NBCCommon.h (as well as the offsets for all the other modules) are correct. I had really hoped that there was a bug here. What I did to verify the values (...) (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: The standard NXT firmware & the case of the missing opcodes
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(...) I don't think I ever got around to mentioning this here, but a long time ago I implemented all of the above opcodes in my NBC/NXC enhanced standard NXT firmware. I implemented all of the shift opcodes so that they take 3 parameters rather than (...) (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: mindstorms sdk
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(...) I think you might very well be right since some things just don't seem to work right for some folks who have tried that particular IOMap. But I haven't been able to find where it is off yet. Which offset were you trying to use? You need to (...) (17 years ago, 21-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | mindstorms sdk
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Would someone tell me the link to the sdk site where I can find the proper iomap . the one in the nxc guide.pdf seems to be off somewhere. we were playing with the comm. Module map,. the offset is off!!! Elizabeth (17 years ago, 21-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: LEJOS OSEK giving me funky dll errors
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(...) The problem that you have encountered seems to be a common Cygwin problem. (please google cygintl-3.dll). I guess that you need to re-install Cygwin. In my case, I just select make 3.81-1 under Devl and other stuff remains as default during (...) (17 years ago, 19-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: pbLua Beta 13c Sumo program
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(...) That's a great idea. My kids worked on an RCX based sumo bot last year in school, and just last week they were asking about using the NXT and the new motors. Maybe it's time to build a robot instead of write software all the time :-) (...) 1. (...) (17 years ago, 19-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | pbLua Beta 13c Sumo program
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I posted earlier about my first impressions of pbLua Beta 13c and some things I couldn't figure out, mainly having to do with numbers. Ralph Hempel promptly replied and some of the concepts are a bit over my head so I decided I should just plow (...) (17 years ago, 19-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT R/C Car Drifting (NXT GT)
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(...) !!! Great !!! -- alf (17 years ago, 17-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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