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There are three steps to reading an I2C message from a sensor. 1. Send a message to the I2C sensor to initiate the read. Look at the program "NXT HiTechnic Accelerometer" in the RobotC sample programs folder for an example that you can clone. (...) (17 years ago, 1-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: pbLua Beta 13c first impressions
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Walt, Thanks for mentioning my pbLua installation instructions (that are available also in my "Advanced NXT - The Da Vinci Inventions Book" alongside with a lot of samples for pbLua programs, by the way ;-) ). Keep in mind, though, that they have (...) (17 years ago, 1-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: pbLua Beta 13c first impressions
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(...) Walt, thanks for having a look at pbLua and giving it a try. Most importantly, thanks for providing feedback in a forum where we can all learn from what you have done... (...) Soon. It's next on the list of things to do. (...) pbLua has all (...) (17 years ago, 1-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Eclipse and LEJOS OSEK
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Hi If you were looking for a nice IDE for LEJOS OSEK application development, why wouldn't you use Eclipse? I tested it and it works pretty well! (URL) (17 years ago, 1-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | pbLua Beta 13c first impressions
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pbLua beta 13c Ralph Hempel has given us pbLua which is a terrific free tool for programming the NXT. As a novice programmer, I had a bit of trouble getting it to work so I want to pass along my notes to other novices who might be interested. Feel (...) (17 years ago, 1-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NRLink reading RCX response w/ RobotC
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I have posted a problem to the RobotC forums and not recieved any response: (URL) anyone here have any experience with RobotC (how is their support)? Has anyone here worked with the NRLink? Have you been able to get a response from the RCX? Thanks, (...) (17 years ago, 31-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | A Better Robo-Arm With Mindstorms Old And New
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Hello everyone. Here is my better robo-arm. It's meant to be an improvement on the "56-C" arm which is on the official NXT CD. A movie of the BetterArm (I hope it works)... (URL) view (click on Quick Pic) (URL) wrong with the official Lego arm? * (...) (17 years ago, 30-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT model instructions under OS X 10.2.8?
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(...) I've written a some time ago a detailed review of the file structure of these files. You can access it here: (URL) note that the building instructions for the retail and educational set models (i.e. TriBot, Alpha Rex etc.) can be downloaded as (...) (17 years ago, 30-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT model instructions under OS X 10.2.8?
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(...) The Academy content is just a series of HTML files. For Tribot, for instance, drill down this path: LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT/engine/editorVIs/Academy content/activities/v...es/tribot/ and then open "main.html". If you know click on the first (...) (17 years ago, 29-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NXT model instructions under OS X 10.2.8?
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My laptop can only run Mac OS X 10.2.8, but the NXT software requires 10.3 or later. And yes, I tried it anyway, but it crashes on launch. My desktop machine runs 10.4.9 and the NXT software works just fine, but I can't have my son sitting at my (...) (17 years ago, 29-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NXTAssembler 1.0 Alpha 2
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Hi, First I want thanks John Hansen ,for the replies and for the NBC project. I released the alpha 2 of NXTAssembler 1.0, it's the first version that has something working! :-D (It's an alpha software and it contains a lot of bugs :-( ) Examples of (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: RotateMotor is stuck/nxc
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John, The new nbc b31 works! Thank you! Now I'm onto making the biped walking more fluidly... --E -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of John Hansen Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 1:30 (...) (17 years ago, 27-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: RotateMotor is stuck/nxc
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(...) Elizabeth, Could you upgrade to b31 of NXC and see if you still have this problem? You will need to update your TextOut call to put the "false" as the last parameter or leave it out altogether. TextOut(0, LCD_LINE2, "DONE ROTATE"); Also, could (...) (17 years ago, 27-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: RotateMotor is stuck/nxc
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Just to clarify more although it probably is very clear to most... LEGS_TURNING_DEG = some int to indicate the turning degree MOVENOW & DONE contains different integer values --E -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com (...) (17 years ago, 27-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RotateMotor is stuck/nxc
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Symptom: Stuck in RotateMotor function call. ===...=== Synopsis of how to create the problem : - 2 tasks - Task1 handles motor A & C - Task2 handles motor B - Task1’s motor movements have to synchronize with the Task2’s motor B movement - Mutex is (...) (17 years ago, 27-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: stop task
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(...) It hasn't, Elizabeth - I'm not upset at John, and he knows *far* more about programming than I do. I just wanted to point out that there are process where abruptly "killing" a thread was one of the best solutions I ever found, due to the speed (...) (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: stop task
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Everyone, Being fair in the judgement in using a global watchdog flag to terminate a task. Honestly, when I have a multi-threaded process, I have always used a watchdog type of flag, mutex, semaphore, etc. to signal a thread to terminate. I hardly (...) (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: stop task
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(...) Well, you may not consider that awkward, but having been able to use the "stop" & "start" task commands in NQC, I do actually consider it very awkward. For instance, if I want to immediately stop some task under the "stock" FW... well, I (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: stop task
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(...) It is not a rather awkward option, imho. That's like saying breaking out of an infinite loop using a flag is awkward and that it would be better to have some form of stop loop keyword that you could use from outside the loop instead. Is it (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: stop task
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(...) Using a global to flag out of a task is about the only (rather awkward) option I know of. This is one of the things that I really have issues with under the NXT-G FW. (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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