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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: 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: 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: 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: 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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| | Re: File Error - what does it exactly mean?
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(...) Well, I try to allocate all memory available for one big array and then deal with it using my own memory manager with C-like calls of malloc and free. It works fine, but I'd need to know how big this one array I can make while the program (...) (17 years ago, 17-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: File Error - what does it exactly mean?
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(...) You've got 32k to work with for all variables of all types, including user-defined types and arrays. Every time you manipulate an array you use up more memory due to copying taking place in the VM. If you shared with me some information about (...) (17 years ago, 17-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: File Error - what does it exactly mean?
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(...) But I am getting it when trying to allocate an array that is larger than the amount of heap available. And it seems there is no way of checking how much space remains free, so I have no way of preventing this File Error! from happening if I (...) (17 years ago, 17-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT R/C Car Drifting (NXT GT)
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(...) You might try the wheels of these vehicles: (2 URLs) are made from hard plastic. Congratulations for your work! Philo (17 years ago, 17-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NXT R/C Car Drifting (NXT GT)
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Hi, I just uploaded a video of a NXT Bluetooth R/C Car which is called "NXT GT". I've found many NXT based cars (includes R/C or non R/C) and a uniquie point of NXT GT is that we succeeded to make the NXT GT Drifting! (URL) The trick of NXT GT (...) (17 years ago, 17-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | robotc documentation
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While I'm waiting a login to the RobotC forum, I wonder if anyone knows where I can find documentation. I looked at the robotc forum. One developer said software guide will be ready not at a cost "up to the Sensing part"?? What does that mean (...) (17 years ago, 15-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Mobile Phone for pbLua Development
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(...) I finally loaded pbLua into a brick and tested it with PocketPuTTY, my normal SSH client and it works great! It comes with a BSD license so is free to use. (URL) I am using PocketPuTTY 2007-02-28 dev build for WM2003. This version added serial (...) (17 years ago, 13-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | NXTAssembler 1.0 Alpha 4 and site
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Hi, I have released the Alpha 4 of NXTAssemlber project. It contains a bugs fix and a new feature. I hope that this version can be used because is near to the first beta version (I suppose two or one alpha version after this) And I have published (...) (17 years ago, 12-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | FW: RotateMotorEx hangs
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Thank you to both John and Roger, I'll try it out later next week. --Elizabeth -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of John Hansen Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 6:20 PM To: (...) (17 years ago, 9-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Mobile Phone for pbLua Development
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(...) I'm not sure what operating system is on your Treo, but I am running vxHpc on my Dell Axim which runs Windows Mobile 5. Details on vxHpc are at (URL) and screen shots of my setup are at (URL) It really is nice to be able to program from a PDA. (...) (17 years ago, 9-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: RotateMotorEx hangs
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(...) <snipped> The RotateMotor call is designed to block. If you don't want to block then you can write code almost exactly like what Roger wrote in Java using other NXC API calls. Like so: #define UF_TLSM UF_UPDATE_TACHO_LIMI...PDATE_MODE #define (...) (17 years ago, 8-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: RotateMotorEx hangs
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(...) Hi Elizabeth: Here is how you could do it in Java: LightSensor eye = new LightSensor(SensorPort.S1); Motor.A.setSpeed(720); // 2 revolutions per second LCD.drawString("wait for dark",0,0); LCD.refresh(): Motor.A.rotate(3600,true); //rotate 10 (...) (17 years ago, 8-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Mobile Phone for pbLua Development
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(...) This is so cool that I want to find a terminal emulator for my Treo 650! Does anyone know of a free one I can use, or shareware that works well enough to pay for it? Cheers, Ralph (17 years ago, 7-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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