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(...) I'm pretty sure that the battery-power thing is not legOS specific- over the summer, I noticed that at low battery the raw values themselves increase (weird- I'd expect a decrease) and that throws off the sensor detection. Presumably (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: "No reply from RCX" with nqc...
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(...) Try this: nqc -v -raw 10 and then also this (substituting the right filename) nqc -v -firmware <filename> and post the results. The "-v" option turns on some logging that may help us figure out what is wrong. (...) The firmware file is (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: "No reply from RCX" with nqc...
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I had a similar problem and it was caused by the 9 Volt battery in the tower. You don't mention the green light in the tower. Is it changing brightness while you are downloading? It should be a steady light. I cannot find the name of the firmware (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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i just purchased the mindstorm RIS set... now i am trying to get the firmware on it. i dont have windows (thank god), so i am trying to get the firmware onto the rcx with ncq. upon trying to do anything with rcx (rcx -near, rcx -firmware..) i am (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: LNP collision detection Bug found and fixed
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(...) It shouldn't matter if it does. More likely, it seems to me, is that TX_COLL is defined like this: #define TX_COLL -1 in which case, the offending statement becomes: tx_state=-1; which is old-style for: tx_state-=1; (should generate a (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: rotation sensors in legOS 0.2.2
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(...) Hi Michael, i also tried the new sensor code and it seems to work for me. I noticed the rotation sensor to stop working properly with nearly exhausted batteries, but i think that's a minor issue, maybe it's not legOS specific. (...) well, most (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi all! I have been struggling with a fairly large FSM implementation in NQC and came to realize that maybe most of the more advanced NQC applications might be actually FSMs (or could become)... Because I think it is a little awkward to handle a FSM (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | NQC 2.1 in beta test (Scout support, fast firmware)
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NQC 2.1 b1 is available at (URL) two "big" features are fast firmware downloading (4x speed) and preliminary support for the Scout. Emphasis on "preliminary". It is enough to do some basic NQC stuff on the Scout, but most of the nifty Scout features (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.scout)
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Has anyone out there successfully had a rotation sensor running in legOS 0.2.2 I have had a quick look through the last few posts I could find on lugnet and we have recompiled legOS to include the updated dsensor.c and dsensor.h code found on the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: NQC listing mnemonics
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(...) As a kid I remember getting a few gifts from Santa with batteries already installed. Took me a couple of years to catch on that this only seemed to happen with the coolest gifts, and that my dad inexplicably always knew exactly how they worked (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: NQC listing mnemonics
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Hello Dave ... Santa just brought Scouts for both of my sons ... and of course he couldn't resist secretly opening one of the boxes. This led to his downloading the Scout SDK ... and staying up all night! Santa wholeheartedly votes for adding full (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: New Lathe
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It is a candle. Thanks to Iain Hendry for the suggestion. -- Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net The Shop (URL) Hempel" <rhempel@bmts.com> wrote in message news:000001bf41b0$19...@pro150... (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RE: New Lathe
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(...) mills, and now a lathe....what is the material you are cutting? It looks like a wax candle. My Dad was a tool and die maker, so I had lots of time to tinker in the machine shop - getting my fingers dirty when I was younger makes me (I think) a (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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My first attempt at building a functional lathe. It is also my first NQC program. Thanks, Dave Baum. (URL) Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net The Shop (URL) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 vs 1.5: which more "desirable"?
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You will get a few extra parts with the 1.5 version, but the RCX does not have a place to plug in an AC Power adapter. NQC will work fine with both systems. Scout is junior to the Robotics System. Take a tour of the MindStorms sites and you will (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: dll problems
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(...) I had this same problem yesterday when I had the IR tower in long range mode and had the RCX quite close to the tower. If its not in long range mode sometimes I have to turn the RCX off and then turn it back on again before dll will (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RIS 1.0 vs 1.5: which more "desirable"?
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pardon my newbie-ness. i am researching mindstorms, as i am getting myself a set for xmas. now i am confused about the fact everyone seems to want RIS with the v 1.0 RCX. is this true? i guess i am just caught up in the details and new (to me) (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | dll problems
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Hi, guys. I've got legOS compiled and running pretty happily on a redhat 6.0 and a 6.1 machine, after some fussing with settings, i've figured out that it wants to use /dev/ttyS1 for the serial port... however, once the firmware is downloaded, i (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LNP collision detection Bug found and fixed
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Hi there, i just found an evil little bug in lnp ( or maybe it's actually a bug in gcc ). The problem is the definition of tx_state as char, and compare operations like if (tx_state < TX_ACTIVE) . The compiler generates wrong code for this (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: firmdl3 problem? - Tower not responding
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(...) "Tower not responding" really means that it can't write to the tower. Check batteries and the range. (...) Weird. As far as I can tell, exit is called correctly in all circumstances where "tower not responding" could be generated. (...) Again, (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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