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The standard RCX firmware with its serial protocol could not talk to a GPS, but LegOS could. With LegOS and a GPS we could make robots that could tell where they were. This would be way cool. I want a solar powered toy robot boat with GPS that can (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How advanced can RCX programming be?
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(...) You are right, Matthew. It also supports the Mac and Unix, which RCX Code and the Spirit ActiveX control don't. David Leeper (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Even if you don't know C, NQC is pretty easy to learn. (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: How advanced can RCX programming be?
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Hi Tobias, If you're a computer programmer, I'd definitly suggest using something other than the RCX Code method of writing programs for the RCX. NQC is a nice environment if you know C. If you know a language that supports ActiveX, you can program (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Tobias, If you're a computer programmer, I'd definitly suggest using something other than the RCX Code method of writing programs for the RCX. NQC is a nice environment if you know C. If you know a language that supports ActiveX, you can program (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: How advanced can RCX programming be?
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(...) Depends how hard you want to work. With LegOS or pbForth, which replace the official firmware, you can program the hardware at the machine level, so you can do very advanced stuff. With NQC (or RoboLab) you're still limited by Lego's firmware, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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| | How advanced can RCX programming be?
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I got my RIS a couple of weeks ago, and I have been building simple robots and programmed them using the program on the RIS cd. I´ve heard that you can program the RCX in very advanced ways, multitasking and so on. How advanced can it be? How do you (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: OO programing in RCX
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Hi Mathew, There are no objects on the RCX, in the sense that there are no vtables on the RCX. I made no changes to spirit.ocx. But I definitely think of the RCX code in terms of objects now. There are "brain" objects, "map" objects, "identity" (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RcxCC and tabs
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I finally pulled out my RCX and Legos last night and played with them for the first time in almost a year. My quick project was to take apart my old adder/subtractor platform and rework it with a rotation sensor inline with the driving motor to act (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | TpForth Project ?
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Ralph, You might want to check out the TPForth Developer Studio, a cross compiling Forth system for embedded apps. Seems to have a nice IDE (though not in Forth) that should be quickly adaptable to support pbForth. And it's free to non-commercial (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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