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(...) It's quite simple: Currently, there are two kinds of LNP-Packets: the first one is called the integrity packet (switch your mail-reader to fixed font now): +--+---+---...---+---+ |F0|LEN| IDATA |CHK| +--+---+---...---+---+ F0 : identifies an (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: PC -RCX comunication
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(...) OK. I agree with you about open-source OS. I like linux, but I prefer using visual programing in the PC side (Visual C++ o Visual Basic). (...) What about the QC examples? I've seen a easy interface IROn, IROff, IRReady, IRSend IRReceive .... (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Setting a different com port w/ frmdl3 and dll
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The easiest way is to set the environment variable RCXTTY to the com port you want to use. Type the command set RCXTTY=com4 before you run firmdl3 or dll, or add the line to autoexec.bat Cheers Philip -----Original Message----- From: David Chen (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: HELP - LegOS for Windows
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"Rossz Vámos-Wentworth" <rossw@jps.net> wrote in message news:38989DC8.62ED27...jps.net... (...) of (...) (COMMAND.COM & (...) The problems that you are mentioning generally only occur after running 16-bit programs (and thus ending up with a 16-bit (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: pbFORTH needs better uploading, docs
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(...) Getting a working legOS development evironment no longer takes a day. On Windows plateforms it only takes the time to download WinlegOS.exe (5.6Meg) and running the installer (a few minutes). The system is completely configured and ready to (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | LNP Addressing Schemes
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I have the basic Linux<->RCX Infra-red comms. working using lnp calls on the RCX and Martin Cornelius' lnpd on the Linux end. I have a few questions about this: Addressing: . How does the addressing scheme work? . Can a RCX address more than one (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: HELP - LegOS for Windows
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(...) The DJGPP tools are 32-bit. It's a limitation of the DOS shell (COMMAND.COM & CMD.EXE) that is the problem. Cygwin doesn't have a command line limit problem, but it has its own unique headaches. Read the number of posts of people trying to get (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: HELP - LegOS for Windows
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"Rossz Vámos-Wentworth" <rossw@jps.net> wrote in message news:FpACn3.FLt@lugnet.com... (...) gets (...) aren't (...) remove (...) make (...) Why are you using the 16-bit (DOS) DJGPP tools under Windows NT instead of the Cygwin 32-bit stuff? You (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: PC -RCX comunication
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(...) the only windows example i know about is the dll program, but AFAIK it was not trivial to get this program to run under winXX. if you don't insist on being constantly bored by a closed-source OS ;-), there is another solution: Under linux, you (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LEGO Mindstorms needs volunteers in Chicago on Feb 5, 2000
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Dear All The following is copied from the LEGO Mindstorms site. Volunteers are still needed as of this morning, so if you want to participate, call now. ---- BEGIN QUOTE ---- Do you live in Chicago? If you are male, age 18-40 years old and use the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | PC -RCX comunication
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Where can I find an example of using PC-RCX IR comunication? I prefer using windows in the PC. (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | new german "LEGO® Cybermaster + Mindstorms ROBOTICS-Forum"
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Hi, good news for all german-language legoists: there opened a new cybermaster and mindstorm forum at parsimony. adress is (URL) volker (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Setting a different com port w/ frmdl3 and dll
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It appears that you can specify a com port other than the default COM1 for the firmdl3.exe and dll.exe programs for the Windows LegOS distribution package. Does anyone know what the syntax might be? I use COM4 for my IR Tower. Thanks, Dave (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: WinNT & legOS
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Hurray!!! I've also just successfully compiled, uploaded, and ran my first legOS app!!! Thanks Rossz and all! lfn003 fixed it! It did NOT work when I used the lfnsrv.dll in Checked.dll (the larger one). It DID work when I used the lfnsrv.dll in (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: HELP - LegOS for Windows
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Ian Meikle <ian_meikle@nospam.a...lobal.net> wrote in message news:3895DF1C.5D99B3...bal.net... (...) DJECHO simply echos the line to the file. It's special in that the Make program can transfer very long command lines to it via a buffer. This gets (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: WinNT & legOS
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Ralph Hempel <rhempel@bmts.com> wrote in message news:000301bf6cf9$3c...@pro150... (...) I'm running DJGPP GNU Make, the one I put in the legOS for Windows package. Rossz (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: WinNT & legOS
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Ian Meikle <ian_meikle@nospam.a...lobal.net> wrote in message news:38974DF8.8B4A42...bal.net... (...) Excellent! I wonder why Makelx wouldn't run properly on the NT system at work? I spent some time porting the makelx code to compile under MS VC++ (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Curious problem with download
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(...) Offhand, I'd suspect that the problem is either interference from lighting in the room, or perhaps your IR tower is 'marginal'. From your tests so far it doesn't sound like the problem follows either a specific computer or an RCX. Minimize the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: [PDF] step-by-step Grabber Arm instructions from legomindstorms.com
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Thanks, Jim, for this fix. I didn't paid attention to this while writting to fast.... ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim West <Jim@jameswest.com> To: chv <chv@crazyrobots.com>; <lugnet.robotics.rcx...ugnet.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: [PDF] step-by-step Grabber Arm instructions from legomindstorms.com
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Thanks, Jim, for this fix ! (...) directly (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: WinNT & legOS
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(...) Which make are you running? I've had trouble with mks make and long filenames. Now I use Cygwin's make and things are much better... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- The train stops at the train station, The bus stops at the bus station, (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: WinNT & legOS
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Hello again Rossz, I have downloaded lfn003 and installed it and ALL WORKED OK :o) It build the demo programs (including running makelx). So although the WinNT saga is probably not over, it mow seems to work for me (and maybe some others). Many (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: [PDF] step-by-step Grabber Arm instructions from legomindstorms.com
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FYI... Get rid of the ending slash on the last URL to get there. It should just be: (...) Jim West NIC Team Lead NIC Oracle Developer and DBA in Training NIC Chief Cook and Bottle Washer MCI Worldcom (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: __attribute__ ((rcx_interrrupt)) : how to use ?
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(...) Well, i got the definitive answer from Markus 8-). It was in german, so i'll try to translate it: the effect of __attribute__ ((rcx_interrrupt)) depends on the calling context: - in leaf functions (that do not call other functions), it makes (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | [PDF] step-by-step Grabber Arm instructions from legomindstorms.com
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Hello, Lego just released ((URL) step-by-step instructions for building a Grabber Arm, for its march contest subject. Unfortunately, they have again provided them as online instructions, in html format. So, I've created a pdf file including these (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | WinNT & legOS
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I was mistaken in thinking the Long File Name utility ((URL) was breaking makelx. The program, makelx.exe, runs perfectly if typed from the command line. When executed out of the make program, however, it thinks the command line is invalid, whether (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: __attribute__ ((rcx_interrrupt)) : how to use ?
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(...) Right. The calling conventions of the H8 say that r0-r3 are scratch registers (aka caller saves). However, interrupt handlers must preserve ALL of the registers. So the rcx_interrupt attribute makes that happen. (...) The compiler will only (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | __attribute__ ((rcx_interrrupt)) : how to use ?
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hi there, i´m still not really sure when and why to use __attribute__ ((rcx_interrrupt)) my current assumptions: 1 - it should be used for functions that are called AS interrupt handlers, to make sure registers are pushed onto the stack, and (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: HELP - LegOS for Windows
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legOS under WinNT - the saga continues. I've done further investigation. Long filenames (LFNs) are not fully supported in a DOS shell in Windows NT. I found a utility that enables LFNs here: (URL) it runs fine up to MAKELX. So it looks like the fix (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: HELP - LegOS for Windows
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I have also tried the make that came with Ming32. This seems to work better, however I get the following: (line numbers added for clarity) 1>>C:\legOS\Demo>make 2>>Makefile:44: .depend: No such file or directory 3>>djecho -o response " -M -O2 (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: HELP - LegOS for Windows
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I fooled around with legOS on an NT here at work and could get the individual commands from MAKEFILE to execute from the command line. It looks like NT doesn't properly handle the long filenames from within the make program (and possibly other (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Curious problem with download
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I wanted to follow-up on my first message with more information in the hopes someone can help. I have been having problems with downloading to my RCX. I started trying NQC on a mac and this did not work. I then ported NQC to Solaris and had some (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Black
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Mike W. Burger <mike@hawaii.edu> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: Fp0ys8.CB0@lugnet.com... (...) The colors we see lie in the range 400 to 700 nanometers. The response of the Lego sensors are completely different to our "sensors". This is why some of the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: HELP - LegOS for Windows
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I have tried it also on my machine at work. Same problem. Both are WinNT boxes with NTFS file systems. Has anyone else got it working on WinNT with NTFS ?? Ian (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Honk if your debugging?
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If you're using Windows, you can watch your programs variables with Rcx Command center. It wouldn't be hard to write a variable watcher for other platforms either. This doesn't cover all debugging sessions but I find it helps a lot. Mike Kory Georg (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Ultimate Expansion set Remote Control?
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The item is the 5206 Speed Computer. You can look it up in the catalog section at (URL) also appears here: (URL) lugnet.robotics.rcx, Mike Burger writes: [snip] (...) [snip] (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Honk if your debugging?
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Hi! (...) Yup, that's why I use the datalog. Ok, I am one of those weirdos that prefer core-debugging over stepping through your source, that might explain it a bit ... bye, Georg (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: HELP - LegOS for Windows
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No difference ... I even tried moving the files into the current directory, but that also did not help. David, do you have anyother GCC software installed on your PC ? I will try this at work on my other WinNT machine (I do not have any other GCC (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RCX.pm 0.5 Released
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I would like to announce the release of the first version of my RCX.pm perl module, version 0.5. This module allows you to communicate with your RCX using perl. It has been developed and tested under Linux, though it might run under other UNIX's. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: HELP - LegOS for Windows
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Try changing the references to the include files from relative to absolute, e.g.: #include c:/legos/makefile.common #include c:/legos/makefile.user David, are you running Windows NT, also? If this is a Windows NT specific problem, once we have it (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | finally! the whole fix! (was: more on the rotation sensor) [DAT]
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(...) I *finally* figured out why none of my attempts to fix this in the state machine were working. If you consider forward and backward motion: 0 1 2 3 0 031 213 0 3 2 1 0 3 312 130 3 The first line indicates the actual sensor transitions. The (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS documentation
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(...) (URL) (...) Like I said, I don't mind editing- I find that reasonably simple and not very time consuming. It's the rest of it that is more time-consuming. In the meantime, as a stop-gap, I can probably set up a php based annotation system (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS documentation
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(...) There are certainly apps available like that in php, which I am much more comfortable with, and feel is (basically) much more secure. I'll look into them and report back. -Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lego photo scanner...
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Jay <getochkn@home.com> wrote in message news:Fp0z10.D4H@lugnet.com... (...) The LEGO light sensor is a silicon phototransistor which is mostly sensitive to infrared light. It would be very insenstive to blue light. There is some more information (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Honk if your debugging?
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(...) That's one of the great things about legOS. You can display hex or decimal numbers easily, and the rudimentary ascii display is really very useful. I've easily saved more time debugging just because of that than I spent installing legOS in the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Honk if your debugging?
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(...) I do pretty much the same thing, but I just use various tones generated by the RCX... (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Honk if your debugging?
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I have been doing an unfortunate amount of debugging. I really miss the printf statement to send myself messages like: what am I doing here? with these variables at these levels? But I have found at least one handy substitute based on the sound (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: more on the rotation sensor
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(...) value) (...) The order is numerical, either 0->1->2->3->0... or 0->3->2->1->0... That's why legOS has them enumerated that way. The Mindstorms fw numbers them differently, which is why I mentioned it. (...) I don't think your specific example (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: HELP - LegOS for Windows
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I also tried to move the files into the "demo" directory and then change the makefile, but I still got the same error. Ian (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Black
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(...) True, I was shocked at all the colors that were "white". I think part of this is due to the poor quality of the construction paper. Close examination indicates a fair amount of unstained fiber, for instance the black read a lousy 47, compared (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: HELP - LegOS for Windows
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No suggestions, but I have the same problem, starting with: makefile:16: ../Makefile.common: No such file or directory (ENOENT) I tried changing the / to \, but it didn't seem to help. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: HELP - LegOS for Windows
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I have had a look and no SHELL setting. Anyother clues ?? Cheers Ian (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS documentation
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Luis, I noticed the HTML files for the current HowTo are generated with SGMLtools. Do you have any sources in SGML, or were those created from LaTex? Some SGML or XML format would be cool, for it can easily be exported to HTML, PDF, PS or others... (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: HELP - LegOS for Windows
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Make sure there is no "SHELL=" in the environment. If this exists, GNU make will attempt to use the specified shell program. I have found the MKS Toolkit is incompatible with this port of Make. It took me several days to realize the SHELL setting (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | HELP - LegOS for Windows
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Hello, I downloaded LegOS for windows, but am having some problems. When I try and make the demo programs I get the following errors: C:\legOS\Demo>make makefile:16: ../Makefile.common: No such file or directory (ENOENT) makefile:17: (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS documentation
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Hi again! Well, after a whole day of thinking :) I realize it's not really easy to coordinate the effort of several paople, and I certainly have more respect for those who run successful such projects. In our case, the point would be to allow many (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: more on the rotation sensor
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(...) of (...) not (...) value) (...) all (...) These (...) of (...) or (...) are (...) the (...) range (...) the (...) strength (...) to (...) I think I have an idea what is going on. Consider the sensor rotating forwards. If typical readings for (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS documentation
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(...) Like I said, I have time to edit- if people can contribute, I'll put it together. I just don't have time to play with legOS. (...) I too would like to try out SourceForge. The once catch is that we can't host everything- I believe the windows (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS documentation
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Hi I am a Software Engineer with some spare time to contribute. My specialty is Real-Time Embbeded Operating Systems and drivers. Mostly in the Telecommunications World, about 6 years. About 4 years in imige processing. I would be willing to offer (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: installation problem!
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(...) Ummmm, I think if you use NQC command line, the counter only goes to 1300 or so. I wonder 1f RCXCC is reading the SRECORD file and padding it to 16384 bytes. I wonder if it is actually loading the old firmware. I wonder.... Cheers, Ralph (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: C++ for legOS
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(...) Ben> Re: the bloat you mention on your web page, perhaps if you're Ben> going to write a lot of C++ for legOS you should integrate Ben> the libc++ and wrappers++ libraries into your kernel so that Ben> all programs can share them. That would (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS documentation
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(...) It's a common problem! :) Well, it is like this: right now I have some time, and wouldn't mind to use it for taking care of the docs. But I don't have time to write or edit myself a lot - this is why it would be a good solution to just let (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: installation problem!
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(...) Yep - I did, same deal. Three times in a row, pbforth.srec uploaded fine all the way until the display read 1638 (which I presume is the end of the file) and then it cut out. I was a bit perplexed, so I re-uploaded firm0309.lgo, which worked. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Black
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(...) Keep in mind that the light sensor generates a red light, so you're really measuring the reflectivity of the target in the red part of the spectrum. Thus red is as reflective as white (some of the other results, e.g lavendar, are still pretty (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: legOS documentation
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I really wish I had time to maintain the docs. Heck, I wish I had time to pay with the toys. :| Unfortunately, the professor who basically gave me credit to write the docs and mess with everything has left Duke for private research in New Jersey (he (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: C++ for legOS
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(...) Re: the bloat you mention on your web page, perhaps if you're going to write a lot of C++ for legOS you should integrate the libc++ and wrappers++ libraries into your kernel so that all programs can share them. That would double (!) the size (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Black
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I attempted to do the "black vinyl between LED and sensor" modification that Ralph Hempel documents on his site, but I was unable to get the vinyl to slide between the LED and the sensor (too tight a fit). So I used a small wire (toothpick would do (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: C++ for legOS
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(...) Cool! I wish I could try it, but I'll wait until someone gets it running on Windows... :-) Les, I like the way you said: "I don't really know what I'm doing with this stuff. I just hacked 'till things worked." 8^) /Vlad (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | C++ for legOS
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Hi All: I've got the C++ cross-compiler working for LegOS. I can write & download C++ programs with simple classes, objects, inheritance & polymorphism all working. See this link for details: (URL) find it hard to believe this has not been attempted (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS documentation
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(...) for creating some documentation on legOS. Sorry that I didn't think about this earlier, but the easiest way would be to just build upon Luis Villa's excellent HowTo!!! The problems are then if he agrees with it, and how to set up the whole (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS documentation
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(...) well, you could count on me as note-writer for lnp and maybe other stuff. I feel i won't have time to help in the 'orderly fashion thing', as of my experience this kind'a work can get really time-consuming if one want's to get it well done. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Light sensors
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(...) I looked closer at the readings, and the readings are okay for light backgrounds. For a dark one, however, the value is only half of the time the right one - for the other half 0x1F0 gets added to it... Anyone ideas why this is happening? (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS documentation
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(...) Not many, I just begun to think about it. My first idea is to have a site where people could get in and write notes, comments or ideas aboiut each API or module. And have a small team that will gather all the information and write it down in a (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Hello Vlad, maybe i could help a little, do you have any ideas about the actual format and how we could organize things ? BTW, is seems to be impossible to email you directly -- is that intentionally ? --Martin (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS documentation
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Vlad (...) Yes I am interested in there being some documentation. Unfortunately I am just starting out with legOS so will not be able to help at present. Hopefully in the next few months I will be up to speed and would be more than happy to help (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | legOS documentation
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Hi! Just my 2-pence thoughts about the topic... I suppose nobody will argue with me that legOS isn't well documented, as it is now. Considering that legOS is still rather user-unfriendly, documentation is very important. someone said Markus is (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS timers
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Why don't you use the system timer (sys_time)? With one timer is enough. Use relative times instead of absolute timers... Toni Vlad Dumitrescu <vladdu@NOSPAM.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Fp1BJI.E4M@lugnet.com... (...) timers? (...) handlers (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS timers
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(...) Mmm, yes. I was thinking about things like SetTimer and GetTimer, so that wakeup handlers can be used... as things are now (if I am not wrong) one has to directly work with the ROM... /Vlad (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Curious problem with download
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(...) The iMac, iBook and G4 all work 100% fine with MacNCQ and the Keyspan single port 'PDA' usb/serial adaptor. It just appears in the pull down menu. The keyspan RS422? 'two' ADB style port usb/serial adaptor does not work for me; unless I use a (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | lego photo scanner...
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has anyone thought of an advantage to using two light sensors in the basic photo scanner robot that people have built. I'm working on one right now (mostly the vb programming right now for the pc side and pqc for the rcx). i have two kits to use, so (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Since I am currently working on line following, I did some tests with the Lego active light sensor. I mounted one on a small test cart pointing down a bit more than 1/8 inch above the "ground". The 1.5 test pad reads white 57 black 38 green 46 I (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Curious problem with download
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(...) Er, no I was thinking of the PCI cards that give up to 4 serial ports; KeySpan used to make them. They were a short PCI card with two or four serial ports, which used a custom extension to route SerialToolBox calls to the 'phantom' serial (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Curious problem with download
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(...) I would have ascribed it to the USB to serial converter, but I also see this on the Sun with a real serial port. This is what makes me think it's a problem with my RCX or IR tower. Thanks, -Pete P.S. What you are thinking of is the stealth (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: legOS timers
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(...) You nicer than msleep() and sleep()? --Ben (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Curious problem with download
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(...) downloading (...) I don't see any strange behaviour here; the hinky USB-to-serial interface is going to be your culprit. I had no problems using NQC on my PowerCenterPro (PowerComputing Macintosh clone) with a direct serial interface, but when (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Curious problem with download
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I just got Mindstorm set, and since I do not have a PC, NQC seemed like a great place to start. I tried Mac NQC and did not get very far downloading the RCX firmware. Every attempt resulted in the IR tower not seeing the RCX. I have a G3 blue and (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: LegOS does not work on 1.5 RCX
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Before anyone replies to my previous message, found the problem. I have a light over my desk and this was interfering with the IR transmission. Turned the light off and moved the RCX a little closer to the tower and hey presto, all OK. Does legOS (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LegOS does not work on 1.5 RCX
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Hi I installed the win version of legOS and downloaded the firmware legOS.srec to both my RCX's. The older RCX from a 1.0 set seems to accept .lx files OK the first time after the firmware is downloaded. The new version will not accept any .lx (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | more on the rotation sensor
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I did some more experiments last night. My conclusion is that the majority of apparent 2-state transitions never actually occur (that is: the sensor does not actually travel through 2 states between two consecutive sensor readings). The order of the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | legOS timers
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Hi! Did anyone write any 'nicer' wrapper functions for handling the RCX timers? Or am I blind and can't find them? 8^) /Vlad (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | FW: installation problem!
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-----Original Message----- From: George Lampke [mailto:glampke@verinet.com] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 12:50 PM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: installation problem! You are right Ralph. Using the command line version of NCQ works to load (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: installation problem!
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(...) I've only verified pbForth being uploaded using the commandline version of NQC. (...) This is good. Has anyone else out there tried RCXCC to upload the pbForth firmware???? Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Light sensors
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(...) more light and is working.... Erm... it isn't really working - it exhibits the same 'inverted' behaviour, looking for a white line on a black background... /Vlad (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Light sensors
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Hi! Maybe this is obvious for all experienced legOS users - I am displaying the values read from the light sensor on the LCD, and I get values of ~30 for light and ~520 for darkness... This seems very strange - is it the display wrong, or are these (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Firmware startup bug?
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I have replaced my batteries without erasing the firware several times. The trick is replacing the batteries one at a time with the brick turned off. You have then several (10 or so) seconds between each replace. If you leave the brick switched on (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | installation problem!
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Running Windows98. All works well with original RCX firmware and NCQ programs. Was anxious to try out pbFORTH as an alternative!! Unzipped pbforth111.zip and used RCX Command Center to download pbForth.srec. Progress window looked good UNTIL the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: opposite of float command for nqc ?
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Thanx. That solved my problem. (...) including a (...) directions (...) drives. (...) used (...) where (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Firmware startup bug?
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Probably related to the garbage on the lcd that you get when turning off the RCX with a sensor active: if there is a light or rotation sensor or a pressed touch sensor connected to the RCX when you download firmware legOS will crash immediately (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: opposite of float command for nqc ?
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In NCQ & RCX Code, "Off" is the closest one gets to "locking" a motor. It will resist being turned, but in a crane application I can envision enough force to externally turn the shaft. You can prevet this from happening by including a worm gear in (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | opposite of float command for nqc ?
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is there a command for ncq the lock a motor in place, sorta opposite to the float command? I have a arm that i have made and it sits sorta like a crane with a motor to rotate it up and down. Problem is i need it to stop at the bottom to pick an (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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