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Of course, then again I could look and see that there already is a lego-doc.sourceforge.net. Now whether or not TLG approves of that URL is another matter (I was trying to think of another option, since Lego doesn't want "lego" in a URL.) The rest (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hey, y'all- Sorry to say that this has been a long week, so while I've looked into the annotation system somewhat, I haven't gotten anything running yet. I hope to look into it further tonight- the php web site has some very nice and open code that (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello, I just bought a Mindstorm set and am testing it out. When I went through the tutorial on the CD I could not get the motors to stop when the light sensor was activated. When I loaded Legos (thanks Rossz), I ran the demo program linetrack and (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Ooops, Figured it out. When you set the RCXTTY variable, leave out the spaces. ie: set RCXTTY=com4 NOT: set RCXTTY = com4 The whitespace is not parsed out by the MS-DOS command line. Now that I have the frmdl3.exe and dll.exe recognizing com4, I'm (...) (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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Thanks for the info, I tried setting the environment variable (running Win 95) RCXTTY=com4 without much effect. I did get frmdl3.exe to send out to com4 with the following: frmdl3.exe --tty=com4 legOS.srec However, dll.exe still won't send via com4. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) still (...) added (...) I'm working on similar measuring too. I'm getting quite stabile values, but quite noisy too... I don't know if it's the same problem (I'm reading the values in decimal). I've just converted "0x1F0" to dec... Too much, (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi again! I did not get any answers for my previous question about this, and I am still puzzled as for why light sensor readings for a dark background have 0x1F0 added to them once in a while (more often than not, actually) any ideas for what might (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Curious problem with download
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(...) Don't forget that your monitor may also interfere with the download. I've had problems go away when I put the RCX/tower away from the front of my monitor... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Curious problem with download
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(...) Unfortunately, the problem is not ambient light. I was trying this in a dark room at night. The only light source in the room was the monitor. I really think we can rule out the tower since my friends RCX loads with my IR tower just fine, and (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: PC -RCX comunication
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(...) please, don't take my little attacks against MS too serious, it's just -- i really dislike their FUD way of making business, and i like to have a choice. However, i feel we shouldn't discuss this too much in this place. (...) Well, imho the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Addressing Schemes
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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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