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(...) I actually just took care of it- legOS.sourceforge.net is now ours, and should be propagating towards your DNS servers as we speak. It'll be a few hours (their setup time) and probably Wednesday (my time- "Mathematical Foundations of Computer (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'm using ROBOLAB 1.5 on MacOS 9, using it to teach undergrad and grad students in design about interactive behaviors. I'd like to create printouts of some sample programs I have developed. I have not been able to figure out a way to get a large (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: (fwd) Re: patch for lnpd ( Collision problem in far-mode )
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Martin Cornelius schrieb: (...) Luis said he was, a week ago. Markus. (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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If you use RcxCC, look at the code listing. At the bottom of each task you will find the address of the last OP code. Just total them up and you have the size. If you don't have RcxCC, just use the -L option to generate the code listing. --- DonC (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Someway it looks like there is another problem with your setup, in near mode i have never seen the collision problem. Perhaps your encountering the problem reported by Toni: Obviuosly his uart does not work in 16450 mode, but does work in (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi Is there an easy way of calculating the exact size of a program in bytes (for NQC). I would like to know how much I've got available for the datalog when the program is downloaded. The "dots" in the download-process, do they signify anything, or (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I applied the patch manually (ok. I admit it was fairly obvious where the changes had to be made) Maby I made a mistake applying the patch or something as I still get Collission errors. I tried two IR towers in both near and far mode, still the same (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) hmm, once again it looks like we need a public place to exchange such things.. is anybody still looking after the sourceforge stuff ? (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Well. It's a bit strange that under LegOS you "must" work only in "near"/"short range" mode. So I've modified my kernel to work always in "far" or "long range" mode (that works with near too)... Now I'm able to upload kernel and .lx to my RCX placed (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Martin's Patch for LNPD and the LEGO Remote
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Interestingly enough, this patch makes it possible for me to modify the code inside lnpd to allow it to receive signals from the Lego Remote (9738). Prior to the patch, I was getting a framing error whenever the remote sent a message with a single (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | (fwd) Re: patch for lnpd ( Collision problem in far-mode )
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The problem is that lines in Martin's original message got folded over by email. You'll have to bring the patch into an editor and combine lines 8 and 9 of the original post (be sure there is a space between "..time, " and "tx _..." Then combine the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Drive R/C Servos with the RCX and pbForth (long)
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<snipped discussion of the math of selling servo controller boards> (...) I'm not too worried about them stealing the idea. I can't imagine that none of their designers have thought about driving servos with the RCX. The circuit itself is so simple (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Drive R/C Servos with the RCX and pbForth (long)
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In lugnet.robotics, Ralph Hempel writes: <snip> (...) What they will do and what they can do are two separate questions. Basically they can do nothing about the sales. They can complain about not respecting their trademark, or of copying of their (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: patch for lnpd ( Collision problem in far-mode )
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(...) Pardon, Mike, i should have anticipated that, because i had the same problem when i first tried to apply a patch. The usage of patch is a little uncommon: You have to provide the patch through stdin !. Thus, i'd suggest the following (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: patch for lnpd ( Collision problem in far-mode )
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No matter what I do (opening the window, turning on more lights etc) I can't get the tower to stop seeing collissions. I must admit that IR reflects so well in my house that the TV remote works form other rooms. So I tried loading your patch (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) i had never seen this interesting effect, because i always had my tower in near mode, where it only happens if you put the tower straight in front of a wall. I suspect it's a little more complex to explain what happens here, because the tower (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Drive R/C Servos with the RCX and pbForth (long)
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(...) Oops, forgot to answer the main question. Yes, I have thought about making boards...and as soon as I get out from under my current workload I'm going to give it even more thought.... It is just not worth my time and money to make any less than (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: Drive R/C Servos with the RCX and pbForth (long)
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(...) I hear you, John. Learning a new language can be a bit tricky, and I won't go into the details of why I think it's a good idea to learn different languages to get the benefit of different ways of thinking about problems...oops, don't get me (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Drive R/C Servos with the RCX and pbForth (long)
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Ralph - I'm interested in the use of servos with the RCX, but I have no interest in learning the quirks of another computer language. I'm already a bit familiar with Visual Basic,and control the RCX with it. Can your pbForth solution be duplicated (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Having trouble with -D option
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One other thing ... when I first made a simple program to demonstrate the problem, I used a lowercase d for my symbol and got this error: # Error: parse error File "rcx.nqh" ; line 118 # void SetDirection(const int o, const int d) { asm { 0xe1, (o) (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Windows NT Success Story!
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Thanks a lot for this really helpful and detailed post! Especially thanks for making the result of your success story available for download. This allowed me to simply download the whole thing and start experimenting with legOS applications rather (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: LNP Example please
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I have observed the same behavior... only by night. I think it must be the tower receiving echoes of its own packets. The sollution: place the tower far away from objects that can reflect light (including yourself). I also changed the tower battery (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Drive R/C Servos with the RCX and pbForth (long)
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(...) I should add here that no external power source is necessary to drive the servo. This is important since a micro or miniservo and an SMT version of the driver can be made to fit INSIDE a space similar to a worm gear box (6588 in LDraw). I'm (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: Drive R/C Servos with the RCX and pbForth (long)
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(...) No, the servo needs power to the + and ground terminals to drive the motor to the setpoint indicated by the signal wire. If I don't invert the signal there is no power for about 30msec and only 1 or 2 msec ov voltage on the motor port. By (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Drive R/C Servos with the RCX and pbForth (long)
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(...) If you're using a custom motor driver in pbForth, why use the inverter circuit at all? Why not just generate the desired waveform directly? Is there not enough current to drive the servo that way? --Ben (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Having trouble with -D option
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Thanks for the quick response. "It's fixed in the next release, which is due in a week or so" qualifies for excellent support, IMHO. :) My workaround is a REXX exec rewritting a small header file on the fly before each compile. -- Mark Haye, haye (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Having trouble with -D option
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Yes, I noticed that too, but I'm trying to program multiple RCXs with the same source, and the symbol is meant to represent the RCX's id, so it must have multiple values. Thanks anyway for the quick response. -- Mark Haye, haye (at) us (dot) ibm (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Drive R/C Servos with the RCX and pbForth (long)
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Hi again everyone! A few days ago I announced that I had developed a nice little circuit using easily available parts that would let you connect servos to the RCX - with no external batteries or microprocessors or anything! At that time, I said that (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: scout.nqh no longer necessary?
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(...) Correct. Initially (2.1 b1) I put the Scout support in a separate include file because I wasn't ready to merge all of the changes together. As of b2, the compiler's built-in system include file includes RCX, Cybermaster, and Scout APIs. Dave (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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*Embarrased look* sorry I shouldn't of missed that.. Sorry to hassle you but I am stuck yet again. The lnptest program just records collision after collision. I have no other IR devices in the area (as far as I know anyway) It doesn't display any of (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Yes, this is true as of 2.1.b2. (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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It looks like Scout programs no longer need `#include "scout.nqh"', and the file has been removed from the NQC beta distribution. Is that correct? I've been confusing someone new to NQC because I didn't realize this :( --Ben (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Having trouble with -D option
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You found a bug - NQC is actually defining D to be the tokens =1, which then leads to a lot of confusion later on. Basically I bungled the pointer math. I fixed the source so the next release (2.1 final) should be fine. I'll probably release 2.1 in (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Having trouble with -D option
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(...) Same with 2.1b3. FWIW, #ifdef D task main() {} #endif works as expected. D is getting defined, just not to 1. (Or to any number.) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Having trouble with -D option
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If I compile this program (named d.nqc): /* nqc program */ #if (D == 1) task main() {} #endif with the command: nqc -DD=1 d.nqc I get the following error: # Error: syntax error in expression File "d.nqc" ; line 2 # #if (D == 1) # ^ #---...--- # 1 (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: static version of lnpd uploaded to arthudent
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(...) Should be up now. Sorry about the delay- I haven't been home in slightly over 24 hours :) -Luis ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous ###...### (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How much memory finally?
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Here's the latest update. Hope we will get a clear picture of this #@$@ memory after all. The point is that the RCX processor can address 64k of memory, so let's divide this range into 4 equal area of 16k. (note:16k or 16384, in hex is 0x4000). (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: How much memory finally? ADDENDUM
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I have seen some systems that have RAM set up this way: The first area is for the system, the second area is user programs and is allocated from the bottom up. The third area is user (and system) data, allocated from the top down. They "meet in the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hey, that's a pretty nice idea! Any volunteer? D. (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: How much memory finally? ADDENDUM
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I haven't seen anyone talk about hacking a memory expansion (hardware) yet. Dennis (...) -- Dennis Williamson - Certified Y2K Complacent Bad News: The next millenium starts on a Monday. Good News: You get the day off. (remove .NO and SPAM. to reply) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I dont know what the max distance for two RCXs is. But i have had the infared transmitter as far as 40 feet from the RCX, with no obstructions in the way and they still communicate. I would bet they have a pretty good range. Jeff (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: How much memory finally? ADDENDUM
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(...) There is no user memory from 0x4000 to 0x8000 - It's all ROM space but it might not be used. I look at things in terms of replacement firmware, and the RCX is very flexible in this regard. The RAM for replacement firmware starts at 0x8000. (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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What is the maximum distance for infrared communication between two RCXs (say with new batteries)? Do the RCXs have to 'face' each other? Thanks, Michael (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: How much memory finally? ADDENDUM
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Well, I checked with Kekoa's memory map, and indeed, thinks are not as simple. And Dave was right (Why did I doubt is sacred words?) Memory is divided into three main area of 16k. The first is ROM, containing the base programs. The two other (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: How much memory finally?
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Thank for the answer, Dave, this is the kind of info I'm looking for. BUT! I don't think it is correct: 0x8000 is 32k: the firmware would start at the end of memory!?! 0xbfff is 48k: unless the 16k of the rom are counted of course... Then this mean (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Tactical Robot - A robot that play a board game REALLY!!!
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-- ___...___ Ferrara Francesco Jeffrey Baldwin <Heatwaaave@aol.com> wrote in message news:FpGE5u.B4w@lugnet.com... (...) know (...) TAR Know when it win, and make some sounds when it is in advantage... (relative to its score!) I have spent 2-3 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Example please
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(...) Well, it's mentioned in the README ;-), but obviously not detailed enough. The problem is: the dynamic loader doesn't find the library you linked against. The dynamic loader is a program that is started whenever you execute a dynamically (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Using Servos with the RCX - Yes!
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(...) YES! Great job Ralph! (...) I love this. I could drive up to 6 pneumatic cylinders with a single RCX... wow! (...) The circuit is very simple to set up even for a non-electronic guy like myself. Give me just the time to lay my hands on one of (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: LNP Example please
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Just updated my libc version (I love apt-get on debian linux... woohoo... it took about 30 seconds to update about 6 core applications on my system with a single simple command !!) Ok. it now complies without a problem and lnp also appears to run (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How much memory finally?
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(...) I believe it has a 16K ROM and 32K SRAM. Within the 32K, 16K is occupied by the 'firmware' downloaded to the RCX. About 6K is reserved for bytecode program space and the datalog. Presumably the rest is working memory for the firmware (stack, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Using Servos with the RCX - Yes!
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Hi all, I've finally got my RCX servo driver circuit working. It was actually working months ago but I couldn't get the servo to stop jittering. Then I swapped in a different servo, and it worked like a champ! (URL) Before you get all excited, the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | static version of lnpd uploaded to arthudent
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Because of several reports about compiling problems with lnpd, i made a static version and uploaded it to arthurdent. It's quite fat: 373942 bytes, compared to the dynamic, which is 21352, but we all have at least 512 Megs, don't we ? I guess it (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How much memory finally?
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(...) If I remember correctly the RCX has a 16kROM for the basic routines. It has 32k RAM for firmware and programs. The scout has 32K ROM and only 1K RAM (400bytes for your program) Dean (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: rcx 1.0 and an ac adaptor
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(...) The 'official' adapter, is 10VAC, 0.7A. I have seen one person who blew the rectification bridge, and he simply replaced this himself ((it was an old unit). There are two 'possibly combined' problems. DC, puts all the load on just one pair of (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | How much memory finally?
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I'm trying to figure out how much memory the RCX has. Many sources claims that it has - 16k rom - 16k ram for the firmware - 6k reserved for our own programs Does this mean the RCX has 22k of RAM memory? What an odd number... Also, when I perform (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: LNP Example please
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(...) you are probably using an older version of glibc, which doesn't have the argp stuff. This has been reported several times, and i begin to think it was a bad decision to use this interface instead of getopt(). However, it's so easy to use... If (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: using the remote control with legOS
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it would be nice to be able to use both LNP and remote control (advance tactical robots) I wrote last night a small win prog to figure out how the remote is talking and this is it: +++ // LEGO REMOTE CONTROL (#9738 = ~20 USD) FOR RCX MESSAGE (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Example please
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Just tell me if I am been lazy but I can't find the argp.h file anywhere. abacus:~/lego/lnpd+liblnp$ make depend for i in lnpd liblnp applications ; do make -C $i depend || exit -1 ; done make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mike/lego/lnp...blnp/lnpd' (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: rcx 1.0 and an ac adaptor
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(...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Too many sensors
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(...) uhh, it looks i missed something quite important - how do you accomplish that ? --Martin (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Example please
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(...) Great, i'd really love doing work like this. If you intend to use lnpd+liblnp on the PC side, i'd be very interested in the results. (...) yes, exactly. The addressing layer gives you connectionless functionality very similar to UDP. A packet (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Radio Shack CDS cells in parallel
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(...) ----- True, but the RS CDS cells are cheap and using them in parallel or series also changes the response range, since all the resistances change with light levels. This would be most dramatic in the series connected case at the low resistance (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Radio Shack CDS cells in parallel
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(...) I built a sensor out of one of those and it works fine, so yours is probably defective. I superglued mine to the top of a 2x2 brick with the studs removed. You can see my high tech design at (URL)I tried this idea and it worked. You can put (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) According to Knudsen's book, AC or DC in either polarity is fine (which is great!). That's the only place I've seen the input characteristics mentioned, is there an "official" spec anywhere? One thing you might want to be careful of: I read (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: LNP Example please
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I've got 2 RCX's and 2 pc's in the same room so will be working with this over the next couple of weeks. The 2 RCX units work really well, my next step is to get the PC's to join the party. My implementation of LNP so far leads me to believe it is a (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | rcx 1.0 and an ac adaptor
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I have an rcx 1.0 and a universal adaptor (the kind with the different plug sizes and voltage settings). Two questions: (1) Do i have to worry about polarity? I found the right size adaptor, plugged it in, and it worked fine. Did i get lucky or is (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | new version of winlegOS
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There is now a new version of WinLegOS up for public dissemination: (URL) told it should run on NT machines as well as win98. All thanks again to Rossz. -Luis ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Too many sensors
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Ben Jackson wrote: > You could do it but you'd lose rotations as long as the button was pressed. > You'd probably need alternate firmware to even get that working well. I can live with losing rotation when the button is pressed. I may have to reset (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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When I first checked out the Radio Shack CDS cell five packs, the cells were all alike, about 1/4 inch and flat on two sides. But when I went back, I found some packs that had different cells. They had three of the usual small ones and a 1/2 inch (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Too many sensors
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(...) You could do it but you'd lose rotations as long as the button was pressed. You'd probably need alternate firmware to even get that working well. So on one port you can have (1 touch + 1 light/temp), (1 rotation) or (4 touch). The last with (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I received a package from Lego yesterday. It contained gears, a motor, and two rotation sensors. Now I'm stuck trying to figure out how to use all five sensors at once, 1 light, 2 touch, 2 rotation. I know how to combine a light with a touch, but (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Example please
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(...) of course, Michael ! BTW, if anybody out there does LNP communication involving several RCX's and a PC running lnpd, i'd be very interested in unsatisfying results, especially regarding congestion -- having only 1 RCX i could never test lnpd (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Example please
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Woops sorry I was referring to the bit above that (...) I think this should be write not send. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Windows NT Success Story!
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I'm pleased to announce that the NT boxes in our computer science lab has LegOS installed and running under Cygwin! I'd like to share this success story in the hope that it might help those who are still battling the Redmond Behemoth. In our lab we (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Example please
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(...) hmm, really strange, in my legOS-distribution the name of the function is lnp_addressing_write, there is no function named lnp_addressing_send -- where have you got your legOS ? (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: using the remote control with legOS
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(...) with an unpatched legOS-2.3, there's no easy way to do that. The incoming buffer is a static array inside function lnp_integrity_byte(), it's not accessible from outside. However, there is a hard way out (i used it during development of lnpd) (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Example please
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Thankyou very much Martin, that worked like a charm except for the lnp_addressing_write...t,srcport) which works as lnp_addressing_send(...t,srcport) Probably just a typo just thought I better let anyone else know who maybe interested. Now all I (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | using the remote control with legOS
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the LNP stuff is neat, but it seem's that the remote control isn't using either "integrity" or "addressing" protocol how do I access directly the incoming IR buffer ?? I didn't see any source code for "lnp_integrity_set_handler" , how does it work ? (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Example please
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(...) To get a somewhat crude explanation of how LNP works, and how to make RCXs with different LNP-Hostaddresses, i'd suggest to read thread 'LNP Addressing Schemes', last week in this newsgroup. However, if you don't need addressing or several (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RCX.pm 0.7 released
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I would like to announce the release of version 0.7 of RCX.pm. This perl module allows you to communicate with your RCX. It has been developed and tested under Linux, though it most likely will run under other UNIX's. To find out more information (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | nqc.mattdm.org
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I set up (URL) to be the permanent home of the Linux binaries and RPM packages I'm building for Dave. The old URL will still work -- it just gets redirected. (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | LNP Example please
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Does anyone have an example or two of using LNP so two RCX units can communicate with each other? I have been searching all over the place, looking through the header files and everything for weeks. Am I missing some well hidden documentation page (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lego photo scanner... Quite C?
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(...) Y'know, this is a cute name, but it's kind of confusing! (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: Tactical Robot - A robot that play a board game REALLY!!!
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(...) original LEGO firmware can be busted wide open when you look at alternative firmware. In Francesco's case, packaging a C library for everyone is a big step forward. Many of you may remember that Kekoa's original C interface to the ROM was done (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Tactical Robot - A robot that play a board game REALLY!!!
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WOW! I didn't know any thing like that was possible with the RCX. Does it know when it wins? How long did it take to program? Thats incredibly. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Tactical Robot - A robot that play a board game REALLY!!!
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I have done a 5-level depth robot that play a real board game (URL) Francesco (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lego photo scanner... Quite C?
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Are you using Quite C? -- ___...___ Ferrara Francesco Jay <getochkn@home.com> wrote in message news:Fp0z10.D4H@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX.pm 0.6 released
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I almost forgot the change list. I added some POSIX serial port controll. It shold now set you serial port correctly. If you have any problems or suggestions please let me know. John C. Quillan quillan@doitnow.com (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RCX.pm 0.6 released
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I would like to announce the release of version 0.6 of RCX.pm. This perl module allows you to communicate with your RCX. It has been developed and tested under Linux, though it most likely will run under other UNIX's. To find out more information (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Curious problem with download
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(...) NQC will first attempt to 'ping' the RCX, but if this fails I'm pretty sure it will give up completely. However, each command that is sent is retried several times (with increasing timeouts for each try) until an acknowledgement is heard. Its (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: docs/sourceforge/etc
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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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| | docs/sourceforge/etc
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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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| | How good is the light sensor ?
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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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| | Re: Setting a different com port w/ frmdl3 and dll
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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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| | Re: More light sensors in 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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| | More light sensors in 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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