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Anyone know what I can use instead of batteries for my RCX? Some sort of AC Adapter? I saw mention of something like this here, but, couldn't figure out how it could be set up. Thanks! .josh .jburley@kuci.org (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Line endings in SourceForge
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(...) The docs I've read say that line endings are handled by CVS. The central repository is always Unix style, the local one is handled as local system need (unix with LF, DOS/Windows with RC/LF). Bye, Paolo. --- famous programmer quotation: "but I (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Another possible makefile change
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(...) Here is Makefile.common I've prepared for for utils: --- cut # Makefile.common # # 12.03.2000 - Paolo Masetti # # - Conditional make variable definitions based on $OSTYPE # # # DJGPP does not define OSTYPE # ifndef OSTYPE OSTYPE=$(shell uname) (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Turning power off?
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(...) It's probably bad luck. Two weeks running is about normal if you're doing lots of IR downloads. The IRED takes quite a bit of current when transmitting. The POWER_OFF does shut things down....I really do forget if RCX_SHUTDOWN is necessary. (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Question
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(...) The lcd_refresh() copies all data into the LCD controller chip, so the data is definitely there. But this data takes some time to be displayed on the actual LCD: The controller needs to drive the lines to the LCD, and the LCD itself has some (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Turning power off?
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To my dismay, I discovered this morning that the batteries of the RCX were empty. And it's sunday :-( It is possible that I forgot to turn it off, yesterday evening. But aside from this, I use the sequence LCD_CLEAR LCD_REFRESH POWER_OFF to turn the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Question
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I've been playing around with a crashy program as of late, and I was curious. If I have a series of cputs(), each of which is immediately followed by an lcd_refresh(), is it possible that the program crashes after a pair of those, yet the string in (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Another possible makefile change
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$OS in DJGPP running on a Windows 95 system returns nothing. :( Paolo Masetti <paolom@pragmanet.it> wrote in message news:Fr97MG.2CE@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Windows 2000
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Paolo Masetti <paolom@pragmanet.it> wrote in message news:Fr97ML.2FJ@lugnet.com... (...) Yes, don't spend hours on it completely ignoring your wife. It's not health. :) The primary problem I ran up against was when it built the libraries. It would (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: CVS and SourceForge
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That's why I told you to recheck whether or not you were using the pserver. Oh well- back to the beach for me... -Luis(enjoying spring break in Miami) (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Can't wait for the official Mindstorms ATAT ???
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As the page is in Japanese, did you saw there is a movie : (URL) ? It is 'just' the ATAT walking by itself... Anyone started to build one with your lego parts ? Something difficult actually, no ? There is some ways I think to build new generation 4 (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.microscout, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Windows 2000
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(...) 2000 (...) permits. I can't figure why you are spending your effort with DJGPP... Why do not concentrate on mingw? I think it can be the right choice both for Win9x than for NT/2000... It seems a little harder to port compared to cygnwin, but (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Another possible makefile change
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(...) I already modified my utils Makefiles for using $(OS) that for Windows NT gives "Windows_NT" (and, now, I'm ready to commit :-) ... ), but I don't know how $(OS) evaluate for Win9x. $(shell uname) does not give "MSDOS" under cygnwin: it gives (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: CVS and SourceForge
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(...) re-register (...) No, that wasn't the problem... :-) But... Ta-da.... Now I can commit!!!! :-) My problem was that I checked-out using :pserver:*... As anybody knows (I don't) CVS marks the first login-method/root in a file ("CVS/Root"), so (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Expand your RCX,Scout? ports!
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[Follow up to lugnet.robotics] Finally! I have finished the web site for explaining how to create the (MS)2 Expander! (Mindstorm Motor/Sensor Expander) A text byte from my site... "I'm very happy to announce that my latest project the '(MS)2 (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Another possible makefile change
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(...) That doesn't work with the DJGPP Make program, unfortunately. Rossz (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: The pain of communicating with the RCX
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(...) Yup. Remember that the Forth interpreter can't deal with text in special packets. It may be an improvement by limiting the time between characters. I think that ascii-xfr may dump chars without enough time between them... (...) If you use the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: The pain of communicating with the RCX
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(...) huh? Do you mean it just writes text to the RCX without any synchronization or checksums? Then how is it going to be an improvement over a plain ascii upload using e.g. ascii-xfr? (...) But then you can't use those constants (i.e the words, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Replacement for IR Tower
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Actually, there is a whole newsgroup devoted to using a PlamPilot as the controller. lugnet.robotics.palm I have an Apple Newton 110 that I would love to get more use out of (I use it to track projects and my time involved in them now). -_eric (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: The pain of communicating with the RCX
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(...) That's because the SREC upload uses the native upload code in the RCX ROM. It works really well but has to send each byte as a pair with the bits inverted. Also the header and trailer have to be added. The result is that it would be impossible (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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