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(...) Here is some sample code using three tasks for: 1. Motor control 2. Sound control 3. Shaking the head This runs on the Inventorbot of the Invention System. Each task is independantly watching a sensor to control it's actions. Hope this helps, (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Would someone be so kind to show me through some code snippets how to create multiple tasks using legOS? I haven't been able to gleen this info from the code although its probably there... thanks tom (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Mike, Here's the area of interest right out of Kekoa's listing from the internals document...I don't have time to totally decode it, but maybe if you put down your soldering iron... :-) case a0: // temperature in degrees C case c0: // (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Back when everybody was reverse engineering the RCX software, did anybody figure out the code that is used to convert the a/d value into a temperature? (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Is there a reason why the CMDrun stuff has been ifdef'ed out in loader.c. I think this in one of the cooler options. I have hacked loader.c so that you can send the CMDrun command to the RCX using a -e flag. You can also send just a dll -e -p3 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I put some info on what I have found using a camera with the Mars Expansion Pack on my small web pages. The USB cable is not a good umbilical, stiff. I had to abandon one scanning platform design just because the cable tension kept stalling it out. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I'm pretty sure that i have used the feature in the software w/o a problem to set the autoshut to another time interval, including never shutting off. I know this doesn't exactly answer the question, but maybe its a bug somewhere that will resolve (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Change the shut down value in the software. Leave (Click to save) come back and change it to what you want, then leave. It should save then... Dean -- TFM's Home Page: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I have posted several messages that concern Robolab you might not see if you just bookmark the Robolab section. These messages are: (URL) else have anything to share about Robolab? (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) It is possible in RIS and Robolab to change the powerdown set-up option without downloading this value to the RCX. If this is the case, the RCX will continue to obey the last downloaded powerdown value despite what you see in the set-up (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RCX auto shut-off ?
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Hi, My RCX shuts off automatically after about 5 min. The set-up options in the RCX software tells me its set for 15. Is this min. or sec.? I'm pretty sure the batteries are fine...it also shut down when using an adapter. Is there something else I (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | LegOS Will be in MicroMouse Compition !
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Hello, I am a third year Electrical Engineering student and am currently in the process of building a robot (along with others from my class) building a rcx-based robot for the Division I MicroMouse competition. While researching the rcx I happened (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Alternative to batteries?
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(...) Marc Klein has already addressed this question: (URL) A. (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Thanks for the reply! Aside from the power adapter on the RCX unit that comes with RIS 1.0, what are the differences between those two sets? .josh .jburley@kuci.org (...) has (...) work (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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There are two different versions of the RCX. Unfortunately, they are both labeled "RCX 1.0". The one that comes with the Robotics Invention System 1.0 has a power adapter input and the one that comes with RIS 1.5 does not. It is possible to use (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Alternative to batteries?
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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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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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(...) 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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| | Re: The pain of communicating with the RCX
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On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:04:26PM +0000, Ralph Hempel wrote: [...On a TCL program to communicate with the RCX...] (...) Uploading srec files has been without problem for me; it's uploading text that's painful. Does your program uses some protocol (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Can't wait for the official Mindstorms ATAT ???
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So, look at (URL) has made an ATAT with the Microscout ! Sad that there is no picture for the mechanic inside :-( Can someone translate the page in English ? Gonna to try to do the same, and after with the RCX... Christophe (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.microscout, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Another possible makefile change
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Actually, you could replace $(shell uname) with $(OSTYPE). Markus. (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Did that solve your problem? I also used mixed case when I registered (Rossz). If your 'commit' problems have gone away, then I will re-register as well. Rossz (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I did some testing today of the new cross-compiler tools I have built on a Windows 2000 system. The bad news is things did not go very well. MAKE would simply stop in the middle without completing the build process. A little newsgroup research (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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"David Cawley" <dave.cawley@tesco.net> wrote in message news:Fr69tB.MIK@lugnet.com... (...) You can try Legos-0.2.3 direction at this url (need some url refinish for files link but you should have already almost all files): (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Build on NT?
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(...) You can try Legos-0.2.3 direction at this url (need some url refinish for files link): ftp://legos.sourcefo...-0.2.3.htm Bye, Paolo. --- Witten's Law: Whenever you cut your fingernails, you will find a need for them an hour later. (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | nt build
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Okay. I have determined the majority of my problems so far are related to command line length... when make variables are expanded in the djecho and/or make they exceed 80 chars(?)... and that is what djecho is for... i have had to create multiple (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: The pain of communicating with the RCX
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I might be able to help somewhat. I use my PC running FreeBSD to talk to my RCX (RIS 1.5). After much heartache I found that if I used "ecu" as my terminal, it worked. I tried everything just to try them, and ecu worked the best. Ecu is old, but it (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: The pain of communicating with the RCX
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(...) Depends on which side of the fence you are on... (...) Hmmm. This is not good. I have ghad very good success with CRT, but I'm going to try a more general solution with Tcl. (...) I stopped supporting it late last year because it only worked (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: CVS and SourceForge
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(...) No problem for checkout on my NT, now. I read that you can checkout too. Now the problem is on commit! Got the usual: cvs [server aborted]: "commit" requires write access to the repository I've tried: - Via WINCVS - Via CVS - Via SSH working (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, I'm trying to get a legOS build environment set up on my PC, running under Windows 2000 professional. I've downloaded LegOS-0.2.3.tar.gz I'm using Peter Van der Beken's directions from //arthurdent.dorm.du...egOS-0.2.2 All seems to go well until (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: The pain of communicating with the RCX
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(...) Does that count as `tempted by the dark side' or `seen the light'? :) (...) itself. (...) I tried near and far mode, several distances, putting the tower and the RCX under a dark cloth... Everything I could think of except putting 'em where (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: The pain of communicating with the RCX
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(...) Good. I'm glad your on-side so far :-) (...) You are right. I have found that getting a reliable connection is very dependent on ambient light, the voltage of the RCX batteries, and the tower itself. Try to use the tower in NEAR mode so that (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | The pain of communicating with the RCX
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The power of Forth lies in the ease with which a system can be built and and tested both incrementally and interactively. Unfortunately I'm experiencing severe difficulties estasblishing a reliable communication channel between my PC (Linux) and the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Question on Spirit.ocx
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Hi Andy, The library Spirit.ocx cannot to this operation. You can however program it yourself pretty easily. The following is taken from the lugnet archive: Subject: Sending a message to a RCX using a PC From: Denis Cousineau <decousin@indiana.edu> (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Build on NT?
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You can download the WinlegOS package for development on an NT. You will need a special utility program to fix a problem with long filename support (a bug in WinNT). legOS for Windows (5.5megs): (URL) Long filename support: (URL) you wish to rebuild (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Build on NT?
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Is anybody successfully building legOS on NT? If so we need to talk... please email offline. Thanks Tom (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Another possible makefile change
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(...) great, Rossz, but i see one little problem here. I'm suspecting that it's no good idea to include Makefile.common in the Makefile for dll-src, because Makefile.common sets some standard Variables and rules to values appropriate for cross (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Newbie question : IR comms with PC.
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Hi all. I'm a third year engineering student from South Africa who is trying to complete a soccer playing robot in time for our robot intervarsity the 29th of March.I only started using the RCX (and legOS) days ago. I'm trying to transfer some (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Another possible makefile change
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(...) Then for cross plateform compatibility, we should modify all the references to perl script to include the program name. It doesn't hurt Linux, and is essential in a DOS shell. (...) I researched your 'uname' suggestion and came up with the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: malloc() bug found -- BAD MEMORY REGION :-(
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(...) Hi Martin: Its right here "(URL) try rebuild legOS with egcs-1.1.2, then diff the kernel assembler listings. Watch this space... (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Question on Spirit.ocx
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Hi, In the RCX command center there is a dialog that enable you to send a value from the PC to the message buffer of the RCX. How is this implemented using spirit.ocx? I have looked through the SDK and can't seem to find anything that enables you to (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: German books available
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Any French or Japanese ones? -- Paul Davidson, aka Tinman www.theforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Star Wars www.filmforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Film News Suzanne D. Rich <suz@baseplate.com> wrote in message news:FqyHz3.5w1@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Recommended change to MAKEFILE
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(...) Hi, Luis... I think I need the same write permission to CVS if I want to commit the bounch of changes I've already write... ;-) Marcus supposed I was already enabled, but I got: cvs [server aborted]: "commit" requires write access to the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Another possible makefile change
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(...) Although *nix system's try to figure out the interpreter for a script if you don't provide it, it doesn't harm to do so. Thus, actually you dont't have to distinct 2 cases here. We could simply use the MERGEMAP you suggest for all currently (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: malloc() bug found -- BAD MEMORY REGION :-(
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(...) i vaguely remember this patch was necessary to get gcc-2.95.x to work, but somehow lost the patch. Therefore, i'm still working with egcs-1.1.2. Maybe that's the difference ? Could you tell me where to find the patch ? thanks, Martin. (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Announcement: Java in RCX [!]
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[forwarding a copy to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java --Todd] (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | RXC Powerdown time using Datalogging
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When using the Datalogging feature of Robolab 2.0, the generated programs automatically set the RCX powerdown time to zero when starting datalogging, and set it back to the last value set in the Administrator/RCX Settings when the program ends. This (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Alternative Programming Languages with LegOS
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First, take a look at the following web pages, and decide for yourself if you like to program with this kind of "synchronous languages". For the programming language LUSTRE: (2 URLs) For the programming language Esterel: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: malloc() bug found -- BAD MEMORY REGION :-(
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(...) Yup, did that. I've applied the following fixes to the kernel 0.2.3. Are there any I've missed? . The malloc() bug we've been discussing. . The tx_sem fix for lnp*.c . The memcpy assembler bug. I'm using gcc 2.95.2 & binutils 2.9. Can anyone (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Line endings in SourceForge
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(...) i'm also quite sure it's linux aka unix style... BTW, i just checked out the sourecforge stuff and found that make realclean; make depend did not work. As you noted, the old makedepend needs fixdeps, what is erased by make realclean ( it's a (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legos.sourceforge.net - Problems with SSL logon
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(...) Solved. Now I can connect... I think it was a problem of the sourceforge server... (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Line endings in SourceForge
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(...) Doh :) (...) Should be unix-style, as everything they do is hosted on linux. -Luis ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous ###...### (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RcxCC version 3.1 availble
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(...) Dean (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Recommended change to MAKEFILE
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(...) When I tried to "commit" a change, I got this error message: cvs [server aborted]: "commit" requires write access to the repository Rossz (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Line endings in SourceForge
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I finally got WinCvs working. I had left out the crucial step of "Import Module" before "Checkout Module". Important question. Do the files have Unix style line endings (line feed only) or Windows/Dos style (carriage return & line feed). I think the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | ANNOUNCE: LEGO::RCX 0.9 (old Lego::RCX );
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All I would like to announce the release of version 0.9 of LEGO::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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.announce)
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| | more RCX
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Hi! How to control two or more RCX's with one PC at the same time?? (with NQC or VC++) Thanks, Borut (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: malloc() bug found -- BAD MEMORY REGION :-(
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(...) the fix only helps for problems that arise when memory is nearly used up, and malloc() tries to use memory above the 'macic' 0xfb80 limit. - Just to make sure: (i have been caught in this trap) -- have you rebuilt your dll application against (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RcxCC version 3.1 availble
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I just put version 3.1 of RcxCC on my web page. The only change is that it uses NQC version 2.1r1. Mark Overmars (URL) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Another possible makefile change
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Since under Windows we must specify the PERL program name, unlike Unix and variants which figure out what to do automagically, I suggest this change in makefile.common: Under Windows (assumes the perl program is on the PATH): PERL = perl Under (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I'm (...) OS (...) I'm on Win95. I guess I'll be blazing a new trail on my own. (...) Let me know if you have any luck with it. I stopped trying as I feared I would throw the computer out the windows. :) Rossz (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Does anybody have problems logging on via HTTPS to legos.sourceforge.net? My browser do not connect at all. I'm using IE 5.01 with latest patches (also for SSL) but I continue to get errors. Note that before this problem, with the same browser & (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) used (...) a (...) line (...) I did it without problems (for download) using command line version. But I'm using NT... I think I've read something about problems with Win95... What OS are you using? I have no success for now with wincvs, but I (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I downloaded the necessary software to gain access to the legOS project in SourceForge, but have been unable to get the files to download. When I used the GUI version of cvs (wincvs), I get the error message "you must specify a module name" (isn't (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Dave Baum's book has been published in German! Dave Baums Lego® Mindstorms' Roboter - Der Profi-Guide (m. CD-Rom): (URL) LEGO Mindstorms book, also in German, Lego Mindstorms. Roboter programmieren lernen: (URL) titles - these I bought last year. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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As near as I can tell, I must have had the RCX examine tool polling the brick as I tried to download a program. Perhaps one too many windows at a time. Anyway, things got very strange. The brick would not respond to anything and merrily churned (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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This is a little premature since I have not yet made the compiler tools available, but I thought I would post this information now. Luis, would you like these instructions converted to HTML with all the proper links? ---...--- legOS on Windows HOWTO (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: malloc() bug found -- BAD MEMORY REGION :-(
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(...) I'm afraid this made no difference for me. I still get dll crashes. My particular symptom is that if I make a 1 line change to legOS then download it, it crashes straight away at the next dll. Even if I undo the change, then rebuild & download (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Martin, Rossz, you guys both now are registered and have CVS write access. Be aware that sourceforge changes those things with a cron job that runs every six hours or so, so it may be a few hours before you /actually/ have write access. Enjoy (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Recommended change to MAKEFILE
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(...) Rossz didn't have CVS access until about... oh... 3 minutes from now? -Luis ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous ###...### (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Recommended change to MAKEFILE
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(...) imho, a very good idea. Perhaps you should check that in to CVS ? -- Martin (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Robolab 2.0
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(...) supports (...) the (...) This (...) After using Robolab 2.0 for a few weeks, I highly recommend it! New features include: Extras are easier to install (everyone should want the extras now) Supports the RCX datalogging in the Investigator (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Currently, legOS uses this in the makefile: # for the kernel .depend makedepend $(LEGOS_ROOT)kernel/*.c -Y $(CINC) -f- | $(FIXDEPS) $(LEGOS_ROOT)kernel/ > .depend # for a typical program .depend: makedepend *.c -Y $(CINC) -f- | $(FIXDEPS) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Replacement for IR Tower
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Is there anyone who has successfully replaced the Lego IR Tower with another IR device to communicate with the RCX? I'm thinking about putting my old Apple Newton back to use ;-) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Windows/DOS Cross-Compiler - Finally!
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After two months of struggling, I have finally been able to build a complete set of h8/300 cross compiler tools that work natively in a Window's DOS box. So what does this mean? If you don't run Windows 9x/NT/2k, absolutely nothing. What this means (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I intend to implement some reinforcement learning algorithms with the RCX. My program is running big. Im using legOS 0.2.3 how many memory does it uses? Im using all sensors. How many is left for me. THe size of the *.lx file is the size I should (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I need to use the comunications with VC++ and Im going to do that. Can anyone tell the exact meaning of the following blocks. |F0|LEN| IDATA |CHK| |F1|LEN|DEST|SRC| ADATA |CHK| F0 and F1 is just a simple bit like 0 for F0 and 1 for F1? CHK is (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: malloc() bug found -- BAD MEMORY REGION :-(
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Great! Well done, Martin! Toni "Martin Cornelius" <Martin.Cornelius@t-online.de> wrote in message news:38BDC2FD.85668C...line.de... (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) My hangups are gone too! Danke! Jürgen (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) You don't really need asm to do this. Due to a side-effect of how the bytecodes are implemented, you can set the slope value simply by adding it to the 'mode' parameter... // use a slope of 10 for light sensor on port 1 SetSensorType(SENSOR_1, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: malloc() bug found -- BAD MEMORY REGION :-(
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(...) Great! (...) This has always been a problem- it was an issue with firmdl before dll. Nothing serious, so it was never fixed. (...) You've actually had programs that large? Wow. -Luis (trying to make this more than a one-sided conversation...) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: malloc() bug found -- BAD MEMORY REGION :-(
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(...) made some tests, and - Yep, it works ! I'd strongly encourage everybody experiencing strange hangups to apply the little fix to mm_init() i suggested. For me, it makes malloc() and dll work perfectly. BTW, there are some minor flaws in dll[x], (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Robolab 2.0 aliases
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(...) to (...) Ben Erwin kindly explained these to me. This feature is part of Robolab 2.0 extras. When the extras are installed (using Project/Install Extras), in Functions/Modifiers the control is called Container.CTL. Once this is dragged to the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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