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Hi all, I've been working on a cross-platform version of my Tcl scripts for interfacing with the RCX and found out a lot about high-speed downloads too. Here's what I observed.... 1. High speed downloads at 4800,n,8,1 with echos off is LESS reliable (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | MindStorms Bop It
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Hello fellow LEGO maniacs. My latest MindStorms "robot" is rather unusual. It has only ONE wheel, NO motors, two touch sensors, one light sensors, and a bunch of rubberbands. What is that?! It's a MindStorms version of the popular Parker Brothers (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | updated nqc-doc rpms
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I've updated the nqc-doc rpms at(URL) to include the PDF versions of the documentation. Also, this rpm now places its docs alongside that from the main nqc package, in /usr/doc/nqc-[version]. I've also GnuPG signed all the rpms I'm distributing. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics)
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| | NQC/RcxCC
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Thanks to everyone who suggested that I use NQC for programming, I now have a copy of RcxCC installed, and programming in it is easier than in the lego graphic interface (as long as you remember the ;'s) The coal unloader program is done (it took (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: task managment
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Thanks Eddie, What kind of limit is there for active tasks? Is there a responsitory somewhere for sample programs/projects people have written? Thanks (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: task managment
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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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| | task managment
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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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| | RE: RCX Temperature Algorithm
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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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| | RCX Temperature Algorithm
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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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| | loader.c
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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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