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It is amazing this was mentioned just now. I just started reading chapter 6:pbForth of Knudsen's book with the hopes of learning to use my Palm to interact with the RCX. I don't know Forth at all. Is this a good place to start? What should I use as (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: Thought on pbForth
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(...) This is by Neal Bridges, another backwards Canadian!!!! I use Quartus on my Palm, and it's really cool. The original goal of pbForth was to be able to edit source on the Palm and blast it up to the RCX.... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: Thought on pbForth
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To echo something mentioned on the first message of this thread, I just stumbled on a Forth implementation for the Palm OS: (URL) guess it really does run anywhere. Jeff jeffrey.hazen@northmill.net (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: Thought on pbForth
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(...) I _knew it_!! But I guess now I'm guilty of preaching to the choir... (...) This is EXACTLY what makes the RCX an ideal entry to computing. Nobody could sell something like a VIC-20 as an entry level to computing. But this is exactly what we (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | task switching strategy?
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I've been wandering through the kernal comparing it to similar kernals I have known or written, trying to understand the design choices. It appears that task are only switched at the 1ms timer interrupt and at yield() function call. yield() is only (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I finally have a project that's large enough and well-enough organized that I have two .c files. (One holds fixed-point math routines.) Now, the README file states "If you need more source files, add them in the Makefile." My question is, what and (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Thought on pbForth
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Ralph Hempel writes: > > I've been doing embedded realtime software for > > over 20 years. > > Sounds like you've got lots of expreince with different > paradigms, which is one of the most important aspects > of being a good designer.... My (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | weird legos 0.23 problems
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I post this message without much investigation but I am confident I wouldn't find this issue easily. I have compiled code that was running fine on the rcx of approaching 4k size. unfortunately my short term memory failed / I didn't commit my work to (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Thought on pbForth
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(...) Steve, welcome to LugNet and this group specifically. The pbForth group has been a bit sparse lately, but rest assured good things will happen soon. (...) Sounds like you've got lots of expreince with different paradigms, which is one of the (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Lego 20% off sale (inc. Mindstorms)
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All Lego (including Mindstorms) at kbkids.com is on 20% sale at the moment. No sign of the UAP, unfortunately. Cheers JP (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Thought on pbForth
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I am new to this group so please forgive this reply to an old thread. I've been doing embedded realtime software for over 20 years. A small amount of that has been using FORTH. The question is what does FORTH add to robotics software development? To (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: RCX For Sale.
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The product is sold. ===...=== "Bert Onderdijk" <bert_onderdijk@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Ft4Cr3.B2w@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: RCX For Sale.
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The product is sold. ===...=== "Bert Onderdijk" <bert_onderdijk@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Ft4CMs.AMC@lugnet.com... (...) CD-ROM' (...) If (...) it. (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Directional Bumper Robot Pictures
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My friend Jim built one of the models from the RIS 1.5 Constructopaedia in response to a challenge to build a robot that could withstand and detect a head-on collision with a wall. He then modified the design of the front bumper to use two (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Windows communication to the RCX
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Hello Manuel, Thanks for this post, this is exactly what we need! Would you, please, send us your Windows and RCX codes that handle the communication? We tried to use lnpd on Linux, but the test example program seems to not work properly and I (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | brake broke?
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I'm having trouble with braking (as opposed to free-wheeling) motors. When I use motor_a_dir(brake), the motor brakes OK, but cannot be restarted. Subsequent motor_a_dir(fwd/rev) calls have no affect, the motor stays braked. I can tell this by (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: NQC on Linux dilema...
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(...) The first thing I'd try would be to add a pair of printf() statements before and after the tcdrain() call in PSerial_unix::FlushWrite() (in file platform/PSerial_unix.cpp). Call be paranoid, but calls like this always make me nervous...they're (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: NQC on Linux dilema...
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(...) the same thing is happening to me, and i did build it from source. i can recompile with changes, if you think it might be useful in figuring out whats going on, though. (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | ANNOUNCE: LEGO::RCX 1.00
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All I would like to announce the release of version 1.00 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 (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.lego.announce, lugnet.announce)
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