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(...) It can be used, but the problem is that the tower shuts off fairly quickly if it doesn't hear anything from the computer. So the listening program would need to be sending keep-alive messages periodically. I think that Dave will put something (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi there ! I've got a question concerning ir communication with the brick ... After having done some low-level debugging to make a self-written programm communicate with my brick using the IR tower, I'd like to make my programm control the brick. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Soirry for the late reply, I've been on a sudden business trip and was unable to get to my email... (...) Great! I would leave the basic serial stuff alone and enable interrupt driven serial IO in a separate set of words, like RCX_INIT and (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) I don't have any changes in mind for the monitor/catch construct, although I'll listen to suggestions if people have any. There was a brief discussion about this a while back: (URL) that point I was already pushing a procedural approach - (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Dave, I'm curious if the system of events and event-trapping in NQC 2.x will remain about the same as it is now. I played around with it this last week, and had little success (it worked once or twice, I *think*), but what struck me was how much I (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I'm sorry if this is off topic. I intend to have my legos program running for some considerable time on my rcx(1.0), and of course am worried about power consumption. Are there any upgrade kits I can get that allow for a dc power supply or perhaps (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | is include included in pbforth?
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Fist I would like to say that this pbforth is great. it realy enhance this toy. Now that i got this out of my chest... I notice that some of the examples included in the pbforth package use the word INCLUDE so I tried to use it but apparently (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 vs. RIS 1.5 (v. 2.0?)
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(...) I'm pretty sure it won't come out to around Christmas. Check www.legomindstorms.com to see, I'm too lazy to. Alan (URL) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 vs. RIS 1.5 (v. 2.0?)
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(...) this (...) Aha. Thanks. The adapter plug is what I'm after, so I might just wait until 2.0. Many thanks, Nils (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 vs. RIS 1.5 (v. 2.0?)
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(...) transfer back (...) Can you purchase 2.0 yet? Nils (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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