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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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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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(...) 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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(...) transfer back (...) Can you purchase 2.0 yet? Nils (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I went with simple... #pragma reserve start [end] where [end] is assumed to be start if not specified. If you want to reserve multiple vars (or multiple ranges) you need to use multiple #pragmas. (...) Yes, its all a bit academic. The only (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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In article (...) Building under LinuxPPC, I was able to get everything working with egcs 1.1.2. However, gcc 2.95 didn't work. I could get legOS.srec to build and download, it would work OK for turning the RCX on/off, but the first time I tried (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) How about: #pragma reserve 1 3 5-8 9 with range explicitly specified by "-". Then those that want to specify a range can do so and those who want to specify a list can do so. Of course this assumes that you don't allow arithmetic in the pragma (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 vs. RIS 1.5 (v. 2.0?)
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(...) 2.0 will work on all 1.0's and 1.5's. No worries. The 2.0 also has the power adapter port back. YA! The software will be legos' new pictorial AND text based that you can transfer back and forth. Very cool stuff. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (...) (24 years ago, 2-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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For the most part, the differences are in documentation and additional/different pieces, not the RCX hardware itself or the software. The one hardware difference is the lack of an external adapter plug in 1.5 (so, lots more batteries) and I believe (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hello, Can anyone tell me the difference between version 1.0 and 1.5 of the RIS? Can I still use legOS (or pbForth for that matter) on the RCX? Thanks, Nils (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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What is the newest version of gcc/egcs that anyone has used to create correct code? I'm looking into creating .rpm and .deb files for linux, and I'd like to build with the most up-to-date compiler that I know generates correct code. I have not (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Major breakthrough serial wise.
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in article 39365A56.86986217@nexen.com, Steve morris at smorris@nexen.com wrote on 6/1/00 5:43 AM: (...) Try posting this on a more general list if the following suggestions don't help: 1) put the RCX and tower underneath a box to block out all (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Rapidly moving plastic and rubber...
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That is the coolest thing I have seen in months. Was it painful? Great invention. -- Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net The Shop (URL) Reid" <kpreid@ibm.net> wrote in message news:1ebjoeu.1h4xnb8...ibm.net... (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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What moves at 12 ft/sec _on_the_ground_ and is built entirely out of LEGO parts? This: (URL) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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