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Sorry about that, Jonathan. I didn't think that there was any legOS code in Dave's book, but I didn't want to argue with someone who had read it more recently or more thoroughly than I had (which, honestly, wasn't very much, since I don't do NQC.) (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Does anyone send me a picture of Remote Control?
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Just yank it out from the Lego mindstorms site. Right click on the picture and save it... Ram (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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hey i read that you can perform ir ranging with an rcx. how can i pull this off? please help. and has anyone tried building a laser diode that is mindstorms compatible? i tried it but i killed my laser. i figure you can do some cool stuff with the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Connecting 2 RCXs
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Thanks a lot Dean - works perfectly. A good trick - and so evident that I am a bit frustrated not to find it out by myself ... ;-) But this is what friends are for (was it Whitney Houston who sang that?) Bernd (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Timing of RCX statements
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(...) Thanky Dave for your reflections concerning the timing. The thing that caused some astonishment and a little bit of frustration is that the RCX is so slow. O.K. - the code sent to the RCX is interpreted and this needs some time. However, I was (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Does anyone send me a picture of Remote Control?
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I want to have a clear picture of Remote Control, I hope people can send it to me if you have. Br Zhengrong (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Monitor() and Event()
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(...) I decided to write a small sample program showing how to configure events. Check out events.nqc at (URL) reply to: dbaum at enteract dot com (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Monitor() and Event()
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(...) Monitoring is automatic (done by the firmware). Monitoring stops when control leaves the monitor statement, so something like this: while(true) { monitor(EVENTS) { } catch { } } will miss a lot of events. You need to configure the events using (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Timing of RCX statements
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(...) I wouldn't expect Wait() to be very precise. I haven't looked at the firmware in great detail, but generally when writing this sort of thing you set up timing chains. Imagine a function that gets called every 1ms for bookkeeping... void (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: SubSumption and Dave Baum
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For the record: _The Unofficial Guide to Lego Mindstorms Robots_ was written by me, Jonathan Knudsen. I'm pretty sure this is the book you're using, since it has the Hank robot in it. As you've observed, the legOS code is for version 0.1.7, and the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: SubSumption and Dave Baum
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(...) I'd assume that the first targets will be US bookstores, probably Amazon first ;) But I don't really know. Mainly, I know because they promised to ship us (the authors) our copies as soon as they are off the presses ;) (...) I have never heard (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: SubSumption and Dave Baum
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(...) Thanks for the info :) Eaagerly awaiting..any idea if they are being distributed worldwide or just usa side ? (...) I Found problem!!! If I call LCD_refresh , having not changed the screen, it goes mad!!! Thats as far as I've debugged it...now (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: SubSumption and Dave Baum
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(...) About Extreme Mindstorms (please skip if you don't want to see my shameless plugs): I have it on good word that it'll be out from the printer's next Monday. For those of you who haven't seen, I'll shamelessly plug it again: (URL) you are (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | SubSumption and Dave Baum
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I recently purchased Dave Baums ' Unofficial Guide to Lego Mindstorms' (a good book:), stlil waiting on the extreme one to come out here in the uk though... :) I'm trying to get 'Hank the robot' to work...the little guy just won't, I guess that (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LEGO remote and LNP (legOS 0.2.4)
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I'd actually really like to include Chris's patch in the official tree, but I'm informed by folks with more clue about the networking stuff than me that switching the parity bit would probably break some LNP stuff. Would everyone be happier if I (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LEGO remote and LNP (legOS 0.2.4)
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(...) The remote control sends with parity odd, but the rcx is programmed to no parity. If the parity bit has the same value as a undriven line (I think it is logical 1), the byte is received, but otherwise the byte gets thrown away by the serial (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Timing of RCX statements
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I was trying to simulate a serial link by using an output of the RCX. I didn't work and when I analyzed the timing, I found out that the RCX's execution of statements is far too slow for the protocol I wanted to simulate. So I made some measurements (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | LEGO remote and LNP (legOS 0.2.4)
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Hi I've just got the LEGO remote control (from the Ultimate Accessory Kit), and of cause it dosen't work with legos. So I tried to see, if anyone had done some kind of driver to it, but I couldn't find any, and began hacking in the legOS kernel (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Monitor() and Event()
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Can someone teach me more on Monitor() and Event()? Does the Monitor() check the event status repeatly or we have to make a repeat task to activate the monitoring job? If it is not checking the event status repeatly, why we cannot just read the (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Cross compiler for cygwin (Win9x/ME)
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(...) Yes, it has been done. There are no binaries on the web, though, nor up-to-date instructions. :( Paolo Masetti (paolom@pragmanet.it) has started writing up instructions, but I don't know how far along he is in them; he is very, very busy with (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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