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(...) I don't have a solution, but I thought I'd throw in my experiences. I curently have a robot that uses two rotation sensors, and I've never had trouble with them under either 0.2.3 or 0.2.4. I looked through your code briefly and couldn't find (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I use NiMH in RCX/Cybermaster/Code Pilot and towers with no problems. Jürgen (24 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Hi Ciaran, since i've got my RCXs (1.0 and 1.5) I use NiCd and NiMHd without any Problems. Rainer (24 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Use rechargeable _Alkaline_. I initially got 12 batteries and a charger for ~UKP20 (-US30). My batteries spend about 5% of there their in my RCX, the rest of the time the power my kids toys... esp her Duplo trains. Such is life Scott A (24 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Quick questo, which no doubt has been answered time and time again, is it possible to use rechargable batteries in the RCX1.5 ? As I tried and it turned on, went mad then turned off again, so I didn't bother again, but I just read a message where (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Strange problem using 2 active sensors at the same time with 0.2.4
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Hello In a actual project, i'm using the following setup: Input: 1 Rotation sensor (steering) 2 nc 3 Rotation sensor (distance measuring) Output: A drive motor B nc C steering motor If more than one sensor is set to active, only the first (steering) (...) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Math
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I received the following comments and code from Mike Ash, whose Lugnet 'connection' appears not to be working at present. Big thanks Mike. I've yet to try it, but it looks OK in theory. (...) Most math functions aren't available. They would require (...) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Charge!
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(...) I'm not sure if I'm thinking of the same riff as you are, since mine has far fewer notes, but its worth a try... I don't know the "official" key, and I'm doing this without a piano in front of me, but any major chord should do the trick.... C (...) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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Hi! My FLL Team would like to have their robot sign the "Charge!" bugle cry at the start of each mission that the robot attempts. I'm musically challenged. Does anyone have the note sequence for the "Charge!" bugle cry often heard at Baseball, (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Math
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Mike, You may have to look at writing your own. I know there's a libmint (integer math) library, but I'm currently at work, and can't check what else is there. Maybe need a libm to put all math functins in?? ROSCO mike mcfarlane (...) (24 years ago, 12-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi What math functions are available under legOS? I can get the usual +-/ and * to work, but not powers or square roots. Are these math functions available and what others e.g. sine, cosine etc? I thought it would be standard C stuff like pow and (...) (24 years ago, 12-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lnp doc
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I just dropped a class that was killing me, so I mayt have time to fix that this weekend. Thanks for holding out :) Luis (...) ---...--- "Nobody ever said that democracy was simple or efficient." Florida Election Board Member Bob Crawford. ---...--- (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) You bet! The legOS HOWTO (URL) now has a LNP section. Unfortunately the table of contents is currently broken, so you'll have to hit Next a lot. The URL to the LNP section is (URL). (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi there, I'm quite now on legOS (compiled my first program yesterday), and I'm trying to find a way of using lnp. Is there any HOWTO or reference for the RCX side/the host side ? Thanx in advance. (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Painful details on RCX.pm problems
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Yes, it does in fact happen more or less often sometimes (though it is usually consistent.) It has been an awful long time since I changed batteries... I'll get a new set tomorrow and take a look at it. Thanks a bunch, John... Luis (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Behavior Control, nee Subsumption Architecture
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This post contains a simple implementation of Subsumption Architecture, which is now called Behavior Control. If you've read my book, you'll recognize that this code is ported to Java from my NQC and legOS implementations of Subsumption (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Painful details on RCX.pm problems
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Luis, I found a half dead 9V battery and put it in my tower. I am getting similar results, except I hang after the first or second reading. Something like: 0) 41 1) 41 And that is it. I for got to ask is it connisistantly after the 4th one things go (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Difficulty Activating Sensors in v0.2.4
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(...) Jochen, you're right on target! I put them into one of my sub-routines and it worked fine. I appreciate everyone else's help as well. Thanks, -- Gary Mayer (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | eToys has RIS 1.0
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Go to the mindstorms aisle at eToys.com, they have both the RIS 1.5 and RIS 1.0 listed, and both are in stock. Great way to get an RIS with the power jack (and, more importantly IMHO, the "notch" that allows a LEGO wire to be conveniently routed (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Painful details on RCX.pm problems
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Luis, I am here. I tryed your code. The interesting this is the first time I tryed it I got the following results with the towwer turning off after 5. But repeated runs of the program dont seem to have any problems. 0) 41 1) 41 2) 44 3) 45 4) 40 (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | [ANN] leJOS: Replacement firmware for the RCX
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The first beta release of leJOS is out at (URL) leJOS is a Java based replacement firmware for the RCX, forked out of TinyVM ((URL) practically all of its features, plus: - There is a Windows version (CygWin not required). - Much faster Sensor API. (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Difficulty Activating Sensors in v0.2.4
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(...) You have to use the commands inside of a method, e.g. in the main method. I just tried it and get the exactly the same error messages if I don't put these calls inside a method. If you think you put them in a method, make sure that you don't (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RCX.pm questions [and Linux RCX GUI question]
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(...) Wow, I'm looking forward for that. Just what I need. Sorry I don't know anything about GTK, I would have liked to help you... Jacob (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: RCX.pm questions [and Linux RCX GUI question]
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(...) Luis, You might want to look at my rcxtcl package. It has all of the stuff you need to make messages for the RCX. Currently, the tcl code makes the messages for uploading firmware bytes to the RCX, but there is a routine that will take a (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX.pm questions [and Linux RCX GUI question]
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No, I don't, but thanks for the offer. I've actually never built a GUI in anything except Java until today, but Glade ((URL) makes building a GTK gui ridiculously easy- it literally took about 30 minutes to go from knowing absolutely nothing to (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX.pm questions [and Linux RCX GUI question]
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You need any help building the GUI? I was thinking of doing a Perl Tk for my linux box. (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Painful details on RCX.pm problems
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More RCX.pm stuff in case John Quillan (to whom I'll be forever indebted, if this ever works) shows up. So I have this code: #!/usr/bin/perl use LEGO::RCX; my $rcx = new LEGO::RCX(); $rcx->ping(); $k = 0; while($k ne 10) { print($k.") (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX.pm questions [and Linux RCX GUI question]
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So, I have some more questions to anyone who wants to answer them :) (John, hope you are listening ;) 1) Do I need to recreate $rcx after a while? It looks to me that under many circumstances, repeated calls to the RCX will fail to cause the tower (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Difficulty Activating Sensors in v0.2.4
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(...) Warnings tell, that lines 120,etc are the declaration part of the program and you just redeclare ds_active and similiar functions. My advice is to look for a missing or redundant brace before these lines. -- Marek mbrudka@elka.pw.edu.pl (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Difficulty Activating Sensors in v0.2.4
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(...) Which Cygwin solution? i.e., what version of gcc? (to check, run gcc --version) (...) All that code looks perfectly fine to me. In fact, it looks like it matches line by line that I compiled yesterday with no problem. Could you post the entire (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Difficulty Activating Sensors in v0.2.4
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I'm using LegOS 0.2.4 on Windows 2000 (Cygwin solution). I receive errors when I try to compile any code that activates a sensor. I've looked at both old references and new as well as the old Dave Baum book. At first, I thought it may just be the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | MindStorms Price Reduced at Future Shop
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For anyone up here in Canada, Future Shop has the MindStorms 1.5 set for $250 CDN. This beats the usual MSRP of $300 everywhere else I've seen. Enjoy.... -Roy (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RCX Power
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(...) I've been trying to find out the optimum settings for a power adapter and the RCX. But so far no one seems to know... Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RCX.pm questions
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So, I've finally found a little bit of time to play with RCX.pm, and it is pretty cool. However, I'm having lots of problems convincing the RCX to actually do things :) it appears that in many cases, the first signal sent to the RCX is always (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem
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(...) vectorh.h is part of the C++ standard library. Apparently some systems don't have it installed by default. There was some discussion on this a while back... (URL) think the conclusion was that with ManDrake 7.1 you need to install the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RCX Power
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Does someone knows the power specs for the RCX to connect it to the home power? Thanks. Tet (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem
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(...) Thanks, I'll look at that tonight (didn't really get chance yesterday). (...) Unfortunately the versions of gcc on both my Amiga and Thinkpad (running Mandrake 7.1) bomb when trying to compile nqc: both complain that vector.h - in g++-2 on my (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RCX simulator
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I've started writing an RCX simulator in Java. A very early alpha version is available: (URL) isn't ready for prime time yet. I'm releasing it primarily in case other programmers want to start working on GUI applications that wrap around the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem
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(...) The format is described in rcxlib/rcxifile.h in the source distribution. (...) Assuming you have a reasonably modern C++ compiler (gcc is ideal), then the port is rarely more complicated than creating a special subclass of the PSerial class (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem
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(...) Nope, I've written a program to send messages to the RCX (like the send.c program on RCX Internals) for the Amiga side - I can boot into LinuxPPC or AmigaOS - and that works fine. If I can work out the format of the image files nqc generates (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem
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(...) This may not be a driver bug - it may be a hardware limitation. AFAIK, parity is most commonly used with 7 bit words - support for a ninth bit (8 data plus parity) is poor or non-existant on some UARTs. Dave (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem
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(...) This helped me track down the problem - the minute I add the odd parity bit the serial driver changes the word length from 8 to 7. Doesn't look like I can do much about it from the Linux side either. :( Thanks for the help everyone, looks like (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem
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(...) Perhaps timing is a problem. Try: nqc -t 1000 -raw 10 This forces a longer (1 second) timeout per packet instead of the dynamic retry timing. Is the output any different? Echo is coming back from the tower, which means communication between (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem
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(...) Have you tried using setserial to set the correct baud rate and other options? Also note that when using "su" it sometimes doesn't take over all the settings from the user account that you used to log on. Perhaps the sudo command would work (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem
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(...) Umm.. note the prompt ;)) I'd done an su root before testing to avoid permissions problems. This seems like a problem with nqc on LinuxPPC 3Q99, but I can't understand quite what it is as the tower obviously works - the green light is visible (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem
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(...) Did you set the correct permissions for the serial ports (normally they're only accessible by root under Linux) Do a chmod 777 for /dev/ttyS0 (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem
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Hi, I recently bought an RIS kit and from my Windows box it works fine. When I try using LinuxPPC off my PPC Amiga I get the following: [root] /home/chris/nqc/nqc-2.2.r2 >bin/nqc -v -raw 10 Tx: 55 ff 00 10 ef 10 ef Rx: 55 ff 00 10 ef 10 ef Tx: 55 ff (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Programmable RCX display
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One of the missing "nice-to-have" features with the RCX is a programmable display. It would be great if LEGO implemented this feature. One way could be to attach a number 0 - 6 for each segment of the four 7-segment numbers and set a corresponding (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Still JAVA and LNP....
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(...) There is no way to passively listen to the world. This is good for batteries but bad in all other ways. So, your listening code should send a keep-alive on a regular basis to keep the tower from dying. No way around it :| Luis ---...--- "It's (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Motor Sticking
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(...) I have about 16 motors and I have had, out of the box, 6 motors DOA... Other friends have more then 20 motors with 0 failures... I can only guess that I'm cursed with motors. S@H will replace ALL your dead motors... They did for me. Once when (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Still JAVA and LNP....
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Umm in response to my own message, would someone be so kind as to explain the following <g> : // return (short)(a + (b << 8)); return (short)(a % 256); If I use the bottom line, discounting variable b, then my checksum is correct...otherwise it (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Still JAVA and LNP....
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hey all :) Sorry to bother again, but after limited uccess with getting JAVA to cope with LNP, I've run into some (hopefully) simple problems, I'm having major problems with the checksum routine, this routine give me huge integer nnumbers rather (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: ttyS1 corrupted after using legos
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(...) Frank, I'm also using Linux (Red Hat), and had a similar problem. After using the IR tower, my modem wouldn't work on the same serial port. I solved the problem by not sharing the serial port 8?) which also allows me to connect while using the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RCX: Loose Assembly?
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(...) Oh oh. Sounds like a fault. You'd better phone LEGO and get it replaced. Otherwise you'll be unhappy for life. NONE of mine do anything like that. They are, and pardon the pun, built like a brick. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Auto Shut Off
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(...) Ok, to set the time out with RCX code you must hit the Oroboros (the sideways 8) and it will never shut off. This can be found under "Getting Started" then the far Right option on the bottom. Hope that helps. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Auto Shut Off
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(...) If I remember well there is an option on the RCX Setup (Advanced) page that will allow you to modify (and also switch off) the auto off delay. Jan (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: ttyS1 corrupted after using legos
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(...) Is the only program you are using to download things firmdl3? (...) Try also stty -a < /dev/ttyS0 and/or stty -a < /dev/ttyS1. (...) As far as I know, firmdl3 does not download .lx files. I think there is a separate program for that. dll (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Motor Sticking
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Lego customer service is really good about this (as has been written before on this newsgroup). This is a known problem with this motor. On the suggestion of the various posters, I called up Lego Customer Service (number listed on their web site and (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Motor Sticking
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(...) them (...) hand. (...) When I first got my RIS, on a finny sunny christmas morning :) I eagerly built my first bot, only to watch it veer off to the right, at first I was puzzled assuming I'd messed up the power settings, but eventually I (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
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| | ttyS1 corrupted after using legos
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Hi there, I donwloaded, compiled and used legOS 2.4 which worked all very fine. But since then, I cannot use the serial port anymore that I connected the IR-tower to. Maybe anyone has encountered the same problem and knows a solution:) I am no (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Motor Sticking
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Gaurav, Certainly isn't in my case, these motors are stalled so bad I can't get them to move at all now unless I stick a 24t gear on them and turn them by hand. Even then it requires considerable force. The cables I've tried on these motors work (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
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| | RCX: Loose Assembly?
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Howdy, I purchased the RIS for the first time on Saturday, Yeah! When I pick up the RCX, out of the box, the green back cover fell away from the unit. I'm so happy to find that that is where the batteries go! But I'm seeing this kind of thing all (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Auto Shut Off
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(...) If you have NQC, just issue the following command: nqc -sleep 0 I'm not sure if there's any way to do this from RCX Code or Robolab. Dave (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Auto Shut Off
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(...) If you set the delay to zero, the RCX will not shut off. I don't remember if the RCX Code software can set such a delay, but I know for certain you can send an opcode to do it. There are many documented ways to send opcodes if you need to go (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | LNP and the LEGO remote
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Luis previously wrote: > 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. I (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Auto Shut Off
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Hi all, How do I turn OFF the auto shut off function of the RCX? I'd like to write a program which contains some long (1hr) delays. Thanks for replies, MTapsak (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Motor Sticking
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(...) This might sound a bit silly, but it could be your electric cables. I also have a bunch of motors (most are 3-4 years old, one is 7 years old) and I use quite a bit. As far as I have noticed, they haven't had any problems. However, I have (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Motor Sticking
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Rob, Did you ever get any answers to this query? I also have three of the newer Technic motors that have seized. (Out of a collection of about 10 motors that's a 30% failure rate - not good!) I suspect that this may occur with lack of use rather (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: A reset key for pbforth
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(...) Good idea. I saw I didn't paste the definition of RESET_BUTTONS into the message. Inside the interrupt handler, the Program key hides the Run key. So Program+Run=4 and Program+View+Run=6. If I read the docs correctly this is not the normal (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: A reset key for pbforth
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(...) Ersnt, Thanks for this tip. I was contemplating using some kind of interrupting switch to the batteries, this is much better. I might make it accept a parameter which is a mask of the keys to press for the reset function. I'll integrate this (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | A reset key for pbforth
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Hi all, as I am one of those people who cannot remember the order of the arguments to DUMP, I wrote a simple interrupt handler to use RUN as a reset key (like ctrl-alt-del on a PC). Comments are welcome here, or by email. Ernst Include the following (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: text location for apps and q?
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Hello, (...) No they don't have a separate address space. I think the limit is 19456 bytes for the kernel, and this is caused by a limitation of the ROM, which is used to download the firmware (kernel). It loads it to the address range 8000-cc00. (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: ROBOLAB Constructopedia question
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Yes there is a constructopedia for RL. It is included in the Team Challenge building set, not the activity pack. The activity packs are sets of activities to implement in the classroom. The building sets either include step-by-step building (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | new legOS documentation
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Thanks to the efforts of a number of people, there is a raft of new documents up at the legOS site. Because of the growing amount of documentation, I've organized a new page to keep track of all the available docs: (URL) things up there now: *LegOS (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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Ciaran- To the best of my knowledge, no one has written such an interface. If you want to tackle it yourself, I'd suggest looking at pyLNP (URL) and the two Java interfaces that my lego + linux howto will soon list: (URL) imagine that with the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Simple question, has anyone out there written, or begun writing an LNP interface object for java ? I'd like the development environment I'm writing to keep control of my little Genetic Program RCX to be less platform specific than linux or windows, (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'll look at this and probably post it tomorrow (very, very long day, which you'd think would be surprising on a Saturday :| On first glance, it looks like a very useful document. Unfortunately, the autogenerated API docs have become more and more (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I put together a .html document that sums up the User Level functions (as opposed to the internal/Kernel housekeeping functions), Constants, and Macros. I forwarded it to Luis, maybe he'll put it up later on LegOS.Sourforge.net In the meantime, I (...) (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) biggest (...) There is a Constuctopedia for ROBOLAB? As far as I can see in the Pitsco- Dacta Catalog (c. 2000) ROBOLAB sets have "Activity Packs" which are similar to Constructopedias. I have the Teacher Notes for both the ROBOLAB Starter (...) (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) Ok, but why? Again, if you're just having fun, go for it, but don't expect it to be useful. Personally, the current interface is simple and highly functional, and a change to a file paradigm would just make it more complicated with no benefit. (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) But also for luis, it's not just about performance, it's about interface. of course there's always hack value, but it also might be useful. like many people would expect printf() or write() to stdout instead of cputs(). i don't think there's a (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) for the output device thing, the lcd isn't the only device. sensors and motors are also can be implemented as files. (...) well it's still just an idea, maybe the fork() will turn out as rfork(). doesn't really matter now. but see my other (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Yeah. I have to agree with Ross. Increased unix-ness would be nice, but additional complexity with no actual performance gain most definitely is not. That said, like the remote patch that I'll post sometime this weekend, I'll take patches for (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Well, as someone else has said in this thread, if you're doing it for fun, or to learn more about memory management / file systems, etc, then got for it. But I wouldn't expect much of it to be included in the official versions - you've got to (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) You can't implement a true fork() anyway, since you don't have memory management and therefore can't copy the address space of the parent process. John A. Tamplin LiveOnTheNet.COM, Inc. jat@LiveOnTheNet.COM 2104 West Ferry Way 256/705-7007 - (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I just have to ask why you're doing this, just for the heck of it? I mean, the output device you're writing two can hold a whopping five characters at a time. I don't really see the benefit of changing to a more complicated interface. Of (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) when i remove -O from my Makefile the kernel grew bigger, and crossed 0xb000, so i changed it accordingly, and that didn't work. so i guess there is 16k limitation for kernel and user program. (...) too bad, but there's not much to work on (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) hehehe... (...) my (...) it's from www.nogs.de/legos i think. but it doesn't really matter since i've compiled 2.95.2 and the new binutils. imel (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) The "monitor" control structure (as well as "acquire") is a very useful supplement of the existing control structures, such as "if", "while", "until", etc. Dave Baum already gave an example and with the following I also want to point out a (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 - when, where, what??
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(...) If I remember correctly it was posted to the Mindstorms Web site briefly... I've told all I know about it. (...) My hope is that the new firmware part in ROM will contain Hardware support for new Sensors. Proximity, Compass etc... Hey, I can (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 - when, where, what??
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Thanks Dean, where did you get your info - have you an inside source? Or would you have to kill me if you told me??? I was kind of hoping that the next RCX would be a bit smaller. Some nice Lithium ion rechargeable batteries. Some more I/O. More (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: LEGO 2001
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(...) Ahhhh, the lure of numbers :-) (...) Agreed. I know about a half dozen kids that have these sets, and most of them would rather watch TV! Don't forget that a lot of these kits are in schools. They are dumped on teachers that have little or no (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Have you tried using SENSOR_MODE_EDGE or PULSE? Maybe it can keep track of it better? Edge could be very useful as it can count both on's and off's whereas pulse counts only on's. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Electrical Data Link between 2 RCXs
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The following describes an "electrical data link" (one direction) between 2 RCXs (see also my subject "Connecting 2 RCXs"). The task is that one RCX sends a number (e.g. a status) to another RCX via a cable. The IR link cannot be used because they (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Does anyone send me a picture of Remote Control?
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(URL) Zang" <mikezang@iname.com> wrote in message news:39F54B7A.862188...ame.com... (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: NQC 2.2 r2 released
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(...) to get the linux packages updated as soon as I can, and the man page too. (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 - when, where, what??
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(...) Spring 2001. They have to sell of the 1.5's... From what I remember reading the 2.0 will have. USB IR Tower The power adapter port is back It will look the same as the 1.0 but will have the back raised bit (Near the power adapter port) lowered (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Isn't there anywhere in this world I can escape b******* Whnitney Houston? I thought this was a pretty safe bet.... Duq "Bernd Frassek" <bernd.frassek@aache...timaco.de> wrote in message news:G2xFGs.L3x@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi Does anyone know when the RIS 2.0 will be released or what it will contain or any other info and snippets of anything. I'd even settle for hearsay I'm getting that desperate for info. Will it be out for Christmas is the big Q? Thanks Mike (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Glad I could be of help in passing information. Brick on! Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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