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"Rainer BalzerowskI" <balze2@gmx.net> wrote in message news:G7K0HL.724@lugnet.com... (...) work out the power supply part. Probably taking all the power from the Motor Output or a 9V battery box so you wouldn't need D3 and D4. (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Interfacing Sharp's GP2D02 Distance Sensor to the RCX
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(...) Another option would be a small battery box, if you have enough space in your model. Jürgen -- Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr> (URL) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | pbForth is fun!
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I had approached pbForth two or three times in the past, always failing to manage what I thought was a steep learning curve. The truth is I probably was too lazy to put the necessary attention into it, or I was in a hurry to program my robots to (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Interfacing Sharp's GP2D02 Distance Sensor to the RCX
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(...) I agree ! (...) How depressing. :-( (...) Of course ! But, it's possible to drive more then one of these sharps with one output. And shouldn't it be possible (without large effort) to use the input-power to multiplex some of the GP2D12 ? (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Interfacing Sharp's GP2D02 Distance Sensor to the RCX
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Ralf Krause <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:B691251F.ED3%no...@web.de... Michael, please tell me how you can write that the power can " ... provide 30 mA of power to operate other sensor electronics." As I 've tested it seems that (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Cybermaster: Cannot receive though sending works (w/o sprit.ocx)
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Hi, I've written a small Visual Basic program so I can use Cybermaster under Windows 3.1x. (So I cannot use spirit.ocx.) Sending commands works (motor on/off, sound, etc.). But I don't get any echo. I cannot get any sensor data, and I can't see if (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.cybermaster, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Interfacing Sharp's GP2D02 Distance Sensor to the RCX
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Hi, I asked this problem a few weeks (or months??? ... I don't know a what time ...) but nobody could help. I got the same following answer ".... the sensor takes 35 mA and this is to much for the RCX ..." but I couldn't understand this at this (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: Anyone made animatronics with the RCX yet?
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(...) I know this only works with pbForth, and it's not ALL Technic, but you can drive standard servos with the RCX. Here's how: (URL) You can even drive pneumatic switches with the servos... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Anyone made animatronics with the RCX yet?
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(...) I tried to have my Raptor puppet set up with Pneumatics but I gave up because I couldn't find a decent way of triggering it. The ways I had it were way to slow and painful. Has anyone come up with a great way of using pneumatics with (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: LegOS 0.2.5 and LNP
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(...) Ok. Checking and testing never hurts :-). (...) It's not for performance, but for correctness. The old code was like this: if(lnp_addressing_ha...ler[port]) { ... lnp_addressing_handl...th-2,src); You first test lnp_integrity_handler and then, (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) you may see (...) give access (...) the handlers (...) My only (...) depend on. (...) introduce a (...) this point to (...) I think that we can use safely (CONF_TM || defined CONF_HOST) condition. I'm checking the whole patch and I think that (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'd like to make some sort of Disney-style animatronic robot with my RCX. This would involve using all three motors to control a Tiki Room-style parrot, for example, with a rotation sensor on each motor. Programming the robot would involve running a (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX 1.0 Power Jack/AC Adapter Question
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(...) I've ran my RCX 1.0 on a train power adapter for 2 weeks straight. No problems. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX 1.0 Power Jack/AC Adapter Question
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You can use any of the AC adapters from the 9V train sets on the RCX 1.0. I use the ac adpaters from the 4561 and the feight train (red and black) and I have never had any problems. Ahui (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I just snagged another 4561Railway Express. I believe I recall reading that the AC adapter in that will work with my RCX 1.0. Can anyone confirm this? Thanks, Thomas (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Gearing down a lego motor
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Hi, Before I invest a lot of time on this, what is the minimal gearing I need to do in order for a Lego motor to let itself up. How about a lego motor lifting itself and another motor up? I want the motor to be powerful but at the same time fast... (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LegOS 0.2.5 and LNP
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(...) I cleaned up my code (found one bug!), the patch follows. As you may see now there are two semaphore, because two are the resources to give access to: the LNP buffer and the IR port. I modified the calling of the handlers to avoid race (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Vison Command & W2K
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I bought a Vision Command set and found that the LEGO software installer detects NT & 2K and refuses to go further. However, the CD for VC has 2k drivers and the QUICKCAM program works fine. Anyone have a way around this problem? (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: undefined reference to `___ucmpsi2'
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(...) With regards to this, it appears that Markus left out two necessary functions in lib/mint. Specifically, cmpsi2 and ucmpsi2. These are a part of librcx but apparently they were omitted from LegOS when Markus included support for the other (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Another way to avoid Float
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For the navigation of my robot, I do not plan to use float or trig function. I will use long integer (32bits). the high 16 bit are the true integer value. the low 16 bits are 1/65535 value. let say 1 = 0x00010000 2 = 0x00020000 2.5 = 0x00028000 2.25 (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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