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"Stef Mientki" <s.mientki@ids.kun.nl> wrote in message news:3A9C14C9.76834B....kun.nl... (...) Nice work. I've found the contact resistance of the LEGO switches vary so much you can't get a 4 way mux to work reliably. With real micro switches I'm (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Positioning with the RCX - a pragmatic approach
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I have daydreamed about the concept of 'mapping' a room using the datalog. The general idea would be to use the rotation sensor to measure out a room in 20 X 20 cm sections and log a 'zero' for clear sections and a 'one' for obsructed sections. I (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Simple RCX-PC communication
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I to am working on a final year cs project and had exactly the same problem :) - I solved it by using the cygwin on win2k solution..very good :) And I wrote a small java package to deal with all the lnp stuff, so I could use java, now this will work (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Cygwin question(s)
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(...) Unfortunately not. :\ (...) Depends on how much you want to learn. If you really, really want to learn Unix, I strongly recommend the encyclopedic "Unix Secrets" by James Armstrong. Well written, great examples, and covers everything you might (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Simple RCX-PC communication
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(...) I guess I ought to add that WinLNP isn't any good to me since I want (as far as possible) to use the same code on both linux and windows, and besides I don't have any suitable windows dev tools. Kieran Elby (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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