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It is a handy tool for separating plates and bricks. -- Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net (URL) Bagnall" <bbagnall@escape.ca> wrote in message news:GGqCwD.4A7@lugnet.com... (...) year (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Mystery Part
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The part I am having problems with is the dark-grey "foot pedal" looking part. Does anyone know what this is called or what it's used for? This has been the single biggest mystery to me since I bought the RIS kit over a year ago. (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Hardware Hacking of RCX
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Roy Wood wrote: (snip) (...) (snip) Hmm... Heres one idea that'll look REALLY good on your resume :) Asymmetric Multiprocessing: RCX -> Basic Stamp 2p40 Use the RCX to communicate with a Parallax Basic Stamp. You can use a 5v regulator and control (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Hardware Hacking of RCX
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(...) Hi, if want to use more sensors, then you might wanna look at (URL) a look at "3 Sharps using 1 input", heat up your soldering iron and have fun. Olaf Christ ---...--- If knowlege is power, how come the more I learn, the more I realize how (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: working c++ program?
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plz. I just need to how how everything is included and linked. I did declare it as a member variable. Thanks for your help! Jason P.S. You can just email it to me if you like. Thnx (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Hardware Hacking of RCX
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Considering that LegOS talks directly to the hardware, this seems like a good place to ask the following questions. I am yet again frustrated at having only three inputs and three outputs on my RCX, and am wondering at the possibility of hacking the (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: working c++ program?
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(...) Hi Jason, did you declare it as a control member variable ? 1. Project\Add To Project\Components and Controls... 2. Registered ActiveX Controls 3. Choose "Spirit Control" then "Insert" 4. Put the Spirit Control (the Lego Sign) in your (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Setup of winlnp
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Hello, I'm having problems setting up winlnp and getting it to work. I have downloaded, compiled and utilized legos 0.2.5 successfullyand have downloaded and compiled the winlnp visual c++ package. But i haven't found any thorough documentationon (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: newby question, anyway to say not greater than?
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How 'bout less than or equal ? (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Drive a motor using the sensor port - safe?
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I accidentaly discovered that when the sensor port on the RCX is set to light sensor type, a motor connected to it will run. The motor can only run in one direction with a low torque, but it can be useful when you just need the extra motion and (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | working c++ program?
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Does anyone have a working c++ rcx program? I'm having trouble getting microsoft visual c++ 6.0 to integrate spirit.ocx successfully. Maybe if I had a working program to look at, I could figure it out. I got spirit "installed", however, I can't use (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hello everyone, I am in the midst of my first programming attempt in years, attempting to discriminate 3 levels of light with a light sensor, and have it do different things depending on the maximum light intensity. This works fine for the upper and (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Lie Detector with RCX
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Fred Wolflink from Massachusetts College of Art made a nice lie detector. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on "Create your Lie Detector" (URL) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RIS 1.5 at TRU in Canada
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(...) I saw 3 copies left in my local (St. Catharines) Toys R US..."regular priced" at 199.99 ....I thought they would reduce the price before the RCX 2.0 were to come out.... I guess I have no excuses not to pick up a set....actually with exchange (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: CVS
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(...) Recently sourceforge decided to get rid of the mixed case identifiers. You should use this CVSROOT: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous...root/legos login But it is still "co legOS" to checkout the sources Jochen (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Uploading datalog - some confusion?
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(...) Are you sure about the handshake, on a PC with a serial IR-tower there is no handshake (not necessairy because the PC is the master and the RCX is the slave). (...) best regards, Stef Mientki (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RIS 1.5 at TRU in Canada
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Whoo hoo-- Toys R Us here in London, Ontario seems to have slashed the price on the RIS 1.5 down to $199CDN (about $120USD). That's a 1/3rd reduction in price and almost as good as the $150 that Future Shop online had last year. Now, how do I (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Problems installing in Win98
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Thanks for the info. I'm downloading the sources for binutils and gcc even as I write this. I'll let you know how it turns out. regards (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problems installing in Win98
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(...) You will need both source and binary tarballs of gcc and binutils, from the CygWin setup utility. You may also need autoconf, automake, flex, yacc, bison etc. -- or not, I don't know. They were installed when I did my build. You should also (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Suggested Makefile Changes
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'make realclean' causes a rebuild of .depend in legOS/util/dll-src. This is inconsistent with other places .depend files are used. dependency building in the lib branch of the tree is not triggered, and would use the old-style makedepend program, (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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