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(...) Gary, I enjoyed reading about the project. I liked the article with all of the links to interesting backup material. The results are ...impressive! I have two questions: The subject model does not have a long fore & aft axis. Staying in the (...) (23 years ago, 31-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Article on dead-reckoning with a Mindstorms robot
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(...) Thanks for the kind words. The Connecticut Robotics Society (CRS) dead-reckoning contest has no special rules limiting the parts or technology used for the robot, except that it not rely on any kind of external navigation aids (such as (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Remote control patch
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I think you should modify that patch as (URL) it can't work correctly! Zhengrong (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Article on dead-reckoning with a Mindstorms robot
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Loved your article, reminds me of the great stuff the Boulette Robotics club does. I was curious why you used differential steering instead of an adder/subtractor or synchro drive, were there some rule limitations on parts you could use? "G.W. (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | ANN: Article on dead-reckoning with a Mindstorms robot
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I thought that those of you who are interested in using the Lego rotation sensors for dead-reckoning and navigation might find the following useful. This month's issue of the Seattle Robotics Society's "Encoder" includes an article I wrote about my (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Help!! no serial port in new laptop pc!!!...!!!
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In theory - this could work. The Linux IR project folks have had success with using laptop IR ports as remote control devices, but the range is short, and the viewing angle rather limited too.. I've toyed with this myself, and written some code (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Drive a motor using the sensor port - safe?
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Should be OK, the light sensor mode works by measuring the resistance of an external LDR (light-dependant resistor), so it is designed to cope with the equivalent short-circuit of a stalled motor.. the only problem might be the back-emf generated if (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: New release of leJOS for Windows
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(...) think so? Zhengrong (...) (23 years ago, 29-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | NQC can send/receive starnard firmware message to/from legOS
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Check this message (URL) (23 years ago, 29-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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How do I get the "RCX2" firmware into my RCX? I have a RIS 1.5, and would like to program to the RCX2 API as defined in the RcxCC IDE's documentation. Thanks... (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: NQC SendMessage to legOS successful!
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Congratulations! (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: NQC SendMessage to legOS successful!
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Well, legOS send message to NQC is also successful! lnp_message_write(msg); is used in legOS. Zhengrong (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I hacked legOS and make NQC sending standard firmware message to legOS, you an see the test legOS and NQC program as below, NQC program send a random message and display it, legOS program receives that message and display it. But I can't implement (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LEGO remote and LNP (legOS 0.2.4)
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(...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LEGO remote and LNP (legOS 0.2.4)
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I also combined the README, remote.c and remote.h in this patch, now a demo remote.lx can be downloaded to RCX, you can press any buttons of remote control, the "M1 on" will be displayed when pressed Message 1 on remote control, the "M1 off" will be (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LEGO remote and LNP (legOS 0.2.4)
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Thank you very much! I also found this problem at the moment, and I tested, it is ok! Zhengrong (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LEGO remote and LNP (legOS 0.2.4)
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(...) Are you using windows? Then try the attached patch. It is completely untested, as I have no windows to try on. Jochen --- legOS/util/dll-src/rcxtty.c Tue Aug 28 10:41:09 2001 +++ legOS/util/dll-src/rcxtty.c Tue Aug 28 10:42:13 2001 @@ -123,7 (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Using Lego RIS software with NT4
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(...) The answer (No!*) can be found here: (URL) RIS 1.0 and 1.5 there are links in french. -Rob Doucette. DoucetteNet LEGO® on Brickbay (URL) W2K and NT are not supported by the RIS software. There are alternatives such as NQC which can be used. (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: LEGO remote and LNP (legOS 0.2.4)
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Hi I found after used the remote control patch in legOS.sourceforge.net, the dll doesn't work, could you send me your patch? ZHengrong (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Redhat 7 and legOS
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I get the same error with 'makelx' as you describe. I'm running redhat 7.1 with the RPM's liked in the HOWTO. I would welcome any information leading to the resolution of this problem. Just to satisfy my curiosity, I may try to build the tools from (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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