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legOS isnt hard to setup on windows, but i think lejos is an easier environment to setup/use, especially for users who have no cygwin/unix experience.... (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Reading exceptions
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Hello, I've recently started working with lejOS and was having some dificulty with my code. When ever I get an exception, there is a buzz, the arrow under the 2 lights up, and a number like "0078 8" shows up. I was wondering how I read this number (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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I'm in the process of "reviving" past inventions with my new knowledge of legOS. One such invention (if you can call it that) used 3 12V relay switches to control external circuits. Full power on the outputs would trigger the relays. however, under (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Version 1.6 of NQCEdit is now released. This program is a front-end IDE for the NQC command line compiler that offers syntax coloring. NQCEdit is able to do most of the things that NQC is capable of: - Compile program for all targets - Download (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Way to go Ian! I'm moving along in my attempts to get the USB tower working with pbForth. The USB tower uses ODD parity, and that cannot be changed. Sooo, to all the other environment writers out there, be aware that the next version of (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) They don't, but they need bignums (really big integers). (...) the API is in java.math.BigInteger . (...) You could just run PPP over it I suppose, with some encryption (IPSec?) on top of it. Would be dead slow, though. The charm of the RCX (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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"Barney Hilken" <barneyhilken@mac.com> wrote in message news:Gsq8J6.Ds9@lugnet.com... (...) There is no direct way to interrogate the RCX with standard firmware. However, it could be simply handled programmatically. Use a global variable to set a (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Fw: exponents, e^
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By all means use lejOS, but don't think that legOS is hard to get working on Windows. Max. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dubravetz" <david_dubravetz@hotmail.com> To: <lugnet.robotics.rcx...ugnet.com> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 4:57 (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Does anyone know how to poll the RCX (with standard firmware 2.0) to find out whether a program has terminated yet? If you can see the LCD, you can see whether the little man is still moving, but can you check this from a host computer? The (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Psion 5mx and pbForth
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I've mentioned my attempts to get a psion series 5 to talk to pbForth before. I've finally got it sorted enough to be useful. Anyone with a Psion Series 5mx machine (possibly a series 5 also) may like to look at (URL) It transfers firmware and text (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: RCX as a PGP engine
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(...) If you need floating point numbers the leJOS JVM for the RCX uses floating point: (URL) seems like a very intersting idea. I actually wanted to skip the RCX altogether and somehow link up a networking protocol using just the IR Towers. One (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) It really isn't that limited when you consider other platforms that run full PK systems, such as the Dallas Semiconductor iButton. It has a much more limited processors, more limited RAM, and you write your code in Java so it has to be (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Excellent point, Benton Jackson e-mailed me with the following: (...) Good idea using a external sensor to seed some sort of random number generator function. However, the codebase for PGP is pretty darned large and after looking at the source (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RCX as a PGP engine
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(...) The key word is a "good" generator. Random() is way too predictable to use in a crypto application. (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: exponents, e^
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(...) Remote control and lejos: You can download a Java object to accept commands from the remote. Check out (URL) lejos. Roger (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Deleting Programs
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(...) If you mean wiping the firmware, press ON and Prgm at the same time. If you want to delete individual programs, I've cooked up a little C code (on the PC side) to do that. It requires liblnp and lnpd. If you want, I'll post it or e-mail it to (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Makefile command to make *.map files
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I had a similar problem with the "sort" program apparently not functioning and then someone kindly looked at my error output and pointed out that I should make sure that the CYGWIN bin path was added to the FRONT of my path as declared in my (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RCX as a PGP engine
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(...) Even if it needed FP, legOS supports that. (...) Well, maybe. Maybe not. legOS has a random() function, right? Once the TCP/IP patch is stable, why not use an RCX as an echo server with built in en/decryption? You could just telnet to it, type (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.4.2
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(...) First, you are doing a great job! The support for pbForth is a good idea. And there is only one thing to make BricxCC better, if someone port it to Linux. Best Regards Joerg (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Attention cygwin and windows users
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Quoting Ed Manlove (emanlove@ieee.org): (...) If we actually get to the point of doing another release (and thus finding a maintainer for the project, etc) maybe this is something we should consider integrating? Anyone else building on Cygwin and (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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