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Hi, I would like to be able to show some info on the Terminal Emulator while debugging, but it seems that pbForth "keeps" the info until the program is over. For example: : TEST 100 0 DO I CR . 7 1 0 MOTOR_SET LOOP 7 4 0 MOTOR_SET ; will start the (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: New LEGO Mindstorms Book
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Don, congratulations on getting your book done. Could you please include an ISBN and an Amazon link when they become available... Cheers, Ralph (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: help with setting up legOS 0.2.6 on Windows XP
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Scott, I suggest you start by following the instructions by Paolo Masetti found at (URL) He has written a pretty thorough set of instructions that should get you started. I do suggest that you read it over once BEFORE starting so you don't miss (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | help with setting up legOS 0.2.6 on Windows XP
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I'm new to legOS and would like help setting up legOS on my computer thanks scott (22 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Lego mindstorms on Windows 95...
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That's because the current IR tower requires USB and Windows 95 didn't support USB (well, except for Windows 95B but I think most of the USB drivers were custom/non-standard). It might work with Windows 95 if you get the old serial tower. I picked a (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | New LEGO Mindstorms Book
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Hi Everyone, | |I just completed a manuscript for a new Mindstorms book entitled "LEGO |Mindstorms Interfacing". This book explains using electronic circuits, |VBA(Visual Basic for Applications), LASM, NQC, and IC4 (Interactive C) |for controlling (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Lego mindstorms on Windows 95...
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Hi Folks, Could someone please tell me if Lego Mindstorms works with Windows 95 ? The Lego Web site says that it works with Windows 98 BUT NOT with 2000/NT. Nothing about 95. Please help. Harpreet ======== (22 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Mac OS X
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Ed, Thanks, I was familiar with that thread. Unfortunately not much useful info came out of it. I was hoping for a report from someone who was ultimately successful in building legOS and its tools, as well as building the cross-compilers on a USB OS (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Promising software
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(...) I went over to the colibri.org website, and while they mention that "colibri currently supports one hardware platform - the Lego RCX brick", they also say that putting it in an RCX is "not useful", and actually tell people to use legOS (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Mac OS X
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Brian, Someone recently asked the same question. Check out (URL) am not sure the results of their efforts so good luck! Ed (...) (22 years ago, 1-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Does SDK 2.0 work with RIS 1.5 (RCX 2.0)
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Hi, I have RIS 1.5 and with an RCX 2.0 brick, I have downloaded the SDK 2.0 but the sample programs report Error (0xe0050c98) from VPBrick vpb: bad (unsupported) PBrick type Is this because I am using RIS 1.5? And if so can anyone tell me if it's (...) (22 years ago, 1-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Mac OS X
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Hi, Has anyone had any success with building the legOS system under Mac OS 10.1.4? I downloaded version 0.2.6, put it in my user application folder, and then just typed make. Here is the result. [tw3rakitin:~/bin] rakitin% cd legos-0.2.6 (...) (22 years ago, 1-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LegOS / Orignal Firmware
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Thanks "Ross Crawford" <rcrawford@csi.com> wrote in message news:Gwy7Bn.DJu@lugnet.com... (...) this (...) this (...) can (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LegOS / Orignal Firmware
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(...) You can use the original LEGO download if you remove legOS first - this can be done by pressing the on/off button while holding the run button. HTH ROSCO (22 years ago, 30-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Phantom Updated (spirit.ocx replacement)
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I have updated the Phantom.dll component to fix a minor bug and some clean up of the source code. Both updated source and binaries are available at: (URL) Jacquemin kjacquemin@cox.net (22 years ago, 30-May-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | LegOS / Orignal Firmware
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Hello All! If I have installed LegOS on the RCX (I have not done this yet!) and I want to go back to the orignal lego firmware, is it still possible to use the firmware download option in the orignal Minstorm Software? or I'll have to use firmdl3 (I (...) (22 years ago, 30-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Review of "Core LEGO MINDSTORMS Progamming" on slashdot
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(URL) (22 years ago, 29-May-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Generate LASM Cmd?
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The text box to wire to the LASM Cmd connector on the Generate LASM cmd.vi can be found in the Internet menu under Functions. The commands in this pink bordered box can be entered with the text tool. (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.edu)
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| | Promising software
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Hi everybody, there seems to be a new RCX operating system starting right now. Look at the following page: (URL) (22 years ago, 27-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Generate LASM Cmd?
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Has anyone figured out how to use the Generate LASM Cmd in Robolab 2.5? Help says: “Simply wire in the lines of text into LASM Cmd and have the Begin and End wires on either side.” But how is that done? I can’t find a text tool that will produce (...) (22 years ago, 27-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.edu)
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| | Re: [ANN] pbForth Version 2.1.4 Release and Music Tutorial
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Hi Ralph, (...) Thank you very much :-) (...) I gave it a look and so I've just released the new version of my Brick's Music Studio that supports pbForth. I'm not a pbForth user yet, so I was wandering if you and Mario could give it a try :-) You (...) (22 years ago, 27-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | [ANN] pbForth Version 2.1.4 Release and Music Tutorial
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The new 2.1.4 Version of pbForth has a minor fix that affected programmers using the MARKER word. I recommend you get the new 2.1.2 GUI while you're at it because it is less agressive in stripping comments when uploading scripts. This was causing (...) (22 years ago, 25-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Setting LNP host address
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(...) Why not allow all 4? 1. Have a build option that the variable is set to by default; 2. An option on firmdl3 over-rides this if required; 3. An option on dll over-rides this if required; 4. An API (macro or in-line sub) to set it from a user (...) (22 years ago, 24-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Setting LNP host address
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At first, it seems logical that firmdl3 would be the best place to make the change. However, it was very easy to allow the Host ID to be changed at runtime. Whether changed by a user program or changed via the RCX buttons/lcd, it is easy enough to (...) (22 years ago, 24-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Review of Jin Sato's LEGO MindStorms: The Master's Technique
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Just found this review on Slashdot (URL) if the link wraps... FUT: .robotics.rcx ROSCO (22 years ago, 24-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Code-examples, books and papers in C/C++ for legOS?
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(...) The best I've seen (and I've not seen all material available) is still Luis Villa's work: his HOWTO at our site ((URL) and that which is published in the book "Extreme Mindstorms" ISBN: 1-893115-84-4 Another good source is the customized HOWTO (...) (22 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Code-examples, books and papers in C/C++ for legOS?
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(...) There are, of course, many mindstorms books out there. I see in them (I have purchased at least six of them) that the majority of code examples is in NQC. As you might know we are working on the next major release and in that context let me (...) (22 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Setting LNP host address
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(...) Joe Woolley prototyped the firmdl3 mods, I think, and has now a user program which can change the Id. This now makes 4 approaches we have to consider ;-) My thinking on firmdl3 use was that it is a direct replacement for compile time set that (...) (22 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: What is exception "StackOverflowError" in method "<clinit>"
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(...) The first time a method is called the class gets initialized, and the stack overflow happened in the initialization method <clinit>, so nothing mysterious there. (...) If your program uses a lot of memory (less than 3K free) this is a side (...) (22 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | RE: Code-examples, books and papers in C/C++ for legOS?
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Hi, please post any programs to the group, or e-mail me as well. I am always interested in looking through example code, to see how others are doing things and to get new ideas. Thanks -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com (...) (22 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: What is exception "StackOverflowError" in method "<clinit>"
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(...) Yes, you are both right (Thanks anyway) 1. TextLCD.print() works perfectly when called from simple programs 2. My code is most probably using too deep calls (Why is this not covered in the 10/10 'Core' book of Bagnall) BUT, QUESTION FOR YOU (...) (22 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Code-examples, books and papers in C/C++ for legOS?
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I am a swedish student that togheter with my colleague are working with legOS on a project: (URL) would welcome some suggestions about literature in C/C++ with legOS. Anything could be of interest. (22 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Announcing a pbForth emulator
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I started this project because I like pbForth, but having no previous experience about coding in Forth I felt the need of a comfortable environment where to test and debug my programs. I know that a good factored Forth code needs little if any (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: main() not defined?
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"Brian Smither" <bsmitherINVALID@INV...tlink.net> : (...) Sorry for that. I have typed all the code used in the book into BricxCC, and every program or code snippet has been compiled and checked before being pasted into the book. However, seems (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: main() not defined?
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Thank you, kind sir, for that small but important lesson in C programming. That was the problem. (And, for everyone's information - FEI - Ferrari's book also has Main() capitalized.) Trevyn Watson <4tee2@rogers.com> wrote in (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: main() not defined?
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(...) The code on page 107 has "main()" capitalized (i.e., "Main()") and it shouldn't. The error I get is "task 'main' not defined". I'm relatively certain it is a capitalization problem. John Hansen (URL) (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: main() not defined?
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Did you capitalise "Main"? It doesnt seem to work if you do. NQC is case sensitive, just like C. Trevyn. (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | LegOS, lnpd, and networking
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It seems to me that a lot of the discussion lately has been on networking multiple IR (infrared) clients using legOS. Is the IR tower using an ID? This would identify messages from the IR vs an RCX. Also could the addressing be extended to allow IP (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Setting LNP host address
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I've experimented with a couple of choices which were relatively easy to implement. Let me know if we should keep any these: 1. You can choose to set the host address at build time with a command-line option to make. Example: make LNP_HOSTADDR=2 (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | main() not defined?
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I get this error - "main() not defined" - when compiling. The code is copied straight from the Ferrari book. While C is the language of my choice, the line of code isn't so obtuse as to hide errors from me. So probably there is some other requisite (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | lets drop exec
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I'd like to make a suggestion and see what everyone thinks. I'd like us to drop our current thread interface (exec/kill) in favor of a pthead interface. Since theading entered legOS I've wondered why the exec style was adopted, the functionality of (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | lnpd and mandrake 8.2
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Hi, I have install the last legOS and have install lnpd to. But i have a problem when i run an applcation lnptest for example : it don't work.... Here is the problem "lnp_init: Network is unreachable". I run lnpd with the command "lnpd --nolock (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | new patch to modify LNP ID with util/dll
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I've posted a patch at sourceforge which allows you to modify the RCX's LNP id using the util/dll program. This should make life easier for those of us using multiple RCXs and LNP. This patch applies to the current CVS head, post 0.2.6, though it (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: What happened to Spirit.ocx?
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(...) Hum...so then how do I get Visual NQC to work? I installed RIS 2.0 on my computer, and try to use Visual NQC and it errors out with a "Component 'SPIRIT.OCX' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid" Is (...) (22 years ago, 19-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: What is exception "StackOverflowError" in method "<clinit>"
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(...) I have tried TextLCD.print() and it really does work. Roger (22 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: cygwin error
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(...) what do i change and what PATH? (22 years ago, 18-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: latest legOS strangeness
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(...) Interesting question. I'll try this at home with my remote and RCX loaded with standard firmware. Anyway, that could only say that the remote control knows that it has to send a OFF (brake) cmd to the RCX when fwd and rev are pressed together, (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | #9701 Control Lab building set with RCX's
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How many RCX's and what software do you need to control the Vending Machine requiring 4 sensor input ports and 5 output ports at Brickshelf's (URL) it require RCX to RCX or Scout communication, e.g., Robolab mail? Brickshelf recently added building (...) (22 years ago, 18-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.edu)
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| | Re: What is exception "StackOverflowError" in method "<clinit>"
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(...) StackOverflowError could either be a stack overflow (maximum depth is 10) or a thread that dies from whatever exception (that seems to be a bug, but I couldn't yet figure out what causes it). I suppose TextLCD.print should work, though I never (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: cygwin error
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(...) / (...) 1) gcc for the H8/300 can be called h8300-hms-gcc or h8300-hitachi-hms-gcc. You may need to edit legOS's Makefile.common 2) Is the h8300 gcc in the PATH? Max. (22 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: somewhat off topic, but...
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Repost to proper newsgroup... ===...=== I'm NOT biased because I DIDN'T write the thing... Forth is a wonderful language that has a proven track record. I don't use it in my job simply because management has never heard about it. I don't mean to (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: latest legOS strangeness
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(...) I may be wrong - 'my' RCX is actually my brother's, and is 3 hours drive away - but doesn't the remote control with the official firmware do float when buttons released, but brake if forward and reverse are pressed together? Max (22 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: somewhat off topic, but...
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I'm NOT biased because I DIDN'T write the thing... Forth is a wonderful language that has a proven track record. I don't use it in my job simply because management has never heard about it. I don't mean to imply that languages are chosen by (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: latest legOS strangeness
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(...) is (...) Not really.. braking using the current generated by the motor (acting as a generator) once the power is removed from it. H-Bridge has what is called a break bit. The break bit simply shorts the two terminals on the motor together, (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: latest legOS strangeness
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(...) Maybe make this selectable with a build option? The bad thing about brake is that it actually draws current (=reduces battery life) ROSCO (22 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | cygwin error
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i got this error while trying to setup legOS 0.2.6 i'm running windows XP scott@FAMILYCOMPUTER /legos-0.2.6 $ make depend for i in util lib boot demo ; do make - --unix NODEPS=yes -C $i depend || exit 2 ; done make[1]: Entering directory (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: latest legOS strangeness
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I was torn between 'float' and 'brake' when implementing the remote control handler. I eventually opted for 'brake' since that is how the Lego RCX firmware does it. With regard to the strange motor behavior. I too noticed this while debugging the (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Custom ROboloab Investigator projects
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does anyone know of any documentation on creating custom projects for use in robolab investigator? the manual at the tufts site ((URL) suggests such a thing exists but i haven;t been able to track it down asa yet TIA tony (22 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: latest legOS strangeness
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(...) Nope, shorting the motors has no effect on the batteries actually.. when you spin the motor, it acts like a generator... by shorting out the motor you are actually using the motors own reverse emf (electromotive force) to brake system. I (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: latest legOS strangeness
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(...) To ansswer my own question. The problem was caused by memory corruption. In this case the memory corruption was caused by downloading a very large program in slot 1, and a small program in slot 7. The loading of the program in slot 1 seems to (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | latest legOS strangeness
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I checked out the head of the CVS tree last night and was trying out some of the new stuff. I noticed something quite odd and wanted to see if anyone has any ideas. When I run programs, and the motors aren't turned on they make a stange clicking (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | What is exception "StackOverflowError" in method "<clinit>"
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When running my program (made of several classes), I get the following: (Output from the Emulator, but I get similar result on the RCX of course) *** UNCAUGHT EXCEPTION/ERROR: -- Exception class : 7 -- Thread : 1 -- Method signature : 3 -- Root (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Lingo
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No, sorry if I was confusing. EGCS is now obsolete. See (URL) and (URL) Original Message ----- From: "Samuel Winchenbach" <swinchen@eece.maine.edu> To: <lugnet.robotics.rcx...ugnet.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 3:24 PM Subject: Re: Lingo (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Lingo
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(...) EGCS was an offshoot of GCC, with the only difference being how the developers worked together (the bazaar vs. the cathedral model). Eventually, EGCS was declared the victor as most developers switched to it and it became the official GCC (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: somewhat off topic, but...
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Kenneth, (...) I wrote it so I'm biased... (...) I'll get to the ttasker in a minute, but pbForth is the only alternative firmware with native support for SERVOS if you use the simple circuit I developed here: (URL) The newest version 2.1.3 has an (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Lingo
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(...) once (...) site for it anywhere. gcc 3.0.4 was ubdated earlier this year... This whole relationship between gcc and EGCS is very confusing, especially when www.freshmeat.net doesnt even have egcs available! (22 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | somewhat off topic, but...
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anyone tried pbforth ? im doing a comparison between the different possibilities here and looking at pbforth i was somewhat intrigued, until i discovered that you cannot multitask(more than 1 thread of execution). anyone here tried pbforth and can (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Lingo
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(...) A mailing list without any posts isn't much use :-) (...) gcc is the compiler, and it uses the binutils tools. The build script just automates the several commands you would otherwise have to type. (...) Yep. You need a compiler that creates (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Lingo
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I forgot one.... arg #9) What do the patches do that come with the build script? there are two of them.... (...) scripts... (...) cross (...) together, (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Lingo
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Sorry to make so many posts here! I am a little confused by some of the lingo I see flying around... so I am going to make a number of questions... #1) In windows, why do we need to download binutils, gcc, and the scripts... what do they all do? #2) (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Hmm... install not going so smooth
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I build and install with: make ALL_TARGET_MODULES="" make INSTALL_TARGET_MODULES="" install But I used gcc-2.95.3 (pristine, not cygwin source) (with binutils-2.12, for reference) (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Hmm... install not going so smooth
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"Samuel Winchenbach" <swinchen@eece.maine.edu> wrote in message news:Gw3upA.J4s@lugnet.com... (...) h8300-hitachi-hms-gcc -O2 -fno-builtin -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -I/home/Ad (...) ministrator/legos/include -I/home/Administrato...nclude/lnp -I. (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Hmm... install not going so smooth
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I think I may have gotten closer. I compiled legOS and that seemed to work fine... I followed the instructions verbatim.... then I tried doing the following: $ cd legos-0.2.6/demo $ rm -f *.o *.lx $ make helloworld.lx h8300-hitachi-hms-gcc -O2 (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Hmm... install not going so smooth
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"Ed Manlove" <emanlove@ieee.org> wrote in message news:Gw3s5x.Cnx@lugnet.com... (...) What about these errors? /build/gcc-2.95.2/li...temp.c:29: stdio.h: No such file or directory /build/gcc-2.95.2/li...temp.c:30: sys/types.h: No such file or (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Samuel, From Paolo install instructions (under "2. Build the Hitachi-H8 cross-compiler" last bullet) "Ignore the warnings in compile process. It should work." Essentially you should get some warnings. I suggest you go ahead an try compiling the (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Thanks for everyone's help. I just decided to install all the packages.... but now I have a different problem. I start to compile the cross compiler, and everything seems to be going fine.... except at the very very end. I get the following message: (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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setup.exe Package Listing on cygwin.com will tell you that you need the libintl1 package. Probably dependencies for grep are incorrect, otherwise it would have been installed automatically. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Samuel Winchenbach" (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Samuel, Yes I have seen this error. I am guessing your install a couple of weeks ago was actually using B20 version of cygwin? or that you have reinstalled cygwin? I was moving things around and got this error along with some error dialog boxes (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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1. the Vision Command Camera and writing software for the camera 2. interfacing your software with a legOS powered robot. 1. The Lego Vision Command is actually a Logitech USB camera repackaged inside some lego pieces. There is a [mostly inactive] (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello, I decided to scrape my machine today and when I tried to reinstall legos I ran into a problem compling the cross compiler under cygwin. Here is a list of the packages I have installed: Cygwin Package Information Package Version ash 20020131-1 (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Ok i just started using freebsd and i was wondering if anyone could tell me what tools i need to install to make legos compile and run correctly. Thankx, Jason Hensler (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) It turns out to be the egcs 1.1.2 I compiled; the RPMs from sourceforge work fine. I'll try to find why my compiler was buggy... Thanks for your reply. Eric (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I wonder if anyone knows about the compability between legOS and the camera set named Vision command that are available for the Legorobot? Has anyone made any progress in trying to get it to work wíthin legOS? We are to guys at the University in (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Eric, did you ever resolve this? If not, I could try to reproduce this... but I'd need two things: 1) the type of the return value of getVarVal 2) the type of the bool typedef Also, if you could run your cross compiler with the -v flag, that (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: What about this for a new RCX 2.5 setup?
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There is stuff going on. But it isn't my highest priority at the moment :( (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) cost) (...) Replying to my own post, Why not build our own? Glue together some bricks, hollow them out and put in one of these babys: (URL) something similar. The comunity could work out building instructions and develop our own add-ons. (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) What might be doable and best is a documented bus extension (a card plug-in) slot. This could be taken to the extreme by making a cpu unit that just has power (plug-in option of course) and memory (expandable of course) and maybe the IR or (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I'd be happy with a good "official" LEGO SONAR sensor and a fixed version of the LEGO Rotation Sensor (without the lost "clicks" bug) On the RCX side, I'd like a RCX 3.0 with 6+ sensor inputs and more outputs (and more RAM. I'm using MANAS sets to (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.dear-lego)
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It looks like xdist and ydist are integers. You divide an integer by an integer, the answer is an integer. For example, if xdist=5 and ydist=10, you have 5/10, the answer is 0 (with a remainder of 5). So, if you do the multiply first, you will be (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I have built a plotter and want to draw a diagonal line of varying angles. It requires one motor to run slower then the other at a ratio based on the distance it has to travel compared to the other one. So I do something like this xspeed = (int) (...) (22 years ago, 9-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) For all of the virus creators and senders out there: if there's one thing worse than a witless script kiddie, it's a scum-sucking virus propagator. Send all of the viruses to me that you want. They'll just go to my 10GB bit-bucket. Loosers... (...) (22 years ago, 12-May-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Do NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT!! It is a virus. It has been making the rounds, it is the KLEZ virus. Thought you all might want to know. Tim Burt (22 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: [ANN] pbForth Version 2.1.3 Release
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Thanks, it seems to work much better now. Very quick turn-around time, I appreciate that. You've done an excellent job putting this Forth together, thank you for your efforts. David (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Oh, and I forgot one of the "BIGGEST" wishes on the list: 5) Linksys wireless access port response rather than the directional IR port. Or at least SOME form of 900MHz+ communication that is non-directional, with higher bandwidth (who knows...maybe (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Seems to me that the BEST implementation of the RCX would be for some CORE changes and feature sets to be built in. I realize that these would be somewhat expensive, but I would pay pretty good money to have an RCX with the following specs (built (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I have not tried to compile this, but one thing that looks suspicious is that you are using doubles. Doubles are not supported. The compiler I have (some old version of GCC) treats doubles and floats as the same type. The compiler you're using (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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The new 2.1.3 Version of pbForth has only minor fixes thanks to the investigative efforts of David Rojas and Rob Harvey. They were able to provide detailed, reproducible bug reports, which makes fixing bugs so much easier. Thanks guys! Here's what (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Can someone using the egcs compiler suite test the following code? It seems it doesn't compile under egcs. int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { double foo = 1.0; return foo > 0.1 ? 0 : 1; } Compiles fine under gcc 3.0.3. Regards, Michael (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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When I try to compile a program containing the following function: bool tr_guard_foo_loc2_t0() { return getVarVal(&var_foo_cl) >= 0.1; } I get this error: /tmp/ccyEbqnS.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccyEbqnS.s:237: Error: cannot create floating-point (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Would it be possible for you to send the entire source? I would like to see how it interacts with the rest of the program. Thanks for your help. "kenneth johansen" <kennethj@stud.cs.uit.no> wrote in message news:3CDAC372.34D72C....uit.no... (...) (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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