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Hello - In the past I have burned out serial port towers, so I recently acquired the USB version of the IR tower. I did not realize that NQC makes use of the lego driver - it is looking like I have to purchase an entire RIS just to get Ghost. Is (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Terminal Emulator
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Hi, I'm trying to find a Terminal Emulator that can access the IR Tower thru a USB port. So far, the ones I found can access only a serial port (COMx). Any suggestions? Thanks Mario (22 years ago, 8-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: taste of java
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Your best bet for replacement firmware is leJOS ((URL) If you don't currently know Java you could try out my book, "Core Lego Mindstorms". It has a 30 page chapter that introduces Java programming concepts. - Brian (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | taste of java
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i'm looking into the posiblities of replacement firmware and was wondering how hard it would be to learn java and what would be the best way to acomplish this (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | RE: CPR for RCX?
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(...) Me too, except that Forth gives you ample opportunity to hang the machine with infinite loops and errant pointers causing writes into the program space. On the bright side, I have been working on a trap handler for pushbuttons that will give (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Can the RCX 1.0 be upgrade to the latest RIS2.0 firmware?
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(...) Yes. (...) They are identical for all programming purposes (but early RCX 1.0 have a power plug). Jürgen "who even checked that the ROM contents is identical" (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: CPR for RCX?
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(...) Thanks. Good to know. (...) I'm familiar with that procedure, too. Thank goodness for the '-firmfast' flag in NQC... I do have another question, though (Oh, the joys of actually testing on real hardware...) 1) When I load a program, does it (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: CPR for RCX?
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From my experience, what you are describing is normal behavior for the current version of pbForth. Mr. Hempel has done an excellent job of creating a version of Forth to work with the RCX, but the work is far from complete. If you look at the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Professor Chris Rogers Visits Australia
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"Professor Rogers is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering who is currently on a Fulbright fellowship in New Zealand. He heads the LEGO Design and Programming System Project at Tufts University in Boston USA, where the ROBOLAB software (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | RE: CPR for RCX?
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(...) Matt, Just because the LCD is blank does not mean that pbForth is not running. When you power the RCX on and pbForth is the firmware, the LCD is blanked. Can you communicate over the IR link? If so, you're fine. If you DO need to remove the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: CPR for RCX?
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I don't know much about forth, but I'll try to help. I'm not sure that any firmware (normal) could keep the RCX from turning on. Try taking the batteries out, wait a few minutes, then put the same ones back in. If it turns on, it was the firmware. (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | CPR for RCX?
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Hello all, I've got a rather odd condition here with my old 1.0 RCX. It's seen just about every firmware out there, and I just nuked Lejos for pbForth. I used the NQC downloader, loaded the most recent s-record, and lo!, '4th' appeared on my (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Can the RCX 1.0 be upgrade to the latest RIS2.0 firmware?
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Can the RCX 1.0 be upgraded to the latest RIS 2.0 firmware? If it can, are there any differences, or lacks there of, between the RCX 1.0 upgraded to RIS 2.0 firmware and the RCX 2.0 that ships with the RIS 2.0? (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: bug in setting lnp host address?
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And, you'll probably hate my reply... "Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should." The very idea of a discontinuous array of bits representing a network address in something as rudimentary as LNP makes my hair stand on end. The idea (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | NQC functions in C???
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Hello all I am looking for C code for legos, to do the same as the below in NQC psksvp SetSerialComm(SERIAL...MM_76KHZ); SetSerialPacket(SERI..._DEFAULT); // Set the first unit two message bytes and send them SetSerialData(0,MANA...0x10+em1); (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Thread class
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// Thread Class for Legos // By Pongsak Suvanpong // psksvp@ccs.neu.edu // use it anyway you'd like as long as this comment is here #ifndef __THREAD_CLASS___ #define __THREAD_CLASS___ #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/dsensor.h> #include (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: bug in setting lnp host address?
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you'll probably hate me for being a nitpicker.... (...) technically, you should not do any bitshifting at all. There is always the odd case when someone decides to be clever and have a hostmask with interleaved zeros. for example, a hostmask of (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Robolab 2.5 upgrade
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I know this is a little behind the times... I have Robolab 1.5. Can i purchase the Robolab 2.5 upgrade for version 1.5? On pldstore.com the Robolab upgrade is listed as "Robolab 2.0 to 2.5 upgrade" so it seems that 1.5 is ineligible for upgrade (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: bug in setting lnp host address?
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You are correct in stating that I shouldn't have restricted you to 16 nodes X 16 ports. I did however, want to normalize the host address in the visible API and user interfaces to be a small 0..N number instead of a random hex byte value, properly (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | bug in setting lnp host address?
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include/lnp/lnp.h (from the cvs repository) 114: file://! set new LNP host address 115: extern inline void lnp_set_hostaddr(unsigned char host) 116: { 117: lnp_hostaddr = ((host << 4) & CONF_LNP_HOSTMASK); 118: } Why is host bitshifted by 4? This (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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