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On the Lego website the price for an RCX has been cut from $119.00 to $59.99. (URL) the great price - what's up with the RCX? Is LEGO about to roll out a new RCX? Has anyone heard anything? Tonya Witherspoon (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Scheduler patch
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Hello! I've been doing some changes to the legOS scheduler. Now execution-time of user tasks are proportional to priorities. See (URL) are made to legOS 0.2.6 and I didn't manage to get a working diff file, so just download the following files and (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: seting up legos 0.2.6
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"Ed Manlove" <emanlove@ieee.org> wrote: <snip> (...) When you install from the net, setup.exe actually still d/loads and saves files locally, in a subdirectory with a long funny name (containing the name of the host you d/load from) in your "package (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: USB Tower support for linux
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(...) Lack of time. But everybody is welcome to work on it. (...) No problem, the bricks are identical for all practical purposes (actually that's what I do all the time). Jürgen (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | USB Tower support for linux
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Hi all, Does anybody know why legoUSB effort is inactive since 09 January of 2002.I have a RCX2.0 brick and I would like to try with the legos. I'm not interested in any MS Windows host development platform solution while I find linux alternatives (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RCX <--> Pocket PC Communication
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Has anyone tried to communicate with the RCX using a pocket pc? If you have, I would like to know how. (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: seting up legos 0.2.6
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Scott, I only downloaded the ones listed and got it running for the most part. I did come across a few errors which seemed to be easily solved by downloading one or two packages other packages. But I am not sure if it was just user error as compared (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: seting up legos 0.2.6
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(...) Full setup of cygwin = very large You certainly need not get the XFree86 and texmf packages unless you are interested. Max. (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | seting up legos 0.2.6
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when installing cygwin is it best to download all the components or just the ones listed. scott (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Lego mindstorms on Windows 95...
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Or swap a USB tower for a serial one with someone - I'd certainly swap mine for a USB. "Richard Carver" <mylegostuff@thecarverzone.com> wrote in message news:E17EbGv-00054I-...box.com... That's because the current IR tower requires USB and Windows (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX schematic
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(...) (URL) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RCX schematic
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Hey, Does anyone know where to find a schematic of the RCX, or at least know what output ports map to the sensors and motors? Thanks -Brent Talley (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Powered off, but still on?
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(...) Funny, I just posted an article here about something similar. I started using LegOS a few days ago, and had the following problem a few times: after a power off period (of several hours) the power on did not produce any visible effect, and the (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LegOS shorting the batteries?
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Hi, (I'm new to Mindstorms and new to LegOS so excuse me if this is a stupid/obvious question.) I'm using LegOS 0.2.6 on w2k. I built a simple rover robot, and a program to control it (2 touch sensors, a ligth sensor, 2 motors) in C, and upload it (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: problem using emulegos
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First off what OS are your running on? I do all emuLegOS development under Linux (Mandrake 8.1, not that it should matter), so if you are on any other platform you may run into issues. Of course emuLegOS should work on just about any Unix as long as (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | **** legOS new name poll starts now ****
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Let us start the "new legOS name project". The procedure is the following: 1) send your name proposals (10.06. - 22.06.) Please mail me your name ideas. Do this with a personal e-mail to: legOS-namepoll@gmx.de The subject line should read (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Powered off, but still on?
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Recently, I went to use a couple RCXs that were loaded with LegOS. These two had both been used previously (about 1 to 2 weeks ago) but should have both had plenty of battery life remaining. I found that they both had drained the batteries (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Here I go...
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Well, I've just volunteered to give a presentation on LegOS at Brickfest 2002. I don't think I'm the most qualified person to present LegOS, but I am willing. And that seems to be the only real requirement! First, I'm a programmer (VB), and I've (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | problem using emulegos
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hi all, im having problem using emulegos 1.2.5.0 with legOS 0.2.4 i have used legOS 0.2.4 for over 1 year now withouth any problems (including lnp), but for some reason when i type make in ~/hovedfag/emulegos/...ples/rover i get: makefile:8: (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: USB tower
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(...) Ghost is included with the 2.0 SDK - (URL) USB support is different on every platform. For platforms that Lego supported, I needed to work through their drivers - otherwise people would have to install one set of drivers for NQC, and another (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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