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Steve, (...) LegOS? I have been looking into this (in between spending time with my family who is town and sneaking on the computer when my wife is not looking). Basically I don't know yet. If you search this newsgroup there is an individual Rossz (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Joe I think proportional timeslicing would be a nice thing if the implementation would be efficient and straightforward. I don't consider my patch to be that. Would still be nice to see a snippet of your code. How do the other kernel developers feel (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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What exactly needs to be done to 'upgrade' DJGPP to work with the new LegOS? Are these same changes required for cygwin? I assume the 'unix' part of this is done by the "LegOS Team", which means it works with Cygwin, but now someone (like Ed) needs (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Since there doesn't seem to be alot of activity in the java group (particularly for beginners), I'm posting my java version of the DiscShooter program from the Advanced Builders Set. Let's see some other examples out there! /** * @author robweeks * (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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(...) I don't expect too many people to find it. It has been removed from legOS homepage and I had to dig into some archives for the link. (...) TRUE, VERY TRUE! (...) I think the simple answer to this is "Windows users have two options Cygwin and (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I have found that using proportional timeslicing works great in many situations. It is more forgiving for new developers, since a "runaway" process will not block processes of lower priority. (runaway process used here to mean a process which never (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) You can change the batteries on any RCX (not plugged in) without losing programming. Just make sure it is turned off and change one battery at a time, so that it never loses power for more than a few seconds (maybe you also have to disconnect (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: *** Remainder: legOS new name poll ***
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How many names have neen suggested? 1? 100? ... (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Remember that the search for the new name for legOS is en route. 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 (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello Ed, problems, problems, problems :) <sigh> Never knew your DOS life is so complicated. Seems urgent to handle this for the new release (easy to say this because I don't have a DOS based legOS system...) (...) Never saw this link. (...) Really? (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello Steve, (...) I don't see a problem in the inclusion of a legOS.srec. But I don't know what happens if you compile your user programs with some other compiler then that building the legOS.srec. And I think that compiling the legOS system is a (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) OMGoodness!! That is the neatest thing I have seen in a long time!!! It's up there with Mr. Sato's dog! Keep up the great work! Dave!! (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Yes and Yes *1 Do it all the time. The 9v transformer that comes with LEGO 9V Trains is perfect for plugging into the RCX. I also have had an RCX plugged in for about a year and a half with batteries inside to boot (*not* officially (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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The 9709 RCX Programmable Brick is sold out on LEGO.com but I know that the LEGO Outlet store in Dawsonville Georgia still have a bunch, and for the same price. They will ship to anywere in the US, 706-216-2800. jt ---...--- James J. Trobaugh (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.market.shopping)
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1) Can I change the batteries when the RCX is plugged in without losing programming? Is it safe to do? 2) Can I unplug the RCX (with working batteries in it) transport it then plug it in without losing programming? Jude (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: LEGO MINDSTORMS: Robotics Invention System 2.0
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It works fine. Just make sure that you have administrator access on the machine you will be using, otherwise you won't be able to use the USB tower. (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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It works for me just fine. You have to jump through some hoops to get Vision Command working, but that too works. (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Michael, I agree with you up to ... (...) if (...) wanting (...) here. (...) And I quote from the section "A stark moral choice" in the document The GNU Project ((URL) I looked for a way that a programmer could do something for the good. I asked (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi Folks, After trying to get RIS 1.5 (that works on Win 95) and failing, I now want to get an RIS 2.0 system but would like to know if 2.0 works with Win 2000 ? Thanks, Harpreet ======== (22 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Wow. Michael, this helps a lot. Thanks. But now I have some other questions... (...) Yes, that makes sense. But having the LegOS image would save the "Beginning LegOS User" from needing to learn how to build that stuff, when that knowledge (how to (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Ok, lets try to fiddle some things out. There seems to be a confusion about the software needed for running legOS and why. And there seems to be some confusion about what cygwin and DJGPP are. legOS runs user programs written in C and compiled to (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Is DJGPP easier to use from DOS (Windows)? Can CygWin be executed from a command line? When I set up my PC with LegOS (about a year ago) I installed DJGPP (with the help of a Unix friend), and I've been very happy with it. Recently, I just set-up a (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Steve, Could you share a little more about what you have done with the Visual Studio setup? Thanks! Ed Steve Hassenplug <hassenplug@mail.com> wrote in message news:20020615231547....ail.com... (...) writing programs with LegOS. (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Michael, What I am hearing here and have heard in the past, along with my own personal experience, is that developing for legOS under Windows and more specific cygwin can be or is a pretty difficult task. Compounded on top of that is if you have (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Displaying info while debugging
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Mario (and all other pbForth users - both of you :-) I'm very happy to include ANY contributions that you may have in the source archive. Even if I don't update the actual core, I still add useful scripts to the distribution all the time. Any (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) saving the system (SAVESYS) and I would like to test it with another Terminal Emulator. Thanks Mario (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) I agree that the core should be kept small, I'm sorry for not thinking this through all the way. Please do post the definitions on this message board so we can all benefit from your work. I will do the same. (...) No ignorance on your part, a (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Ralph Hempel has one written in Tcl that be downloaded from his web site: (URL) noticed that there is also a c.l.f. newsgroup message titled 'Small terminal emulator' that is asking for the same thing to be written in a public domain Forth. This (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Hi David, If I can come up with anything usefull, I could post the source code here or send it to you by e-mail. Again, I think it's best that M. Hempel keeps the core small and that we add extensions to that core. Excuse my ignorance, but what is (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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I agree that pbForth is GREAT! Hopefully you're forwarding all your debugging words to Mr. Hempel. I noticed on the c.l.f. newsgroup in a message called 'Small terminal emulator' that Lionel Rogers is writing an introduction to programming book (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Install for legOS
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Hey All, I've talked with several people about this. First, a quick generalization: IMHO, there are two types of LegOS users: 1) Unix/Linux programmers who use LegOS as another platform for development, and don’t really care about building robots. (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: **** legOS new name poll starts now ****
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BrickOS? As in MIT's Brick project... Regards, Bill ___...___ William Sequeira, Ph.D. -- Principal, Axon Hillock, Inc. (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I'm running legOS from Linux, so I don't know Ultraedit. But if its suitable for your needs and free it seems to be a good choice. Regards, Michael (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I didn't want to have to write my programs for LegOS and then type a ton of commands only to find that I made a mistake. So I downloaded UltraEdit-32 9. It allows unix type file to be saved (This will replace the carriage return and line feed (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: GUI for legOS
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Hello David, (...) What would it help? (...) Have you ever tried legOS? First, if you are running legOS from Linux, you don't need cygwin and that kind of things. They are only needed to resemble a UNIX enviroment under DOS. And the UNIX system is (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: **** legOS new name poll starts now ****
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(...) That is why we search for a new name. The LEGO group said that they don't like legOS and all possible deviations. If you look on the official mindstorms webpage, legOS is not mentioned. On the other hand, they where so kind only to ask for a (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: **** legOS new name poll starts now ****
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(...) I'm wondering, has anyone asked LEGO for permission to continue calling it 'legOS' (emphasizing the unique capitalization)? What was the response? -- David Schilling (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: GUI for legOS
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(...) It really WOULD be nice if someone created a simplified way of getting up and running for legOS, even if it didn't actually contain a GUI interface for programming (though I by no means would discourage someone from providing THAT as well!) or (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Displaying info while debugging
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(...) Hi Ralph, You may be right because if I insert KEY somewhere in the loop, it displays the information at each pass in the loop. (...) Otherwise, I like pbForth a lot. I'm still learning the particularities of this implementation (what's in, (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: GUI for legOS
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There isn't a GUI for LegOS. I have my Visual Studio set up to do all the stuff I need to do when writing programs with LegOS. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "scott davis" <rcxman2@msn.com> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 18:02:42 GMT To: (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Displaying info while debugging
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Yes, rcxTcl is probably looking at the data coming in on the IR and buffering it until there is a pause. I'll check it out this week and send out an update if I can.... How are you making out otherwise with pbForth? Cheers, Ralph (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Ralph, Coult it be that the console (RcxTcl) does that (and not pbForth)? Thanks Mario (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) An int, 4 bytes. (...) That's right. (...) I think a complete cycle will take 49.7 days, as you have to get through the negative values, too. But I bet nobody has yet tried it. (Somewhat like the MSWindows sure crash a while ago :-) (...) No, (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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Is there a GUI for legOS like Bricx CC for NQC? If there is, is it easier to use and do you lose features useing it? Thanx scott (22 years ago, 15-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I am writing a class which can be set with the actual time and then provide the value to other classes. It only has to be accurate to the minute. I've done this in NQC, but am trying to figure out how to do it using Lejos. If currentTimeMillis() is (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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Dean, I'd be glad to volunteer to be a teacher reviewer for your documentation. I teach Robotics in the Classroom a class for teachers at WSU. The Help menu within RCX 2.0 explains each code block and gives an example of its use. I found this (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: I^2C bus with LEGO Mindstorms
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(...) You can get one or two signals per second. I tested it with the knight rider test tool from the same Elektuur project and with the 4 digit led display. This is a very old project from Elektuur ... the serial number is 920004-11 ... I think ist (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi Jan, I tested it and it's veeeeery slooo...oooww. Elektuur writes that the interface could be an extention of the RCX for more sensors you may use for your roboter. The software is written for NQC and uses some sensor functions to realize the i2c (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: LEGO cuts the price of the RCX Brick
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"Todd Lehman" <todd@lugnet.com> schreef in bericht news:GxptxE.CA5@lugnet.com... (...) overcompensate -- (...) If the LEGO US 110v adapter is similair to the Europe 220v adapter in terms of output : it outputs around 9.2-11.4v AC (note the AC, DC (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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The dutch electronics magazine Elektuur posted an article 2 months ago about making an I^2C interface for the RCX. You can download PCB layout and software at (URL) partslist is at (URL) gonna try to lend a copy from the library and scan it... this (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: LEGO cuts the price of the RCX Brick
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(...) Um, are you asking about the power adapter that you might take off the 9V train regulator, for example? My expectation is that this item being discounted is the brick only, and the brick takes in power at its input plug but does not come with (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Hallelujah! (...) A couple questions for someone with a multimeter: Does the 1.0 power adapter output a clean 9v DC? Or does it overcompensate -- at, say, 9.3v -- like other cheap wall adapters? Does the voltage drop by more than 1% while (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: LEGO cuts the price of the RCX Brick
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(...) The RCX Bricks on sale are the 1.0 version. I think that they are just geting rid of them to make space in their warehouses for other lego sets. The only diffference is 1.0 have a plug so you can use an adapter and use your outlets instead of (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX Code Documentation and FLL Coaches Training
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Hi Dean, (...) With your code on screen, press <print screen> key - this will put screen contents in clipboard. Press <Alt><Esc> to iconize Lego Software Start Paint (or a better image software) and paste clipboard in a new document. Now the real (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | RCX Code Documentation and FLL Coaches Training
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First off I want to thank everyone for their help and guidance on my FLL Coaches Training class. The Mechanics class documentation is mostly done now. I'm having a few of my engineer friends review it for techical errors. A teacher review follows (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: LEGO cuts the price of the RCX Brick
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"Tonya Witherspoon" <tonya.witherspoon@wichita.edu> schreef in bericht news:GxoCuM.8DB@lugnet.com... (...) $59.99. (...) (URL) (...) out (...) It's only for north-America... in Europe prices are still the same :( -- Jan-Albert "Anvil" van Ree | (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Well, actually not :) If users don't want proportional timeslicing the patch is completly useless, but if they do, it might be usefull. /Joel (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Do you have some examples where your patch could be useful? Eric (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Scheduler patch
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Joe I'm happy you found my patch quite interesting! I, just as you, think the kernel could be simplified quite alot. Actually my goal was initially to reduce size and overhead but I when I decided to add proportional timeslicing the goal changed. (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Scheduler patch
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Joel, I have found your work to be quite interesting! I made quite a few modifications in the kernel starting with ver 0.2.5 and had hoped to have some of the modifications included in ver 0.2.7 My goal was to reduce size and overhead which is quite (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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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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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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(...) 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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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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| | USB tower
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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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