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Hi everyone, I've been struggling to get legos 0.2.6 working for a few days now, and I'm beginning to make a little progress. Using the insturctions at this site: (URL) finally got the thing installed under XP (Dosn't seem to want to go under win98 (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Sensor Sampling; Progress?
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The Lego firmware cuts power for about 200uS, with a period of 3mS. So most sensors have to have enough capacitor based power storage for the full 200uS and be able to run on about 93% duty cycle. (The rotation sensor is one of the devices on the (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Sensor Sampling; Progress?
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(...) Yes. (...) individually (...) That's right. (...) I agree. With the current firmware, power gets cut off to all 3 sensors for ~85us (sometimes longer). With the scheme I mentioned, power would be cut to only one sensor for ~25us. The sample (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Sensor Sampling; Progress?
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(...) What OS are you using? How far have you got? Max. (22 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Sensor Sampling; Progress?
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I have been following this thread with great interest for two reasons. One day, someone will be persuaded to provide me with direct help and assistance in getting BrickOS running on my laptop - perhaps at BW or BF. I have built quite a few prototype (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Sensor Sampling; Progress?
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Joe, Great job on taking the bull by the horns! The following are my suggestions on a system configuration. Please note that the term "divider" is being used here to indicate the function should only be performed every Nth interrupt. OCRA interrupt (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Sensor Sampling; Progress?
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So far, I have reconfigured a copy of BrickOS in the following way: 1) Adjusted the clock_handler to improve the accuracy of the sys_time variable. Now running at very close (if not right on) 1 msec per tick. 2) Allowed the FRC (Free-Running (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: fast download with Serial-Tower is no faster
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(...) Frederic, lejosrun does not support 4x download. It has a -f or --fast flag but the "use_fast" variable that this sets is not used. lejosfirmdl does support 4x download with serial towers. It does this by first downloading a fast firmware (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | fast download with Serial-Tower is no faster
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Just got my second RIS, a 1.5 with Serial-Tower this time. I did not installed any other software than the previous I had (Win98, JDK1.3, Lejos 2.0, USB Drivers for Lego-Tower). I have just set RCXTTY=COM1. Problem: when doing a "lejosrun -f (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: DISTRIBUTED/PARALLEL CLUSTER for legOS through n*RCX
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Nick, What you propose it's another way, and of course, should work, but we might have to create another software layer over the current operating system of the RCX (of course, legOS), and we would loose 1 sensor per RCX. What I was trying to (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: IR Proximity Detection Problem
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(...) A friend of mine attempted this setup a while back and came to the conclusion that he basically needed to be nearly perfectly perpendicular to the object he was trying to detect. So he decided this was way to precise/finicky for his general (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: BricxCC 3.3.7.1
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(...) Sure. I've made that change now but I will wait for a few more updates before I put out a new release. Thanks, John Hansen (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: IR Proximity Detection Problem
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Dean, Philo, Thank you both very much: Including the sensor monitoring in a "repeat"-loop brouhgt the solution. Works quite perfect. I guess "SendMessage" is somewhat slow, i. e. the IR-emission/reflection. Now I am going to even improve the (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: BricxCC 3.3.7.1
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(...) grab this update, but just in case it's not in this one, can you add to your list to add to the next release the file suffix .nqh to NQC files? Thanks again! (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | spyutils.nqh
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I have attached to the end of this message the spyutils.nqh file I've been compiling. It's not got a lot in there yet, just the routines defined as "utility" in the Lego Spybotics ROM SDK plus the SendRCXMessage. I'm aiming toward this file being (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics)
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| | BricxCC 3.3.7.1
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I've uploaded release 3.3.7.1 of BricxCC to my website. This adds a couple new features and fixes a few minor bugs. 1. Built-in MIDI conversion to NQC, MindScript, LASM, C, or Pascal. See Tools/MIDI Conversion. You can save directly to a file or to (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: DISTRIBUTED/PARALLEL CLUSTER for legOS through n*RCX
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(...) An interesting idea. Presumably a light sensor alone would suffice, as it could be switched between active/passive mode to turn the LED on/off. You couldn't get high bandwidth, but there wouldn't be interference. Also, this would take multiple (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: brickOS with BricxCC
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(...) Well, I guess I am one of the two :) Its nice to know I am on the cutting edge of things. Actually I am probably one of the few BrickOS users that is too dumb or impatient to deal with cygwin or unix. (...) Seems fine to me. I think all we (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: IR Proximity Detection Problem
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(...) Dirk, I had a similar problem when I first tried, eventually determining that I wasn't measuring the light sensor value while the message was being sent. You have to wait a little bit after sending the message before reading the peak light (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: IR Proximity Detection Problem
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Maybe the ambient light is too high ? in that case you can decrease visible light sensitivity as well as shielding detector from red LED light using this method : (URL) (only hope that this doesn't offend your "Lego purity" sense ;o) Philo (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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