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[Ian: I realized I'd forgotten a sentence just after pressing send. So this is not quite a duplicate of my previous message.] (...) It may be worthwhile trying the latest brickos testing release, 0.2.6.09, IIRC. (...) Everything under Cygwin is a (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Newbie NQC Spybot problems
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(...) I highly recommend using BricxCC instead of ScriptEd. The editor will syntax highlight your code. It provides a full-featured editor with undo/redo, keystroke macros, code completion, parameter completion, procedure lists, code explorer, and (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Newbie NQC Spybot problems
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"John Hansen" <JohnBinder@aol.com> wrote in message news:H92uu0.Bxz@lugnet.com... (...) codes (...) ordinary (...) in (...) do (...) applies (...) John Many thanks for the quick response. The 'repeat' problem realy had me stumped. Last time I (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Newbie NQC Spybot problems
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(...) This is interesting. When compiled with RCX2 as the target it yields: 000 pwr ABC, 7 13 07 02 07 004 dir ABC, Fwd e1 87 006 setv var[47], 3 14 2f 02 03 00 011 decvjnl var[47], 30 f3 2f 11 00 015 out A, On 21 81 017 wait 200 43 02 c8 00 021 out (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I'm trying to send some data from the RCX to my computer, using lnpd, but I have the following problem: it seems that I cannot send more than 6/7 bytes, because after this limit I have a lot of errors from lpnd (see the log below). The tower and the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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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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