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(...) Hi Pat, The hassle-free approaches: www.bricklink.com, www.ebay.com, www.auctionbrick.com and what Lego offers on the www.lego.com website (look under accesories). If you are an educator, find out about the Lego Dacta product line (you can (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Sending this to lugnet.robotics.rcx....ugnet.com. I'm not the sole source of brickOS wisdom. (...) Define "everything". (...) Did you build a cross-compiler? Unsurprisingly, Cygwin doesn't come with a compiler targeted for a lego brick. Max. (22 years ago, 9-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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With access to a Mac OS X 10.2 this week I have made an attempt to build the cross compiler set under Mac OS X. Currently I have an issue with sysinfo.c with the binutils build. But for those interested here are my steps so far. I will post more as (...) (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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1. Hardware upgrade to USB IR tower: Dacta is Lego's educational division. For some reason, in the US it is known as Pitsco. The Pitsco link you have found is the only way I know of getting a USB IR tower on its own. It does not need batteries. 2. (...) (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Where do I go to find more RCX assembly instructions of Lego quality? For free or for money? I ask because I know a six year old who can now confidently assemble a robot from the Lego instructions. I think because those instructions show and count (...) (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) ... but I found nothing. Anyone willing & able to fix that? Seems like that might be a service to newbies. Pat LaVarre (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Not in any detail. Please can someone elaborate? (...) Thanks for saying, sorry I need help rewording these questions to get them to be more absolutely unambiguous. (...) Can I somehow fix the Lego software for dramatically less than an (...) (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) From offline: (URL) I before the store shows whether or not the store ships internationally." Searching for: USB infrared transmitter yields "No Item(s) were found". Searching for: USB IR tower yields "New" "Black Electric IR Transmitter Tower (...) (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Thanks for saying. (...) I'm often in the US, thanks for asking. Is an example of "Lego/Dacta" such a thing as: (URL) Transmitter (PC and MAC) W979783 Infrared Transmitter (USB) US$29.99 ? (...) I ask because, searching the web again now, I (...) (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi, all, I release new version of the JoyBricx. (URL) I make the program named JoyBricx for remote control (...) The new version support RCX/SCOUT, too. It can export the NQC program. Enjoy ! -- mac (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) I agree with you Miles. That's a lot of money. The product appears to be targeted towards teachers who probably will have to convince administrators to buy it. It also appears to have a 'one classroom' license as I recall. So who is the (...) (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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Hi people, I´m working with lejos 2.1 and the serial tower. I was trying to send a matrix of floats from the PC to the RCX using as a model the DataInputStream and DataOutputStream examples that came with lejos. The problem I have, is that I´m (...) (22 years ago, 7-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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--- From: Kekoa Proudfoot [via Pat LaVarre] ... About message framing, I would not say that the designers at Lego had something specific in mind for RCX-to-PC messages. Framing for those messages is very ad-hoc. One thing which is very useful is the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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--- From: Kekoa Proudfoot [via Pat LaVarre] About rcx_comm.c waiting twice, I see where the confusion is now. If no bytes are available, the wait will be T. If some bytes are available, obviously you have to wait at least as long as it takes for all (...) (22 years ago, 6-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I don't have this answer, but I can elaborate the question in Two ways: 1) For fear of being mistaken for spam, I chose not to reuse the n=1918 Subject "green light to win". 2) The three fragments of my report of a constant green light in Win (...) (22 years ago, 6-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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--- Titled & posted by me for Kekoa Proudfoot About the tower's constant green light in XP, is this problem seen by everybody using XP? --- End Post (Kekoa's not now able to receive authentication email) (22 years ago, 6-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Lego's IR protocol is proprietary, similar to that used by remote controls. This means that USB/IrDA bridges will not work, nor will the IrDA ports of laptop computers. If you have a universal remote which connects to your computer, you might be (...) (22 years ago, 5-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Yes or no, sorry, depending on what we mean by "a USB IR tower". If I may try again, I mean to ask: What should I buy in place of the USB IR tower of an entirely new RIS 2.0 kit? I bought an RIS 1.5 kit in 2001, I'm now beginning to lose my (...) (22 years ago, 5-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Roger, I'd seen LeJOS mentioned but hadn't considered it as an option...that should really work well for what I'm doing.. Thanks, Jeff (22 years ago, 5-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Do you mean use an RCX 1.0 with a USB IR tower? Nothing special required. The IR protocol is the same. The PC software, however, must support USB, and I don't think the RIS 1.0 software does. (22 years ago, 4-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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