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Don’t forget Nostarch Press! They have 2 great books that are definitely worth looking at including Jin Sato's LEGO® MINDSTORMS The Master's Technique. I had the privilege of building his robotic dog last night and really had a lot of fun with it. (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | BricxCC release 3.3.7.2
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Version 3.3.7.2 of BricxCC is now available. It fixes a bug in the Brick Piano (introduced in the previous version) which made it impossible to save the music to a file or to the clipboard. Music saved from the Brick Piano can now be in NQC, (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: no long range IR from laptop says Lego
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(...) Its USB descriptors say there are two configurations with 100mA (I think these are for low and medium power), and two that require 500mA (high power mode). The LEGO USB Tower Interface Reference doesn't go into more details. Jürgen (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: no long range IR from laptop says Lego
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Kindly offline I am informed: yes indeed, some laptop designs have been seen to support less than half of the specified 500mA max load for USB bus power. I wonder how many mA the USB IR tower does need. Pat LaVarre (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: H8300 Cross Compiler for Mac OS X (a start ...)
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Once again, WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! I have NO prior experience with the Mac or Mac OS X. So use these instructions AT YOUR OWN RISK. I am NOT responsible for any damage you might cause to your machine. Within step 5, you can download gcc ver 3.1 (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RCX assembly instructions of Lego quality
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(...) Hi Pat, Syngress has two books out dedicated to RCX models. (URL) One of the Robots in the Ultimate Builder's book is mine. It is a two legged walker. The newsgroup (URL) is dedicated to building instructions. From there you can get to the (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | no long range IR from laptop says Lego
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Does the Lego USB IR tower, when set to long range, sometimes draw more than the 500mA allowed? Or do laptops generally not reliably supply 500mA? Or are we facing some deeper analog issue here, like not ramping up to 500mA from less mA fast enough (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: usb to ris 1.x rcx ir how
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(...) Contributing evidence includes the Lego claim that the entire new kit can be made to work in Win XP: (URL) happy to announce that Robotics Invention System 2.0 will install and run on Windows XP, if special installation instructions are (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: now normally baumfamily != enteract
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(...) (URL) correctly points to: (URL) now responds to a text search for "NQC". (...) To get a mail form to try, all you have to do is choose the Support button rather than the Customer Service button and accept a division of the community by (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: measure distance traveled
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(...) I'd use a dual differential drive with (one motor fwd/rev, one motor turns) to ensure a straight line of travel and the a rotation sensor to measure the wheel rotations. If you don't have a rotation sensor use a light sensor to emulate one. (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: measure distance traveled
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I'm not a professional or anything, but your idea could run into the robot pulling to one side, and not going the exact 1 meter. if you had two rotation sensors (not exactly RPM sensors), the error would be greatly reduced in both the distance and (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi all, I'm a CS student and I have to complete a practical assignment in which a robot has to drive 1 meter straight forward, make a 90 degrees turn and then drive another meter (course administrators will also place obstacles which have to be (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: usb to ris 1.x rcx ir how
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(...) Ah, slowly I clue in, thanks, now I have found: Lego Mindstorms(TM) 2.0 Upgrade Kit (3805) (URL) to itself that page appears labelled with only "2.0 Upgrade Kit". (...) Thanks for saying. Back at that link, I see only Win 98/ME mentioned, no (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: reading music thru an RCX
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(...) Thanks for the news, I'll look forward to that release. (...) As yet this I am unable to evaluate. I wonder if I've grabbed the right stuff to convey to my RCX? (URL) Two releases, 2003-01-15: (URL) 2002-12-05: (URL) tried 2003-01-15. I see (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: reading music thru an RCX
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(...) Something quite like what you describe is the Brick Piano in BricxCC. Unfortunately, in the current release there is a nasty bug that I just added which makes the Brick Piano mostly useless at the moment. It is fixed in the next release (which (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: reading music thru an RCX
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(...) Without being able to answer the question, I can add that relevant Unicode may include: (URL) bytes) u1D11A five-line staff u1D11E G clef u1D112 F clef u1D13B whole rest u1D13C half rest u1D13D quarter rest u1D13E eighth rest u1D15D whole note (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | reading music thru an RCX
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Anybody already write code to play notes thru the RCX as they are chosen, keep a history of the notes, replay the assembled tune, etc.? --- I think I mean to be asking for a public domain GUI. Courtesy l.r.r. recently, I've already got .java code (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: newbie troubles (now they in packs of 2)
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(...) Say "directory naming semantics" instead of "FS", and you are correct. And yes, that is one of the core features of Cygwin! (22 years ago, 9-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: newbie troubles (now they in packs of 2)
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(...) What do you mean /usr/local/bin? That's a Linux directory, unless Cygwin somehow emulates a complete Linux FS. (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: newbie troubles (now they in packs of 2)
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To the group, please. I will quietly delete any responses not copied to the group. (...) Is there h8300-hitachi-hms-gcc.exe in /usr/local/bin ? Max. (22 years ago, 9-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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