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(...) BricxCC is making some progress with respect to pbForth support. I've got a terminal emulator of sorts that is working. I just need to get it hooked into the rest of the application and add XModem downloading to it. By late next week it might (...) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Maths functions
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I'm having trouble finding a maths header file. It's usually called "math.h". I need to do stuff like sine and cosine, and use the "abs" function to make a number positive. Does a file like this exist? Are there any plans to incorporate a maths (...) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Current state of pbforth
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(...) Yeah, I haven't quite got around to implementing cut-and-paste... You can use Hyperterminal or any other similar teminal emulator set to 2400,n,8,1 once the firmware is loaded. Unless you have a USB port. OK, if you really need this, then I (...) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Threads within threads
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(...) Have you tried to run this code? I wonder what will happen "in real life". Actually, main will start monkey and cow as fast as possible. I think this will crash your stack after a short while. Regards, Michael (21 years ago, 29-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Is it possible to use threads within threads? In the example below (with all 6 threads having different priority levels), how does the priority setting of each thread affect it being executed earlier than other threads? I mean, I assume that thread1 (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: leJOS & BricxCC news
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(...) works (...) and (...) as to (...) BrickOS (...) both (...) I'm no expert on leJOS, but I've experienced a similar problem with my LDCC firmware and the NQC downloader. Originally the memory sequence in my .srec file was non-contiguous (i.e. (...) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | leJOS & BricxCC news
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I have BricxCC compiling and downloading leJOS programs now. The support for leJOS is integrated in much the same way as BrickOS support is. BricxCC generates a Makefile and executes it using Bash. So GNU make and bash are required for it to (...) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Current state of pbforth
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(...) Ralph Further to my original question I've generated the appropriate words to decode the dictionary. My second question is how to print out the contents of the tcl consol windows as I dont seem able to do a cut and past from it thanks. Dave (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: does anyone done RS232 to RCX sensor input port?
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(...) that's not really cool .... cause RS232 i/o is use by IR :/ nanobapt (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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does anyone done RS232 to RCX sensor input port? (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Lego Mindstorms SDK 2.5
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(...) Have you tried running the EXE under Wine? (21 years ago, 22-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: USB vs Serial Tower Response Time
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(...) Dick If, by chance, BricxCC (or NQC) happened to be the popular program to which you refer I'd love to hear more details about your software tests and the code you use for communicating with the RCX via the USB tower. I'm not particularly (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Dick, thanks for posting this information. I have some USB code I need to do some more work on and this should prove very useful! Mark (21 years ago, 22-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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The exe is for windows, it's actually an installer, but if you would like me to send you the pdf files I'd be glad to. -AK -- (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Lego Mindstorms SDK 2.5
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I am unable to extract the Lego Mindstorms SDK 2.5. Inside the zip file is just a Windows executable which does not seem to be either a zip or rar self extracting archive, does anyone know where to get a copy of it in a normal archive format, or how (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX convert from AA to Wall power.
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Wow, I'm sure glad I have the RCX 1.0 with the power jack... I didn't even know the newer ones didn't have it until I started to visit LUGNET...It's something I couldn't live without, not to mention the battery contacts are unreliable... (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: USB vs Serial Tower Response Time
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Wow, that answers a lot of questions, all but one: why is the USB's 'long range' shorter than the Serial's distance? Was my speculation of the available power true? (500mA vs 9v ... not sure if these two measurements can be compared) (...) <snipped> (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Spybot Zones
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(...) (URL) think that link will give you a good idea of how to get spybot distance and direction. It also shows how to setup byte code commands in NQC. (URL) link has more samples showing how to talk to the spybot firmware using NQC's asm (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | RE: USB vs Serial Tower Response Time
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(...) <snipped long post> Dick, This is a remarkably detailed analysis of the difference between the USB and serial towers. It also contains many useful hints about the preamble bytes and other esoteric things about the LEGO protocol. I have an dea (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | USB vs Serial Tower Response Time
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Several recent posts have mentioned significantly slower performance of the USB Tower when compared to the serial Tower. After several measurements, I've concluded that the USB Tower is "natively" only slightly slower (~20 milliseconds per message) (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: Current state of pbforth
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Dave, Check out the most recent version of pbForth and the docs and sample programs here.... (URL) Ralph (...) (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) Tom, What is this two-day workshop on RCX code that you mentioned? Ed (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Spybot Zones
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Can anyone tell me how to set-up byte code commands in NQC? I want to use some of the Spybot Firmware commands for robot distance and direction to make two spybots work together, but I don't think that functionality has been added to NQC, yet. If (...) (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) Christoph, No, I have not yet solved the problem, but I intend to get back on it soon. I've been busy the past week preparing to present a two-day workshop on RCX Code. Now back to BrickOS (if I can get it working). What a change of gears! Let (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: gcc-3.3 - multi-line string literals
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Thanks for the patch....but... Sorry to be such a NOOB but...how does one go about using this patch? I've gotten things to compile/make, generating .srecs and .lx's but sick and tired of scrolling through those deprecated multiline warnings. I'll (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Current state of pbforth
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Hi I'm new to pbforth and after trying it out I'm not sure what state it is in. I'm baseing what I do on the guide in extreme mindstorms. After some research I find a number of words no longer exist. Is there a way to produce a library check word (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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.... (...) Hi Tom, I've exactly the same error coming up istalling brickOS 0.2.6.10 or 0.2.6.9 and cygwin 1.3.22 on an WinME machine. If I delete the code in random.c make hangs up at the next file... Did you fix the problem already?? Christoph (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Errors compiling BrickOS Demos
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(...) ... (...) Binutils, from 2.12 (IIRC) up to 2.13.1 produced malformed symbolsrec files. Use a later version of binutils. Max. (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Errors compiling BrickOS Demos
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Hi, I'm trying to get brickos working on a linux box running mandrake. I downloaded gcc-2.95.3 and binutils-2.13.1 and compiled them to make a cross compiler. That seems to have worked successfully. Then I ran ./configure;make to make brickos (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | CardShark: A Shuffling and Dealing Creation!
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Hello all! Well, I have just completed one of my biggest projects: CardShark-a Shuffling and dealing creation! It is one of the first (if not the first!) Lego creations that can shuffle and deal cards! You can find CardShark's page at my website (...) (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickOS on Mac OS X
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(...) Dave, We look forward to hearing how these tools work out for you. You should try Michael Zapp, (URL) about the USB applications. Ed (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RCX convert from AA to Wall power.
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Here's another solution worth mentioning: (URL) uses the 3-12V regulated power supply available from Radio Shack (part no. 273-1667): (URL) adapter cable is part no. 273-1742. I think I got the clips at Radio Shack, too, but I can't find the part (...) (21 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX convert from AA to Wall power.
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I did more or less that, but I put in a 7809 voltage regulator to make sure that I did no damage to my RCX (wall warts sometimes output as much as 5 volts above the printed voltage). See (URL) post of mine with more details: (URL) another thread (...) (21 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RCX convert from AA to Wall power.
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all the Batterys are in RCX are like this. I think don't have mine around to look at right now + + + + + + _ _ _ _ _ _ So what if you moded the set up useing some wires and a fitting from radio shack to accept a 9.0vdc power jack? attach a wire to (...) (21 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | USB Range shorter than Serial!?
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Since I do the whole web-controllable-rover deal with my bot, it tends to go quite a distance. I recently purchased a USB tower from Pitsco and I must say, even WITH the long-range enabled on the control panel, the Serial tower still beats it. In (...) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: 1/4 circle icon flashing on the LCD
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Thanks a lot! So THATs what it is... Now to make use of it ;-) (...) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Question about mm.C in BrickOS
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Thanks to both of you, I was pretty close to my understanding of it, but I did not know about the "new block creation behind the current block" but it makes sense now, if I have any other question (I am sure I will) I will def. ask. Thanks again, (...) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: 1/4 circle icon flashing on the LCD
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(...) This is the indicator that you are using the datalog. It will fill in more of the circle as you use more of the datalog. It's a very useful debugging aid, as you can tell programs to save values in the datalog, and then download them onto a PC (...) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | 1/4 circle icon flashing on the LCD
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Hmm, didn't even know that icon existed on the LCD....what does it mean? If you'd like a picture I might be able to get one... -AK -- ---...--- My website: (URL) LEGOCam: (URL) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: USB/Serial Converter
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Somewhere on the LEGO site it says that Serial > USB is not compatable -- If you must, why not just buy a USB IR tower from PITSCO LEGODacta for $30? If you have the SDK 2.5, or even the SDK 2.0, it comes with the driver for the USB tower (in the (...) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS on Mac OS X
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Man, this is fantastic. Since moving over to OS X about a year and a half ago, I've been ignoring my RCX (retired the tired/crash prone PC forever!! Running Linux now though) and haven't played with it for lack of a development environment for OS X. (...) (21 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Question about mm.C in BrickOS
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Hi, (...) Ptr points to the length byte of the first free block (...) *(ptr-1) actually is MM_FREE and is now set to the callers id. (...) Now we can do two things: We could grab all memory we found in this block or we could allocate only the memory (...) (21 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Question about mm.C in BrickOS
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(...) <snip> (...) I've never looked at brickOS code, but here is my take: By the time you hit line 2, you've found a free block that is big enough. Line 2 sets the owner of the block. Line 5 decides if the block is oversized enough to split. Line 6 (...) (21 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Question about mm.C in BrickOS
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Hey My Senior Preoject where I update BrickOS is slowly taking shape (I am actually trying to do some now, but time is very limited). This project I am editing the Memory Managment Alg used by BrickOS. the first one I am going to add is Next Fit, it (...) (21 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) If you download the packages you can install from the previously downloaded packages without ever having to go to a mirror. In theory, at least, you shouldn't have to go back to the web unless you want a newer version of one or more of the (...) (21 years ago, 12-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) O.K. I will try a re-install of Cygwin, although I have re-installed at least four times previously. As I say, I get a little farther each time. Maybe this time I can find all the packages at one mirror. As Ed does, I also download and install (...) (21 years ago, 12-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) I am inclined to agree with Ed. I think your cygwin install is fouled up somehow. Can you check the version of the cygwin1.dll in your cygwin bin directory? I'm running 1.3.12-1 (which is a fairly old version). John Hansen (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | IR Tower not responding
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Hi there, Can someone please help? I've just installed LeJOS for Windows as instructed in (URL) However, when I call firmdl.bat, I get an error message which reads "Tower not Responding". I find this really odd because the IR tower blinks green when (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) Tom, Max, I have seen the "Permission Denied" message before. I ussually get this error message after I have done some upgrading Cygwin packages or installling new parts, etc. The best answer I have (and the one I use) is to reinstall Cygwin. (...) (21 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) Odd. I don't understand where that "Permission denied" message came from. What happens if you simply run "less"? Does less work on any files at all? Perhaps you would like to take this to the Cygwin mailing list (cygwin@cygwin.com). (I (...) (21 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) Max, Here's one of your suggestions, and the cygcheck.out file is in the email (the check is in the mail) ;) Most of this is greek to me; it's been a long time since I've been able to deal with a Unix system. Tom Pugsley ===...=== (...) (21 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) If you use "./configure && make", then make will only run if ./configure completes successfully. (...) ... (...) This suggests that your compiler is broken. Personally, I have never used the prebuilt compiler from Hitachi, preferring to (...) (21 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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Ed, John, and Max, (et.al.?), Here's the output from one of my sessions. I started to follow some of John's instructions (got through the make strip alright, even though it's unnecessary), but I didn't want to go too deep until you people see the (...) (21 years ago, 8-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LNP under Cygwin(Windows)
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Hi everyone, Me again.Does anyone know how I can get LNP to work under Cygwin(Windows)? Most of the documentation I've found make references to Linux. I'm planning to use LPD for communication between 2 RCXs. Has anyone tried that yet using LNP (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Ball Passing between RCX Robots
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Hello everyone, I'm currently fooling around with my Mindstorms to get two RCX robots to ball pass between them. As there are only 3 inputs on RCX, I've used 1 for ball sensing, 1 for a touch sensor(to feel for the ball) and 1 which I'm planning to (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) My favorite means of grabbing the commands I type and their output is to set the buffer size of my DOS window to something very large and just select the text with my mouse via click and drag. Then I right click in the DOS window to copy the (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) Tom, You can always use the classic pipe to command, >. For example $ make strip > output.txt But I don't think this dumps any error messages to the file; only to the screen. So I would try something similar to the commands in buildgcc.sh, (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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Thanks, Max, John, and Ed for your help. I will try some of the suggestions this afternoon after work. I will also post some more helpful output if someone will remind me how to port Cygwin output to a text file (and DOS output?) I read the command (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: sys_time not working
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It works! My mistake was that i only checked the "Command Reference" link that obviously refers to a previous version of legOS. So thank you very much. See you at the Olympic Games in our city Athens . "John Hansen" <JohnBinder@aol.com> wrote in (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: sys_time not working
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(...) Use get_system_up_time() instead (as modified below). #include <conio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <time.h> #include <tm.h> #include <dsensor.h> #include <dmotor.h> long int t1,t2,t; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { ......... ........ (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | sys_time not working
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Hi i install successfully brickOS-0.2.6.10 under Win2000 without any problems and ran successfully "helloworld.lx" I created one first elementary small program using the sys_time function. The problem is that it doesn't compile correctly. The (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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[SNIP] (...) [SNIP] Tom, I would follow Max's advice about posting your commands and output here. But one thing that might cause issues with your setup is your path. It looks like the windows dos commands (C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND) come before your cygwin (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) I would not try to follow both of these instructions. Pick one and do just exactly what that set of instructions says to do. My favorite, naturally, is the second set (since getting the right set of GCC source code and compiling it without (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\W...IN\H8300-0 00821\H-I686-CYGWIN32\BIN; (...) OK, the best way to get help is: * Start with the *first* problem which occurs. Problem #3 is very likely the cause of #1 and #2. * Show *exactly* the commands you typed and (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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Hello, I have spent several hours trying to install BrickOS on my Windows ME system. I am a novice with C/Cygwin/linux, so have been diligently searching the Lugnet posts for clues. That has gotten me a little farther each day, but now I am _really_ (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Announcing Full Throttle - Control LDCC From Windows
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I have just released (URL) version 1.00> of a program that I call Full Throttle. This Windows application uses your Mindstorms IR tower (either serial or USB) to communicate with an RCX that is running (URL) Mark Riley's LDCC replacement firmware> (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Problems with BrickOS installation
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(...) I would recommend using the pre-built Hitachi tools which are still available from my BricxCC website. (URL) simpler than trying to download all the right versions of the GCC source code. John Hansen (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Problems with BrickOS installation
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Hi, I'm following these directions explicitly: (URL) installed just fine. When I run buildgcc.sh it dies trying to assemble libgcc1.S. The comments at the top of the file cause syntax errors. The comments are dilineated with ";;". How can the (...) (21 years ago, 3-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Robolab upgrade to 2.5.3 and other things
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(...) Unfortunately the Service Pack 1 does not seem to work properly to upgrade from 2.5 to 2.5.2. The best way is to get a copy of the current Robolab ver 2.5.2 which is called "ROBOLAB with Training Missions" from your local LEGO distributor. (...) (21 years ago, 3-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: light sensor question
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(...) I've done a lot of readings with the light sensor and analysed them. If you want to have a look you can go to (URL) . If you look in the appendix of that document you'll find information on the light sensor (and many other things...) Magdalena (21 years ago, 31-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | USB2 and IR-Tower problem
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Hi, I was just wondering if anyone here had experienced any problems using the IR-tower on a USB2 port? My university has just upgraded 20 of the pc's used for the Lego, the previous setup worked fine and the tower was attached to just a normal USB (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Pneumatic Presure sensor
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Mindsensors Has recently developed a low cost pressure sensor, which measures pressure up to 35 Psi (241 Kg/scm) using Motorola Pressure sensor. If your are interested visit us at www.mindsensors.com/pps.htm www.mindsensors.com Mindsensors Robotics (21 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: light sensor question
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(...) A friend of mine suggests that the poor response of the sensor to the LED is because the light from the LED is a single color. Where as the light from the incandescent bulb is white light which apparently contains many if not all of the (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: LEGO remote controller problem
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(...) Then this is the first time ;) It was indeed the compiler. Using those versions you named in your message, my compiled brickOS.srec file works as well. The lr_startup and lr_shutdown calls don't make any difference, whether they are in or out. (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Great. (...) I use h8300-hms-gcc-3.1-1.i386.rpm h8300-hms-binutils-2...1.i386.rpm but I never heard from anyone that some gcc version produces a bad brickOS system. Strange, indeed. Regards, Michael (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi Michael, Thank you for sending me your brickOS.srec and .lds files. When I use these ones, the remote control works just fine, with or without the lr_startup and lr_shutdown calls, and with or without a running program. (...) Yes, exactly. I have (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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"Michael Obenland" <obenland@t-online.de> wrote in message news:HIqqFv.1Iwz@lugnet.com... (...) starting (...) I think the call to lr_shutdown() in Christian's program clobbered things such that the remote may no longer be useable unless the power (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Strange. To get it clear: If you download a fresh made brickOS.srec, you can't use the remote control to start a motor or start a program and if you press the beep-key, the rcx does not beep?? Does your remote work with the original Lego (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Try removing the calls to lr_startup() & lr_shutdown(). I think these already get called outside of your program. (Sorry, don't have time to test right now). Mark "Christian Hornung" <c-hornung@gmx.de> wrote in message news:HIq2o2.Ht4@lugnet.com... (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) No, it doesn't. The IR indicator flickers, but running motors or starting the program doesn't work. In fact, I didn't know that there is a "default handler" until reading your message. Might the problem be caused by wrong versions of gcc or (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I compiled your program and it did everything. No problem on my side. If you don't start your program, does the remote control work? Attach a motor at A, B and C and try to run it with the remote. Or try to run your program with the P1 button. (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi Michael, Thank you very much for your answer. Well, there isn't really much source, here we go: #include <conio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <remote.h> #include <dsensor.h> int my_lr_handler(unsigned int etype, unsigned int key) { cputw(key); (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi Christian, (...) No program, no help. If you send me the sources, I will take a look and try to figure out the problem. In fact, I use the remote control without a problem. Regards, Michael (21 years ago, 27-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, I have problems getting the LEGO IR remote controller to work (using brickOS 0.2.6.10). I wrote a small test program that installs a lr handler function which simply displays the received key value on the LCD. But when running this and pressing (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) helloworld.o (...) symbolsrec (...) helloworld.o (...) symbolsrec (...) ^^^...^^^ Did you think about investigating this error? Anyway, the version of binutils you are using is broken. Upgrade. (...) helloworld.dc1 (...) character" (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I have no .lx files in ../brickos-0.2.6.10/demo ! What I have done: 1. Looked for .lx in "demo": [ville@ville demo]$ ls c++/ c++.cpp helloworld.c helloworld.o linetrack.c Makefile robots.c rover.c rover.o sound.c trailerbot.c [ville@ville demo]$ 2. (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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"Jona" <jona@24tooth.com> wrote in message news:HIM3z8.t92@lugnet.com... (...) react and it (...) LEDs. (...) the light (...) something (...) sensor itself? I suspect that the spectral composition of the lights are quite different. As to what the (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Here is another question...does incandescent light differ from the light given off by LEDs in terms of how the light sensor sees it? I am experimenting with some LEDs trying to get the light sensor to react and it seems to only see the light (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) According to Kekoa Proudfoot's RCX Internals webpage ((URL) if (raw < 187) // bug? this allows percent=101, should be raw < 189 sensor->value = 64 else sensor->value = (3ff - raw) * 19 / 9c Numbers are in hexadecimal (base 16). Jürgen (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) The Analog to Digital converter of the h8/300 (the brains of the lego mindstorms) is 10 bits, so it has a range of 0-1023. I'm not sure how it converts that to the 0-100, it may do it by just dividing by 10 and rounding. If you want to see (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) What I'm looking for is really the latter of the topics. It seems to me that it must have some sort of units, because I've never seen it hit zero even with alterations (as Ralph Hempel has described on his site). It seems like it should be (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Is this what your looking for? (URL) terms of what units it mesures it in I don't think it really has any. it is just a relative reading from 0-100. (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I am writing a research paper about work I have done with Mindstorms this summer. One thing that I used a lot was the light sensor, but I am having a hard time finding what exactly the sensor measures. I was wondering if anyone could give me any (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I forgot to mention that i am working under Linux Red-Hat 7.3. (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi i am currently working on legOS and i installed brickOS-2.6.10 successfully and downloaded the kernel to the RCX without problems. However when i tried to download the helloworld program with dll an error occured "error deleting program". I used (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I had some problems sending the original messages before I went to vacation for 10 days... When I came home, I fixed the problem and did send: memcpy.c missing terminating " character BTW, I would like to write programs in C++. Greetings from (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello! First: Im pretty new into Linux/unix as a sysadmin! I have installed gcc as a cross gcc (h8300): Here is what happens when I "make" the BrickOS-0.2.6.10: ###...### [root@ville lego]# tar zxvf brickos-0.2.6.10.tar.gz brickos-0.2.6.10/ (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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look at the patch here: (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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You might try following my instructions: (URL) recommend using the pre-built hitachi tools which you can download via the link in the document referenced above. Let me know if you have any questions. John Hansen (URL) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Tyler, You can check to see what Cygwin packages have been installed on your system by using the cygcheck command at the cygwin command prompt. Try cygcheck -c If the output is too large for your dos window you can export it to a file by using (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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