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(...) As far as I know, Brickx command centre has feature like this. Try to look at it's www page. There's also nice tutorial written by Mark Overmars - it explains how to use datalog. (...) Me too, I made a new account and it seems it's okay now.. (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: write files
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(...) NQC programs run on the RCX which has no disk drive to write to, hence no file system or commands to do so. You might want to look at the Data Log feature of the RCX, which allows you to save data points (up to about 6,000 of them) such as (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hello I only want to ask if it is possible to write (extern) text files by NQC. If i check a sensor i want to write the results in a file... is that possible by NQC or wich programming language is better (and easyier) for this project? THX (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Thanks a lot. I must have missed that message while I was away. "Jeff Van Winden" <jvwinden@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:HLztp7.o5@lugnet.com... (...) Express. (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Simplifying Cygwin & brickOS/leJOS
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I have been working on creating a single (large) installer for cygwin with everything you need to build brickOS (and leJOS as well). Download one large file (which is, unfortunately, 18.9 MB) and you are ready to go. I've tested it on W2K and it (...) (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Ultrasonic Sensor Without Use Of A Microcontroller
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(...) Hi Vik, I saw that ckt Digram. Try powering that ckt with battery. and use RCX to only read the reading. since you may have spiks on your power line ( which will change your resonance frequency of 555). if that works use .1uF bypass cap as (...) (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Lugnet news server help (sorry)
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(...) I think you need to change your port # to 1119 now as per: (URL) VW (...) (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Lugnet news server help (sorry)
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I am unable to connect to the Lugnet news server. I am using Outlook Express. Whenever I try to read a message I get the following error: "Unable to connect to server Configuration: Account: lugnet.com Server: lugnet.com Protocol: NNTP Port: 119" I (...) (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) That is true. But a real geek also knows how to make things simple for the wanna-be-geeks. :-) John Hansen (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) The cygwin installer lets you pick which packages to install and all of the ones listed on the step-by-step page are available through the standard cygwin installer. (...) If you install cygwin correctly you should have a gcc.exe in the cygwin (...) (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS = shoot self in head
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(...) A real geek knows the difference between gcc and h8300-hms-gcc and where to use which. Regards, Michael (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Lego RCX Emulator
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Hello, In this mail I want to advertise my Lego emulator, again. This emulates a Lego RCX brick on hardware level, so it should run any firmware you like. You can find it at this URL: (URL) can emulate multiple RCXes communicating via infrared and (...) (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS = shoot self in head
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(...) Perhaps because the tutorial isn't update .... (...) Make sure that the gcc.exe is in your PATH .... To know it try those step : Locate the folder where gcc.exe is stock. when it's done type : "echo $PATH" in a console (without "") make sure (...) (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RCX Communications problems
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Hi Gabriel, did you take a look at LNP? It can address several RCXs. Jürgen (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: RCX Communications problems
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I obviously didn't read your message very carefully. Sorry. For some reason I was reading it as "how can I control two robots remotely" and not the more specific stuff you're asking. If that acknowledgement protocol you have allows inheritance, then (...) (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: RCX Communications problems
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What I would do is give each RCX an internal "name" -- an identifier. When you send a message from the PC, the first part is the identifier. So if robot B gets a message intended for robot A, it should ignore it. And vice versa. The same thing would (...) (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | BrickOS = shoot self in head
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I think I've concluded that the makers of BrickOS are secretly scheming to take over the world by making geeks' heads explode by repeated impact with the nearest CONCRETE WALL... Okay, first question: regarding the list of packages. The Step-By-Step (...) (21 years ago, 28-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Ultrasonic Sensor Without Use Of A Microcontroller
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Hi, I found this website a while back, <link>(URL) and I decided to actually build the circuit he designed at the bottom of the page. I was wondering if anyone else has built it? I'm getting really jumpy readings from it, for example, at a fixed (...) (21 years ago, 28-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | multiple inheritance
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Hello, Is multiple inheritance supported under legos-0.2.6 compiled with gcc-2.95.3 and binutils 2.10? When I try to compile a class with the multiple inheritance I get the following linker error: /usr/local/crossgcc/...chi-hms-ld -T (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RCX Communications problems
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Hi everyone!!! I’m a desperate soul in search of some answers and no much luck, so I’m writing here to see if someone can help me... I’m trying to control two RCX bricks from one or two towers on different computers (this depends on the answers I (...) (21 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Proximity Sensors for Legway
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Hi Chris :) Hitechnic have just changed their webpage marking the EOPD's as withdrawn and to explain that they do not have the time to share their schematics with the kind of profesionalism they desire. Which is a pity, cause I'm gratefull for any (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Proximity Sensors for Legway
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Thanks Chris I had seen Henriks posts before but for some reason forgot all about it (I suspect an irrational Java aversion) I think the fact that Steve has published his code makes his solution more attractive to those of us who would like to try (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Proximity Sensors for Legway
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(...) Henrik Dahlgren posted here several months back saying that he had successfully built a LegWay using standard LEGO Light Sensors instead of the HiTechnic Proximity Detector. I don't know how much code modification was required, but here is his (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Aaargh...I need some help
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(...) 1. Make sure LEJOS_HOME is set properly: echo %LEJOS_HOME% 2. Make sure there is a file lib\classes.jar in your LEJOS_HOME directory: dir %LEJOS_HOME%\lib\classes.jar 3. Try including the percentage signs and using backslashes: set (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Aaargh...I need some help
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(...) I would put the following two lines into a batch file which you execute prior to trying to compile and download your lejos programs. set LEJOS_HOME=<some path to lejos directory without a trailing slash> set CLASSPATH=%LEJOS_HOM...cxcomm.jar (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Aaargh...I need some help
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Hi, Can anyone lend a desperate soul a helping hand? Here's my problem: I've followed the installation directions for windows as outlined in lejos.sourceforge.net For your convenience, I've included the instructions here: Installation of the leJOS (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Sensor listener
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Hello! I'm using a Sensor listener to read a sensor in a behavior class. This is the code: public class Angestossen implements Behavior, SensorListener { public void stateChanged(Sensor touchsensor, int oldValue, int newValue) { if (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Multiplexing 4 touch sensors on an RCX input port
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(...) (apologies for delay - my server decided to stop talking to lugnet for some reason, hopefully now fixed) (...) Errm, probably 2.1.0 (but I don't have it immediately to hand at the moment - that's the name of the directory on my computer with (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Proximity Sensors for Legway
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Now Hi-Technic stop building those parts.. may be they could give their diagrams to public... Chris. (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Proximity Sensors for Legway
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Hi I'm keen on building a Legway but Hitechnic tell me they no longer supply the sensors.... (or I maybe they don't want to supply me in New Zealand) Are there alternatives? either pre built or a circuit daigram? I don't have any electronics (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | [ANN] leJOSUnit v1.0 available
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Hello, I want to let you know, that there is the first port of JUnit available for the leJOS Java platform based on LEGO Mindstorms. The main features of leJOSUnit are: - the core framework has been carefully ported to the very restricted leJOS (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | LNP+USB tower
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A Mail I've received ... (...) engineering. (...) rcx, legOS (...) oz). (...) but we need (...) in our (...) thesis (...) we'll (...) my answer try to search a driver under google. I think there is some driver installation instruction !! I don't (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: leJOS & LDCC IRP
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Thanks to Chris, Mark and Jürgen, I am successfully reading LDCC IRP packets with josx.rcxcomm.LLC! (I say reading, not parsing--haven't had time to clean it up, yet!) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.trains)
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| | josx.rcxcomm and BrickOS LNP
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Hi, I'm currently working on a project in which I'm develping a task and memmory monitor for the BrickOS operating system. I'm going to run a Java Applet on the PC side and I'm using the josx.rcxcomm to obtain the necessary data from a thread/task (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Question about mm.C in BrickOS
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(...) Yes it does, thank you very much Michael, you helped me out again. I just wasnt thinking of next as being a ptr like that. i just always thought it pointed to the address of the location of the memory that it can use next. thanks again... Mike (21 years ago, 15-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Question about mm.C in BrickOS
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(...) +---- +------+---...---+--...-+-------- | pid | size | data..... | pid | size | data... *-----+------+---......-+-------- ^ +---...--- ptr points to that address. This is the memory layout for the data allocation pool. Pid is the process id of (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Michael I was reading through your reply you sent me a while back and I don't understand what that line in the code does and you explaination of it. I don't understand what is meant by pointing behind the block. Any help would be great thanks. (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Setup sensor type using LegOS Commands Reference 1.0-0.2.4
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There is a tutorial no ? nanobapt (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: USB tower fast firmware download
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Trés bien! (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Low level programming of the RCX
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(...) Take a look at the H8/3297 Hardware Manual: (URL) chance Jürgen (21 years ago, 13-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Setup sensor type using LegOS Commands Reference 1.0-0.2.4
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Dear all, Can you please tell me how I can select a sensor type using the LegOS Commands Reference 1.0-0.2.4? Regards Alkis (21 years ago, 13-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: what is the RCX bios?
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(...) It's a 16K hard-coded driver. It manages the permanent features of the RCX. From (URL) this page>: High level notes As expected, the ROM contains low-level routines for driving the RCX It controls the on/off/stall signals sent to the motor (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | what is the RCX bios?
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And what does it actually do? I mean the small rom inside the RCX... (21 years ago, 13-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Low level programming of the RCX
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(...) If you're really really hard core you could code in machine code (hex :^) Kevin (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | Re: Low level programming of the RCX
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(...) If you're really hard-core, you could program it in assembly language. I believe the official SDK lists all the operations. Get it (URL) here> if you don't already have it. (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | Program download time
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So I've got BricxCC compiling and downloading leJOS programs now. That's exciting (for me, at least). I'm using lejosrun.exe to download the .bin file to the brick. It takes a *long* time to download. Is there some way to download a program to leJOS (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: USB tower fast firmware download
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(...) Here's a picture showing BricxCC parsing pbForth (with syntax highlighting, of course): (URL) I'm still working on the console and script downloading. John Hansen (URL) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, FTX)
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| | Re: leJOS & LDCC IRP
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(...) Yes, this is right, to be friendly to as many implementations of the Lego IR protocol as possible, receiving programs should just mask off bit 3. (...) While the code is there to discern packets with different addresses, I haven't yet added (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: leJOS & LDCC IRP
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(...) I'm not really there yet, just couldn't resist the Lion, Tin Man and Scarecrow metaphor. -Brian (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: leJOS & LDCC IRP
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(...) Receiving IR commands from a Lego Remote, IR Tower or possibly another RCX. They're not DCC signals, but LDCC IRP messages. Roughly the same data, different medium and different protocol. (...) LDCC IRP is still unstable, but it will support (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Low level programming of the RCX
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(...) Speaking of Quite C, I am working on figuring out a good way to integrate Quite C into the BricxCC system. It is a bit different from the other languages BricxCC supports in that you compile to an SREC and download it as a new firmware rather (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Low level programming of the RCX
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(...) [snip] (...) [snip] I'll second that. The BrickOS source code provides a good example of using the FRC as well as other low-level I/O. Between that source and the H8 manuals, you should be set. If you have specific questions, there are quite a (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Low level programming of the RCX
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(...) Quite C is your best place to start with a language. C can give you direct access to the timer. The timer is considered an I/O device, but all I/O on the H8 is memory mapped. Having said that, if you know the address of the timer, you can (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Low level programming of the RCX
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Hello everybody, I try to program the RCX at low level. I want to be able to program using the Hitachi h8/3292 directly. For example, I want to use the free-running timer, define own interrupt handlers and so on. In fact, I *really* need to control (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: leJOS & LDCC IRP
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Hi, (...) I'm having a bit of difficulty to understand what you are trying to do, as I know Lejos but not the DCC/train side of things. In particular, on which side do you want to use Lejos, sending those remote commands from an RCX or from a PC? (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: leJOS & LDCC IRP
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(...) I re-used a function to send command packets to the RCX that was designed for use with the original firmware, so it toggles the 0x08 bit of any repeated opcode bytes. Mark pointed this out to me when I was developing Full Throttle, but then he (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.trains)
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| | leJOS & LDCC IRP
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Brian B. Alano wrote: I'm writing a leJOS package to support the LDCC IR Protocol. I've been testing it against Full Throttle. It works fine with the speed controls, but doesn't even seem to see packets for the function commands, stop, or power (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: some measurements in lnp, please comment!
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"Brian B. Alano" <alano@bloomington.in.us> wrote in message news:HL30D6.1rDC@lugnet.com... (...) practical (...) assume 50% (...) think anything (...) I'm not familiar with LNP, but I do have a good handle on infra-red messaging in general. There (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: some measurements in lnp, please comment!
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(...) Old thread, but oh, well. 4800 baud is 4800 bits per second or 600 bytes per second. If you assume 50% overhead, which is optimistic, that's 300 bytes per second. So I think anything over 200 bytes per second is pretty good. (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Multiplexing 4 touch sensors on an RCX input port
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(...) I've made one. A wall follower. I set the sensor to raw mode and looked at three ranges. It tried to stay in the middle range, which for this 'bot meant lightly touching the wall. The wall follower had a bumper analogous to a highly curved (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Touch Sensor resistance versus button displacement
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Here is a chart showing the variation of contact resistance of several touch sensors while pressing button very progressively. (URL) There are huge differences between various sensor Lightly pressed touch sensors have contact resistance in the 2 to (...) (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | Re: Multiplexing 4 touch sensors on an RCX input port
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"Steve Hassenplug" <Hassenplug@mail.com> wrote: [snip] (...) This has always annoyed me about the Lego touch sensors. Has anyone ever made or seen a contraption that uses the variable pressure sensitivity of the Lego touch sensors? Tim (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | USB tower fast firmware download
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Thanks to Dick Swan's help I have managed to get BricxCC downloading firmware in fast mode with the USB tower. All it took was using long enough timeout values (I'm currently using the tower default timeout settings when downloading firmware), (...) (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: leJOS & BricxCC news
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(...) Yes, it would be nice, plus the two or three unused sensors... I'm happy enough with the LDCC firmware as a DCC encoder (pleased as punch, really). But it "would be nice" if it were implemented as a library or patch to an existing brick OS (...) (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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| | Re: Multiplexing 4 touch sensors on an RCX input port
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(...) I have tried this method too, and as you say in your text, it is plagued by the rubber contacts whose value goes down as more pressure is applied to the switch. I measured resistance of several touch sensors while applying a very progressive (...) (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: Multiplexing 4 touch sensors on an RCX input port
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(...) Ian, Great to see that you are having success with pbForth! I have a couple of questoins: 1. Which version are you using? 2. Are there any features you REALLY wish were available? 3. Do you have any stories or code to share? Ralph ---...--- (...) (21 years ago, 10-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Multiplexing 4 touch sensors on an RCX input port
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(...) It works very well for me, with the variation that I use home-made touch sensors that are actually microswitches embedded into 2x2 blocks. That does mean you might need to debounce in software, but normally I don't bother since the inertia of (...) (21 years ago, 10-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Multiplexing 4 touch sensors on an RCX input port
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I have done work in this area. I chose to solve the problem to permit 4 touch sensors to be pressed in any arbitrary combination with high probability of getting the answer right :) A simple R, 2R, 4R, 8R scheme will do. I chose R = 40.2K. This is (...) (21 years ago, 10-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Multiplexing 4 touch sensors on an RCX input port
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(...) Good analysis. Series can work quite well as long as you know that the touch sensors are touched mutually exclusively, but you are right parallel doesn't work well. I remember trying to come up with good resistance values to do parallel, and (...) (21 years ago, 9-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Multiplexing 4 touch sensors on an RCX input port
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(...) While in theory, this sounds very cool, in pratice, I doubt it will work quite that well. The biggest problem will be that the standard touch sensors may not be 100% on when you press it. This means the sensor itself can provide some (...) (21 years ago, 9-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Multiplexing 4 touch sensors on an RCX input port
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(...) I don't think that would work very well, as the lights have a rather low resistance, lower than a pressed touch sensor ((URL) as a purist you can use the cybermaster sensors to multiplex three inputs ((URL) Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr> (...) (21 years ago, 9-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Multiplexing 4 touch sensors on an RCX input port
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(...) LEGO purists use LEGO light bricks as resistors. I created potentiometer bricks, where the resistance is variable for each brick. Two stacks of 4 potentiometer bricks can be seen to the left of the RCX. In this case each stack puts the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Multiplexing 4 touch sensors on an RCX input port
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You can use four touch sensors per input port on the RCX. The Cybermaster touch sensors have resistors in parallel, and this is how the Cybermaster knows which implement is attached to the tracked robot. It uses its sensor input as a temperature (...) (21 years ago, 5-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: leJOS & BricxCC news
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(...) OK, I've looked at your wish list and have the following comments with respect to how I see the pbForth implementation of DCC. 1. How important is it to have more than one port with DCC capabilities. The reason I'm asking is that it "would be (...) (21 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: USB Tower Performance [was leJOS/BricxCC news]
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(...) Doh! I forgot about Odd parity and the USB tower. I will see about fixing that little problem. Is your quad speed boot loader source significantly different from Kekoa's fastdl.s (with the parity disabling code removed)? I'd like to see it if (...) (21 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: leJOS & BricxCC news
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(...) Hmmm. I was seriously considering writing a leJOS package to support the LDCC IR Protocol. (Here's why: (URL) ) What capabilities were you going to add? Depending on your timeline, you might convince me to try FORTH. (21 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) John, As always, it depends. ROLL can sometimes be recovered gracefully, but not always. If you ROLL more than the stack depth, you'll shift some RAM that you probably don't want to shift - like the pbForth image itself. In that case, there's (...) (21 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) While testing my console the other day I kept getting pbForth to hang (or so it appeared). It turns out I was passing ROLL a number that caused it to do bad things. I'm wondering whether it should error out with "aborted stack underflow" or (...) (21 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: USB Tower Performance [was leJOS/BricxCC news]
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In a recent post, John Hansen raised some questions about USB Tower [1] quad speed downloading and [2] varioustimeouts and difficulty with certain optocdes. Here's a bit of an explanation. Lots of technical detail for those that are interested. (...) (21 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Lego Mindstorms Robotic Sumo Question
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(...) Thanks Steve! Everything I wanted to know I found out on that website. Great information. Thanks again! David Perdue www.geocities.com/imroboguy (21 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: leJOS & BricxCC news
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John, Thanks for continuing to work on this. It's one of the things that keeps me motivated to continue supporting pbForth. Now, there has not bee much traffic there lately, and I have not done much with it becuase as far as I know, things are "just (...) (21 years ago, 5-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: trouble compiling brickOS
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(...) Hm, that should not happen. Try to start your hitachi compiler by hand, for example with "h8300-hms-gcc --version" to get an "I am alive" message from it, so you are sure it is installed as intended. If _you_ can't get it to work, configure (...) (21 years ago, 5-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, Mark Riley wrote: [snipped] (...) I have incorporated the changes made to firmdl in the leJOS distribution into my BricxCC firmware downloader code. Now I can successfully download all the firmwares I have access to (...) (21 years ago, 5-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Linremote
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Hello, I've wait a report from a friend for this software ... But he have no time to produce it ... Then I announce it here : Linremote permit you to control via PC (it the same soft that Dr Vegetable make : an remote control emulator). You can view (...) (21 years ago, 5-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: trouble compiling brickOS
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(...) I did! (...) It did complain and I did install the hitachi 8300 gcc version. Funny thing, after installing it, the configure script was still complaining that it cannot find the hitachi gcc compiler, although the binaries were right there in (...) (21 years ago, 5-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Lego Mindstorms Robotic Sumo Question
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(...) David, To answer your question, everyone has their own way. But here's a link to a pretty well refined set of rules. (URL) should answer most of your questions. And, if you find yourself around Ann Arbor, Mi, in a couple weeks, you should stop (...) (21 years ago, 4-Sep-03, to lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Lego Mindstorms Robotic Sumo Question
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Hello all Mindstorms fans! I have a few questions regarding Robotic Sumo (Lego Mindstorms Robotic Sumo that is). I have gotten interested in Robotic Sumo and would like to learn a few more things about it. I would also like to know if everyone does (...) (21 years ago, 4-Sep-03, to lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: trouble compiling brickOS
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(...) Run ./configure!!! (...) Let me guess: You use the original c compiler of your linux distribution. May be that configure will complain that it does not find the gcc compiler? You run Linux on a Intel box. Your normal gcc will compile c to (...) (21 years ago, 3-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | trouble compiling brickOS
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Hi! I am pretty new to lego and I started for a few days to make my rcx work under Linux. After I passed all the makefile issues, gcc 3.3 mlsl problems, I still get this error from memcpy.c: make[1]: Entering directory (...) (21 years ago, 3-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Additions to the ILTCO Library, and a call for a librarian
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ILTCO is pleased to announce some additions to the ILTCO library. Many of the presentations given during the train sessions at BrickFest 2003 have been archived and are available for your reading pleasure here. (URL) include presentations on - (...) (21 years ago, 3-Sep-03, to lugnet.announce.iltco, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.publish) !
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| | RemoteCX 0.0.0.6
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This one is much more reliable than 0.0.0.5 because I fixed all of the saving issues (I hope)... (URL) me know any bugs if you find any... -AK -- ---...--- My website: (URL) LEGOCam: (URL) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Thanks, feel free to give me the tarball and I'll make this a multi-platform project... (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) under linux .... nanobapt (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(URL) beginning of my all-in-one program for controlling the RCX..should eventually have a robot server, webcam image server, the works - everything to fit my needs and hopefully everyone else's too...I'm open to feature requests (just check the (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Make my day. "nanobapt" <nanobapt@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message news:3F50F04C.204090...adoo.fr... (...) have (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) That's nor really difficult ... nanobapt (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Natural log (ln), and square root. Also useful would be x^y where x and y have fractional parts. I see you have done it with just x as a float and y as an int. This would incorporate the square root by doing x^1/2 "nanobapt" <nanobapt@wanadoo.fr> (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) What do you need more than I wrote ? nanobapt (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I've posted an enhancement request on the sourceforge website for someone to write a full math.h. I would do it myself but my programming skills aren't very good. Your math.h looks like a good start. Hopefully someone will build on that. Thanks for (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) (URL) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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