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In lugnet.trains, Chris Phillips wrote: snip (...) I'm just going thru my mind (which is always a bad idea), and this would be, as stated, very easy-- My DCC chip has motor out, and 2 light wires out. Connect 'em to a electric plate and we're good (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, FTX)
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In lugnet.trains, Chris Phillips wrote: snip (...) snip (...) I know that I was one of those 30, Chris--sorry about not getting back to you. I d/led it but never actually used it yet :( So busy just getting a layout up and running--making buildings, (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, FTX)
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| | Re: Trains, DCC, and pbForth
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(...) I have been working on a different project toward the same end-- improved train layout automation, and I have had similar questions as to whether it is worth the effort for the small number of people who might actually benefit from it. Since (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, FTX)
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(...) Dave, don't take ALL the fun out of driving your trains :-) How about being able to focus on just one train that you control, but automate things so the OTHER trains don't hit yours? Your description was great, except that it involves MANY (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Trains, DCC, and pbForth
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In lugnet.trains, Ralph Hempel wrote: <snip> (...) Now here's a thought--a truly automated layout, such as the following-- The RCX has sensors (either light or magnetic/light (as Jeff Elliot made up) to detect the trains as they pass) connected to (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Trains, DCC, and pbForth
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All, As I've mentioned before, I have a version of pbForth firmware for the RCX that allows you to control trains modified with DCC controllers. The benefit of pbForth is that you can write, test, and debug your application interactively using (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Help w/install _or_ It all went so well
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(...) You should uninstall cygwin and delete its directory tree if it is left behind. Then run both installers (the brickoslejos installer second) and you should be ready to go. You don't need to do a configure or make of brickOS if you use these (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: failure in communicaton between RCX & IR Tower
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well, the IR tower is fired when I tested out with different powered hubs. I used 2.0 powered hub, the same symptom occured... the OS crashed in the identical fashion. When I used 1.0 powered hub, the tower mysterably ceased to response, then the OS (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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No,I didn't know they existed. What steps should I take to use the installer in an already existing install? -Wes (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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hi, all, I'm going to dig into my big cable/accessories bin to for my powered usb hub tonight. I don't have a pc-usb card though. Bob, please post if your test with the pc card work... -- thank you very much... E ===...=== (...) of (...) tower (...) (...) (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) I am having almost the same issues. I want to share my story because some of the key elements in your story match mine exactly: Computer: Toshiba Satellite/WinXP/3-USB 2.0 RCX 1.0 USB tower Software: RIS 2.0, SDK 2.5, Bricxcc (all have same (...) (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) This sounds identical to the situation described by Rob Hendrix in (URL) Anderson from LEGO suggested via email that the USB port may not be giving the tower sufficient current. Perhaps you could try a powered hub? John Hansen (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Hi, Nathan, I truly suspect that the issue is the Toshiba hardware of this particular laptop model. I have 3 Dell desktops, 3 laptops. They all have built in usb ports, either 2.0 or 1.0. They all work fine, with the identical setup up, even with (...) (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Help w/install _or_ It all went so well
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(...) Did you consider using my all-in-one pre-built installers? (URL) work well with XP & W2K (and presumably Win2003). There are problems with earlier OS versions. I've had several people tell me that using these pre-built installers was much (...) (21 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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hmmmm.... Now I have a different problem - the next step in the process: $ make strip strip fontdesign.exe strip: fontdesign.exe: No such file or directory make: *** [strip] Error 1 Is there a missing step to create fontdesign.exe? (21 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Thanks. This solved the initial problem which revealed a second... genlds.c has two printf() statements that have multi-line string args. I appended '\' to the end of all these and everything compiled fine. Now to test things. -Wes (...) <snipped (...) (21 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Or ( IMO ) better yet, just macro every line between 152 and 171, that's what I did, saved the trouble of another install... Put this on each line around the assembly code: __asm__(""); Make sure you keep the indent spacing also: label: should be: (...) (21 years ago, 14-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Compiling Classes
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I have several large classes in external .h and .cpp files that are added to my project and compiled into the .lx. I found that when I changed the number of calls to a major procedure from 2 down to 1, the final program size went down 20%. Are these (...) (21 years ago, 13-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | how to use LNP class?
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Holla, I have been been doing some tests of protocols from lejOS API where I'm about to give a try with this LNP class. The reason is to enable direct host addressing on my app, avoiding the packet_guaranty_issue (as_seen_from_exemple (...) (21 years ago, 13-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: I'm passing the NQC torch...
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Dear Dave, Thank you for your great work. My Best Regards Paolo (21 years ago, 13-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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