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(...) Folks who read rtlToronto can skip this part. I added it because I'm cross posting to robotics.rcx. For those who don't know, rtlToronto had a contest with robots playing Connect Four. Creating a robot for this is double faceted. Getting (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: LEGO Tower API and Filenames
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(...) One other thing you could try is to physically disconnect and then reconnect the USB tower from the system. I've found that (on Win98 at least) the driver sometimes freezes up and won't open until after I do that little dance. Also, you could (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: LEGO Tower API and Filenames
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(...) Yes, I escaped the characters. The identical code works on the Win2K machine and does not work on the win98SE machine with identical LEGO drivers installed. Hmmmm Ralph (21 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Did you escape the backslashes in the C string? CreateFile("\\\\.\\LEGOTOWER1", GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE, 0, 0, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, 0); Just a thought... it's easy to forget sometimes. Mark (21 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RotationNavigator again, does it have a bug?
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I have another problem with the RotationNavigator class. I try to program a navigating, behavior controlled robot. At the moment it has two behaviors: behavior1 (b1): moving to a specific point with gotoPoint(...) and back to the starting point with (...) (21 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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(...) Ralph, I retried it with a Delphi-program that I wrote some time ago. This opens "\\.\LEGOTOWER1" without any problem: ... const DEFAULT_PORT_NAME = '\\.\LEGOTOWER1'; ... function USB_Open():Longint;stdcall; var hFh:Longint; begin (...) (21 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: LEGO Tower API and Filenames
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(...) Claude, I've written a little C program that tries to open "\\.\LEGOTOWER1" and on otherwise identical computers (except one is running Win98SE and the othre runs Win2K) only the Win2K machine can open the file. Of course, the LEGO tools work (...) (21 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: LEGO Tower API and Filenames
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(...) Right with \\.\...., but at least with Win98SE the port is correctly found. Great to here you Ralph. (21 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | YAL, Yet Another LegWay
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YAL: Yet Another LegWay ===...=== (2 URLs) Allen Foster> and (URL) Harold Jarvie> posts showed me that it was possible to build a LEGO-only self-balancing robot, inspired by the famous (URL) Steve Hassenplug's LegWay>. Here are some details of my (...) (21 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Re: QuiteC IR interfacing to lego firmware IR
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(...) It is my conclusion that QuiteC is not receiving back to back IR bytes fast enough, and that characters are lost. Kevin (21 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | LEGO Tower API and Filenames
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All, I've been messing with the tower API and have discovered what I think is an error in the docs... Fisrt off, the API help file tells us to open "\.\LEGOTOWERx" In fact, the file name must look like this: "\\.\LEGOTOWERx" Even worse, the filename (...) (21 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: Problem with rcxTcl.exe and the USB IR tower
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(...) I fanlly got a spare machine with a fresh Win98 install, and then I installed the LEGO tower driver. Sure enough, rcxTcl.exe does not find the USB tower.... So I have some investigating to do. Ralph (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: QuiteC IR interfacing to lego firmware IR
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(...) Not knowing EXACTLY what is going on with QuiteC, I can only offer some suggestions.... The 0x55 to 0x5D might just be IR warmup goofiness. As far as I know, the RCX really only looks for the FF 00 Not sure what happened to the F7 and 08, but (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Cannot receive with LNP.
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(...) Ok cool !! Can you make a report after make this work ? nanobapt (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) lnp_integrity_byte is called from the function rx_handler in lnp-logical.c Bye! Gerard. (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | QuiteC IR interfacing to lego firmware IR
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Hi, QuiteC's IR facilities are rudimentary. They send and receive single bytes. I need to be able to make it send and receive lego IR protocol messages for opcode 0xf7. I'm not having much luck. When I send a 0xf7 opcode with a message of 0x03 (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi, How does the lnp_integrity_byte function ever get invoked? I see it defined in kernel/lnp.c, and I see it referenced in boot/brickOS.lvs. Is there some magic to the number 0x9419 (0x8000+0x1414)? Is the ROM receiving a byte and then calling this (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Cannot receive with LNP.
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(...) Hi, For the moment I've achieved that the PC can receive from the rcx. I've done it commenting some error check from lnpd and it seems to work properly both the addressing and the integrity layer. Now I'm trying to do the other way (from pc to (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Thanks! As soon as I get a chance, I'll try this out and let you know how it works. -Dave (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: WORDLIST
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(...) Lucky you! We had just some cm's and its all melting away today:( Ok, here's a new version of SEE, WORDS and friends for pbforth 2.x (tested on 2.1.5). First there are some words (Graphic? ... Head) which actually exist in pbforth, but without (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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