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(...) Thanks Brian, I doubt I will attempt your suggested test of driving into a wall (this scares me very much!) but I hear what you are saying. Based on Steve's reply, I have decided that 6 motors pushing is better than 4. Since I have already (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) It's been my experience that a robot with 6 motors will push harder than a robot with 4 motors. (...) If you're concerned about spending money on batteries, your best bet is to go with a 2 motor robot. If you want to build a really strong sumo (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Great. My method was to combine the motor outputs down to two axles (left & right) and then do the gearing down/up. I also played with running the "boost" motors at a different gear ratio than the other four, but wasn't sure it would help (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Release candidate brickos-0.2.6.10.5 available for testing
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The brickOS team is pleased to announce our next test release. (Can you believe we are days shy of a year since our last?) We will likely do one more before our formal brickos-1.0.0 release. Our plan is to release 0.2.6.11 followed by a testing (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Okay I've done it. I have the drive train all figured out with the exact gearing I wanted. Now the question to answer before I totally tear down and rebuild a complete robot is; will adding an additional 2 motors to help in forward and reverse (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Now that is conveinient! ;) (...) I am messing around with this idea hoping to get the gear ratio I want (2:5). I currently have 16t on the motors driving 40t on the drive axle. I haven't come up with a good way to incorporate the differential (...) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) ... (...) Jona, Take a look at Fingers from Sumo-bot 4 (on YOUR web site :) :) (URL) a pretty good picture from the bottom. (URL) robot uses 4 motors (two RCX outputs) to drive 6 wheels. That's kind of the opposite of what you want, but it may (...) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Steve Hassenplug wrote: <SNIP> (...) </SNIP> So Steve (or Brian or anyone else reading this), have you actually built the drive train you describe? And if so, can you share the specifics of the gearing and configuration of (...) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCXCC and Visual NQC 2001
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(...) require the Spirit OCX control (which may be why RcxCC didn't work). And with the latest NQC 3.0 beta (3.0 a2) you can take advantage of such cool things as pointers, integrated Spybotics API, and extended support for writable sources. (...) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Hello Ahui, Just have a look to John Hansen's messages below, and you'll have your answer: (URL) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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It's been a while (since 2001) that I have not used NQC. =0 I tried installing RCXCC on windows XP and it won't work. =( Not compatible I guess. I tried to look for Visual NQC 2001 on the net but can't seem to find it either. =( The main website no (...) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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(...) In RAM, as specified. RAM will hold onto the data just fine, as long as you supply power to it. And the RCX RAM is powered, via battery (that's why if you remove the batteries, you loose the firmware... and everything else). (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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(...) Catching up on LUGNET after a busy couple of days, I notice that John is moving the BricxCC page to: (URL) (See (URL) for more details.) John, the LEGO website also has a link to your AOL page here: (URL) so you might want to contact them so (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) You can use events with a 1.0 RCX, but only if you load the 2.0 firmware into it. Download the FIRM0328.LGO firmware file instead of the FIRM0309.LGO file before you load your NQC programs into the brick. The newer firmware was supplied with (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) The 32K RAM in the RCX is powered by the batteries even when the RCX is turned off. This is why the firmware (leJOS or otherwise) does not get erased when you turn the unit off. But if you remove the batteries for a few minutes, it does get (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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Hi everybody. I'm trying to guess where exactly the leJOS firmware is stored. All domcuments i've read say that it's in the 32K RAM. But i ask my self why they say RAM; if you turn off the RCX neither the firmware or the user programms doesn't (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: BrickOS: No rule to make target
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(...) Try to substitute the line PROGRAMS=helloworld.lx rover.lx linetrack.lx robots.lx c++.lx sound.lx by this one PROGRAMS= and then "make helloworld.lx" I had also to modify the line in Makefile.common (included by the demo Makefile) which sets (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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hello, for the needs of a robotic course, I need to find a lejos program for the rcx. the program running on the pc side is supposed to ask the x,y coordinates of a point and then, when entered, transfer them to the rcx, then, whith the program (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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Hi everybody. I'm trying to get into NQC and i've got some doubts. For example, can i control events with my rcx 1.0? Thanks a lot. Sole (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi, I'm trying to build the BrickOS demo programs on windows98. I have gcc v3.2 and make v3.8 installed from cygwin. make clean and make realclean work but when I try to just do a make, the .depend files get built in both the demo directory and in (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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