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Thanks to those who have responded to my queries. Your info has been very helpful. Now I am trying to modify # of arguments to packet_producer() in program.c, but I am unable to find prototype definition in any .h files. Can someone tell me where it (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Get/SetCommTimeouts
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"Shashank Date" <sdate@everestkc.net> wrote in message news:Htuzyn.6qG@lugnet.com... (...) parameters. I (...) The "SetCommTimeout" function only applies to "COMx" serial ports. You are trying to use it on a USB port! (21 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Get/SetCommTimeouts
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I am trying to write a C program (using VC++ 6.0) to talk to RCX 2.0 on my Win XP (Home Ed) box. Everything seems to be OK except the get/set of Communication parameters. I cannot understand why. I have attached the minimal C program which does (...) (21 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Respondre el missatge: Use of lnp_addressing_write() in an RCX program.
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You must send the packet to port 0 of the destination. The dest address is conformed by the address in the upper 4 bits and the port in the lower 4 of the char. So if you put address = 6 you are saying -> host=0 port=6 and you must send to host=6, (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Spurious bad readings from sensors
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(...) Could it be noise getting into the analog power supply? If you're switching between brake and full power with the motor ports, it seems possible that some spikes could get through to the A/D converter. You might be able to test this by (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Spurious bad readings from sensors
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Hi Mark, Thanks for the help. In Steve's legway code he reads from LIGHT_1 and LIGHT_3 (even if there is no sensor hooked to LIGHT_3). When I was running his code with instrumentation for both sensors, I had nothing hooked to SENSOR_3, and I still (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | USB tower/Linux/Firmdl not working nicely together
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Hi, Delighted I was to see that the USB lego tower driver was accepted into the Linux kernel tree, so I downloaded linux 2.6.2 and installed the lego driver with it. It checks in perfectly, no problem with the driver. But, when I try to upload (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Spurious bad readings from sensors
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(...) Because of the way BrickOS uses interrupts to handle active sensors, it's possible for sensors to be deprived of power for 300us or more, though typically the interval is only 30us or so. This is due to long interrupt latencies in BrickOS that (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: getVoltage???
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(...) That's not true. The accuracy is exactly the same, as the value is calculated from the internal one and none is lost through rounding. Jürgen (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Spurious bad readings from sensors
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Hi, I instrumented Steve Hassenplug's legway code so that after it falls over it can dump sensor data and motor control valiables out to a PC. One of the things I noticed in this process is that aperiodically, the sensor inputs give a sensor reading (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | cannot install brickOS
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Hi, When I'm trying to install the Hitachi H8 cross compiler (on win2000), I have some errors during the installation like : sys/types.h: No such file or directory But at the end it says : GCC install end Done. :---...--- End Wed Feb 25 14:05:50 (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: getVoltage???
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Hi Sole, I've used the getVoltageMilleVolt() in projects to measure how much voltage was used to complete a task. It is the most granular, hence the best accuracy. Don't worry about the other methods. The getVoltageMilleVolt() method is all you (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Use of lnp_addressing_write() in an RCX program.
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Hello all. I wrote a small program using lnp_addressing_write() to remotely change the host address of one RCX from another. It doesn't work. I get an occasional flash of IR icon on receiving unit - that's it. Please take a look: int main(int argc, (...) (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | getVoltage???
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Hi!!! I'm trying to test my robot executing certain programms. I take the voltage value in mV with the method getVoltageMilliVolt() before and after the execution. Then i subtract these values in order to get the voltage wasted. But i don't really (...) (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | How to send button cmd or run pgm remotely from one RCX to another ?
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I am trying to use lnp_addressing_write() or lnp_assured_write() to send commands (e.g. CMDdelete, CMDsethost) from one RCX to another. This seems to be the way it is handled in loader.c of the DLL utility. I am not having any success. Is there an (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How to get RCX to display/change its LNP host address ?
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In program.c, you will find: cputw(lnp_hostaddr); This is used by the program manager to display the current host address (use the View button on the RCX)... while displaying the host address, if you hit the Program button on the RCX, it will (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | How to get RCX to display/change its LNP host address ?
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1) I am trying to write a small program which will change the host address of the RCX to something else. I am making a call to lnp_set_hostaddr(). But I would like to verify the change, so: 2) I am also trying to get the RCX to display its current (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Solved my problem with lnpd
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Hi, I've solved my problem that RCX didn't receive correctly from tower. I've posted the patch at the brickos project site at sourceforge. (URL) it doesn't work try: (URL) and click on the link " View and post Patches at brickOS project site" (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Digitrax DZ123
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(...) [snip] (...) Hi All, I'm following up on my earlier post (above). I purchased some of these DZ123 decoders and finally got around to installing a couple of them. Street price for me ended up being about $16 (US) each. Installation went (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | Re: RCXCC and Visual NQC 2001
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(...) BricxCC works with XP and both IR towers. The USB tower works with XP. You can get just the USB tower from Pitsco, but I do not know if you can get just the USB tower from LEGO. If you get the USB tower from Pitsco you will need to download (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Release candidate brickos-0.2.6.10.6 AvaIl. for testing
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Thanks go to Michael Obenland for pointing out a problem with compiling under the new gcc versions. This caused me to recognize that I failed to include 5 of the latest file versions in 10.5. If you've started to work with 0.2.10.5, please download (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RCXCC and Visual NQC 2001
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(...) Does any program work with XP and the serial tower? I did download BricxCC and it worked, did not try to use any IR tower. Does the USB tower work with XP? Also can I get just the USB tower from LEGO? Thanks and sorry for all the questions. (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | Sending messages using LNP
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Does anyone know where I can find some sample code or demos explaining how to send simple messages back and forth between RCXs using LNP ? (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: multiple motors
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(...) Actually, I think what he's suggesting is a pretty good idea. I usually test most of my sumo robots this way. Place the robot next to a wall. If you don't want to damage a wall with a big, powerful robot, :) use a book held against the floor (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: multiple motors
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(...) My main concern isn't spending money on batteries, that's just something that popped in my head when I was listing our questions I had about the 6 motor solution. My main concern is getting half-way through the tear-down/rebuild process only (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: multiple motors
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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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| | Re: multiple motors
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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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| | Re: multiple motors
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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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| | Re: multiple motors
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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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| | Re: multiple motors
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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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| | Re: multiple motors
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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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| | Re: multiple motors
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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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| | Re: RCXCC and Visual NQC 2001
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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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| | RCXCC and Visual NQC 2001
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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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| | Re: where leJOS firmware ?
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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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| | Re: Controlling events
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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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| | Re: Controlling events
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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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| | Re: where leJOS firmware ?
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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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| | where leJOS firmware ?
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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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| | communication pc/rcx
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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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| | Controlling events
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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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| | BrickOS: No rule to make target
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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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| | Re: C$ - Code Only
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(...) Nope. I knew there was a certain amount configurability in brickOS, but I assumed it would be hard to get it down to a minumum. (...) With librcx, I started out with the minimum and added only what I needed. (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | NQC beta 2
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I have uploaded a beta copy of NQC 3.0 a2 to my new NQC website at (URL) try this version out and let me know if you experience any problems with subroutines with the Spybotics target (which did not return correctly in all previous NQC versions). (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | BricxCC home page is moving!
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At the end of last year I finally signed up for high speed internet access from Comcast. Included in the agreement (with my wife) is that I would get rid of my long association with AOL. I've had the JohnBinder AOL email address for many, many years (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics.scout, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | NQC & Spybot subroutine code generation bug
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I have just received a report from a user that NQC programs containing subroutines do not execute correctly against the Spybot platform. I have confirmed that this is a problem with all versions of NQC which support the Spybot brick. This program: (...) (21 years ago, 11-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | RE: Problem with rcxTcl.exe and the USB IR tower
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I have a tentative solution to this problem. I've written a DLL that will also allow me to change some interesting stuff like baud rate and imeouts on the tower. This may allow us to finally get full control of the RCX USB tower! Hopefully I can (...) (21 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | dll error deleting program
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Hi all. Yestaday I installed brickOS-2.60 and compiled it with gcc 3.2. Downloading the firmware with firmdl3 works great but I cannot download any program with dll getting the usual "error deleting program". Maybe is a problem with LNP and dll (...) (21 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: C$ - Code Only
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(...) I am admittedly biased toward BrickOS; however, I am wondering if you attempted to free some memory in BrickOS by disabling features that you didn't need? If you are only going to run one program (whether single threaded or multi), you can (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: C$ - Code Only
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(...) I think most people seriously underestimated how hard building the robot would be. The funny thing is, all of rtlToronto's events have the same general premise: Build a robot that does something. Second, if you can make the robot do it well, (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: C$ - Code Only
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(...) NQC compiles not quite C code into LEGO firmware opcodes. You download the .rcx result, and LEGO firmware interprets the program. This makes it slow. QuiteC and brickOS both use H8 native C compilers that spit out H8 assembly code directly. (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: C$ - Code Only
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(...) Forgive a clueless question here, but is QuiteC different than NotQuiteC? If so where can I learn more about it? Thanks! The oldest mention of the term "QuiteC" I could find on LUGNET was only 3 weeks ago but MAYBE I'm searching wrong? see (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: C$ - Code Only
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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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| | Re: LEGO Tower API and Filenames
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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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| | Re: LEGO Tower API and Filenames
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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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| | Re: How does?
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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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| | How does?
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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) I have just posted MSGMON, a very rough (!!!) WIN32 command-line program that will receive one-byte messages from the RCX using a USB tower. This should get you started, although it will need a lot of work to make this into anything resembling (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I did not explain my problem properly but you got it anyway! I do use EKEY? before EKEY, but sometimes EKEY seems to block. Thanks for taking your time to look into this. As for the new word (wow!), in Forth-79, there was a word called ?KEY (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Hi, I'm sure this issue has come up before, but I can't find an answer to my exact question in the archives: Are there any utilities that can be used (preferably a Windows command line utility) to receive the messages sent by SendMessage()? Or any (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RE: WORDLIST
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I should help with this tooo, maybe this weekend. Sigh. We just got between 60cm and 90 cm of fresh snow, so snowboarding and shovelling will be the primary activities, unless the roads are closed - which does happen frequently... Ralph (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: IR problems
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(...) EKEY always waits for input. Use EKEY? to see if anything is available... Looking at the source, I see that there is a possiblity that in the time between checking for a character with EKEY? and actually reading it with EKEY, that an error can (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) I never seen the adressing message work .... Try to search if you have the good adress setup in the lnp_adressing_write function. nanobapt (21 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi All, I've uploaded MacNQC 4.0b1. New features are: * RCX Simulator. * Added a Memory Map Panel. * Updated NQC to 3.0a1. If you would like to test it, it can be found at (URL) comments, or feature requests for the next version can be sent to (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.7
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(...) Upon further review, it would appear that (at least on my machine and one other that I have heard about) the new release of BricxCC (3.3.7.7) does, in fact, correctly download the brickOS firmware. My previous tests were using an old copy of (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) There used to be:-) My code was written for pbforth 1.x which turned to be incompatible with 2.x (I've been out of contact with pbForth for some time and only recently got my RCX back). My fault for not testing it on the current version. Mea (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) On a plain pbForth system I get errors when trying to load this code. What do you mean by "wordlist extensions required"? Is there source code available somewhere which adds the wordlist extensions to pbForth? My pbForth doesn't know about (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Hi list! my name is Gerard and I'm working with BrickOS over the lego mindstorms. My problem with LNP is that it seems not to be receiving anything. After having installed the handlers on both sides (pc and rcx) no one seems to receive anything. On (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Ralph, one more question. Are there conditions where the word EKEY would wait for input (like KEY)? It seems to happen in my program. Thanks (21 years ago, 29-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Hi I've tried to reproduce your code but Bricx has a limit on its line length. Is there an easy way round this problem or do I have to split the longer word definitions. David Liddell. (21 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Hi!! are you italian??so am I :) (...) phantom.dll control ( a replacement of spirit.ocx) used in a visual c++ mfc application (...) I had already tried this.. it doesn't work.. I was wondering if there is a problem with the if function! thank (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi Valeria, (...) I can't understand the language you are using, but, as far as I know, in many other languages for the RCX you have to wait for the PlayTone to complete before exiting the task. Probably you need to insert a Wait instruction, your (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Very! I don't expect to use the game data often, but it would be nice to have the option of having it available or not. thanks for the great work! (21 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Further Adventures with Assembler
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(...) Got it. I just converted my whole program from C++ to C, and then it stopped whining. (21 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Thanks Ralph. I'll try this. I might have followed the wrong track but I got to this 'test program' trying to solve the problem I have in my 'real' program: I'm writing a PbForth version of the Trailerbot (Luis Villa, Extreme Mindstorms). The (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Yeah... that was me being stupid. The types are all correct in the program. I tried compiling without the .b and .w's, just to be sure and it's the same error. The arrays that cause the problem are of type const char. There's three that have (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Further Adventures with Assembler
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(...) The line above should produce an error because you are specifying a byte move into a word register. The fact that it doesn't always cause an error makes me think there's something flakey (in the assembler) in the way instruction operand sizes (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Further Adventures with Assembler
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Just wanted to thank everyone again for the help on assembler. I've been very successful and managed to greatly increase the speed of a critical portion of my program. However, I'm still having a very bizarre issue: In the middle of an assember (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: problem wirh downloading demo program
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The program "dll" attempts to delete the program in the slot on the RCX that the new program will be placed. It does this every time, because, it doesn't know if a program is there or not (better safe than sorry). The fact that you are getting this (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) This error indicate that the program don't download succefully the program ... turn on RCX ;-) or see if you can acess to the right COM name or sotmething like that nanobapt (21 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, I tried to download the hello-world demo-program after downloading legos for the first time. It failed with the message "delete program failed". What program should be deleted, there is none! Anne (21 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Problems with if-close with phantom.dll
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Hi to everyone, it's the first time for me on lugnet newsgroup. I was wandering wether you can help me!! I have troubles with "If" function... maybe it's my fault, but when I write a very very simple task (made so simple in order to understand where (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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