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(...) See that is what makes Lugnet such a great resource! I finally decided to try out Bricxcc/NQC (after using BrickOS on Linux) and it worked fine when I was just downloading short "Hello World" programs, but I pretty soon ran into this problem (...) (20 years ago, 30-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Can't make dllx - anyone else had this problem?
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Ok, thanks for that. I've got it compiling now - I didn't realise liblnp had to be compiled before dllx! (20 years ago, 29-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Can't make dllx - anyone else had this problem?
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(...) The linker is looking for the file liblnp.dll (Not 100% sure of the extension might be .a or .so). The -L arguments specifies a place to look for libraries and is probably where liblnp.dll is expected. Check this directory for the file. I have (...) (20 years ago, 29-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Can't make dllx - anyone else had this problem?
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I am trying to make all the LNP stuff at the moment. Having followed the instructions for installing dllx according to the readme on the legos.sourceforge.net website, I have come to the part where I type: make depend make in the dllx directory. (...) (20 years ago, 29-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: bad motor output because of lego firmware?!
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(...) I suspect part of this delay is inherant to the firmware, and won't be "patchable" In any case, if you want your extender to be something you can market to most users, it should work with the standard firmware, without modification. Just my (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: bad motor output because of bad lego firmware?!
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(...) The firmware (at least version 0328) intentionally prevents you going directly from forward to reverse (or vice versa). I guess the designers felt this would be too rough on the motors. Try inserting a Wait(50) in your first loop. It'll work (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi there, I've spent the last two days trying to write a function in NQC that transfers data to the Lepomux I/O-extender. The data transfer is normally done by connecting the Lepomux to one of the motor ports. Each transition from one motor state to (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Help installing brickOS
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(...) Sure. The configure script tries to find the gcc cross compiler toolchain for the brick's hitachi processor. This chain is needed to compile brickOS to a program that can be run by the RCX. But it seems that you did not install the tool chain. (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Help installing brickOS
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(...) I believe that I had the exact same problem a few weeks ago, but I found that using a pre-built package takes a lot of the hassle out of installing BrickOS. The pre-built packages can be found at: (URL) hope this helps, Timothy (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Help installing brickOS
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I'm trying to install brickOS 0.2.6.10.6 on WIN NT. After unning "configure" it's busy for along time, and terminates with the message -"No Hitachi gcc compiler found. Please install compiler and try again." Any suggestions? Thanks, Jordon (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Piggybacking sensors, but in a different way
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(...) While you may be able to connect a touch sensor (passive) to two RCXs, I doubt that would work with a light sensor (any active sensor). Mainly, because one of them must be set to power the sensor. Normally, when the sensor is read by an RCX, (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Is it possible to piggyback 1 sensor onto two rcx's? For instance, have one light sensor connected to port 1 of two different rcx's at the same time. The purpose would be for one rcx to control chassis movement, and another to control manipulator (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Rotation sensor limitation
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(...) The simplest answer is to try it. Yes the limit that an RCX 16 bit integer can hold is 32767. From there things go to -32768 down to zero I think. (...) Kevin (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi, I'm using Robolab 2.5.3 and RCS firmware revision 03.01 03.28. I have a couple of questions: - I want to demonstrate the difference in code size between a program written using subroutines versus a program written using subVi's. How do I (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Rotation sensor limitation
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I use a rotation sensor for a brick sorting machine – hence I need to know the limitation of the rotation sensor. What happens when the rotation sensor exceeds 9999 as shown on the LCD display? Apparently the rotation sensor can still keep track of (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Rotation Sensor
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(...) However I would definitely recommend 10-12V AC adapter - there are stories of people burning out the bridge rectifier on the RCX adapter input by prolonged use of DC adapters. ROSCO (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Rotation Sensor
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"Jordon Hirshon" <j.hirshon@att.net> wrote in message news:I606x3.161n@lugnet.com... (...) Lego Educational: Adapter - (URL) Sensor - (URL) - (URL) Sensor - (URL) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Rotation Sensor
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(...) Rotation sensors are still readily available. You can get them from LEGO's educational division. Check lego's web site to find the name of the educational division distributor for your area. Any 9v DC adapter that fits the socket will work for (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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How can I track down a rotation sensor, and an AC adaptor for RCX 1.0? Jordon (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | use of single features of BrickOS
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Hi, I am working for the university of Stuttgart. And like universities are, they always need to do something special. That's why my task is to use Micro C/OS-II with the Bricks. There ist just a problem: Micro C/OS-II does not contain methods to (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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