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I tried to explain term firmware to middle school age children. The best that I can do without using the technical terms, like embedded software, ROM is this: "Firmware is a set of instructions which must be loaded into the RCX Brick in order for it (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | RE: power levels clarification
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Thank you very much for your clarification. Any suggestion on reading material about PMW for high school kids. -- Elizabeth -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Johnson Sent: (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: power levels clarification
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(...) PWM--Pulse Width Modulation. Basically, during a cycle, power is turned on and off. The lengh of time the power is on is the pulse width. Longer pulse widths corispond to higher power levels. This cycling is supposed to happens fast enought (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: power levels clarification
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(...) PWM - pulse width modulation of the electric current going to the motors. CS (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | power levels clarification
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Hi I am curious how the power levels are being implemented. I am not talking about the icon level navigation. How the motor actually adjusts to the different levels setting? Gear slipping? Thanks in advance... -- Elizabeth (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC
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(...) In general, the syntax for a computer programming language remains constant, regardless of the nationality of the programmer. There are probably some exceptions to this, but from what I've seen this is the general rule. So, for example, if you (...) (20 years ago, 12-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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(...) The page from which the original image came((URL) says this: "In this program, the RCX will continue beeping until the button is pressed six times. The container keeps track of each time the button is pressed." Having no way to tell simply by (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, FTX)
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| | Re: Advantage on motor change direction?
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, Thomas Johnson wrote: <snip> (...) Um, you can't programmatically detect *in advance* which direction the motor is *set to turn* because that's determined by hardware, namely, by the orientation of the electric cable (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: firmdl3 usb error linux
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(...) I am not running Debian linux, but I got it work under Suse linux with a 2.4.6 kernel. There was almost the same problem. I can't find in your kernel message, where the usb tower has been attached. You should check this first, before you are (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Swan Firmware
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(...) Heloooooooo? (Well, never mind I guess. Went back to the old firmware anyway 'coz this new one doesn't work.) Iain (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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