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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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| | Re: Advantage on motor change direction?
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(...) This command is useful when you don't already know what direction a motor is going. Consider the following contrived example: A Robot w/a single light sensor is supposed to drive back and forth between two black lines. Additionally, this robot (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Advantage on motor change direction?
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(...) As far as I can tell, there is no advantage, other than the fact that the motor control command allows you to turn on/off other motors at the same time as changing the direction. Other than that, it's a matter of personal preference, by my (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Advantage on motor change direction?
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Hi I am trying to understand if there is much advantage on using the "change direction" command, instead of using the usual "turn on motor " in the opposition direction command. (20 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | ECRobot with MATLAB 7
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Hi, in a student research project I got the ECRobot target of the Real Time Workshop in MATLAB 7 working. So it is possible to run a closed loop from Simulink via automatic sourcecodegeneration on the Brick. Detailed instructions in german and a (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Problem with makefile
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(...) You can copy the Makefile from the installed location $prefix/share/doc/br...+/Makefile In that case you don't need to change the paths. (...) Is there a "Test.cpp/Test.C" in that directory? Multiple object files do not work exactly as one (...) (20 years ago, 25-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Problem with makefile
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Hello! I have a problem with making a program, which consists of some sourcefiles. I copied the Makefile out of the demo/c++ folder into my project directory and changed the paths, so that the included Makefiles and the brickOS directory can be (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | reduce the installation time of robolab2.5.4?
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Hi 2.5.4. takes quite long time to install. I attempted not to install the training mission and check the box to tell it run the training mission off from CD instead. However, it claimed unfound files when I tried to run robolab. Any suggestion? (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Problems to build the Hitachi-H8 cross-compiler
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I tried to build the Hitachi-H8 cross-compiler to be used for brickos-0.2.6.10.6 . Trying to build based on binutils-2.10.1. I'm trying to install this on Win-XP. First I installed cygwin when I afterwards faced problems to execute commands. Solved (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | unable to load brickos executable from /dev/usb/lego0
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Hello! I have compiled succesfully brickos-0.2.6.10.6 under linux. After I installed it I loaded brickos.srec and helloworld.lx into the RCX. This time I tried to load an lx file I got the following error: "error deleting program" and after trying (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problems with Brixcc Cygwin
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(...) This error indicates somewhat obscurely that the download did not complete successfully and that the installer is corrupted as a result. You will need to try downloading the file again. A download utility like Net Transport might be worth (...) (20 years ago, 15-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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