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You'll probably have to post a bit of your code. You could zip the projects up and link to them or copy/paste relevant portions into here. (17 years ago, 8-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Microsoft Robotics Studio
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Has anyone had any luck with the Microsoft Robotics Studio with the RCX / RIS 2.0 ??? I have been able to write a program that uses the direction control to control a basic roverbot moving left/right forwards/backwards and another program that (...) (17 years ago, 7-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | ROBOLAB 2.9.3 Patch
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The ROBOLAB 2.9.3 Patch is available from at LEGOEngineering.com (URL) highlighted fixes include: 1. RCX Firmware 7.08: This firmware is substantially smaller than the last one, giving a lot more space for programs. 2. NXT Firmware 7.07: This (...) (17 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | FW: Another Challenge. Performance Comparison
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Dick, 2 questions: 1) Regarding the benchmark code used for performance analysis. How about something which will require intense sensor feedback? How about simple alignment code? I really want to stick with RCX for teaching as kids have to do a lot (...) (17 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Get Pixel Value Plotter
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(...) I was able to connect the "Get Pixel Color" command with the RCX. I run a direct program on the computer, feeding color datum to the RCX. The RCX program is set up to receive the color datum and act on it in a sequential manner. Soon I will (...) (17 years ago, 26-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Comparing software
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I get a lot of people asking what the "best" software is for the NXT. Of course, this is a complex question that depends on the user, and intended goal of the program. So, for the last several days, members of the Mindstorms Community Partners (MCP) (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC vs. NXC vs. MS-VC vs. RobotC
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(...) I have no idea what you are talking about Steve. My page was not copied from yours. The information on my page was gathered completely independently. And it doesn't contain any subjective and biased information. I started on the project as (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: NQC vs. NXC vs. MS-VC vs. RobotC
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(...) That's a very nice page, John. I'm glad you at least went through the trouble of changing the background, before you claimed the work as your own, and posted it. Here's the page I've been working on for several days, before John copied it. (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: NQC vs. NXC vs. MS-VC vs. RobotC
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(...) I went ahead and put together a programming tools comparison chart that attempts to leave out any subjective information. It covers only the NXT and not previous generations of LEGO MINDSTORMS products. (URL) Hansen (17 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: nqc compilation errors
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(...) thank you. specific sulution: 'nqc -Trcx2 error.nqc' instead of 'nqc error.nqc' (17 years ago, 14-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: nqc compilation errors
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(...) Gus is correct, although there are other targets which support arrays and indirect variables. NQC defaults to RCX as the target. You need to use the -TRCX2 switch if you are running the 2.0 firmware on your RCX and you want to use arrays and (...) (17 years ago, 14-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: nqc compilation errors
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(...) Only the RCX2 firmware supports these features. If you set the target to RCX2 then it will compile. Gus (17 years ago, 14-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | nqc compilation errors
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Background: (...) nqc version 3.1 r4 (built Jan 12 2007, 19:11:18) Copyright (C) 2005 John Hansen. All Rights Reserved. Usage error: try 'nqc -help' to display options (...) Linux eip 2.6.17-10-386 #2 Fri Oct 13 18:41:40 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux (...) (17 years ago, 14-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: NQC vs. NXC vs. MS-VC vs. RobotC
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(...) Elizabeth, It may be very useful to create a table, with columns for these different programming environments, and then you could have rows for all the features. That would make it easy for people to help you fill in the blanks. You may want (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: NQC vs. NXC vs. MS-VC vs. RobotC
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(...) The NQC solution supports all LEGO programable bricks from the CyberMaster to the Spybot, including the RCX. The Scout, RCX, and Spybot platforms supports event monitoring (for the RCX this requires the 2.0 firmware). If you obtain NQC by (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | NQC vs. NXC vs. MS-VC vs. RobotC
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| |I downloaded RobotC from CMU - www-education.rec.ri.cmu.edu. It does |have a great long term potential. It does not have the capability to do |a lot of more advanced stuff though, such as events/interrupt. | |I'd like to compare 3 software in (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Mindstorms fabrication/manufacturing line...
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(...) That machine is ingenious. I like the way he has his RCX bricks communicating by traveling along with the assembly line. I also like the frame he made to hold the wheels while the body was pushed onto them. Brilliant. (...) This reply is (...) (18 years ago, 5-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
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| | lnp sending from rcx to pc problems
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hi, (1. PROBLEM) :o) i am trying to send something from my rcx to my pc(serial tower) via lnp. with my rcx program running i started lnpdump to see if anything arrives at my pc, but nothing seems to arrive. with my pc-side program i also cant (...) (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Get Pixel Value Plotter
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Dear Claude, Thanks you for your robot arm. (URL) I download the program and images of the arm so I can repeat the project? I decided to lay off getting RoboSoccer working opting out for a simple start. I want to build a x,y table using the Get (...) (18 years ago, 17-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | MacNQC on Intel anyone?
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Hi, after replacing my PowerMac and iBook with a new Intel based iMac and MacBook respectively, I yesterday hit the small but noticeably issue to get MacNQC to run on it. While the Rosetta environment seems to run MacNQC reasonably fine, it may be (...) (18 years ago, 27-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Would this work?
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(...) It was only ever really a theoretical project. And then I'd have to come up with a way of connecting possibly nine sensors. If you could control both the positive side and the negative side of the rcx connection you could multiplex 9 outputs (...) (18 years ago, 26-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Would this work?
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(...) Steve, I don't think connecting the two RCXs through power adaptors will work. I'm not sure the details, but I think the rectifiers in the RCXs will cause problems. To get a common ground, I *THINK* you could connect the negative side of the (...) (18 years ago, 26-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Would this work?
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I've spotted a slight flaw, fixed in this version. I've added 9 1x2 connector plates. (URL) (18 years ago, 26-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | Would this work?
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I've wanted for a while now to utilise the particular characteristics of the 2x2 Lego plate connectors. To that end I've built an all Lego multiplexer. (URL) I'm wondering now will it actually work? The yellow connectors are the positive inputs, the (...) (18 years ago, 26-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | problem running LNPD on Debian, LNP programs on the PC side
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Hi everyone, I'm doing my thesis using Brickos and LNP on Debian, with a RCX 2.0 and an IR tower USB, LNP because I need to have a constant communication between the pc and several RCXs. I'm using brickos lnpd_0.9.0-1 stable, lnpd_0.9.0-1_i386.deb (...) (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Development status
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(...) Santa thinks I haven't played enough with my RCX since I got it, so he won't give me a NXT just yet. ;-) (...) Aside from some signedness warnings and a missing function for converting unsigned to float, brickOS compiles nicely with gcc HEAD. (...) (18 years ago, 25-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Development status
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(...) Still it is nice to see some activity :-) BTW: I've adopted Stephen's Debian packages, so there are new ones for those of you who are on Debian. Is there anything one could do to help? Best, Michael (18 years ago, 25-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Development status
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Hi Carl, I think we all want to get (or have it already) a NXT brick. BrickOS was not changed in the last year, as I remember. But it is a great way to do real programming and I wish to have someting like a nxtOS. :) (...) That sounds great for me. (...) (18 years ago, 24-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Development status
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Carl, Welcome! If you have the time and the interest we welcome your spending time on this. As you can tell there has not been much activity here in a while... ;-( (...) Regards, Stephen -- (18 years ago, 24-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Development status
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Hey folks. I played around a bit with brickOS a couple of years ago but never got around to do anything serious. And now I thought I'd look into it again, if only for the joy of low-level coding. So I noticed, like others before me, that brickOS (...) (18 years ago, 23-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BricxCC ver 3.3.7.15 templates dont appear
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(...) I've looked further into this problem and the answer is in the notes on the sourceforge site. This states that there is a problem and that template.txt has to be changed to 007_templates.txt. Installing this on another machine worked fist (...) (18 years ago, 20-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: BricxCC ver 3.3.7.15 templates dont appear
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(...) Thanks for the reply. I tried as you suggested but no success. I then went to the default folder opened template.txt, in notepad, then copied all its contents and pasted it into the box opened above. This seems to have worked. David Liddell (18 years ago, 20-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: BricxCC ver 3.3.7.15 templates dont appear
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(...) Hi David, I got them to show by going to edit / preferences / templates, and clicking the "default" button. I don't know if this is the "official" way but it worked for me :) ROSCO (18 years ago, 19-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | BricxCC ver 3.3.7.15 templates dont appear
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I've just downloaded and installed BricxCC v 3.3.7.15 which appears ok but the template window is empty. How can I sort this please I using a Pentium 4 socket 478, XPpro. David Liddell (18 years ago, 19-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | help on lejos\rcxcomm
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Hello, I try to launch the example read/write PC<->RCX. The RCX part (Read) is compiled and downloaded. But I don't managed to the PC's part (write). It compiles with lejosjc.bat. But with java.exe, the following error message appears : ---...--- (...) (18 years ago, 11-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | New navigation API for LeJOS
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Hello Paul, first of all, thank you very much for providing LeJOS. I am a member of the project team for the master courses at the University of Applied Studies and Research in Wernigerode, Germany (Hochschule Harz). In our project thesis we decided (...) (18 years ago, 27-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: RCX2 Sensor Mux/Demux.
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Bob, Steve, Thanks for helping me out! I will try to combine 1 touch sensor and 1 rotation sensor each, since the touch sensor will be used eventually and rotation sensor will be used continuously. Best regards, Atul. (18 years ago, 12-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Port to NXT?
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(...) There is a sort-of port available on lejos.sourceforge.net now: (...) Apparently, the API uses existing firmware functionality to control the NXT brick from the host computer using Java, it's not a proper Java VM for local execution. There is (...) (18 years ago, 11-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: RCX2 Sensor Mux/Demux.
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(...) Atul, This is a really good combination of sensors to try to MUX. Depending on what sensors can be exclusive, you should be able to do this without any additional hardware. You can connect a light sensor to one port, and also connect a touch (...) (18 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX2 Sensor Mux/Demux.
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"Atul" <sowani-NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote in message news:J593w3.FqE@lugnet.com... (...) Check this site. (URL) (18 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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