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(...) It's the same PSU as used for the 9V train controllers. (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) The wall wart for my RCX says "output 10.8VAC 700mA 8w" so it sounds like the rectifier is in the RCX, not the wall wart. (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Wow, I do not have a 10V AC adapter but I am sure I can get one at Radio Shack. Thanks a million, Tom (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I once came across a box full of old wall wart power supplies at a rummage sale and after digging through it for 10 minutes or so I found three that had 12V AC and the correct plug for the RCX. They work perfectly and I think I paid about $1 (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) 9V (orientation doesn't matter). But I wouldn't recommend it as there have been reports of burnt out rectifiers from people doing that. Hope this helps, ROSCO (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Sign of center pin on power adaptor
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I am looking for the sign of the center pin on the RCX 1.0 power adaptor plug. I have a DC 9v 200ma transformer and want to plug it into the RCX but I do not know what the sign is on the center of the plug. It looks like the rush on buying the old (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RCX Code - Light Raw Values
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Hi people, Its possible to configure/read RAW light sensor values with RCX CODE? I think i saw it sometime ago, but i could not find it. Thanks in Advance Patrick J. Levy ___...___ Omiccron Programação Gráfica Ltda. 11 3288-4832 (...) (17 years ago, 30-Jun-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Is there a usable Mac OS X version?
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(...) I think John Hansen actually made a pbForth terminal in NQC. My RCXTcl works on a PC, but I never did get around to packaging it for Macs. Probably because I don't have one myself :-) That being said, once you have a terminal program to talk (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Is there a usable Mac OS X version?
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Is there a usable version of pbForth for Mac OS X and the USB tower? I have NQC, so there should be no trouble downloading firmware, and Mac OS X has good terminal software, but how do I set up things so that terminal communication goes via the USB (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: lcd display on RCX 1.0
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(...) If you load RCX2 firmware in a RCX1 brick (they are fully compatible*), you'll have acces to this function (and all other RCX2 specific possibilities) Philo *Except for some minor differences in IR hardware. (17 years ago, 25-Jun-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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NQC: with RCX2, it has a function to display a user defined value. Is there a way to do it with RCX 1.0? How about just to display the current mail value with RCX1.0? Suggestion? Thanks in advance. --Elizabeth (17 years ago, 24-Jun-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Shutdown/Off while program running crashes BrickOS
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(...) Yes, that should be the latest version. (...) That is correct. You shouldn't need to do anything else. At one point, I made some changes to the firmware so the program could also access the run button. But, normally all that is handled in the (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jun-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I'm using what appears to be called BrickOS 0.9.0. It was installed using John Hansen's simplified installation from his BricxCC sourceforge site. I was under the impression that on later versions of BrickOS, like what I am using, the firmware (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jun-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Shutdown/Off while program running crashes BrickOS
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(...) Gus, It sounds like the code is testing for pressing the run button, but not pressing the power button. I would think testing for shutdown would be good enough, but who knows... :) What version of BrickOS are you using? I'd be glad to take a (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jun-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Shutdown/Off while program running crashes BrickOS
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I have a big and somewhat complicated BrickOS program that I believe is reasonably well behaved. All my loops monitor shutdown_requested and I have tested stopping the program with the Run button while the program is in various states and it always (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jun-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RoboLab
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Have a great Summer Tom Lohre’s Quarterly Art Show at Med+ Opening July 14th, 2007 from 6:30 to 9 PM, light refreshments served. In the lobby of Med+ Urgent Care, 9549 Montgomery Rd. Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45242, 513-489-3737, just north of (...) (17 years ago, 12-Jun-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | NQC release 3.1r6 - support for 64-bit platforms
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I have posted a new release of NQC which includes the fixes from r5 which were never officially released (aside from being included along with recent versions of BricxCC). It also includes a small source code change which makes it possible to (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jun-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Alternate firmware upload from MacOSX
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Hi all, We're trying to wrap up our alternative runtime for the RCX (first), and soon the NXT. I am struggling, however, to upload our firmware from the Mac using a USB tower. I can upload using a serial or USB tower from both Windows and Linux... (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Getting patches integrated into the brickos?
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(...) As far as I know, all the sourceforge web pages are held in the CVS repository, as are the sources. Only people with developer permission on the project have commit access to CVS - you have to contact the project admins to request that (...) (17 years ago, 25-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Getting patches integrated into the brickos?
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I've been trying to build a cross compiler and brick-os on my machine for a day now and well, what can I say except that all the how-to's and instructions for building brick-os seem to be either wrong, bad or out of date. (e.g. they talk about very (...) (17 years ago, 23-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: IR Problems
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(...) tom@tomlohre.com is my private address (17 years ago, 14-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: IR Problems
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(...) tom@tomlohre.com Dear Claude, Thanks for your message. I have delayed in replying to the excellent advice concerning communication with more than one RCX. Last night in a dream I realized that I could just bypass communication placing two push (...) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: IR Problems
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(...) Thank you for the excellent information concerning communication with more than one RCX. Last night in a dream I realized that I could just bypass communication placing two push button sensors where needed driving the additional RCX. The (...) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: IR Problems
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Hi Tom, I tried to send you a private mail, but the email address I have doesn't work anymore. Could you give me the new one? -Claude (17 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: IR Problems
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Elizabeth is quite right. It's easy to get collisions on the IR "bus" if two devices are sending (or replying) simultaneously. What I've done in the past with two RCXs is define one RCX as primary that is periodically (every 100 to 250 milliseconds (...) (17 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: IR Problems
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RCX IR does not require direct line of sight. All sorts of reflections will work. Especially if you're in a "smallish" (bedroom, home office) room. The RCX firmware always has the IR turned off. "Wait for mail" and "send mail" is just a higher (...) (17 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: IR Problems
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IR communication is no where near the reliability like a tcp/ip. You can easily lose a message ... so program must be either extremely simple one way communication. The sender should be programmed to handle message loss. What I had the kids done was (...) (17 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: IR Problems
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(...) Thanks for your reply. I had to return the 1.0 RCX and motor back to school today. Those things are like gold. The 1.0 faces the 2.0 and is not in direct line of sight of the tower. The 1.0 is just to the side of the tower. I think my problem (...) (17 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: IR Problems
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Are you sure your problem isn't interference? How did you "lock out" the RCS 1.0 from receiving (and responding) to the direct commands? You have two RCXs turned on and sending direct commands from the PC. They will both try to respond to the (...) (17 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | IR Problems
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I have been running RoboLab 2.54 B on a Dell Inspiron 1100 with little problem until of late. I am using direct mode, tower set to high and the 2.0 RCX and tower are 3” from each other with the 2.0 RCX raised up 1” to better line up with the tower. (...) (17 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Get Pixel Value Plotter
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(...) Work is coming along swimmingly. I never thought I would sit out on the back deck late at night pinching myself after a good nights work. To analyses images simply is the painter’s way and now I’m doing it in the computer. I have devised a way (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | RoboLab 2.9 Install on Server
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Has anyone had success in installing RoboLab on a server? After installing on a windows based server the message "visa32.dll is missing" occurs. Assuming RoboLab 2.9 can be run from a server are there any maximum user limitations? (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
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(...) Now this is interesting. The Control Lab works just fine. (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | Re: IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
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(...) I forgot to mention the green light. Ever since I enabled the serial port in the BIOS, the green light will only come on now when NQC is trying to transmit, which is what's supposed to happen. But then it reports the error I provided earlier. (...) (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | Re: IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
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(...) Does the green light in the tower come on at all when you try to send the message? Is the light only on when you are trying to communicate? If the light is always one I would look for another application that is trying to use the serial port. (...) (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | Re: IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
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I also figured out what COM3 was: the internal modem. I disabled it in Device Manager and now the only port that I can find in my C# app or in Hyperterminal is COM1, the serial port. But the IR tower is still not working. By the way, the built-in IR (...) (18 years ago, 10-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | Re: IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
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I feel kind of dumb: the serial port was disabled in the BIOS. However, now that it is enabled and is assigned COM1 (and shows up in Device Manager under Ports), I'm still having problems: C:nqc>nqc -SCOM1 -v -d test.nqc Downloading Program:Tx: 55 (...) (18 years ago, 10-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | Re: IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
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The light goes on as soon as you plug in the tower? Sounds like someone is already using COM3. I was looking around DELL technical support and you may have a bit of work ahead of you. First off your serial port on the inspiron 8200 should be COM1. I (...) (18 years ago, 9-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | Re: IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
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(...) Jordan, I only have one suggestion that may, or may not be useful. I'd suggest you try a fresh battery in the tower. I know you said it works on another PC. Sorry, that's the best I can do. :) Steve (18 years ago, 9-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
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I have a used Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop that is old enough to have a serial port. I'm trying to use a serial port IR tower to program an RCX and am having problems. When I plug in the tower the green light turns on immediately, which AFAIK is not (...) (18 years ago, 9-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, FTX)
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| | Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio
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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. (18 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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 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) (...) (18 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 (...) (18 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. (...) (18 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 (18 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' (18 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 (...) (18 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 (18 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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 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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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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(...) 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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"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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Hi, With the construction of my latest robot, I've ended up using more than 3 sensors - 2 rotation sensor, 2 touch sensors and 1 light sensor. My RCX2 has just 3 sensor ports. I do remember seeing a write-up about how to combine two sensors by (...) (18 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Loading Robolab 2.5 on Macs
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(...) Hi Eric, Are you sure you have the right version? I'm also using Robolab and I have 2 CD-roms : PC Version 2.5.4.B and MAC Version 2.5.4. Since I don't own a Mac I've only used the PC Version CD-rom. There is also a third CD-rom whith PDF (...) (18 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Loading Robolab 2.5 on Macs
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I have Robolab 2.5 and don't know how to install on a new Mac, or if it can even be done. If it can be, what is the procedure? (18 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: What's the highest number RCX out there?
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Hello, (...) One of my RCX is #64xxxx (can't remember the other digits), and the other is #852579, which is the highest I've seen yet: (URL) Lavandeira - (URL) (18 years ago, 1-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: How to stop, after running program (Ultimate RoboLab)
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(...) Remember : your program is an RCX firmware. With the official firmware you would have to take off the batteries in order to reboot the RCX. This was one of the things I disliked most. So, we added the simple feature of something like (...) (18 years ago, 31-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | How to stop, after running program (Ultimate RoboLab)
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I have loaded a sample program. After the program is finished the logo "LEGO" is on the RCX. How to stop this, because I can't load a new program? Now a take out the battery's! Thanks to the makers of the Ultimate RoboLab, it is a great program !!!! (...) (18 years ago, 31-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Ultimate Robolab
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I'm glad to finally announce that ULTIMATE ROBOLAB now has its own web-site : (URL) which UR150 can be downloaded freely. Follow the install instruction from the web-site (getting started) Requirements : ROBOLAB254 must be running on your PC or MAC. (...) (18 years ago, 24-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Ultimate Robolab
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Where can I get (buy) the "Ultimate Robolab"? "Ultimate ROBOLAB v.150 now available soon", when and where? Jan Kromhout Hellevoetsluis-NL (18 years ago, 24-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Original Communications Protocol Documentation
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Hello, I have just finished writing up my little project to discover the protocol for talking to/from the RCX. The finished document as a PDF is at: (URL) I wrote this up to facilitate communications to a PC from an RCX or Spybot with the standard (...) (18 years ago, 23-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | Re: Watching Arrays
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(...) Thanks John! I never knew about that F12 thing :) -Rob A> (18 years ago, 17-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Watching Arrays
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(...) The way to do this is to find out the variable number assigned by NQC to your array variable and then watch that variable number plus all the ones up through the size of your array. You can find out the variable number by viewing the code (...) (18 years ago, 17-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I have a program (RCX2 target) that uses a couple of global arrays. I am using BricxCC 3.3 How can I view the contents of the array at run time? "Watch the Brick" shows me Var0 to Var 31 but these don't seem to relate/contain the values I initially (...) (18 years ago, 17-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: swan firmware motor problem
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(...) I have tried it, but it did not make a difference. The motors still won't run. I must admit that I did not think of it before because I thought (maybe wrongly) that the old API would stay the same and that you would have to use the new (...) (18 years ago, 11-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RE: swan firmware motor problem
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I will post latest firmware on web site soon. -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of Gustavo Brinck Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:27 PM To: lugnet.robotics.rcx....lugnet.com (...) (18 years ago, 11-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: swan firmware motor problem
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(...) I don't have the new firmware, but maybe you can try: #define NORMAL_SPEED 100 because, now the firmware have 100 step of motor pwr control. Best Regards Gustavo (18 years ago, 11-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi, I trying out the Swan firmware (Fast0103.lgo) with nqc 3.1 r4 but for some reason the motors won't turn on. Has anybody seen something like that? If I run the program, it does all the other things, even switch on the little motor triangles on (...) (18 years ago, 9-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Port to NXT?
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Anyone know when Lejos will be ported to the NXT? Just got my kit and looking forward to it! (18 years ago, 9-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Proximity detections in ROBOLAB?
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(...) I can't think of why not. Sample the light sensor, then send an IR message, then sample the light sensor very shortly afterwords. Compare those two light sensor readings: if the second is much greater than the first, there's something (...) (18 years ago, 7-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Proximity detections in ROBOLAB?
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Proximity detections in ROBOLAB? It is possible to use the IR port on the RCX for proximity detection in NQC but I can'y find a way to do the same in ROBOLAB - is there anyone that has done that? You send messages from the RCX and use the (...) (18 years ago, 7-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Great Ball Contraption at BrickFest '06
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There has not been a great deal of public discussion about having a Great Ball Contraption at BrickFest '06, but there WILL be a GBC at BF06. If you missed your chance last year, when we had almost fifty modules, now is the time to start building. (...) (18 years ago, 31-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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