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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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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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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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(...) 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 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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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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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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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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