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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 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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(...) 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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| | 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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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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(...) 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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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 (...) (17 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? (17 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. (17 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. (...) (17 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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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. (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 years ago, 9-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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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 (17 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 (...) (17 years ago, 9-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, FTX)
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