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(...) Has anyone found a solution (other than using the serial tower or Virtual PC). Is anyone else interested in creating a 64-bit driver for Windows 7? Steve Putz steve@RoboticsLearning.com www.RoboticsLearning.com (13 years ago, 6-Jan-11, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Lego USB Tower and the Linux Driver
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An earlier thread [ (URL) ] touched on changing the baud rate of the USB IR tower. Based on what information I have been able to find, it appears that at one time the Lego USB driver for Linux did include the ability to change the baud rate and (...) (14 years ago, 10-Sep-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Greetings, I would suggest comparing this code with other programs that make use of rotation sensors, such as the following: * LDCC - (URL) particular, dccdemo.c uses a rotation sensor as part of a DCC throttle. * Power Functions - (URL) this thread (...) (14 years ago, 17-Jul-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Re: Power Functions: There is an older thread on the topic of Power Functions at [ (URL) ] which includes links to some BrickOS-based code for Power Functions. Be sure to follow the thread to the end, as some of the links mentioned earlier on no (...) (14 years ago, 17-Jul-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I don't normally bump things, but this has been unanswered for over two weeks, so I think it deserves it. I really can't believe that rotation sensors would be this broken, and yet, I can't see anything wrong with my code. It really is odd... (14 years ago, 24-Jun-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello Yann, 2010/6/15 Yann Vernier <yann@algonet.se>: (...) I really would prefer to see the interrupt code running to disabling all interrupts for several milliseconds, loosing several ticks and disabling all sensors during this time. Did you apply (...) (14 years ago, 15-Jun-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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(...) I've recently mucked about with the Power Functions protocol, and got a proof of concept running on the RCX using brickOS. The main problem is that it's quite timing sensitive, so this code only worked reliably with interrupts disabled (...) (14 years ago, 15-Jun-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Kernel freeze when attempting to use rotation sensor
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Hi, I've tried using the latest BrickOS and the latest BIBO with patches (from here: (URL) both with the same result. I don't know if nobody's really used a rotation sensor in 4 years (unlikely), or if my code just fails (likely), but every time I (...) (14 years ago, 12-Jun-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Art Making Robot and Erik¡¦s Plotter
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(...) Thank you for Ultimate RoboLAB. This is the last piece of the puzzle for my next art robot. When I started this project, my first decision was what platform to use. RoboLAB 2.9, Ultimate RoboLAB and Eric’s plotter vi’s had all the parts (...) (14 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) site was discontinued. You may download the latest UR version 151 from: www.convict.lu/ULTIM...UR_151.zip Good luck, -Claude (14 years ago, 14-Mar-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) Dear Claude, I am really making advances in my studies. I thank you again for the library. May you send another link for this broken link (URL) thought I had Ultimate Robolab on my computer but a search revealed, noƒ¼ (14 years ago, 11-Mar-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) Thanks Claude, I am dedicated to getting this adapted to my balancing drawing mobile. My big problem is what it will use to makes its mark since the force applied with be like a feather, maybe smoke. (14 years ago, 6-Mar-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) please download all the related files from: www.convict.lu/zip/i...essing.zip (18MB) (14 years ago, 23-Feb-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Art Making Robot and Erik’s Plotter
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Dear Claude, I tried to send a direct e-mail to you but it was returned. I am working on my next art making robot and Erik’s Plotter vi’s are just what I need to adapt to my software. I will be using a balancing mobile as the plotter. May you send (...) (14 years ago, 15-Feb-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Developing a "button pressing" RCX system
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Hello, I have inherited a hand-me-down RIS kit with a functional RCX unit that I would like to learn to use and put to a purpose. I would like to build a system whereas the RCX is setup to press buttons on controllers (think remote control units) to (...) (14 years ago, 29-Jan-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Recreating Vision Center in RoboLab 4.9
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(...) I completely missed your question. Sorry about that. But I see that you found help. Great! (14 years ago, 16-Dec-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) I found the link to CEEO's VIsion Tutorial. (URL) is the go to place to study the Vision Center. I was able to adapt GPS8.vi in the GPS_Camera8.llb part of: (URL) from Claude Baumann of the Convict School in Luxembourg to perform the Vision (...) (15 years ago, 14-Dec-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Recreating Vision Center in RoboLab 4.9
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I am working on recreating Vision Center vi in RoboLab 4.9. Currently my Vision Center vi: Threshold, MorphOpen, MorphClose, MorphProperOpen, MorphProperClose, MorphThin and Invert causes a clear outline in the build window. When I try to recreate (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Anyone Still Have the Visual Storms / Sharp Storms Source?
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Recently, I stumbled across an article in JOT discussing the compilation of .NET assemblies into programs for the Lego MindStorms RCX. As I didn't see a project name or project URL in the article, I initially had some trouble tracking it down, but a (...) (15 years ago, 11-Oct-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: GCC 3.4.6 vs. 4.4.1
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Hi, (...) I would just like to add that this matches my experiences, although using some 4.0 version of GCC at that time: I wasn't able to produce working programs (not even sure about BrickOS kernel) using any GCC version newer than 3.4.6. This is (...) (15 years ago, 16-Sep-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Bibo Rollup Release
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I've been asked if I could make the patch collection updates available as a full-distribution release. Actually, I can't say that I blame that request. Most of the changes have already been covered in prior lugnet postings under the "BrickOS Patches (...) (15 years ago, 15-Sep-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) been updated. New for this update are patches 41 and 42. 41: Makefiles and the Esterel Synchronous Programming Language - The makefiles were updated to support building Esterel source (...) (15 years ago, 14-Sep-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | GCC 3.4.6 vs. 4.4.1
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While working on Bibo, I observed some unexpected differences between GCC 3.4.6 and gcc 4.4.1. Specifically, one of the XS Lisp demo programs that is fine when built with 3.4.6 is too large (section .bss not within region ram) when built with 4.4.1. (...) (15 years ago, 7-Sep-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) been updated. There is just one minor Bibo-specific update this time, patch 40. 40: H8/300 TOOLPREFIX - This patch comes from Debian, where "h8300-hitachi-coff-" is added to the list of (...) (15 years ago, 7-Aug-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: NQC Linux Patches
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I have updated the earlier NQC patch and uploaded two additional patches. Patch 1 - Update of the NQC USB and TCP Patch (URL) * Updated for compatibility with gcc 4.4.x * Removed the DESTDIR patch for the Makefile (moved to another patch) Patch 2 - (...) (15 years ago, 7-Aug-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: NXT and Windows 7
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(...) It's 32-bit Win7. (15 years ago, 28-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: NXT and Windows 7
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(...) Is this the 64 bit driver issue coming up - again? Ralph (15 years ago, 27-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | NXT and Windows 7
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I have Windows 7 RC on my netbook and I can't get the NXT software (version 1.1) to install. It hangs when the installer presents its progress bars and starts copying files off the CD. Does the 2.0 software work with Windows 7? By the way, RIS 2.0 (...) (15 years ago, 27-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) been updated. New for this update are patches 36 through 39. 36: RCX tty config file - Extends patch 32 so that /etc/rcx/device.conf will also be checked for a default tty. The (...) (15 years ago, 26-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: WeDo +RCX?
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(...) You are correct---there is a tilt sensor and a distance sensor value available in the sensor value block. These get shown even if the motor blocks are not being shown, so I don't know why I missed them before. The values are 0 if no WeDo (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: WeDo +RCX?
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(...) I saw a "WeDo 2 Puppet" project on the Scratch website that specifically mentions the use of the tilt senso so I suppose it must be possible to use sensors as well. "The scratch project uses the tilt sensor to decide when they spin" Jetro (15 years ago, 11-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: WeDo +RCX?
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So far as I can see from the Scratch interface, there is control of one motor, but no sensors. (There are sensors via the ScratchBoard, but not through the WeDo interface.) I don't have the WeDo hardware, so have not investigated further. Kevin (...) (15 years ago, 10-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: WeDo +RCX?
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(...) Thanks. From the description I get the impression you can use 1 motor and 1 sensor at a time. Can anyone confirm this? Jetro (15 years ago, 9-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: WeDo +RCX?
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The Scratch Programming laguage ((URL) now includes blocks for controlling WeDo motors. Kevin Karplus (15 years ago, 9-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: WeDo +RCX?
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(...) I have sucessfully written a third party app that will let you drive the WeDo from your Windows machine. Linux will be supported fairly easily once I get the driver relinked, Mac when I get a Mac for development :-) Contact me offlist if (...) (15 years ago, 9-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | WeDo +RCX?
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I saw the WeDo sensors and hub available separately on LEGO Education website the other day and I started wondering if I could use them for anything... No one appears to have tried or managed to use the hub without the official software until now (...) (15 years ago, 9-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) been updated. New for this update are patches 25 through 35. 25: Cleanup in the util subdirectory - Updated lnpmsg to more cleanly handle and process command-line arguments - Removed in (...) (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | MacNQC 4.05b, RCX 1.0 and OS X 10.4.6 can't program the brick
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Hello with a query from the past... I used MacNQC for ages on other computers but I find now that I can't write a program out to an RCX 1.0 brick using MacNQC 3.04 or 4.05b. I can send the firmware with no problem but when I try to download a (...) (15 years ago, 22-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RCX 1.0, MacNQC 4.05b OSX 10.4 can't program the brick?
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Hi, a blast from the past... My iBook running 10.4.6 has no problems downloading the firmware from MacNQC 4.05b but when I try to download a program I always get "communications error" and it fails. I've tried both the USB IR tower and the serial IR (...) (15 years ago, 21-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) has been updated. This update adds a handful of patch files--20 through 24. 20: Nice group of Linux error/warning fixes from Carl and posted to SourceForge at (URL) Thanks, Carl! 21: (...) (15 years ago, 24-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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(...) I've been meaning to contribute more, but all too rare are the moments when my kids are asleep and a decent chunk of my brain is not. But anyway: I've fixed one little bug that stopped rcx_comm.c from compiling on Linux, plus some warnings and (...) (15 years ago, 17-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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I've again updated the Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) update adds two new patches--18 and 19. 18: For the host utilities, this patch attempts to standardize the command line arguments and their processing. There is also (...) (15 years ago, 16-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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I have again updated the Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) big change this time is the consolidation of the code bases of util/firmdl and util/dll-src. Working with all the similar-but-different code was getting a bit (...) (15 years ago, 12-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources
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Hey folks I've created a very basic site here: (URL) I say very basic I mean VERY basic.. it's just an empty instance of mediawiki, but I'll look to adding content when I get a chance. Any help appreciated. Cheers Tom (...) (15 years ago, 9-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Simple Lego traffic light
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After all the amazing post across lugnet the past few weeks, it feels a bit lame putting this one up: (URL) guess once it's running up on an RCX it'll be a bit more interesting. On the topic of RCX - and the whole old-school Mindstorms preservation (...) (15 years ago, 30-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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I have updated the Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) primary changes are in Patch 11, which provides DCC support, and the key change in that patch was the modification of some assembly code that performed motor controller (...) (15 years ago, 22-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources
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Patch 10: This works for me under Cygwin with a USB tower, but some of the files such as rcx_comm.c have a bit of platform-specific code. Patch 11: I've noticed that the linker command file is a little different in Bibo than it was in BrickOS. If (...) (15 years ago, 21-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources
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(...) specific patches from the Bibo set. However the symptoms are identical under BrickOS so I assume they would be linked to the same patches there. Patch 10: Under Ubuntu with the usb tower, this causes firmdl3 to exit with error "read: resource (...) (15 years ago, 20-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources
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(...) (URL) . Unfortunately (at least from a code merge perspective), their "version 1.2" is based on BrickOS 0.2.5. The lnp_printf functionality has been adapted and included in the recently-posted rollup patches, but incorporating other (...) (15 years ago, 19-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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Now for Bibo.... I have merged these patch rollup collections with Bibo (where appropriate) and have posted the resulting diff files to (URL) of this follows the pattern of the previous patch rollup collection for BrickOS, with the following notes: (...) (15 years ago, 19-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources
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A very useful site is the cs university page here: (URL) of useful tutorials and instructions. It would be unhelpful to have it disappear. All of the stuff at the legos/brickos sourceforge pages, however a backup probably isn't needed of these. A (...) (15 years ago, 18-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources
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(...) Nice to see a few of us share the interest. :-) The best I can offer for a list of patches is what I listed in the post here [ (URL) ], along with Carl's follow-up post. That list was culled from links I've collected over the years. As was (...) (15 years ago, 14-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources
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After surfing through many sites, and (sadly) even more 404s I have been unable to find a definitive list of gcc, binutils, BrickOS etc. versions and patches that I should and could be using. Presumably everybody here has up to date versions of all (...) (15 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources
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Hi all Lately I've noticed a lot of old-school Lego Mindstorm resources are starting to disappear from teh webz. I've blagged about wanting to preserve this stuff here: (URL) the-brick If anyone knows of any resources you think should be maintained (...) (15 years ago, 12-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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(...) I have found the following related to the removal of h8300-*-hms from binutils: 1) (3 URLs) current Debian version of binutils-h8300-hms is 2.16.1-8 - (URL) the package page ( (URL) ), there is a downloadable *.diff.gz file. That diff file, (...) (15 years ago, 5-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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Hi, (...) I had worked to assimilate those patches prior to the second version of the performance patch being posted, so I'm glad to hear that it also works well. (...) When I went back through to add TCP support to other things, that "similar but (...) (15 years ago, 4-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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Hello, 2009/3/31 Carl Troein <carl@thep.lu.se>: (...) For some unknown reason the address suddenly pointed to the old server again which was shutdown in December last year. I noticed it myself only by chance. It seems that the dyndns record has (...) (15 years ago, 31-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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(...) Case in point: when I first started on this post some weeks(!) ago, hoenicke.ath.cx wasn't responding. (...) And it's not getting easier if we've collected different sets of patches and then make further changes based on those... So yeah, we (...) (15 years ago, 31-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: NQC Linux Support - USB and TCP
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(...) Matthew, Thanks for your patch for NQC. I will look at adding this to the official sourcecode and creating a new official release. John Hansen (15 years ago, 17-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | NQC Linux Support - USB and TCP
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For those interested, I have posted a patch to SourceForge for NQC at (URL) . This patch includes several changes, most of which are related to Linux, though portions may be of use to other platforms. * Removed the dependency of (...) (15 years ago, 11-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | BrickOS Patches and Development
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Greetings, This is a follow up to earlier postings discussing the development status of BrickOS. While the Sourceforge project has not had much activity of late, I've come across various modifications that, unfortunately, have never made it (...) (15 years ago, 15-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | BricxCC & NBC/NXC collaboration
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I finally got around to uploading all the BricxCC and NBC/NXC source code to an SVN repository on the BricxCC project page on sourceforge.net. Now all my code changes are done via my local checkout from that repository and changes are checked in as (...) (15 years ago, 2-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NQC for Linux/ASUS eeePC
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(...) What I said had less to do with programming as it had to do with understanding your new Linux-based PC. Do you know how to use Linux from a command prompt? Can you open a terminal window on your eeePC and type "gcc" and see what happens? I (...) (15 years ago, 2-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: NQC for Linux/ASUS eeePC
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(...) Um... I'm sorry, planes flying overhead. :) I literally am on the cusp of understanding programming; I just learned what an array was at our last rtl event. :) -Iain (15 years ago, 2-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Development status
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(...) I think we need to stick with 2.16.1, I don't know whether porting brickos to elf is really worth the trouble. Newer gcc versions would be nice, indeed, and brickos also builds fine with (some of?) these, but I never actually got it to run on (...) (15 years ago, 31-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Development status
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Hi all, This is great to see there's still some interest. I may not have opportunity to post over the next couple days, but I have created some patches against the latest Sourceforge CVS (as I believe there are a few differences between the CVS and (...) (15 years ago, 30-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Development status
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(...) From what I can tell, support for h8300-hitachi-hms(/coff) was dropped from binutils after 2.16.1. I have no real idea how much work it would take to port brickOS (plus brickemu, preferably) over to elf, but I suspect that it'd be a lot. (...) (15 years ago, 29-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Robolab and Spybotics
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(...) I don't know for certain but I would be a bit surprised if Robolab works with the Spybot bricks. There would have to have been a new release with modifications specifically made to support the Spybot. Searching these newsgroups suggests that (...) (15 years ago, 27-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: NQC for Linux/ASUS eeePC
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(...) Normally people build NQC from sourcecode for Linux platforms so there has not been a binary release for Linux in the past. Does the eeePC include all the standard GNU development tools such as yacc, flex, and GCC? If it does then you can (...) (15 years ago, 27-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Development status
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Michael, Carl, (...) I'm encouraged by your efforts Carl and I don't have time to do the gcc work so Michael, I'd like to take you up on your offer. I do have two of the RCX bricks and a number of USB/IR towers and Linux machines. Carl, I've limited (...) (15 years ago, 27-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Development status
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[...] (...) That's great news so far :-) Some time ago, however, I've tried to get brickOS to run on those old h8300 bricks, but it only seemed to work when using an old tool-chain (which is also the reason why the related packages never got (...) (15 years ago, 27-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Robolab and Spybotics
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(...) No language war intended, but for now I'd rather use Robolab. That said, if I change my mind I'd appreciate some tips on using MacNQC with Spybotics. Most of the stuff that I've seen on the web talks about using the regular RCX stuff. One of (...) (15 years ago, 26-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Robolab and Spybotics
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(...) I don't know if RoboLab will work with Spybotics, but if you have prior programming experience NQC may be a better option. It works great with Spybotics. Jetro (15 years ago, 26-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Robolab and Spybotics
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Does anyone have any experience using Robolab with a Spybotics kit? I just got a couple of old Spybotics kits for my son this past Christmas and would love to program them with him using Robolab. I have lots of programming experience, although I am (...) (15 years ago, 26-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: NQC for Linux/ASUS eeePC
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(...) Hi Jetro, No, the eeePC runs Linux, with a custom-designed interface over top by ASUS. So, I was wondering if NQC is available for Linux. -Iain (15 years ago, 26-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Development status
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(...) Hi Stephen, 2*Michael and others, I've (finally) started playing around with brickOS again. My RCX and almost all of my Lego is in storage a long long way from here, but that may actually be a good thing in this context. I've applied Jochen's (...) (15 years ago, 25-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Is it Windows based? If so, have you tried installing BricxCC? Jetro (15 years ago, 25-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi all, I have an ASUS eeePC, and was wondering if anyone knew of a way to get NQC onto it so I could program my RCX with it? Thanks! -Iain (15 years ago, 25-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Is it safe to say that LEGO will not be creating a 64bit driver for the USB Tower? Is there anyone here that could? What would it take? It would be really nice to have one before LEGO completely drops support for the RCX system. (15 years ago, 16-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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This system is used 4 RCXs to control 2 trains, 1 car and 1 level crossing. RCX1 is used to control 3 switch points and response 3 light sensors. RCX2 is used to control 3 segments track and response 2 light sensors. RCX3 is used to control level (...) (16 years ago, 6-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos) !
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| | RCX infrared broken -- what now?
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I recently dug my old MindStorms sets out of storage after about five years of inactivity. Naturally the RCXes (I have three) all needed to have their firmware re-installed. I was able to successfully refresh two of the bricks but not the third. I (...) (16 years ago, 20-Aug-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Problem to send long messages from RCX to PC via com Hack
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(...) Dear Matthew I have found the problem. It was in kernel\lnp-locical.c -> cheking the echo was the problem solution: echo OFF it is a rough solution, but it works changes 1) rx_handler(void) ... // echos of own bytes -> collision detection // (...) (16 years ago, 29-Jun-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problem to send long messages from RCX to PC via com Hack
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I don't know if this is would be of any help, as it uses a different approach, but I thought I'd pass it along anyway.... Bi-directional Bluetooth to IR translator - (URL) (PDF format: (URL) ) While this solution doesn't allow both the serial and IR (...) (16 years ago, 28-Jun-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | brickOS is slower than NQC for sending message
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I tested two ways with brickOS and NQC, source as below, you will find the NQC can only send about 80 messages in 4s, brickOS can send all 255 messages, but need 20s, in other word, NQC needs 50ms for sending a message, or brickOS needs above 100ms (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Problem to send long messages from RCX to PC via com Hack
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Hi, Once again i am back about RCX and BT-Connection. Receiving messages from the PC via BT to the RCX is OK. But if I send messages from the RCX to the PC with 4800 Baud i get only 4 Bytes. So I go back to 2400 Baud, forget BT and make a serial (...) (16 years ago, 10-Jun-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: multiplex 2 touch sensors on a single RCX port
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Sorry, I don't mean the duration, not hysteresis. -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Mabrey Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 6:11 PM To: lugnet.robotics.rcx....lugnet.com (...) (16 years ago, 3-Jun-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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I have these 2 touch sensors multiplexing on the same input port. Their raw values are 47 and 39. I tried to set up 2 separate events, one for the range of 45 to 50 and another one for 35 to 40. However, the one for the lower feedback often set off (...) (16 years ago, 2-Jun-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Remote control RCX by mobile phone
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Dear Zhengrong Zang I don't thing that this will be work because as far as i know mobile phone's using the irda protokoll like on the pc's to comunicate to mobilephones and other devices. The protokoll is the same: baud parity and stopbit but it (...) (16 years ago, 30-May-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX Serial Hardware Hack
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Dear Claude (...) A: Thank you for finding the PDF. (...) A: I will check ( measure the Voltage on the IF LEDS) should be approx. 9V betweem LED and Transistor if everything is off. (...) A: Now i had success . It works. (...) I have allready done (...) (16 years ago, 29-May-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RCX Serial Hardware Hack
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Dear Matthew (...) A: Now it works with 4800 baud via bluetoothconnection . There was a couple of Problems. 1) At first i tried with the USB Tower but i coult only swith to 4800 bauds but there is no possibilty to change parity. 2) With the serial (...) (16 years ago, 29-May-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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"Claude Baumann" <cbaumann@ci.educ.lu> wrote in message news:K1E031.y4@lugnet.com... (...) I was able to retrieve it from archive.org - (URL) . (16 years ago, 28-May-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Remote control RCX by mobile phone
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I try to make a appli that executed in mobile phone, it can control RCX. The mobile phone's SDK provides class RemoteControlData with some methods as below: setPulse(int leader_on, int leader_off, int trailer_on) leader_on: start bit High period (...) (16 years ago, 27-May-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX Serial Hardware Hack
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(...) The carrier should be quiet in any case, because it disturbs the TX signal. (...) We tried this,but it didn't work. Why, because the transistor will drain some current, if the emitter has positive voltage and the base goes low. If the carrier (...) (16 years ago, 24-May-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RCX Serial Hardware Hack
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Glad to hear it is working--thank you for the update. If I may ask, I have a few questions-- * So if I understand these posts correctly, 4800 baud now works with the IR connection and not just with the hardware hack? *A couple posts from Dick Swan (...) (16 years ago, 24-May-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Success
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Hi I have implemented the stuff // and set the port6<7> pin LOW. Now the upper PNP transistor isn't conducting anymore. Now TX and RX works Here are the program #include <lnp.h> #include <conio.h> #include <string.h> #include <lnp-logical.h> (...) (16 years ago, 20-May-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RCX Serial Hardware Hack
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Hi As allready described in a other thread i have build a bluetoothconnection between pc and the RCX. There is one thing that the serial bluetooth is only available to tx/rx with a minimum from 4800 baud. At first i compiled brickos 0.9.0 with (...) (16 years ago, 20-May-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: brickos 090 problem no program download with CONF_LNP_FAST
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(...) I have found the thread, its in (URL) is a also a 2 thread in (URL) the usb tower dll. and a c program called joybricxsrc.zip I looked short in the header files LEGOUSBTowerioctl.h and there is a posibility to set the speed #define (...) (16 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: brickos 090 problem no program download with CONF_LNP_FAST
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.Sorry for the delay Now i am in italy , triest. so i just do a short look in the messages. Thanks for the answers. In meantime i recogmised too that there is no serial baud rate change in the dll for the usb. I think i have something at home what i (...) (16 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: brickos 090 problem no program download with CONF_LNP_FAST
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Somewhere in the bowels of the header files within the RCX SDK is a list of "IODEVICE control commands" which does include description of messages required to change baud rate on the USB tower. I am assuming you're not using the LEGO Windows DLL (...) (16 years ago, 30-Apr-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: brickos 090 problem no program download with CONF_LNP_FAST
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Hello Bernhard, (...) I just checked the source code. There is no speed setting for usb tower in the code. If you look into firmdl3 you also find that fast mode is disabled for USB, because it doesn't work. I think the USB tower sends at 2400 baud (...) (16 years ago, 30-Apr-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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