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(...) Hi Matthias, normally I'd call LEGO service. The only thing I can think of is that maybe the power connection is lost. That shouldn't happen to an unopened RCX, but who knows. The power connection from the batteries to the mainboard is by (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) It's completely and utterly dead. Matthias Jetleb VA3-MWJ (25 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Completely dead? no response of any kind when you push the ON/OFF button? I ask because if battery power is off for too long, the firmware evaporates and the RCX is pretty non -responsive. But the LCD is not blank. If this is the case, download the (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Has anyone had an RCX just plain die on them? - Brand new - used manybe 30min total - Fresh batteries - Nothing hooked up to it at the time - Did it's usual beep on startup as my son switched it on and off to listen to the sound I assumed he had (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: HELP, has anyone ever seen SPIRIT.OCX events ??
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Thanks Chris, I was just looking for that confimation. There are more bugs in the spirit.ocx, ever tried to read the sensor mode ? Well you'll probably get the sensor mode multiplied with 32. I've just reported these bugs to Lego. I've also asked (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I just hacked together a quick-n-dirty C++ program to talk to Spirit.ocx. It unlocks the brick and downloads new firmware into the RCX, all using the public methods exposed by Spirit.ocx. I sink events from the .ocx, and I don't get any COM (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: HELP, has anyone ever seen SPIRIT.OCX events ??
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(...) I mean the active-X events, like "ondownloaddone". I've never seen an active-X component for which you should enable the events. So I presume spirit.ocx will fire an "ondownloaddone" event, when it's ready with the download. But spirit (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: NEED TOUCH/LIGHT SENSOR HELP FAST!!
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(...) OK, I'll chime in..... First, this should go to lugnet.robotics.rcx, so I'll post it there and leave the reply in build, but follow up to robotics, please. Without sample code, we can't help, but that's a bit much to ask anyways. Start small, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: HELP, has anyone ever seen SPIRIT.OCX events ??
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(...) Have you enabled the events? You need to both define an event and enable it before it will work. --Ian (25 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX and IR Range Characteristics?
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hi Ralph, I think I'm lucky. I just did some experiments with a modified IR-tower. The modifications were: the "keep alive trick" from John Barnes and my own trick to add a few more diodes to get rid of the 9V battery. Without a batttery in the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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