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(...) Take a look at (URL) (...) 55 ff 00 (...) complement, i.e. invert every bit separately. So for example ~f7=~11110111=00001000=10. (...) Good luck and show it to us when you are done Jürgen (24 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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On the page (URL) look under the description of his send command and you'll see he sends a query "10" (hex) and gets a response "ef". This value, 0xEF, is the logical not (modulus 0xFF) of the query value 0x10. The tilde means "not". Dennis (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi all, I was looking at the IR protocol described at (URL) and i dont quite understand. In paricular: What is the packet header? what does the ~ mean? (eg "RCX reply opcode is always ~query opcode") I am asking because i am writing an application (...) (24 years ago, 2-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hello, Sounds like it was an interesting project. Could you tell me what grade was your daughter in and did she use the standard RCX/Lego Software or something else? thanks (24 years ago, 1-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Jerry, Thanks. I'm glad you liked the article. When I wrote it, I was hoping that other robotics enthusiasts would be able to adapt some of my techniques to their own dead-reckoning problems. It's good to see folks taking an interest in the (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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My daughter's science fair project last year used an RCX and 3 light sensors to time a LEGO sled sliding down a metal ramp with a LEGO light on the opposite side of the ramp from each light sensor, she had a primitive break-beam sensor. She used the (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Gary, I enjoyed reading about the project. I liked the article with all of the links to interesting backup material. The results are ...impressive! I have two questions: The subject model does not have a long fore & aft axis. Staying in the (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Thanks for the kind words. The Connecticut Robotics Society (CRS) dead-reckoning contest has no special rules limiting the parts or technology used for the robot, except that it not rely on any kind of external navigation aids (such as (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Loved your article, reminds me of the great stuff the Boulette Robotics club does. I was curious why you used differential steering instead of an adder/subtractor or synchro drive, were there some rule limitations on parts you could use? "G.W. (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I thought that those of you who are interested in using the Lego rotation sensors for dead-reckoning and navigation might find the following useful. This month's issue of the Seattle Robotics Society's "Encoder" includes an article I wrote about my (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Help!! no serial port in new laptop pc!!!...!!!
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In theory - this could work. The Linux IR project folks have had success with using laptop IR ports as remote control devices, but the range is short, and the viewing angle rather limited too.. I've toyed with this myself, and written some code (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Should be OK, the light sensor mode works by measuring the resistance of an external LDR (light-dependant resistor), so it is designed to cope with the equivalent short-circuit of a stalled motor.. the only problem might be the back-emf generated if (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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How do I get the "RCX2" firmware into my RCX? I have a RIS 1.5, and would like to program to the RCX2 API as defined in the RcxCC IDE's documentation. Thanks... (24 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) The answer (No!*) can be found here: (URL) RIS 1.0 and 1.5 there are links in french. -Rob Doucette. DoucetteNet LEGO® on Brickbay (URL) W2K and NT are not supported by the RIS software. There are alternatives such as NQC which can be used. (24 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi everybody I hope that i'm not the 24th to ask the question ! A french guy ask me if its possible to use standard Lego Mindstorms with NT4. (i use win98, and it works fine). Can someone help me to answer his question ? Thanks Damien PS : he found (...) (24 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi Zhengrong, sorry, but no, I don't know a solution for this problem, and discarded this approach. If someone get it working, i would be intereted as well. Rainer (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Who can write a send_msg() and get_msg() in legOS for us?
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I found there were three commands as below and a demo program tm-and-ir.c for standard IR communication before legOS 0.1.7, but now they exist no longer in legOS 0.2.4, I think these commands are very useful, can you reuse them, Luis? size_t (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Can you write a pair of function to support standard firmware IR communiation between RCX and RCX or Remote control? They are send_msg() and get_msg(), it is easy to communicate between NQC and legOS, so we can use NQC if the program is very simple (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi I met the same problem as you, I want to communiate between two RCXs, one is using NQC and one is using legOS, do you know how to communicate by IR Message? Zhengrong (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Love the new Music capability with the new firmware!
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(...) You need an excuse??????? 8?) ROSCO (24 years ago, 24-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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