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There is stuff going on. But it isn't my highest priority at the moment :( (...) (23 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: What about this for a new RCX 2.5 setup?
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(...) cost) (...) Replying to my own post, Why not build our own? Glue together some bricks, hollow them out and put in one of these babys: (URL) something similar. The comunity could work out building instructions and develop our own add-ons. (...) (23 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: What about this for a new RCX 2.5 setup?
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(...) What might be doable and best is a documented bus extension (a card plug-in) slot. This could be taken to the extreme by making a cpu unit that just has power (plug-in option of course) and memory (expandable of course) and maybe the IR or (...) (23 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: What about this for a new RCX 2.5 setup?
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I'd be happy with a good "official" LEGO SONAR sensor and a fixed version of the LEGO Rotation Sensor (without the lost "clicks" bug) On the RCX side, I'd like a RCX 3.0 with 6+ sensor inputs and more outputs (and more RAM. I'm using MANAS sets to (...) (23 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: A very Power Tool
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(...) For all of the virus creators and senders out there: if there's one thing worse than a witless script kiddie, it's a scum-sucking virus propagator. Send all of the viruses to me that you want. They'll just go to my 10GB bit-bucket. Loosers... (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Do NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT!! It is a virus. It has been making the rounds, it is the KLEZ virus. Thought you all might want to know. Tim Burt (23 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Oh, and I forgot one of the "BIGGEST" wishes on the list: 5) Linksys wireless access port response rather than the directional IR port. Or at least SOME form of 900MHz+ communication that is non-directional, with higher bandwidth (who knows...maybe (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Seems to me that the BEST implementation of the RCX would be for some CORE changes and feature sets to be built in. I realize that these would be somewhat expensive, but I would pay pretty good money to have an RCX with the following specs (built (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | [ANN] pbForth Version 2.1.3 Release
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The new 2.1.3 Version of pbForth has only minor fixes thanks to the investigative efforts of David Rojas and Rob Harvey. They were able to provide detailed, reproducible bug reports, which makes fixing bugs so much easier. Thanks guys! Here's what (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Phantom.dll (Spirit.ocx replacement) Update.
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I have updated the Phantom.dll component due to a minor bug. The bug involved the DataLog functions not working when used with VB.Net. Both updated source and binaries are available at: (URL) Jacquemin kjacquemin@cox.net (23 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I spent a week googling about trying to see if RIS 2.0 worked under Windows 2000 or not, to no avail. I specifically asked Lego and they said it was unsupported (as expected). However, I went out and bought RIS 2.0 anyway and it's worked just fine (...) (23 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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With the release of pbForth 2.1.2 last week, I've finally got things stable enough to warrant adding some really neat tutorials. This week, thanks to Darin Johnson, I am happy to announce that you can write new words in assembler right on the RCX! (...) (23 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Interactive communication with the RCX
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I don't think collision detection will be possible since the hardware/firmware does a checksum (at least in lego firmware), and no message is provided to the VM software (LASM), this prevents ACK/NAK protocols working. The Message() function does (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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The 'usual' way to get status data is to poll the the RCX memory for status information, but you can't do that because of the number of RCX bricks; so how about getting each RCX to send a response message (or series of messages) to the PC encoding (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Interactive communication with the RCX
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I have recently discussed with Kekoa an interesting issue that apparently received scarce attention in the past. I'm trying to have interactive communication between the computer and the RCX through IR connected to an USB port: sendind commands from (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | [ANN] pbForth Version 2.1.2 Release with Example Scripts
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The new 2.1.2 Version of pbForth has support for background processing and saving your work as an SREC file that you can load agin like regular firmware. This means you no longer have to load the base pbForth firmware and then load all the text (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Browse the Web with an RCX Brick
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Lawrie Griffiths, one of the developers of the leJOS project, has created some cool packages that allow web browsing among other things. Check out the details and photographs of this in action: (URL) (23 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics.rcx) !!
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| | Workshop 3D RCX Challenge #4 Results
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Earlier today was the Workshop 3D RCX Challenge #4. There were dozens of competitors, and even more robots. This was the best turnout yet for the number of competitors and robots at this event! Below is a summary of the results. For the full (and (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Code-only Line-tracking event results
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It's time for the Workshop 3D RCX Challenge again. The main event will take place tomorrow, from 1pm to about 4pm. It should be webcast. Check out (URL) and (URL) for details tomorrow morning. This year the Code-Only Line-Tracking event was held the (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Turning the RCX off and on again (was: New pbForth 2.1.0 (and firmware speed))
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For the Workshop3D Event I use the following construct, the button handling is from the book "Extreme Mindstorms": : main ( -- ) \ Main Task init \ do main initialize ( ... ) BEGIN ( ... ) BUTTON_SCAN BUTTON_RUN? IF ( ... ) \ Calibrating BEGIN ( ... (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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