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(...) Whether serial transmission is as simple as start:data:parity:stop repeated, or not, I still have no idea. But I'm posting again to say in those calculations I was off a whole order of magnitude, sorry. I imagine the calculator I used reported (...) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I doubt anything (short of a 2MV Lightning Flash) will warm anything in 1 msec. ;) Also, the receiver won't warm up until the header has been read in completion and decoded. So I doubt it's used for that. Normally, in any communication, you'd (...) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Yep. But via our solid new reply framing code, thanks again, now I can see ... (...) Nope. At least not here: now that I look, I see my RCX often doesn't require the PC to send x 55:FF:00. IR command packets like x 10:FE 10:FE PBAliveOrNot and (...) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Yes helpful framing rules thanks. (...) Thanks in particular for pointing out the before & after rubbish. Me, just now I began quoting this rule in a fog, somehow not immediately appreciating that: The receive framing in bricxcc withstands (...) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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"Pat LaVarre" <ppaatt@aol.com> wrote in message news:H9nAFD.7v@lugnet.com... (...) like x (...) byte x (...) course (...) the 4 (...) find (...) 10 EF? I follow you now (helps to look at the actual code ;-)... I would expect that raw byte sequence (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Concerning the parsing of LEGO packets, I've found these bits to be useful in coming up with a parsing algorithm: * Packets start with 0x55 * Individual bytes of a packet are sent with little or no delay in between bytes * Packets may or may not (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) ... (...) Corrected/ elaborated in [square brackets]. I found my error by comparing bricxcc to a delightfully inaccurate summary of ~kekoa on replies that I built some time ago. Except again, op 63/6B UploadRam I find only in in "LASM Byte (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Ouch, we may be framing the hex differently here, sorry. The only x10 Ping known to me is the x10/18 command op that gets embedded inside of a packet like x 55 FF 00 10 EF 10 EF to provoke a reply packet like x 55 FF 00 18 E7 18 E7, or vice (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) can be (...) This is the PBAliveOrNot (or ping) packet type. It has the side- effect of reinitializing the toggle bit used to determine repeat packets. Do you have the Minsdstorms SDK? It covers all the standard LEGO packet types in detail: (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) (URL) bytes Accordingly I'd now guess the firmdl3/rcx_comm.c algorithm for framing standard RCX replies is: (...) 1) Send the bytes of the command packet. 2) Loop to receive up to equally many bytes echoed. If 100ms elapses twice without (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Ah, thanks. Can we therefore conclude 45.8 ms/byte = 11/2400 s/byte for each byte of a burst? (...) Tell me more? Do we mean to say RCX in the middle of a football field echoes less well? Should I discard the echo, rather than checking it for (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Bingo! I reached the bricktools/ of the frame-free: (URL) bytes At a glance, I missed how bricxcc toggles x08 in the command op to let command ops be repeated, but I'd now guess the bricxcc algorithm for framing standard RCX replies is: 1) (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi, again ! I am sorry. I uploaded the imperfect file. I changed the USB LEGO Tower setup and have examined in the state where it is not a standard. Already, I fixed the bug, please download again. (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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Hi pat, (...) This is what you send reflected by the walls, I think. (...) Bits 0-2 of the opcode tells you the number, with 6 meaning 0 and 7 meaning 1. For some special opcodes it is longer. (...) + 1 start bit I think there's some Java code for (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Unfortunately, it seems that TLC doesn't have a clear idea of what to do with Mindstorms in general. Their support for the whole line has been less than full - note the failure to update software for their cameras beyond Win98. I've been using the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) This may be a childish and stupid idea, but given the present news and rumors on how the RIS system is heading, I'd like to see how many RIS & RCX enthusiasts there are. Maybe if there are enough of us out there, we could sway LEGOs mind from (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I wish I could give you a direct answer, but I don't know. However, I suspect (as I'm sure you do) that what you are looking for has already been done. Below are three possible sources which you can adopt, co-opt, or reverse-engineer to get where (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) ... (...) Is exhausting the 9V of the IR tower transceiver a Windows only problem? When my `uname -a` reports: Linux Knoppix 2.4.19-xfs ... then the green LED light stays off til some software speaks IR. But in Win XP, the green LED light (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Thanks for the link, but I meant only to be asking: How do I make sense of RCX replies ... ... when the RCX is first powered and after I download Lego firmware. Help? Curiously, cluelessly, thankfully yours, Pat LaVarre P.S. Do we have no (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) This may be a childish and stupid idea, but given the present news and rumors on how the RIS system is heading, I'd like to see how many RIS & RCX enthusiasts there are. Maybe if there are enough of us out there, we could sway LEGOs mind from (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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