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(...) Did you try to fix communication port instead of using automatic configuration ? On my machine (Win2000) where I have both a serial Spybotics cable and a RIS USB tower, I have to specify the port that BricxCC must use. Philo www.philohome.com (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Pat For what its worth, BricxCC (latest version) works 100% fine with my Win XP setup. I am however using it with a Spybot and the included serial cable. Good luck with it Regards Philip "Pat LaVarre" <ppaatt@aol.com> wrote in message (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Is there some trick I need to learn to run BricxCC on Win XP? (...) For me BricxCC hardly ever works. I tried un/installing the last three available versions. Always I fail to connect via serial via IR with my brick. Lego RIS talks no worries, (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I presume you did all the usual things: Clean the RCX terminals, try other motors, check for unusual friction in the drivetrain (like, something is out of adjustment) ...etc? Jerry (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Use a powered USB hub with the laptop. The power required for the USB IR Tower will come from the powered hub, rather than the laptop. - Rob (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) No idea. I think these values are used for accounting, to ensure that all devices together don't exceed available power. But I don't know how well this is implemented. (...) Linux makes them available in readable form in /proc/bus/usb/devices (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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We had an informal Robo-Sumo thing at my work place tonight and I'm wondering if I killed my RCX. My 'bot had two gearmotors on A and two more on C to drive the wheels. Could they have drawn enough current when the 'bot was stalled to harm the RCX ? (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hello, I was too sure that I could manage to program this small and simple robot in Mindstorm 2.0, but have to stop it beacuse it got too complicated. Now I'm reading "Learn yourself C in 21 days" and the "NQC guide" and "NQC Tutorial", hope I can (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Fascinating stuff, thanks again. In particular, I didn't know Anyone had persuaded Windows to respond intelligently to Usb Configuration's of variable power. Anybody know if these descriptors already appear on the web somewhere? Else please (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Does anyone knows a way to use IC4 with an USB tower ? TIA Philo www.philohome.com (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Don’t forget Nostarch Press! They have 2 great books that are definitely worth looking at including Jin Sato's LEGO® MINDSTORMS The Master's Technique. I had the privilege of building his robotic dog last night and really had a lot of fun with it. (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Version 3.3.7.2 of BricxCC is now available. It fixes a bug in the Brick Piano (introduced in the previous version) which made it impossible to save the music to a file or to the clipboard. Music saved from the Brick Piano can now be in NQC, (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Its USB descriptors say there are two configurations with 100mA (I think these are for low and medium power), and two that require 500mA (high power mode). The LEGO USB Tower Interface Reference doesn't go into more details. Jürgen (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Kindly offline I am informed: yes indeed, some laptop designs have been seen to support less than half of the specified 500mA max load for USB bus power. I wonder how many mA the USB IR tower does need. Pat LaVarre (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Hi Pat, Syngress has two books out dedicated to RCX models. (URL) One of the Robots in the Ultimate Builder's book is mine. It is a two legged walker. The newsgroup (URL) is dedicated to building instructions. From there you can get to the (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Does the Lego USB IR tower, when set to long range, sometimes draw more than the 500mA allowed? Or do laptops generally not reliably supply 500mA? Or are we facing some deeper analog issue here, like not ramping up to 500mA from less mA fast enough (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Contributing evidence includes the Lego claim that the entire new kit can be made to work in Win XP: (URL) happy to announce that Robotics Invention System 2.0 will install and run on Windows XP, if special installation instructions are (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Ah, slowly I clue in, thanks, now I have found: Lego Mindstorms(TM) 2.0 Upgrade Kit (3805) (URL) to itself that page appears labelled with only "2.0 Upgrade Kit". (...) Thanks for saying. Back at that link, I see only Win 98/ME mentioned, no (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Thanks for the news, I'll look forward to that release. (...) As yet this I am unable to evaluate. I wonder if I've grabbed the right stuff to convey to my RCX? (URL) Two releases, 2003-01-15: (URL) 2002-12-05: (URL) tried 2003-01-15. I see (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Something quite like what you describe is the Brick Piano in BricxCC. Unfortunately, in the current release there is a nasty bug that I just added which makes the Brick Piano mostly useless at the moment. It is fixed in the next release (which (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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