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Re: remote control and rcx
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Fri, 9 May 2003 15:37:56 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Mark Riley writes:
> In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Chris Phillips writes:
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> > I also had an evening not too long ago where none of my RCXes would take a
> > firmware download. I tried a couple different computers, different towers,
> > fresh batteries, different room lighting, and nothing worked. The next time
> > I tried to do it (a couple weeks later) everything worked just fine.
> >
> > I never did figure out why this happened, but I've heard others tell a
> > similar tale here in the past. I guess if you can't get a download to work
> > after dozens of attempts, shut it down for a few hours/days and try again
> > later.
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> Chris,
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> Do you own any Spybots? If you leave the remote in "ping" mode (as kids
> tend to), you will have a horrible time downloading anything. This has
> happened to me many times. I still do a little head scratching each time,
> until I think "Duh... It's the Spybot controllers!" :-)
>
> Mark
Interesting. I do own a couple Spybotics, although I'm not sure I've ever
even put batteries into them, and I think (80% sure) they were in another
room at the time. That would explain why the problem went away all by
itself, though.
And now I can't even find any of the 'bots or their remotes to see whether
they have batteries in them. I guess that's why they call them Spybots.
- Chris.
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