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Hi everyone, Me again.Does anyone know how I can get LNP to work under Cygwin(Windows)? Most of the documentation I've found make references to Linux. I'm planning to use LPD for communication between 2 RCXs. Has anyone tried that yet using LNP (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Ball Passing between RCX Robots
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Hello everyone, I'm currently fooling around with my Mindstorms to get two RCX robots to ball pass between them. As there are only 3 inputs on RCX, I've used 1 for ball sensing, 1 for a touch sensor(to feel for the ball) and 1 which I'm planning to (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Announcing Full Throttle - Control LDCC From Windows
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I have just released (URL) version 1.00> of a program that I call Full Throttle. This Windows application uses your Mindstorms IR tower (either serial or USB) to communicate with an RCX that is running (URL) Mark Riley's LDCC replacement firmware> (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX) !!
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| | Re: light sensor question
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(...) I've done a lot of readings with the light sensor and analysed them. If you want to have a look you can go to (URL) . If you look in the appendix of that document you'll find information on the light sensor (and many other things...) Magdalena (21 years ago, 31-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | USB2 and IR-Tower problem
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Hi, I was just wondering if anyone here had experienced any problems using the IR-tower on a USB2 port? My university has just upgraded 20 of the pc's used for the Lego, the previous setup worked fine and the tower was attached to just a normal USB (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Pneumatic Presure sensor
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Mindsensors Has recently developed a low cost pressure sensor, which measures pressure up to 35 Psi (241 Kg/scm) using Motorola Pressure sensor. If your are interested visit us at www.mindsensors.com/pps.htm www.mindsensors.com Mindsensors Robotics (21 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: light sensor question
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(...) A friend of mine suggests that the poor response of the sensor to the LED is because the light from the LED is a single color. Where as the light from the incandescent bulb is white light which apparently contains many if not all of the (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: light sensor question
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"Jona" <jona@24tooth.com> wrote in message news:HIM3z8.t92@lugnet.com... (...) react and it (...) LEDs. (...) the light (...) something (...) sensor itself? I suspect that the spectral composition of the lights are quite different. As to what the (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: light sensor question
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(...) Here is another question...does incandescent light differ from the light given off by LEDs in terms of how the light sensor sees it? I am experimenting with some LEDs trying to get the light sensor to react and it seems to only see the light (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: light sensor question
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(...) According to Kekoa Proudfoot's RCX Internals webpage ((URL) if (raw < 187) // bug? this allows percent=101, should be raw < 189 sensor->value = 64 else sensor->value = (3ff - raw) * 19 / 9c Numbers are in hexadecimal (base 16). Jürgen (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: light sensor question
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(...) The Analog to Digital converter of the h8/300 (the brains of the lego mindstorms) is 10 bits, so it has a range of 0-1023. I'm not sure how it converts that to the 0-100, it may do it by just dividing by 10 and rounding. If you want to see (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: light sensor question
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(...) What I'm looking for is really the latter of the topics. It seems to me that it must have some sort of units, because I've never seen it hit zero even with alterations (as Ralph Hempel has described on his site). It seems like it should be (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: light sensor question
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(...) Is this what your looking for? (URL) terms of what units it mesures it in I don't think it really has any. it is just a relative reading from 0-100. (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | light sensor question
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I am writing a research paper about work I have done with Mindstorms this summer. One thing that I used a lot was the light sensor, but I am having a hard time finding what exactly the sensor measures. I was wondering if anyone could give me any (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Zooming in robolab, printing in RCX
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Is there any way to zoom into the icons in robolab, they are a bit tiny and I wanted to know if I could make them look bigger so its easier to see. Also does the RCX Code (or RIS program that comes with the mindstorms kit) have the capability to (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.edu, lugnet.faq, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | USB/Serial Converter
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Hi, folks. I've tried to connect to my RCX 1.0 (firmware 0328) from my laptop. Since I have only a serial IR tower, it works fine on my desktop PC, but communications won't work when I use a USB/serial converter to connect it to my laptop (there (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Programming in Assembly
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(...) (how the manual says to do data)? That's because I don't like to type more than is necessary! :-) Take this line for example: mov.b #0x02:8,r0h This line is doubly redundant. The destination operand is an 8-bit register so the other qualifiers (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Programming in Assembly
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Ok, the motor stuff makes sense, I got a little confused with the shift thing. I looked at the proggamming manual some more and it explaned the @ (Register inderect) but I don't see why it is needed, also in you example you specify the data as (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Programming in Assembly
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(...) You should look at Kekoa Proudfoots documentation of RCX internals ((URL) and his librcx library to understand the calling convention for the ROM. Then get yourself the H8300 tools (gcc et al) somewhere, this includes assembler and (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Programming in Assembly
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(...) mentioned previously) that describes the on chip I/O features of the H8 if you plan on doing any work with the sensors. (...) to (...) that (...) To turn on motor C forward you would do this: mov #0x02,r0h mov r0h,@0x80:8 The second (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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