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Since I do the whole web-controllable-rover deal with my bot, it tends to go quite a distance. I recently purchased a USB tower from Pitsco and I must say, even WITH the long-range enabled on the control panel, the Serial tower still beats it. In (...) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: 1/4 circle icon flashing on the LCD
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Thanks a lot! So THATs what it is... Now to make use of it ;-) (...) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: 1/4 circle icon flashing on the LCD
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(...) This is the indicator that you are using the datalog. It will fill in more of the circle as you use more of the datalog. It's a very useful debugging aid, as you can tell programs to save values in the datalog, and then download them onto a PC (...) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | 1/4 circle icon flashing on the LCD
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Hmm, didn't even know that icon existed on the LCD....what does it mean? If you'd like a picture I might be able to get one... -AK -- ---...--- My website: (URL) LEGOCam: (URL) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: USB/Serial Converter
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Somewhere on the LEGO site it says that Serial > USB is not compatable -- If you must, why not just buy a USB IR tower from PITSCO LEGODacta for $30? If you have the SDK 2.5, or even the SDK 2.0, it comes with the driver for the USB tower (in the (...) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LNP under Cygwin(Windows)
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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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