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John, I have yet to get fast or slow downloading to work with BricxCC on my RCX 1.0 with either the USB or serial tower... Ralph (...) (21 years ago, 3-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | BricxCC & fast firmware download
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I've had a report that fast firmware downloading doesn't work with the latest release of BricxCC (either tower). In my tests, with an RCX 1.0 brick plugged in, low ambient light, short distances from the USB tower, and all the firmwares I have (...) (21 years ago, 3-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: IR Sensitivity - Was: 1.5/2.0 infrared problem
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(...) Hi Philippe, I've been adding support for the Spybot and Manas remotes to my custom firmware LDCC. The idea is to allow 3 people to each control a seperate train using these remotes. This is how I discovered the problem with RCX 1.0 not (...) (21 years ago, 3-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: IR Sensitivity - Was: 1.5/2.0 infrared problem
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(...) Hello Mark, How did you managed to receive Spybot remotes messages with your RCX? I tried several settings, no luck :-( Philo (21 years ago, 2-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | to analog as rcx is to programming plastic
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With electronic circuit design, as with the plastic mechanics and computer programming of the RCX, do people play somewhere near here? I ask now because recently my local planetarium sold me an "Elenco snap circuits" kit: (URL) me, those Elenco snap (...) (21 years ago, 1-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | BricxCC release 3.3.7.6
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I've gone ahead and released a new version of BricxCC. Get it while it's hot! :-) There are a few rough edges in this release, primarily in the pbForth console. Also, the leJOS .hlp file was so large I did not include it in the main installer. The (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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| | Re: IR Sensitivity - Was: 1.5/2.0 infrared problem
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(...) Mine have been apart more often than I'd like, too! :-) (...) My guess would be mostly for increased communication speed. With the higher baud rate, the duration of the 2-byte Spybot/Manas packets is halved. This allows for fewer collisions (...) (21 years ago, 26-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: IR Sensitivity - Was: 1.5/2.0 infrared problem
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(...) Hello Mark, Thanks for your answer, this will keep me from dismantling once again my RCXs ! So it seems that LEGO modified RCX2.0 to get better compatibility with Spybots/Manas. Now a question remains, why did they increased carrier frequency (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: IR Sensitivity - Was: 1.5/2.0 infrared problem
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(...) OK thanks for your reply! But the bad thing is that two RCX2.0 could not communicate properly....Am I wrong?? Chris. (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: IR Sensitivity - Was: 1.5/2.0 infrared problem
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chip 1138 / chip 1176 Strange... 38 + 38 = 76 What does that mean? Rob "Mark Riley" <markril@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Hn6xKJ.1o68@lugnet.com... (...) its (...) reflected (...) axle (...) same (...) post on (...) on (...) messages. (...) (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | IR Sensitivity - Was: 1.5/2.0 infrared problem
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(...) I think there might be an explanation for this and I've been meaning to post on this topic, but never seem to have gotten around to it! :-) I've opened up my RCX 1.0 and the IR receiver has the markings "TSOP 1138" on it. After looking this (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: 1.5/2.0 infrared problem
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(...) we ' ve told about this thing with Philo few days ago cause he had the same problem. So I' ve made several tests with 4 RCX: 2 RCXv1.0 and 2 RCXv2.0 . It seems RCX emitter is the same in 1.0 and 2.0 versions. But 2.0 receiver is less sensitive (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Another firmware replacement for RCX
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(...) Hi all, just a reply to myself :-) we just released a new version of ERIKA, that includes: - C++ support - a new motor library (with a PWM able to reach 1 KHz!!!) - infrared support (experimental) - a few bug fixes The documentation have also (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Proximity Sensors for Legway
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Progress so far (2 URLs) I have a feeling I won't be able to stabilise it further until I can get better sensors.... This is a slightly modified Steves Legway program with two standard sensors moded with some black paper to hide the red leds cheers (...) (21 years ago, 17-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Simplifying Cygwin & brickOS/leJOS
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I have been working on creating a single (large) installer for cygwin with everything you need to build brickOS (and leJOS as well). Download one large file (which is, unfortunately, 18.9 MB) and you are ready to go. I've tested it on W2K and it (...) (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Lego RCX Emulator
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Hello, In this mail I want to advertise my Lego emulator, again. This emulates a Lego RCX brick on hardware level, so it should run any firmware you like. You can find it at this URL: (URL) can emulate multiple RCXes communicating via infrared and (...) (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Proximity Sensors for Legway
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Hi Chris :) Hitechnic have just changed their webpage marking the EOPD's as withdrawn and to explain that they do not have the time to share their schematics with the kind of profesionalism they desire. Which is a pity, cause I'm gratefull for any (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Proximity Sensors for Legway
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Thanks Chris I had seen Henriks posts before but for some reason forgot all about it (I suspect an irrational Java aversion) I think the fact that Steve has published his code makes his solution more attractive to those of us who would like to try (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Proximity Sensors for Legway
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(...) Henrik Dahlgren posted here several months back saying that he had successfully built a LegWay using standard LEGO Light Sensors instead of the HiTechnic Proximity Detector. I don't know how much code modification was required, but here is his (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Multiplexing 4 touch sensors on an RCX input port
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(...) (apologies for delay - my server decided to stop talking to lugnet for some reason, hopefully now fixed) (...) Errm, probably 2.1.0 (but I don't have it immediately to hand at the moment - that's the name of the directory on my computer with (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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