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 Robotics / RCX / 2385 (-20)
  RE: The grand challenge
 
Yeah... The only two team got the farthest, ~ 7 miles from the starting point. They both got stuck in gravel embankment, front wheel spun and could not get out. According to some insider info, speculation indicates the possible errors in the GPS (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  Re: The grand challenge
 
In lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, "Elizabeth Mabrey" <emabrey@storming-robots.com> wrote: (snip) Looks like nobody won. I was watching via the tracking app and no one got farther than 7 miles... According to this article many competitors did not get (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
 
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  RE: The grand challenge
 
By the way, look at the TerraMax from Ohio-State (well, seems that part of the team members from companies, some graduate students). It looks a gigantum RCX brick :-) (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  RE: The grand challenge
 
It is conducted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Participants from across United States invented and built their own autonomous grand vehicles to compete by being the first one to complete the designated route, dessert like (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  Re: The grand challenge
 
(...) I'm sure a LEGO Mindstorms robot would have won, if they only had let them participate ;-) Jürgen (21 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  The grand challenge
 
Hi all, I'm sure some of you may have already watching this. Check out the Grand Challenge taken place in CA. The Grand Challenge Events - Autonomous Ground Vehicles, www.grandchallenge.org. I wish they would boardcast this, or have them (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  Re: legousb driver under kernel 2.4.20-athlon
 
(...) You can try to add -athlon at the end of EXTRAVERSION so that it becomes -4GB-athlon in the kernel Makefile, and then recompile. Jürgen (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  legousb driver under kernel 2.4.20-athlon
 
I tried to install the usb driver on my 2.4.20-4GB-athlon kernel. After the configure and make part I take root identity and try the make install but the compiler give me that error : /lib/modules/2.4.20-...sbtower.o: kernel-module version mismatch (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  Re: Change the the parity setting of the IR tower.
 
(...) I have a serial IR tower, but what do you mean by "just do it"? Is there a way to alter the hardware or anything else so that the tower understands 8N1? (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  Re: Change the the parity setting of the IR tower.
 
Hi, (...) that depends on which tower you are talking about: - For the serial tower just do it. - For the USB tower it seems you can't, as there is no documented function to do that. Jürgen (21 years ago, 9-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  Change the the parity setting of the IR tower.
 
Can I change the parity setting of ther IR tower so that I can use 8 data bit, no parity, 1 stopbit instead of 8 databit, odd parity, 1 stopbit. I want to access the IR tower with a serial port that has only the settings 8N1. (21 years ago, 9-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  Re: [long] Interrupt programming, buggy code
 
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 17:54:47 GMT "Mark Riley" <markril@hotmail.com> wrote: Hi Mark, (...) [snip] (...) [snip] And that was it, indeed! Many to you, as well as Ralph and Kevin who tried to help me. There shouldn't be much trouble for me I think (if we (...) (21 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  Re: [long] Interrupt programming, buggy code
 
(...) Eh... Never mind this bit. I just had a gander at Kekoa's rcxlib and he already handles this correctly in debug_value(). Should've known! :-) Mark (21 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  RE: [long] Interrupt programming, buggy code
 
Much better and more accurate answer from Mark - who knows a lot more about GCC that I do :-) I should stick to commenting on assembly language stuff. Ralph (...) <snippage> (21 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  Re: [long] Interrupt programming, buggy code
 
Hi Benjamin, When you declare your ISR as an interrupt_handler, GCC terminates the function with an "rte" instead of an "rts". The ROM code that dispatches the interrupt to your function is already doing the rte so your function should not. Here's (...) (21 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  Re: [long] Interrupt programming, buggy code
 
(...) All I can give you is guesses. There are pleny of gurus here who will know the answer. Do you know if the display_debug() routine or any of the things it uses depends on the interrupts you are taking over? If default interrupt handler provides (...) (21 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  RE: [long] Interrupt programming, buggy code
 
Having fun yet :-) There are a few things you might want to keep in mind when writing ISRs for the RCX... First, avoid calling into the ROM from an interrupt handler. You never know how long they take, and you may in fact be hitting another OCIA (...) (21 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  [long] Interrupt programming, buggy code
 
Hi all, I am currently programming the Lego RCX at low-level (plain C) using the GCC cross-compiler for Hitachi H8/300 and Kekoa Proudfoot's LibRCX. In fact, I'm designing exercises for students that learn micro-controller programming. Therefore, I (...) (21 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  Re: Get/SetCommTimeouts
 
"Dick Swan" <dickswan@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message (...) I kind of suspected that .. but was not sure. I looked in the source of NQC and brickOS (and some programs I found on the Web) and they all seemed to use these functions regardless. But I (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)


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