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Palm 130, pbrick, rcx 1.0 Can the palm 130 with pbrick be used to control an rcx that doesn't have firmware downloaded? My suspicion is that it won't work without the firmware. Tammy (19 years ago, 22-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | position servoing under BrickOS
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Thanks to your advices, Dick, Matt, and Steve, I've been very happy to solve my time sampling problems, installing BrickOS, which runs the rcx fast enough to get a proper position servoing (using rotation or light sensor, and a PID controller). I (...) (19 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX to RCX NQC
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(...) And that explains why I was having so much trouble with my custom Tcl based uploader in high speed mode. I fixed it a while ago by adding a slight bit of extra time between messages, but never got to the root of the problem. Thanks Dick! (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RCX to RCX NQC
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One last email on this topic. There's new opcodes in the Swan firmware to support many data bytes in a single "mailbox" message. The standard firmware supports "mailbox" messages with a single byte parm. I found this very restrictive in building RCX (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: RCX to RCX NQC
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There's another little problem that you may need to program around. There's a bug in the ROM firmware that could end up requiring a 30-millisecond delay between when a RCX sends out a message and when you should start sending the first character of (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: RCX to RCX NQC
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The message "toggle" bit was a good concept that has very limited value in practical use. I guess the intent was to prevent unexpected behavior when a PC program attempts retransmission after a message failure. Suppose the failure condition was that (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX to RCX NQC
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(...) I'm pretty sure, both the remote, and the send message commands only have one op-code, and are done differently from the rest. Steve (19 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX to RCX NQC
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(...) Ahh, now I understand why it is called a "toggle bit" - I somehow misinterpreted this to mean a new command had the toggle bit set (to 1), and if the sending unit doesn't recieve a reply it should re-transmit the command with the toggle bit (...) (19 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: 1.0 brick not responding
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(...) Powerbook 5300 with MacNQC: After about 4 seconds "No response or bad response from RCX. Make sure the RCX's receiver is facing the IR device and the RCX is turned on." Palm 130 with PBrick Demo: play sound 1, play sound 2, and play sound 3 (...) (19 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: 1.0 brick not responding
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(...) Generally, that means the IR tower is working. It's possible the tower has become broken, while it sat in a closet, but that's not very likely. So, knowing things worked before, you may be forgetting something. Make sure the memory is cleared. (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: 1.0 brick not responding
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(...) Yes, it flashes. (...) Yes it did work, but it's been in storage for a couple of years. (...) At this point, just download firmware. Once I get the communication issues resolved, I'll do programming. (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX to RCX NQC
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On Mon, September 12, 2005 8:03 pm, Brian Davis wrote: ... (...) ... Somewhere in there, it tells you the RCX will not accept the same command twice in a row. Each command has two op codes that are 8 digits apart. So (I think) for SetWatch you (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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In a semi-followup to Steve's earlier "remote battery tester"... While the standard firmware provides almost no way to get bytes into the RCX (other than "Message()", one byte at a time), it can certainly export them ("SendSerial"). And it occured (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: 1.0 brick not responding
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(...) Tammy, A couple questions... 1) Does the light on the IR tower flash when you're trying to communicate? 2) Did it ever work (did it work before, but stop, or is this the first time you've tried communicating?) 3) What are you trying to (...) (19 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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mac powerbook 5300 communicates with the IR tower, but no response from the brick. palm 130 with pbrick, also no response from the brick. The brick powers on and beeps, just no communication with the powerbook or the palm for programming. Since it (...) (19 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | An idea concerning the new RC trains and a new RCX
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Hi, all, I know this might just be a shot in the blue sky, but anyway: Lego is most propably working on a new RCX system. At the Legofan site, there is a discussion about things that should be in a new RCX, and someone mentioned Bluetooth as a (...) (19 years ago, 23-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: different output power at different ports?
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(...) I've discovered a thread in legofan (URL) that talks about new features of a possible RCX 3.0. Is there more information that can be handed out? - Dave (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | RE: good way to detect the proximity of the RCX?
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Yes, that requires the RCX to receive. What I am looking for is a function which is much like the "is RCX in view" in the direct mode. This function allows the IR tower to detect any RCX in range, even the RCX is in in idle state, but just on, .... (...) (19 years ago, 10-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: good way to detect the proximity of the RCX?
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(...) Not sure what you mean here. You could certainly program some RCX's to "ping" each other to determine if they are in mutual IR range. RCX-A sends out a message & listens for a reply, while any other RCX that "sees" such a message immediately (...) (19 years ago, 10-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | good way to detect the proximity of the RCX?
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Hi I understand that Robolab has a feature to detect if the RCX is in view thru the direct mode. However, this only means it has to face toward the IR tower which connected to the PC. Then, how about the way a RCX's capability to detect the whether (...) (19 years ago, 9-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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