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(...) Now this is interesting. The Control Lab works just fine. (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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(...) I forgot to mention the green light. Ever since I enabled the serial port in the BIOS, the green light will only come on now when NQC is trying to transmit, which is what's supposed to happen. But then it reports the error I provided earlier. (...) (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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(...) Does the green light in the tower come on at all when you try to send the message? Is the light only on when you are trying to communicate? If the light is always one I would look for another application that is trying to use the serial port. (...) (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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I also figured out what COM3 was: the internal modem. I disabled it in Device Manager and now the only port that I can find in my C# app or in Hyperterminal is COM1, the serial port. But the IR tower is still not working. By the way, the built-in IR (...) (18 years ago, 10-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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I feel kind of dumb: the serial port was disabled in the BIOS. However, now that it is enabled and is assigned COM1 (and shows up in Device Manager under Ports), I'm still having problems: C:nqc>nqc -SCOM1 -v -d test.nqc Downloading Program:Tx: 55 (...) (18 years ago, 10-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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The light goes on as soon as you plug in the tower? Sounds like someone is already using COM3. I was looking around DELL technical support and you may have a bit of work ahead of you. First off your serial port on the inspiron 8200 should be COM1. I (...) (18 years ago, 9-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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(...) Jordan, I only have one suggestion that may, or may not be useful. I'd suggest you try a fresh battery in the tower. I know you said it works on another PC. Sorry, that's the best I can do. :) Steve (18 years ago, 9-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I have a used Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop that is old enough to have a serial port. I'm trying to use a serial port IR tower to program an RCX and am having problems. When I plug in the tower the green light turns on immediately, which AFAIK is not (...) (18 years ago, 9-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, FTX)
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| | Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio
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You'll probably have to post a bit of your code. You could zip the projects up and link to them or copy/paste relevant portions into here. (18 years ago, 8-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Has anyone had any luck with the Microsoft Robotics Studio with the RCX / RIS 2.0 ??? I have been able to write a program that uses the direction control to control a basic roverbot moving left/right forwards/backwards and another program that (...) (18 years ago, 7-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | FW: Another Challenge. Performance Comparison
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Dick, 2 questions: 1) Regarding the benchmark code used for performance analysis. How about something which will require intense sensor feedback? How about simple alignment code? I really want to stick with RCX for teaching as kids have to do a lot (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I get a lot of people asking what the "best" software is for the NXT. Of course, this is a complex question that depends on the user, and intended goal of the program. So, for the last several days, members of the Mindstorms Community Partners (MCP) (...) (18 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC vs. NXC vs. MS-VC vs. RobotC
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(...) I have no idea what you are talking about Steve. My page was not copied from yours. The information on my page was gathered completely independently. And it doesn't contain any subjective and biased information. I started on the project as (...) (18 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: NQC vs. NXC vs. MS-VC vs. RobotC
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(...) That's a very nice page, John. I'm glad you at least went through the trouble of changing the background, before you claimed the work as your own, and posted it. Here's the page I've been working on for several days, before John copied it. (...) (18 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: NQC vs. NXC vs. MS-VC vs. RobotC
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(...) I went ahead and put together a programming tools comparison chart that attempts to leave out any subjective information. It covers only the NXT and not previous generations of LEGO MINDSTORMS products. (URL) Hansen (18 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: NQC vs. NXC vs. MS-VC vs. RobotC
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(...) Elizabeth, It may be very useful to create a table, with columns for these different programming environments, and then you could have rows for all the features. That would make it easy for people to help you fill in the blanks. You may want (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: NQC vs. NXC vs. MS-VC vs. RobotC
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(...) The NQC solution supports all LEGO programable bricks from the CyberMaster to the Spybot, including the RCX. The Scout, RCX, and Spybot platforms supports event monitoring (for the RCX this requires the 2.0 firmware). If you obtain NQC by (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | NQC vs. NXC vs. MS-VC vs. RobotC
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| |I downloaded RobotC from CMU - www-education.rec.ri.cmu.edu. It does |have a great long term potential. It does not have the capability to do |a lot of more advanced stuff though, such as events/interrupt. | |I'd like to compare 3 software in (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Mindstorms fabrication/manufacturing line...
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(...) That machine is ingenious. I like the way he has his RCX bricks communicating by traveling along with the assembly line. I also like the frame he made to hold the wheels while the body was pushed onto them. Brilliant. (...) This reply is (...) (18 years ago, 5-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Would this work?
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(...) It was only ever really a theoretical project. And then I'd have to come up with a way of connecting possibly nine sensors. If you could control both the positive side and the negative side of the rcx connection you could multiplex 9 outputs (...) (18 years ago, 26-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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