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Is it safe to say that LEGO will not be creating a 64bit driver for the USB Tower? Is there anyone here that could? What would it take? It would be really nice to have one before LEGO completely drops support for the RCX system. (16 years ago, 16-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RCX infrared broken -- what now?
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I recently dug my old MindStorms sets out of storage after about five years of inactivity. Naturally the RCXes (I have three) all needed to have their firmware re-installed. I was able to successfully refresh two of the bricks but not the third. I (...) (16 years ago, 20-Aug-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I tested two ways with brickOS and NQC, source as below, you will find the NQC can only send about 80 messages in 4s, brickOS can send all 255 messages, but need 20s, in other word, NQC needs 50ms for sending a message, or brickOS needs above 100ms (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Remote control RCX by mobile phone
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Dear Zhengrong Zang I don't thing that this will be work because as far as i know mobile phone's using the irda protokoll like on the pc's to comunicate to mobilephones and other devices. The protokoll is the same: baud parity and stopbit but it (...) (16 years ago, 30-May-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Remote control RCX by mobile phone
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I try to make a appli that executed in mobile phone, it can control RCX. The mobile phone's SDK provides class RemoteControlData with some methods as below: setPulse(int leader_on, int leader_off, int trailer_on) leader_on: start bit High period (...) (17 years ago, 27-May-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: advice on what Mindstorms book(s) I should consider buying
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(...) This is my preferred RCX book too! Philo (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: advice on what Mindstorms book(s) I should consider buying
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My son really liked the book "Building Robots with Lego Mindstorms" by Ferrari, Ferrari, and Hempel, because it teaches design principles, rather than just giving step-by-step instructions. (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: advice on what Mindstorms book(s) I should consider buying
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(...) Hi Jonathan, If you're looking for a great introduction to RIS 2.0 and would like some building instructions, I recommend "Definitive Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS, Second Edition" by Dave Baum. If you're looking for tons of interesting ides but (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | advice on what Mindstorms book(s) I should consider buying
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I own a RIS 2.0 and an Ultimate Accessory Kit (with the remote control) along with a large collection of technic (such as 8448, 8466, 8431 and more) and would like recommendations from people here as to books that would be good to buy to expand my (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: BricxCC-brickOS (bash) interoperability problems
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(...) That is how BricxCC executes the command. I have already implemented the fix and it will be in the next BricxCC test release and, subsequently, in the next BricxCC official release. John Hansen (17 years ago, 20-Feb-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: BricxCC-brickOS (bash) interoperability problems
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(...) Yes, I have verified that removing the end of line char in the command line, the old bash is also working normaly. To test that I am executing the following in a windows command terminal: D:>bash file.cmd I am not sure if BricxCC is executing (...) (17 years ago, 20-Feb-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hello people, I got a bit tired of compiling and uploading programs to a second RCX every time I need to make a small change (ok, adding the possibility to do adjustments with the remote control helps a bit), so I decided to make a win-program that (...) (17 years ago, 19-Feb-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | Re: BricxCC-brickOS (bash) interoperability problems
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(...) Thank you very much for investigating this problem. I looked into it a while back and was very puzzled as to why it no longer worked after I upgraded my cygwin install. If I delete the EOL at the end of the command line it will work? (...) I (...) (17 years ago, 19-Feb-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | BricxCC-brickOS (bash) interoperability problems
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Hi all. I am using BicxCC versión 3.3.7.17 with my RCX and brickOS. Recently I have updated my cygwin versión and now I am experiencing problems: I got the following general error trying to compile: "Compile Failed Unknown GNU error code (-1)" After (...) (17 years ago, 17-Feb-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | BricxCC Scripting
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BricxCC now has preliminary but fully functional support for compiling and executing PC-based scripts to control your programmable brick (NXT, RCX, Spybot, whatever). These scripts can be edited in BricxCC with syntax highlighting and (coming soon) (...) (17 years ago, 12-Feb-08, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: WiiMote controlled shipyard crane
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Nice idea. I wonder if it is possible to make the Wiimote talk directly to the NXT over Bluetooth... (17 years ago, 28-Jan-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Recently, I've bought WiiMote (Nintendo Wii Controller), which can be tethered to a regular PC via Bluetooth. You can then use for example this library - (URL) - to read WiiMote buttons, IR and accelerometer data. I've combined this with a simple (...) (17 years ago, 27-Jan-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 software
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(...) Hi Richard, The first step you should take is to run the Program Compatibility Wizard in Windows XP. You can run this program by selecting the Start button, choose All Programs, Accessories, and then Program Compatibility Wizard. If you follow (...) (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RIS 2.0 software
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I just gave my 12 year old daughter a RIS 1.0 (yep, an original one with the 1.0 RCX) set for her birthday. Unfortunately, it looks like the software supplied with the set doesn't seem to work with XP (it seems to install, but doesn't want to run). (...) (17 years ago, 16-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Solved Virtual Memory problem! (was: I can't get the RCX 1.5 software to run on WinXP)
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(...) Might be a 16bit/32bit problem (or similar 24/32bit), precisely 1GB (coded on 32 bits) could return 0 when truncated to 16 or 24 bits by old software. 3000MB truncated to 16 or 24 bits might be OK. Philo (17 years ago, 10-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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