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I have Windows 7 RC on my netbook and I can't get the NXT software (version 1.1) to install. It hangs when the installer presents its progress bars and starts copying files off the CD. Does the 2.0 software work with Windows 7? By the way, RIS 2.0 (...) (15 years ago, 27-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: WeDo +RCX?
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(...) You are correct---there is a tilt sensor and a distance sensor value available in the sensor value block. These get shown even if the motor blocks are not being shown, so I don't know why I missed them before. The values are 0 if no WeDo (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: WeDo +RCX?
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(...) I saw a "WeDo 2 Puppet" project on the Scratch website that specifically mentions the use of the tilt senso so I suppose it must be possible to use sensors as well. "The scratch project uses the tilt sensor to decide when they spin" Jetro (15 years ago, 11-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: WeDo +RCX?
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So far as I can see from the Scratch interface, there is control of one motor, but no sensors. (There are sensors via the ScratchBoard, but not through the WeDo interface.) I don't have the WeDo hardware, so have not investigated further. Kevin (...) (15 years ago, 10-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: WeDo +RCX?
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(...) Thanks. From the description I get the impression you can use 1 motor and 1 sensor at a time. Can anyone confirm this? Jetro (15 years ago, 9-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: WeDo +RCX?
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The Scratch Programming laguage ((URL) now includes blocks for controlling WeDo motors. Kevin Karplus (15 years ago, 9-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: WeDo +RCX?
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(...) I have sucessfully written a third party app that will let you drive the WeDo from your Windows machine. Linux will be supported fairly easily once I get the driver relinked, Mac when I get a Mac for development :-) Contact me offlist if (...) (15 years ago, 9-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | WeDo +RCX?
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I saw the WeDo sensors and hub available separately on LEGO Education website the other day and I started wondering if I could use them for anything... No one appears to have tried or managed to use the hub without the official software until now (...) (15 years ago, 9-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RCX 1.0, MacNQC 4.05b OSX 10.4 can't program the brick?
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Hi, a blast from the past... My iBook running 10.4.6 has no problems downloading the firmware from MacNQC 4.05b but when I try to download a program I always get "communications error" and it fails. I've tried both the USB IR tower and the serial IR (...) (15 years ago, 21-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | BricxCC & NBC/NXC collaboration
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I finally got around to uploading all the BricxCC and NBC/NXC source code to an SVN repository on the BricxCC project page on sourceforge.net. Now all my code changes are done via my local checkout from that repository and changes are checked in as (...) (16 years ago, 2-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | 64bit driver for the LEGO USB Tower
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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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| | brickOS is slower than NQC for sending message
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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 (...) (16 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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