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ive had my mindstorms kit for a while but never have programmed with a computer....its been sitting in the closet for a while.....now when i have an inspiration to build something and take it out, i discover that the "b" port for the motor doesn't (...) (26 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: VB 6 subprocedure stumper
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Hi Kathy, No, Sub 0 shouldn't interfere with Task 0. If you want, you could e-mail me the code and I'll take a look at it. David Leeper (...) here: (...) program (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: VB 6 subprocedure stumper
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David: Thanks for the tips - I really appreciate any pointers/help I can get. Actually, if I abandon the idea of subprocedures and move the code within my main task, it runs just fine. However, the whole idea of this "lesson" is to use subprocedures (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: VB 6 subprocedure stumper
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Hi Kathy, My first question would be "What are the values of CHECK_LEFT and CHECK_RIGHT?" If they're the same, that would produce the behavior you're getting. I know I often make a mistake like that when I copy and paste a line of code. You also may (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | VB 6 subprocedure stumper
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I sure could use some help. I'm trying to recreate the BugBot program from the book "Definitive Guide to Lego Mindstorms" in VB 6. It's a simple program with a tank-like robot that has two "feelers" - one if the robot hits something on the right; (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Object recognition
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Hi Does somebody have an experience with simple object recognition ( for example distinguishing between large obstacles and small objects using proximity detector )? I am currently experimenting with proximity detector based on 3 parallel light (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | TinyVM 0.1.2 Released
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A new version of TinyVM (a JVM for the RCX) is now available from: (URL) usual location is (URL) we were experiencing technical difficulties; it should be up by the time you read this). 0.1.2 has several improvements over 0.1.1, including some (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: RCX for sale.
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How mutch do you want for it? (in guldens?) Bertil The Netherlands (Amstelveen). Bert Onderdijk <bert_onderdijk@hotmail.com> schreef in berichtnieuws Frqp5o.8ww@lugnet.com... (...) I (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RCX for sale.
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Hi, Is it allowed to place an advert here in order to sell a box RIS 1.5 or do I have to put it elsewhere? Bert. The Netherlands (26 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: atari 800 web server
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(...) Oh yes, it's not the smallest web server, but it might just be the oldest web server. The atari 800 is 20 years old! KL (26 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.tele)
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| | RE: atari 800 web server
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(...) Not to one-up you, Kevin, but this guy at UMass has an even smaller server! (URL) Hmmm, can an RCX server be far off? Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) ---...--- Reply to: rhempel at bmts (...) (26 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.tele)
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| | Re: atari 800 web server
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(...) Oh Beautiful Hack! Very nice!! (I get the same funny +128 characters that Matt got, but I'm sure you'll get that figured out. :) Say, what's the maximum transmission rate (uncompressed) over IR for an RCX brick? Could we expect an RCX version (...) (26 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.tele)
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| | Scout Support in RCXCC?
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Will RCXCC support Scout support and fast downloading and the like? Thanks Dean -- TFM's Home Page: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Fast Firmware Downloads
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Hi all, I've been working on a cross-platform version of my Tcl scripts for interfacing with the RCX and found out a lot about high-speed downloads too. Here's what I observed.... 1. High speed downloads at 4800,n,8,1 with echos off is LESS reliable (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | MindStorms Bop It
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Hello fellow LEGO maniacs. My latest MindStorms "robot" is rather unusual. It has only ONE wheel, NO motors, two touch sensors, one light sensors, and a bunch of rubberbands. What is that?! It's a MindStorms version of the popular Parker Brothers (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RE: RCX Temperature Algorithm
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(...) Mike, Here's the area of interest right out of Kekoa's listing from the internals document...I don't have time to totally decode it, but maybe if you put down your soldering iron... :-) case a0: // temperature in degrees C case c0: // (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RCX Temperature Algorithm
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Back when everybody was reverse engineering the RCX software, did anybody figure out the code that is used to convert the a/d value into a temperature? (26 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | USB cameras
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I put some info on what I have found using a camera with the Mars Expansion Pack on my small web pages. The USB cable is not a good umbilical, stiff. I had to abandon one scanning platform design just because the cable tension kept stalling it out. (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX auto shut-off ?
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I'm pretty sure that i have used the feature in the software w/o a problem to set the autoshut to another time interval, including never shutting off. I know this doesn't exactly answer the question, but maybe its a bug somewhere that will resolve (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX auto shut-off ?
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(...) Change the shut down value in the software. Leave (Click to save) come back and change it to what you want, then leave. It should save then... Dean -- TFM's Home Page: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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