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No, I don't, but thanks for the offer. I've actually never built a GUI in anything except Java until today, but Glade ((URL) makes building a GTK gui ridiculously easy- it literally took about 30 minutes to go from knowing absolutely nothing to (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX.pm questions [and Linux RCX GUI question]
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You need any help building the GUI? I was thinking of doing a Perl Tk for my linux box. (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Painful details on RCX.pm problems
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More RCX.pm stuff in case John Quillan (to whom I'll be forever indebted, if this ever works) shows up. So I have this code: #!/usr/bin/perl use LEGO::RCX; my $rcx = new LEGO::RCX(); $rcx->ping(); $k = 0; while($k ne 10) { print($k.") (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX.pm questions [and Linux RCX GUI question]
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So, I have some more questions to anyone who wants to answer them :) (John, hope you are listening ;) 1) Do I need to recreate $rcx after a while? It looks to me that under many circumstances, repeated calls to the RCX will fail to cause the tower (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | MindStorms Price Reduced at Future Shop
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For anyone up here in Canada, Future Shop has the MindStorms 1.5 set for $250 CDN. This beats the usual MSRP of $300 everywhere else I've seen. Enjoy.... -Roy (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I've been trying to find out the optimum settings for a power adapter and the RCX. But so far no one seems to know... Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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So, I've finally found a little bit of time to play with RCX.pm, and it is pretty cool. However, I'm having lots of problems convincing the RCX to actually do things :) it appears that in many cases, the first signal sent to the RCX is always (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Does someone knows the power specs for the RCX to connect it to the home power? Thanks. Tet (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Motor Sticking
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(...) I have about 16 motors and I have had, out of the box, 6 motors DOA... Other friends have more then 20 motors with 0 failures... I can only guess that I'm cursed with motors. S@H will replace ALL your dead motors... They did for me. Once when (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: RCX: Loose Assembly?
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(...) Oh oh. Sounds like a fault. You'd better phone LEGO and get it replaced. Otherwise you'll be unhappy for life. NONE of mine do anything like that. They are, and pardon the pun, built like a brick. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Auto Shut Off
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(...) Ok, to set the time out with RCX code you must hit the Oroboros (the sideways 8) and it will never shut off. This can be found under "Getting Started" then the far Right option on the bottom. Hope that helps. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) If I remember well there is an option on the RCX Setup (Advanced) page that will allow you to modify (and also switch off) the auto off delay. Jan (25 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Motor Sticking
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Lego customer service is really good about this (as has been written before on this newsgroup). This is a known problem with this motor. On the suggestion of the various posters, I called up Lego Customer Service (number listed on their web site and (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Motor Sticking
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(...) them (...) hand. (...) When I first got my RIS, on a finny sunny christmas morning :) I eagerly built my first bot, only to watch it veer off to the right, at first I was puzzled assuming I'd messed up the power settings, but eventually I (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Motor Sticking
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Gaurav, Certainly isn't in my case, these motors are stalled so bad I can't get them to move at all now unless I stick a 24t gear on them and turn them by hand. Even then it requires considerable force. The cables I've tried on these motors work (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
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Howdy, I purchased the RIS for the first time on Saturday, Yeah! When I pick up the RCX, out of the box, the green back cover fell away from the unit. I'm so happy to find that that is where the batteries go! But I'm seeing this kind of thing all (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) If you have NQC, just issue the following command: nqc -sleep 0 I'm not sure if there's any way to do this from RCX Code or Robolab. Dave (25 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) If you set the delay to zero, the RCX will not shut off. I don't remember if the RCX Code software can set such a delay, but I know for certain you can send an opcode to do it. There are many documented ways to send opcodes if you need to go (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi all, How do I turn OFF the auto shut off function of the RCX? I'd like to write a program which contains some long (1hr) delays. Thanks for replies, MTapsak (25 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Motor Sticking
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(...) This might sound a bit silly, but it could be your electric cables. I also have a bunch of motors (most are 3-4 years old, one is 7 years old) and I use quite a bit. As far as I have noticed, they haven't had any problems. However, I have (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
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