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Luis, I found a half dead 9V battery and put it in my tower. I am getting similar results, except I hang after the first or second reading. Something like: 0) 41 1) 41 And that is it. I for got to ask is it connisistantly after the 4th one things go (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | eToys has RIS 1.0
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Go to the mindstorms aisle at eToys.com, they have both the RIS 1.5 and RIS 1.0 listed, and both are in stock. Great way to get an RIS with the power jack (and, more importantly IMHO, the "notch" that allows a LEGO wire to be conveniently routed (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Luis, I am here. I tryed your code. The interesting this is the first time I tryed it I got the following results with the towwer turning off after 5. But repeated runs of the program dont seem to have any problems. 0) 41 1) 41 2) 44 3) 45 4) 40 (...) (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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(...) Wow, I'm looking forward for that. Just what I need. Sorry I don't know anything about GTK, I would have liked to help you... Jacob (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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(...) Luis, You might want to look at my rcxtcl package. It has all of the stuff you need to make messages for the RCX. Currently, the tcl code makes the messages for uploading firmware bytes to the RCX, but there is a routine that will take a (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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