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(...) Use rechargeable _Alkaline_. I initially got 12 batteries and a charger for ~UKP20 (-US30). My batteries spend about 5% of there their in my RCX, the rest of the time the power my kids toys... esp her Duplo trains. Such is life Scott A (25 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Quick questo, which no doubt has been answered time and time again, is it possible to use rechargable batteries in the RCX1.5 ? As I tried and it turned on, went mad then turned off again, so I didn't bother again, but I just read a message where (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I'm not sure if I'm thinking of the same riff as you are, since mine has far fewer notes, but its worth a try... I don't know the "official" key, and I'm doing this without a piano in front of me, but any major chord should do the trick.... C (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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Hi! My FLL Team would like to have their robot sign the "Charge!" bugle cry at the start of each mission that the robot attempts. I'm musically challenged. Does anyone have the note sequence for the "Charge!" bugle cry often heard at Baseball, (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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Yes, it does in fact happen more or less often sometimes (though it is usually consistent.) It has been an awful long time since I changed batteries... I'll get a new set tomorrow and take a look at it. Thanks a bunch, John... Luis (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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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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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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(...) 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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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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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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| | 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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