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hi, thanks for all your help, I'll let you know how I get on nice one Boppyer?;-) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) These two web sites have all of the details about communicating with the RCX. Assuming that you can open a serial port and send/receive some bytes, it shouldn't be very difficult... (URL) posted some more detail on the specific case of sending (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) You LUCKY guy! Well, since it's yours you can crack it open and have a look. It must be a bad contact or diode in backwards or something like that. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Google is your friend: (URL) Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr> (URL) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) been (...) low (...) stay (...) probably (...) you (...) has (...) out (...) DID (...) anyone knows how I can use the bad one. Chris (25 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hello! Could you please send me the adress of the " eight ball website " . I did not see it ! Stefan (...) -- ***...*** Dipl.Inf. (FH) Stefan Prescher Fachhoschchule Oldenburg/Ostfriesla...helmshaven Fachbereich E+I / Virtuelle Fachhochschule (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Probably. But if you have to give it up you don't want to mess with it. They DID take the other one didn't they? Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) successfully (...) Has (...) in (...) send (...) if it is possible to make any use of (or fix) an RCX with this fault. Chris (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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That's a 'plotter' input device you're descibing - it used to be quite a popular input device for CAD (and I think still is at the high end of the market), but for general use, the mouse has replaced it. I remember building something similar for my (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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Hi, I'm trying to find out how I could could communicate with the IR tower and RCX using Director shockwave 8, so then I can use a web page to controll it, I've seen the eight ball website, but it dosn't explain very much about how the RCX is linked (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Contact LEGO Affairs. It seems you got the Lemon. Some part inside is probably in backwards... I see no user correctable 'fix' for this. Tell them it's not working and they will send you a new one. IF they make you send the dead one back (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) All of Lego's Software (Besides Exploration Mars) requires the LEGO Cam. This is not a requirement. It's so you don't pirate the software. It's most annoying that I can't use my pro cams for any of it. There are some nice features... It has (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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This is my first venture into lugnet.robotics, so excuse me if this has been asked and answered before (I normally frequent lugnet.cad). The RCX my son received for Christmas seems to have a problem with the low battery indicator - it comes on with (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Pinnacle Systems has a USB video capture device which allows one to capture the analog video signal. Works great with software like the Exploration Mars software, which just checks if you have a video input of some sort. Vision command, however, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Apparently it only works with the Lego cam. Using any other camera (USB or not) will not work as several people here tried it already. I have both the lego camera and the XCam2. XCam2 is great as long as you have plenty of light! Otherwise, the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I think I didn't mention that there is an addition for XCam2 called XRay which makes XCam2 a usb webcam. My question was if it could be used. Can you select which camera you would like to use in VC software or does it only work with the LEGO cam? (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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There seems to be a common misconception that all cameras are equal! They are not. The kind of interface commonly found in webcams and the Lego cam are USB based digital ones which are supported by the O/S and deliver digitised images as bits maps (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi! Has anyone experience in using the wireless XCam2 as a replace for Vison Command. I was interested in Vision Command but did't buy it because the camera is always connected to the PC via a cable. With XCam2 you could build a robot that could (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) It'd be like LOGO, but backwards. I have considered making a LOGO-bot. --Ben (25 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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Idea: Drawing shapes with a robot and then getting them into the computer ok, i haven't thought this one all the way through, but here is an idea that i had a long time ago, i forgot about, and then it cropped up again today in my head... A robot (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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