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| (...) Dave, It is basically just exactly what you describe. It usually takes about 200us or so to "see" the incoming 38KHz signal, common I suppose for an integrator to react to the signal getting through the band-pass filter, then a Schmidt trigger (...) (25 years ago, 20-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| I just picked up a copy of the Vision Command today and boy is it cool ! I found it toady in my local Target along with the $49.95 mos espa pod race special :-) The little web cam is way cool. it takes great pictures, better than my other web cam. (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| I use the Keyspan TWIN adapter (USB to serial port) along with a simple mac-to-pc style serial adapter (I think it came with a Pilot 1000 many years ago). The TWIN adapter is a bit pricey, but I bought it because it also works with externally synced (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| I have had no difficulty using NQC on iMacs with a Keyspan PDA adapter (USB to DB9). The adapters run about $39US. The adapter comes with the necessary drivers that allow NQC to see it. Have fun! (...) (24 years ago, 27-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| (...) Erm, hrm, well... the reason I didn't ship it yet is that it won't compile with any released version of legOS. In order to gain full configurability, I had to set up a seperate directory structure, with its own include tree and stripped down (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| I tried solutions posted on this newsgroup to fix the rotation sensor problem.But It didn't work stable enough. I tracked the sensor input and realized the sensor sometimes picked up transient signal between two states. To solve this problem, I (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Hi Sergey, (...) if you intend only to transmit, you may just disable receiving altogether. (...) for an axle. yes, angle=rotation. (...) using the rotation sensor. otherwise, slippage may occur. night, markus. (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Another case would be where you also want to use IR for doing radar. If you had IR messages bouncing around for both radar and communication, it might confuse the radar algorithm or generate incorrect readings. (You'd also have to reserve a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| (...) Sorry for the extra quoting here, but the thread was a bit old...and just for everyone's info, both bags have the SAME mass, so they have the same first moment of inertia....I think. The shape of the object generally affects the SECOND momemnt (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| I am hoping someone has done some/all of this already... Aims: 1 To develop downloadable RCX code on the PC. 2 To develop immediate RCX code on the PC. 3 To run immediate code on the PC and the PalmPilot. 4 Spirit.ocx functionality. 5 IR comms to (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| Hi Ralph, (...) Yes, it works. After fighting for a while with Cygwin32 + binutils (it's still present a bug in linker configuration), finally I got the development environment. Your makefile works fine so it was very easy to get pbFORTH compiled. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| RELEASE: LegoSim A UNIX-based Simulator for LegOS with an Applet-GUI LegoSim is (yet another) simulator for LegOS. URL: (URL) another simulator? At the time the project started, there was no other simulator. Once Emulegos was announced, we did not (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Hi Pavel, check out the program loader. Basically, you have to register your own port handler for incoming packets on the PC. You should also acknowledge them in some way, so the RCX knows what's going on. Maybe IR networking should become secure. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Does anybody have an example of a LegOS program that sends data back from the RCX to the PC? Is this possible also with SPIRIT.OCX poll/datalog protocol? Tnanks, Pavel. e-mail: petrovic@ifi.ntnu.no (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Actually, the sensors run on 9V too. Why would you not want to use the IR port to get them to cooperate? The "message" system built into them makes this the IDEAL way to communicate, expecially since you won't be tying up a sensor input or a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RE: USB / x86 open sys based RCX replacement??
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| I think what you're looking for is the MIT handy board. Take a look at (URL) is a 68HC11 Micro controller with expansion boards, servo outputs, digital outputs, lot's of neat stuff. An assembled and tested handy board is about $299. There is a (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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