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| Hello all, after playing a bit with Manuel's application, I ended with a console Win32 application to send/receive LNP messages. It's more simple and ready to be used in combination with other applications. However, it doesn't use overalapped I/O (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Multitasking questions
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| (...) Ummm, I'm in the process of verifying all of the old scripts I package with pbForth. It looks like HAT is what actually works, and I've managed to change the documentation and not the code. HAT is in the origianl hForth implementation but I (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: Curious problem with download
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| (...) Don't forget that your monitor may also interfere with the download. I've had problems go away when I put the RCX/tower away from the front of my monitor... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Revisions to RcxCC
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| I'm Tamotsu Kamigaki from Japan. I am teaching the Computer Science in university. I had already modified the RcxCC to support the Scout and the USB IrTower that is included in RIS2.0 set. The RIS2.0 set was released in Nov. 2000 only in Japan. My (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | LNP Addressing Schemes
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| I have the basic Linux<->RCX Infra-red comms. working using lnp calls on the RCX and Martin Cornelius' lnpd on the Linux end. I have a few questions about this: Addressing: . How does the addressing scheme work? . Can a RCX address more than one (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: PC -RCX comunication
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| (...) the only windows example i know about is the dll program, but AFAIK it was not trivial to get this program to run under winXX. if you don't insist on being constantly bored by a closed-source OS ;-), there is another solution: Under linux, you (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| I apologize if this question has been asked and answered, but searching through this group did not provide a solid answer. Can this be done.. I have a linux box running as a webserver. I would like to plug the IR unit to the serial port and be able (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: LNP Addressing Schemes
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| (...) It's quite simple: Currently, there are two kinds of LNP-Packets: the first one is called the integrity packet (switch your mail-reader to fixed font now): +--+---+---...---+---+ |F0|LEN| IDATA |CHK| +--+---+---...---+---+ F0 : identifies an (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Remember the medium... cheap IR basically stinks for transmission. You get transients from the lights in your room, the outdoors, yadda, yadda. Luis (wishing for RF like the Europeans get ;) (...) ---...--- "Going to California with an aching in my (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Yes. The IR just becomes a dumb serial port whith an annoying builtin echo, almost like you had a serial port cable attached to the RCX. Open the port on the host system using whatever language you want and proceed to send commands to it. Of (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Odd behavior
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| I think you may have had the same problem that I did, but if you did, you have answered the question yourself. (...) I had a bright light over the tower, and the batteries in the tower were running low. Redirect the light and install a new battery (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Very strange problems
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| (...) It seems that emulegos should be able to handle IR. However, it does not use the lnp-functions that I use, so I presume it is designed to work with an earlier version of legOS. Were earlier versions of legOS (I use version 0.2.3) less likely (...) (24 years ago, 21-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: New pbForth GUI
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| This is a great idea, Ralph. I've wanted to just fool around in pbForth, but have been intimidated by the apparent front-end learning curve. I'm a mechanical guy, I don't do TclTk, Gnu, etc., I've been spoiled by GUI front ends and install programs. (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Very strange problems
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| (...) IIRC, it is 0.1.7, which used a completely different setup for the IR communication. (...) Unfortunately, no. (...) You mean, unmodified? No, I don't think. I've seen lots of code that worked, and then got "simplified" and then stopped (...) (24 years ago, 21-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) It is really fun ... some of the time ;) (...) Yeah, I kind of thought that IR may not be so good, but I'm sure that I can find some ways around that. (...) That's an idea, although the data acquisition system primarily measures stress, (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Very strange problems
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| (...) Is this neural network code made public? I have emulegos, but I havn't much more than started it up. Do you know if it can handle IR-communication between several RCXs? Tobias (24 years ago, 21-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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