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| Hi We just got into RCX. We have been using my Palm III and Visor to control the RCX. We have this great idea but need some help. We have an old Logitech Trackman remote control mouse. It uses RF. The idea is to some how convert the Serial output (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RF Connection To RCX
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| Hi We just got into RCX. We have been using my Palm III and Visor to control the RCX. We have this great idea but need some help. We have an old Logitech Trackman remote control mouse. It uses RF. The idea is to some how convert the Serial output (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Has anyone used lnpd succesfully?
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| Yes. I have used it successfully, though not always... In my case it seems to be a problem with the uart 16550A. It does not switch to low lattency mode correctly making the tower blind to the RCX. I circumvented the problem setting the UART type as (...) (24 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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tower
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| | Re: Signalling and controlling rcx
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| (...) I don't know much about winLNP, but we use a small util based on the LNP code: (URL) called ir tool or something like that). If you want to integrate it into your own code (rather than calling a seperate executable), have a look at the version (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | questions, comments, and suggestions
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| Hello, I'm just rooting through the kernel code, and have a few questions: [note: after actually writing this, there not all questions, more comments, or suggestions. And there aren't just a few of them. Good luck getting through it! ;-) ] *) What (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Desperate need for help with lnpd
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| Hi! I have mentioned before in this forum that I and two friends are working on a six legged robot which is supposed to learn to walk using genetic algorithms. We are now nearly finished and yesterday we finally managed to program an IR protocol (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | serial port configuration?
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| What is the proper serial port configuration? I had it once but I lost it. I'm having other problems so the hunt around method of finding the parameters isn't working. I can no longer communicate (firmdll etc.) unless the RCX is inches away from the (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | legOS Addressing - Packet Handler
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| Hi All I have a very simple RCX legos program (which I've attached), that I'm having difficulty with. I have compiled legOS with the default host address of 0 (0x00). I am using WinLNP to send data to the RCX (simple short strings), but the RCX will (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Idle Powerdown
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| Also, Paolo gets credit for the code that resets the idle counter inside IR activity. It will not reset on invalid packets or packets sent to a different RCX unit, so a unit will quietly go to sleep after 15 minutes in the midst of LNP (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Idle Powerdown
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| I've successfully implemented an idle powerdown into the legOS kernel. On more than one occasion I have left my RCX on overnight, resulting in the need to buy a new set of batteries. The tricky part was doing a successful powerdown from within the (...) (24 years ago, 13-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: serial port interrupts
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| (...) Sounds good Steve, see notes below for some pointers... (...) Absolutely. All we have to do is enable the interrupts on the receiver throw the chars into a buffer. I'd keep the standard FORTH words that already exist so less system source (...) (24 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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tower
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| | RE: New pbForth GUI
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| Ok, Ok, I'm an idiot....this is such a polite group that no one ever says RTFM ;>) Well, you did Ralph, but very, very nicely.... This GUI works great in NT (NT4.0 SP3), with very little work (once you start to think). Download and unzip TclTk ( I (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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tower
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| | RE: New pbForth GUI
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| I poked about a bit also and found: (URL) 3.html This is one source of both givio.sys, and the instdrv.exe which will register the giveio.sys as a system device driver. Instdrv is a console app which has been adapted from the Microsoft DDK version. (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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tower
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| | RE: Help with Terminal Emulator
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| (...) I have run into this too, Jerry. A few especially bothersome noise sources include video cameras, security systems, and remote controls. You might consider covering the RCX and tower with a box or towel... I'm glad the terminal emulator works (...) (24 years ago, 21-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Problems with datalog
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| (...) directly, but that's not possible. A careful examination of the DataLogNext command in the beta SDK documentation shows that the command is quite limited and that you can only log (global) variables, timers, sensor values and the watch/clock. (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Problems with datalog
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| (...) It is possible. If the datalog is created from outside the program (i.e. RCXcc) then my program correctly logs the IR messages. The problem I'm having is that I cannot get the RCX to create the datalog from within the program. From Dave's (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| Ok, so i'm supposed to be the guru, but I don't get it: all my light sensors are currently showing a range of adjusted values between 60-310, instead of the 20-110 that I'm used to seeing. The sensor is in active mode (passive mode still shows (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: light sensor problem?
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| (...) Let me think about how to uncouple this from sys_time, so the code can get higher resolutions. (...) Yes, but even if all active sensors are turned of we are running with a lot of CPU power due to the high sampling speed. If you lower the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Major breakthrough serial wise.
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| in article 39365A56.86986217@nexen.com, Steve morris at smorris@nexen.com wrote on 6/1/00 5:43 AM: (...) Try posting this on a more general list if the following suggestions don't help: 1) put the RCX and tower underneath a box to block out all (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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