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| Hello, I was wondering if anyone has compiled BrickOS to run on OS X with the USB IR Tower. I am able to successfully compile the GCC cross-compiler but I am unable to get the USB Tower to function correctly. Any help would be greatly appreciated. (...) (20 years ago, 14-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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usb, ir, tower
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| | Help!! no serial port in new laptop pc!!!...!!!
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| I can't hook up my ir tower to my new laptop, and the IR tower for MS 2.0 is not due out for another six weeks!!!!!!! My home computer finally bit the dust, so I bought this laptop Saturday without even looking at the serial port (or lack thereof). (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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usb, ir, tower
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| | BrickOS 0.9.0 success
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| Hello all -- I have a Linux system with a USB Lego IR tower, and have been intermittently poking around on the web (once every few weeks) in hopes of getting a brickOS system to work on it, with varying levels of enthusiasm. I've gotten it to go (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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usb, ir, tower
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| | REALbasic and serial ports
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| Hi all, I want to try REALbasic with the Lego RCX. I think that this could be another programming tool for the Macintosh to do everything nearly like Visual Basic and Windows. Therefore I need some program code to use the serial ports in my (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Help!! no serial port in new laptop pc!!!...!!!
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| (...) Do you mean that you have used the Lego Mindostorms IR tower through this adapter? If so, the Belkin USB dockstation might be worth looking at, as it also has a parallel port and 3 usb ports. I have had my eyes on this for some time, but was (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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usb, ir, tower
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| | RCX and IR Range Characteristics?
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| Hi All, A while back, Ben Erwin asked about other user's experiences with the IR tower and range. I'm trying to characterize a persistent problem with the pbForth serial library, with respect to message reliability. It seems that even in high range (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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range, ir, tower
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| | communication with USB on Linux
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| Hi, For some time I've been trying to get bi-directional communication using: - Slackware Linux 10.0 - leJOS 2.1.0 - USB IR-tower - RCX 2.0 So far I've managed to upload leJOS and the written software to the RCX. However, when I try to run the (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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usb, ir, tower
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| | Re: RCX and IR Range Characteristics?
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| (...) SNIP (...) SNIP Not experience, but perhaps the location of the IR diodes in the tower is effecting it's peformance? As other people have noted before, the diodes are not located behind the smooth molded "windows" in the tower, but lower, (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | USB vs Serial Tower Response Time
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| Several recent posts have mentioned significantly slower performance of the USB Tower when compared to the serial Tower. After several measurements, I've concluded that the USB Tower is "natively" only slightly slower (~20 milliseconds per message) (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: RCX and IR Range Characteristics?
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| As expected Jeff Hazen and John Barnes sent along a few itmes of interest. (...) Jeff asked if the diffuse cover of the tower had any effect at all. From my experiments, Jeff - the answer is no. John Barnes suggested that the bit-balancing act that (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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range, ir, tower
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| | RIS2.0/legOS/linux and win98
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| Hello folks. Just got my RIS2.0 from Target and installed the Lego GUI based thing. I've also installed legOS in Win98 and linux and I'm getting ready to start hacking but I have a few questions. (1) Does anybody have experience with the USB tower (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: USB vs Serial Tower Response Time
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| (...) <snipped long post> Dick, This is a remarkably detailed analysis of the difference between the USB and serial towers. It also contains many useful hints about the preamble bytes and other esoteric things about the LEGO protocol. I have an dea (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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usb, long, tower
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| | Inexpensive portability
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| Hi all, (This is my first post in these groups so please redirect me if this is not the right group.) I do some minor dabbling with the RCX --- simple programs operating simple machines. I program in NQC via bricxcc on Windows XP with a USB IR (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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