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| I recently adopted legOS as my development environment and I have to say I tremendously impressed. Thanks to everyone who has worked so hard on it. It is really a first class, grade A product. Is sys_timer accurate to within 1 ms? unsigned long (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Markus> Hi Les, I've been advocating gdb for quite some time now, Markus> great to hear about your efforts. Hi Markus. Thanks for responding. Your input is much valued. Markus> You could also use an endless relative loop instruction Markus> (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Ha! Just completed my first LegOS program - and it only took a month! (off and on :) ) I'm going to note some things which stalled me, in the hope that they won't stall anyone else.. (1) I was trying to count how long the sensor was being pressed (...) (26 years ago, 28-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| I haven't tried Visual NQC, neither have I tried the new version of RCXcc of John Hansen. I'm still using the old Mark Overmars RCXcc and I'm quiet happy with it. The reason for not trying al those new ones is the long term expectations. Neither of (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| I just got back from vacation 2-3 hrs ago, and have just found out that the school cleared our one-year name leases while I was gone. As a result, the HOWTO at arthurdent.dorm.duke.edu has been unavailable for several days (not quite sure how long (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Well I can't say I have the RCX plugged in when I'm running a vehicle, I *ALWAYS* have it plugged in when it's not in use. I've actually only had to replace the batteries in it once in the past year. Removing the jack was a mistake, IMO... As (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| (...) For you and me, that's simple... but even procurement of parts other than plain vanilla ones may be a nightmare for someone who isn't more or less in the electronics business (At least it is here in France) (...) Thanks for the pointer. (...) (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| (...) Sorry Niels, but I would say just try it yourself, they're not that hard to do, failing that if you can find the source for a small ANN, then that stands a good chance of working, I'm running quite a powerful evolutionary algorithm on mine, (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Actually, this is a GOOD thing. I've never seen a compiler that doesn't save the source first. Compilers can occasionally do wierd and not-so-wonderful things which may include full or partial system crashes. Given this possibility, you WANT (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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