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| Hello, I have inherited a hand-me-down RIS kit with a functional RCX unit that I would like to learn to use and put to a purpose. I would like to build a system whereas the RCX is setup to press buttons on controllers (think remote control units) to (...) (15 years ago, 29-Jan-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: 64bit driver for the LEGO USB Tower
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| (...) Has anyone found a solution (other than using the serial tower or Virtual PC). Is anyone else interested in creating a 64-bit driver for Windows 7? Steve Putz steve@RoboticsLearning.com www.RoboticsLearning.com (14 years ago, 6-Jan-11, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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| (...) Case in point: when I first started on this post some weeks(!) ago, hoenicke.ath.cx wasn't responding. (...) And it's not getting easier if we've collected different sets of patches and then make further changes based on those... So yeah, we (...) (16 years ago, 31-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Curious problem with download
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| (...) downloading (...) I don't see any strange behaviour here; the hinky USB-to-serial interface is going to be your culprit. I had no problems using NQC on my PowerCenterPro (PowerComputing Macintosh clone) with a direct serial interface, but when (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Ir transmission
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| Hi, is there any way to send IR messages using pbForth. This is in order to use the IR proximity detector commonly used with nqc programs. Also I think that with alternative firmware such as pbForth and nqc, it should be possible to do it without (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Curious problem with download
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| (...) The iMac, iBook and G4 all work 100% fine with MacNCQ and the Keyspan single port 'PDA' usb/serial adaptor. It just appears in the pull down menu. The keyspan RS422? 'two' ADB style port usb/serial adaptor does not work for me; unless I use a (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Curious problem with download
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| (...) Er, no I was thinking of the PCI cards that give up to 4 serial ports; KeySpan used to make them. They were a short PCI card with two or four serial ports, which used a custom extension to route SerialToolBox calls to the 'phantom' serial (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Ir transmission
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| (...) My next project is to port the IR proximity dectector originally posted by Mark R. David (markdavid@mediaone.net) in sort-of-Spirit code which I reposted in NQC whan I had got it working. It is the best performing detector I have found so far. (26 years ago, 4-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: Ir transmission
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| (...) YES!!! The standard FORTH word U. prints an insigned integer, while EMIT sends out an arbitrary byte. So, for a simple IR proximity detector, you would write something like: HEX 0 SENSOR_ACTIVE (labelled sensor #1) 3 1 SENSOR_TYPE (light (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | pbFORTH enhancements soon
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| Thanks to all of the mail I have received, I am going to try to get the next version of pbFORTH out this weekend. Charles Anderson pointed out a rather embarassing flaw in the LCD_SHOW and LCD_HIDE routines, thanks. I have been using Dave Baum's NQC (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Battery voltage available within NQC?
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| (...) There's a bytecode (0x30) that instructs the RCX to send the battery voltage as a response over the IR. That's what NQC and Mindstorms use to read the battery voltage. I don't think this opcode has any effect within a program, or at best it (...) (26 years ago, 12-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: legOS-0.1.7 released
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| I finally got my scheduler working on 0.1.6. Porting it to 0.1.7 wasn't too painful. But when I tested it (I have been testing with demo/tm-and-ir), I found that there is junk (not necessarily alphanumeric characters) displayed on the LCD. Thinking (...) (26 years ago, 20-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Debugging
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| (...) Oh, you're doing stuff inside the scheduler. Yeah, msleep doesn't work too well there :-) Yes, the pauses were only so I could see what was going on. Another thing you could do is print messages out the IR port; but I'm not sure how it would (...) (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Debugging
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| (...) That's the method I've used. Just be sure to put an lcd_refresh() after the cputw() call - I can't remember if cputw() does the lcd_refresh() or not. Another thing I've done is write out a number where the upper byte indicates a position in (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Debugging
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| (...) However, last night, I wrote a brute force (spin loop) msleep which works fine in the scheduler. I found that 800 iterations of an empty for loop with a 16 bit index comes pretty close to 1ms. Granted, I cheated a little, knowing that the (...) (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | USB cameras
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| I put some info on what I have found using a camera with the Mars Expansion Pack on my small web pages. The USB cable is not a good umbilical, stiff. I had to abandon one scanning platform design just because the cable tension kept stalling it out. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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