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| Dean, Philo, Thank you both very much: Including the sensor monitoring in a "repeat"-loop brouhgt the solution. Works quite perfect. I guess "SendMessage" is somewhat slow, i. e. the IR-emission/reflection. Now I am going to even improve the (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: IR Proximity Detection Problem
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| (...) Dirk, I had a similar problem when I first tried, eventually determining that I wasn't measuring the light sensor value while the message was being sent. You have to wait a little bit after sending the message before reading the peak light (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| I've managed to get a proximity detection working in legOS, using egcs 1.1.1 as the cross compiler. It has a very short range, and I haven't yet tested if the NQC variants have better range. If that is the case, I believe somebody will have to fix (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
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| I also figured out what COM3 was: the internal modem. I disabled it in Device Manager and now the only port that I can find in my C# app or in Hyperterminal is COM1, the serial port. But the IR tower is still not working. By the way, the built-in IR (...) (18 years ago, 10-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| (...) Well, in the spirit of FORTH there should be no finite number, just create and destroy them on the fly as and whan you need them. I have been wandering around the internet looking and found that hForth has one already: \ hForth multitasker \ \ (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: IR download broken
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| (...) The remote only works when the Firmware has been downloaded. Remove the batteries and download the firmware. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| So what causes it to 'forget' the firmware. Doesn't it store it in Flash memory? Or does it require batteries to be installed all the time? Matt (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| (...) It requires batteries to be in it all the time. you get 60 seconds with it off and the batteries out. An easy way to tell is that it has 0000 when you turn it on with firmware and only the little man when it doesn't. Dean -- Coin-Op's For (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| (...) Huge coincidence that your message should be the first I see after not having read the newsgroup for almost a year. No, as far as I can remember I never got an answer. I am using mindstorms for my final project after not having a chance to (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Using IR Remote within pbFORTH
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| (...) If Caldera OpenDos supports QBASIC, then there is a program out there. I'll email it to you separately. (...) This can be awkward, because pbForth is expecting communications at 2400,n,8,1 while the remote is at 2400,o,8,1 You can call a (...) (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Lego IR Remote - What is max send rate?
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| (...) I am not exactly sure, but you might consider using a vector in the robot so if a key is missed it continue on the same vector. In order to accomplish this you would need to have messages for keypresses and keyreleases. So if the robot does (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Does the green light in the tower come on at all when you try to send the message? Is the light only on when you are trying to communicate? If the light is always one I would look for another application that is trying to use the serial port. (...) (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| Hi Tom, I tried to send you a private mail, but the email address I have doesn't work anymore. Could you give me the new one? -Claude (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Help needed: Problems setting up the IR tower
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| I have changed my computer and it is imposible to get my IR tower up and running again. I have used my I tower with my old Pentium 233mmx/win95 with no problems at all (I have used the original lego software / NQC /WinlegOS). After changing my (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: Long range IR mode.
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| (...) I don't have this word defined yet. If you like and REALLY need it, I can roll it into the next release which will use the ROM math routines for speed. I could (time permitting) roll a special release out for you in the next few days with just (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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