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| Hi all, We're trying to wrap up our alternative runtime for the RCX (first), and soon the NXT. I am struggling, however, to upload our firmware from the Mac using a USB tower. I can upload using a serial or USB tower from both Windows and Linux... (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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usb, rcx, how
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| | Spectrum as source of Technic Spares
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| With all of the back and forth lately on the lack of Technic spares, I've found that Spectrum Educational Supplies in Aurora Ontario has many hard-to-get parts, including the little pneumatic pumps. Without keeping everyone in suspense... Specturm (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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usb, rcx, how
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| | Re: NQC's future
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| (...) By the way, people who have a CD-booting Windows-compatible PC have free Linux too, via a boot CD that works without repartitioning (or even writing) the boot HDD: (URL) I think I specifically remember seeing rcx serial port tools work there, (...) (21 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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usb, rcx, how
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| | "No reply from RCX" with nqc...
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| i just purchased the mindstorm RIS set... now i am trying to get the firmware on it. i dont have windows (thank god), so i am trying to get the firmware onto the rcx with ncq. upon trying to do anything with rcx (rcx -near, rcx -firmware..) i am (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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ris, rcx, how
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| | Receiving messages on PC
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| Hi, I'm sure this issue has come up before, but I can't find an answer to my exact question in the archives: Are there any utilities that can be used (preferably a Windows command line utility) to receive the messages sent by SendMessage()? Or any (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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usb, rcx, how
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| | How advanced can RCX programming be?
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| I got my RIS a couple of weeks ago, and I have been building simple robots and programmed them using the program on the RIS cd. I´ve heard that you can program the RCX in very advanced ways, multitasking and so on. How advanced can it be? How do you (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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ris, rcx, how
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usb, rcx, how
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| | Does SDK 2.0 work with RIS 1.5 (RCX 2.0)
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| Hi, I have RIS 1.5 and with an RCX 2.0 brick, I have downloaded the SDK 2.0 but the sample programs report Error (0xe0050c98) from VPBrick vpb: bad (unsupported) PBrick type Is this because I am using RIS 1.5? And if so can anyone tell me if it's (...) (22 years ago, 1-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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ris, rcx, how
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| | Re: Two RCX with one IR-Tower
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| The 'usual' way to get status data is to poll the the RCX memory for status information, but you can't do that because of the number of RCX bricks; so how about getting each RCX to send a response message (or series of messages) to the PC encoding (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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rcx, ir, how
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| | Feeding the RCX 1.0 from RIS 1.5
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| Hi, I'd like to know what kind of adapter I could use (and how) for supplying my RCX with power, since it has no inlet. I have tried to use DC adapters for 6, 9, and 12 Volts, all without success. I connected them to the plates inside the battery (...) (23 years ago, 22-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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ris, rcx, how
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| | Re: IR header how optional
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| (...) see ... (...) require (...) That's very interesting. And, I've managed to get replies to "headerless" packets as you describe, however... (...) with (...) I still don't see any response to 0x10 0xFE 0x10 0xFE. The even bytes (0xFE) are not the (...) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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rcx, ir, how
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| | Re: IR header how optional
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| (...) Yes, I misspoke, indeed from a place of incomplete understanding, sorry, thanks for helping. I did mean to say x 10:EF 10:EF works fine. Like you, if I try x 10:FE 10:FE, I see it echoed but then I see no further reply. And yes x 10:FE 10:FE (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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rcx, ir, how
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| | IR header how optional
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| (...) Yep. But via our solid new reply framing code, thanks again, now I can see ... (...) Nope. At least not here: now that I look, I see my RCX often doesn't require the PC to send x 55:FF:00. IR command packets like x 10:FE 10:FE PBAliveOrNot and (...) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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rcx, ir, how
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 vs. RIS 1.5 (v. 2.0?)
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| For the most part, the differences are in documentation and additional/different pieces, not the RCX hardware itself or the software. The one hardware difference is the lack of an external adapter plug in 1.5 (so, lots more batteries) and I believe (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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ris, rcx, how
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| | IR ranging
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| hey i read that you can perform ir ranging with an rcx. how can i pull this off? please help. and has anyone tried building a laser diode that is mindstorms compatible? i tried it but i killed my laser. i figure you can do some cool stuff with the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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rcx, ir, how
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rcx, ir, how
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| | Re: IR header how optional
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| (...) I doubt anything (short of a 2MV Lightning Flash) will warm anything in 1 msec. ;) Also, the receiver won't warm up until the header has been read in completion and decoded. So I doubt it's used for that. Normally, in any communication, you'd (...) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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rcx, ir, how
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| | RCX2 Firmware?
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| How do I get the "RCX2" firmware into my RCX? I have a RIS 1.5, and would like to program to the RCX2 API as defined in the RcxCC IDE's documentation. Thanks... (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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ris, rcx, how
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| | Re: The pain of communicating with the RCX
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| I might be able to help somewhat. I use my PC running FreeBSD to talk to my RCX (RIS 1.5). After much heartache I found that if I used "ecu" as my terminal, it worked. I tried everything just to try them, and ecu worked the best. Ecu is old, but it (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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ris, rcx, how
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