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All, I am considering moving up to the Java VM from NQC on my RCX but I have a few questions. Does it only run on a PC? W9X? Mac (NO PC emulation)? Does it need spirit.ocx to run? Can I write in my own SDK or does it have its own SDK, and do its own (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | LeJOS
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Is there any documentation on classes for the LeJOS? How do I write a program that accesses all the motors, senors, etc? Is it worth the trouble to replace the firmware? (26 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | [ANN] leJOS 1.0.0beta3 released!
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Beta 3 of leJOS is out at (URL) main change is that the NT "Permission Denied" bug in lejosfirmdl appears to be fixed. Thanks to Paolo Masetti for his hints, and to anyone else who's contributed to the firmware downloader in legOS. Enjoy, --Jose (26 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: PSION 5MX HAND HELD
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I got this reply from Kasper: (...) Hi scott... unforunatly, i cannot get the lugnet listserver let me post to the list, so if anybody else is interested, you will have to forward this mail to the list =) anyways, i am the happy owner of a palm5mx.. (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.palm, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | PSION 5MX HAND HELD
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I was reading about these yesterday. They appear to have a serial port: (URL) anyone who understands these things able to get it to interact with our friend the RCX? It means nothing to me, but it appears they will run JAVA in some form. Scott A (26 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.palm, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | leJOS Interface
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I am happy to announce that there is a visual interface for leJOS. It is written in Java, and runs on Linux and Java. It has an editor and can do every important command line option. The first release is at www.geocities.com/gombos_2000/ Andy (26 years ago, 10-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Mindstorm display in Utrecht
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Hi guys, Im sending this message through because I made the announcement for the Dutch in Holland but one of them gets the an credit for it, he has already pics of it. This weekend there is a large meeting of the members of the largest computer club (...) (26 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Behavior Control, nee Subsumption Architecture
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This post contains a simple implementation of Subsumption Architecture, which is now called Behavior Control. If you've read my book, you'll recognize that this code is ported to Java from my NQC and legOS implementations of Subsumption (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | [ANN] leJOS: Replacement firmware for the RCX
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The first beta release of leJOS is out at (URL) leJOS is a Java based replacement firmware for the RCX, forked out of TinyVM ((URL) practically all of its features, plus: - There is a Windows version (CygWin not required). - Much faster Sensor API. (...) (26 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Keeping track of coordinates with Lejos
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Here's my experiences with keeping track of X, Y coordinates using Lejos. Hopefully this will help some people, and other people might be able to help me improve these techniques or give me advanced navigation ideas. First, if you haven't got Lejos, (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Visual J++?
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Has anyone used the OCX with Visual J++? Have any examples? -ben (26 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: TinyVM coding question
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(...) [...] I already responded to Eric via email, but for anyone else who might be interested, this bug was fixed in TinyVM 0.1.4. The current version is 0.2.2. Expect 0.2.3 tonight or tomorrow (due to a bug fix, having to do with assigning (...) (26 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | TinyVM coding question
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Folks, I have a question about TinyVM 0.1.3. I am working with the included code (TestReceiver1.java) but have come across some interesting behavior which I hope someone can explain (and offer a solution for). I am tryying to write a simple program (...) (26 years ago, 22-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | [ANN] TinyVM 0.2.2 with auto-power-off
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The latest release's firmware shuts the RCX off if it's idle in program download mode for more than 8 minutes. If you have a program running indefinitely, though, batteries will still run out. Also, TinyVM 0.2.2 should work on CygWin 1.1.x, unlike (...) (26 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Announcement: TinyVM 0.2.0
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TinyVM 0.2.0 is out. The most common complaints/requests have been addressed: capability to rerun programs, and timers/sleep. There are several other improvements. Ryan VanderBijl deserves the credit for making this release happen so soon. Please (...) (26 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics)
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| | RCX in Intro Computing Class
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Hello, My college computer science department is thinking of using Lego Mindstorms as part of the introduction to computer programming class. The book we would use to teach is written by a few of my prof's. I have taken an outline of the book, (...) (26 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: getting started with java and rcx
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(...) many (...) my (...) is (...) keep (...) In TinyVM Unix/CygWin edition, you might want to run the examples, and make changes to them. Right after you unzip the distribution, you can go to the installation directory and run: make (Completes (...) (26 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: getting started with java and rcx
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oh yeah, I have jdk1.2.2_005 and jre1.2.2_006. Should I up/down grade? -ben (...) many (...) my (...) is (...) keep (...) (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | getting started with java and rcx
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Hi. since i'm supposed to be learning java right now at my job, and i also like the rcx, i thought that a good way to learn would be to try and get some java programs to run some of my robots. however the links and emails in this discussion thread (...) (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: java/RCX combo
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I'm currently trying to recreate the JavaOne Mindstorms demo which Sun used in 1999 to show off its Jini(tm) capabilities. Will let you know once I succeed - at the moment the problems are more related to Java(tm) than anything else. -thomas (26 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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