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(...) I don't know much about winLNP, but we use a small util based on the LNP code: (URL) called ir tool or something like that). If you want to integrate it into your own code (rather than calling a seperate executable), have a look at the version (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Signalling and controlling rcx
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Hi there, This is actually a request for information. I am currently trying to control my RCX through the use of communication from my PC. The idea is that through some method I can type things into the computer and this will control the rcx via the (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Cygnus Installation troubles
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(...) only (...) the (...) I have never attemped "mix" between the two environments. I hope that this is not the problem. You can try to repeat installation of cygnwin after a general cleanup. BTW, I suppose that you have made a "make realclean" (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Cygnus Installation troubles
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Hi All, I downloaded the Cygnus installation for windows yesterday (previously I only used it to make dll.exe, and relied on djgpp for the .lx and .srec), and the demo directory doesn't seem to make properly. I get these messages: BASH.EXE-2.02$ (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, Can you send me the full loader.c and any other changes that was done to get it to compile under Solaris? I am in the process of re-writing most of dll to be easier to read (getting rid of a lot of the ifdefs, renaming functions, etc), but (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) (URL) particular, scroll down to "notes on addresses" and "notes on routines". The routines for the firmware start at 0x8000. The routines for the ROM start at 0x3ae. Ultimately, both kinds of routines are important to figuring out how the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: solaris + legOS
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YEAH! It works! And there was great rejoicing! :-) This version sucsefully d/led the helloworld.lx, and it ran perfectly. Thank you much! I'm curious, what all did you change? I saw you did a cool thing to make the getopt_long work... (btw, it gave (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Official release of legOS 0.2.4 and legOS HOWTO 0.2.0
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(...) [big snip] Great job guys! I've been deep into legOS 0.1.7, but though I percieved the potentialities of the system I decided it was too unstable and unreliable for effective usage. I'm very glad you are now ready with a new version, and will (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Official release of legOS 0.2.4 and legOS HOWTO 0.2.0
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(...) Thanks. Keep an eye out for the freshmeat news in the morning :) Ditto sourceforge. Luis ---...--- "Summertime... and the living is easy... fish are jumping and the cotton is high... So hush, little baby, baby don't you cry." -Ella ---...--- (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Official release of legOS 0.2.4 and legOS HOWTO 0.2.0
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[neat stuff snipped] Let me just say, congratulations! I really look forward to trying this out. -- "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." - Dylan Thomas Mike Ash - (URL), <mailto:mail@mikeash.com> (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Official release of legOS 0.2.4 and legOS HOWTO 0.2.0
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Hi, everyone! On behalf of Paolo Masetti and myself, and the rest of the legOS crew, I'd like to announce the release of legOS version 0.2.4. This is the first release in many months, and so it has lots of great goodies. *Vastly improved stability (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I've been toying with trying to get an autoconf going with legOS - does Windows support this? ROSCO (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) You do have FASYNC on Solaris, it's in <sys/file.h>. But this won't help much, as it is only there for socket IO. The same problem is with F_SETOWN, it is only defined for sockets, therefore you get the EINVAL. (...) No, we won't get SIGIO (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: solaris + legOS
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(...) It's the default setting. (...) You can put dll in verbose mode (--verbose), and see what's going on between RCX and IR Tower. (...) Very few documentation on LNP... :-( You can watch in lnp.c & lnp-logical.c, or just ask, I've worked a lot (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Can you please tell me where to find this documentation? Mike (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: rotation sensor thing solved
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(...) Ahhh, this is a hint why it shows up now. The additional delay in the dsensor code shifts the duty cycle of the sensor down just a little bit, so it can't operate anymore. This will all be fixed with the new code in 0.2.5. I will get myself (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: solaris + legOS
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(...) Oh yes. I can commit patches in CVS for you. :-) (...) Enjoy!!!! :-) Bye, Paolo. --- Ignorance is temporary; Stupidity lasts forever!!! (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I think that in we intented to write: # DJGPP does not define OSTYPE # ifndef OSTYPE OSTYPE=MSDOS endif Because we know that DJPP does not define OSTYPE. Are we sure that uname.exe is always present in a DJPP installation? (...) No problem. (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: rotation sensor thing solved
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(...) This is a quite interesting situation to test. When I released patched sensors routines, I've tested the sensor values (expecially rotation one) with batteries full and with very exausted batteries, but never with exausted batteries and motors (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Powering them more frequently but for a shorter time, you mean? Yes- I do see your point. This will be something to keep track of when/if we mess with the sensors in 0.2.x. BTW, in hindsight, this should have been obvious- the reason that the (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: rotation sensor thing solved
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(...) Actually, the sensors themselves don't generate an interrupt. The interrupt to read the sensors is from a timer, and it just cycles through the sensors waiting to read the next one. This may be related to the problem Kekoa mentioned about (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | rotation sensor thing solved
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OK, so I had forgotten that for whatever reason legOS rotation sensors are very, very sensitive to dying batteries. I think that when underpowered, they either don't generate an interrupt or the voltage on the interrupt is too weak and the signal (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: solaris + legOS
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(...) I've been too busy, and will be stepping on a plane tomorrow, and ignoring legOS for two well deserved weeks. Paolo can (will?) work with you on getting those into CVS. Good luck on the rest- with any luck, I hope to see Solaris on the ports (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | solaris + legOS
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Hello, I'm trying to get legOS to work on solaris. I'm having troubles. I've got the cross compiler installed. I'm having the same problem everyone else who's tried it on Solaris: legOS/util/dll-src/loader.c gives problems me an error with the (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | solaris + legOS
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Hello, I'm trying to get legOS to work on solaris. I'm having troubles. I've got the cross compiler installed. I'm having the same problem everyone else who's tried it on Solaris: legOS/util/dll-src/loader.c gives problems me an error with the (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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re: legos.0.2.4 In the file Makefile.common in the utils directory is this: # DJGPP does not define OSTYPE # ifndef OSTYPE OSTYPE=$(MSDOS) endif It should be: # DJGPP does not define OSTYPE # ifndef OSTYPE OSTYPE=$(shell uname) endif With the (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: rotation sensor problem (different one this time)
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(...) Nope, just rotation. Well, I can't be sure, since there are no other sensors, but since it is not permanent (i.e., I can still force it to register, just at the wrong times) I doubt I have lost the IRQ. (...) No signals at all. I'll try it (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) All sensors stops responding? I think that you have lost, for some reasons, the ADC sampling IRQ... If you loose this one you have lost the kick to continue sampling... Some part of code inside legOS disable IRQs... I'm not enough expert in H8 (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | further observations on rotation sensor problem
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It would appear that all movements (even when things are otherwise behaving poorly) are properly processed if the movements are done manually while the robot is doing it's computational phase. It would appear that things are dropped when the robot (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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This occurs very irregularly, so I'm not sure what the problem could be, but it is a whopper. After a certain amount of time running my program, (or perhaps after certain inputs-I'm not sure) it would appear that ROTATION_X stops being updated. (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I remember wondering what port 6 bit 3 did and so I think I tried setting it on and off and not noticing anything broken either way. Maybe I didn't test enough though. Somebody might want to try repeating the experiment. Some extra evidence is (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I supposed so, but only to get a "fast scaling"? (...) I can "rescale" those values by theoretical calculation and maintain >>7 or make the right conversion (0-100). Now I've done the right scaling (ready to commit), but I sincerely think that (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: light sensor problem?
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(...) And I'll add the reminder (for all the newbies) that without Kekoa's efforts in doing the low-level documentation, we would not be where we are today.... Thanks again, Kekoa....... As a side note, I wonder how the power to the LCD controller (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I personally forget the numbers of the lugnet posts. The gist is that the firmware and LegOS were, at the time, different in a critical way. I don't know the current status of LegOS. At the time, LegOS cycled through the 4 A/D sensors, reading (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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This is the whole directory command dump. These errors are half-corrected if I specify ../include/*.h in the include# line. Then I get errors about not being able to find other *.h's that the originals included. Makefile:41: .depend: No such file or (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Rotation Sensor Values
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Oops. When I copied it, that statement got left out, and I put it bck in in the incoorect place. The original version of the code had the return in the outside loop. I know it is this way because I could turn the rotation sensor slowly, and see the (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Persistent globals
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(...) Wonderful! (Oh, and good morning, Eddie ;) I'm putting some stuff into the HOWTO as we speak- I'll mention that. Luis ---...--- "Summertime... and the living is easy... fish are jumping and the cotton is high... So hush, little baby, baby (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I just committed a header file persistent.h with comment on how to use __persistent in your files. I also updated genlds.c to move the persistent data to the right place. Eddie C. Dost ecd@skynet.be (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Could you please post the compile command the makefile generates to the list, including the error? Like in: ecd@reset:~/lego/min...egOS/demo> make /usr/local/bin/h8300...hi-hms-gcc -O2 -fno-builtin -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Yes. It will only display two counter readings, then stop! See the "return 0;" statement. It is inside the while (1) loop. Take it out of the loop, and I am shure this one will also work. At least with 0.2.4 it does. (...) Here the return (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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