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We are working to release 0.2.6 by the end of this week. If you have not yet had time to test 0.2.5.2 (the current test version) please take time to do so and let us know what you find. You can dowload from (URL) you know of anything we are missing, (...) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) This is a great idea. We will post binary packages for at least the windows platform. Regards, Stephen for the legOS team -- (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Kingsley about setting up a "upload only" environment on his windoze laptop, I searched & was unable find a pre-compiled version of dll.exe & firmdl3.exe. I know I must've found them somewhere before, 'cos I've never had a development (...) (22 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, I installed legOS and cygwin a while ago ... OK, it was version 0.2.4 ;-) But what I've done differently is that I didn't took the original gcc-sources from gnu.org, but the sources of the compiler in cygwin. Maybe you would also like to check (...) (22 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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WinXP I just tried 0.2.5.2, no luck uname gives me "CGYWIN_NT-5.1" any of this help? thanks -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of Paolo Masetti Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 6:02 PM (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I don't use cygwin but linux. But in this group, several cygwin problems were discussed over the time. One problem seems to be the PATH env. variable for the cygwin bash shell. With wrong set PATH, bash doesn't find what it needs to work (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) beginning. Windows 9x? Win2k? WinXP? Which version of legOS? For latest cygwin you need the latest available version 0.2.5.2 that you can find here: (URL) is your output for "uname" command? Bye, Paolo. --- Keyboard failure....Press F1 to (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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after about an hour it finished ...but i'm still having problems when i type "make realclean" i get a big mess of stuff with the only noticable error being "gccw32: not found" and that occurs at the beginning. then i type "make depend" i get a small (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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it seems make dosn't install by default with the cgywin setup file. i reinstalled cgywin with "make" and other needed modules: ash autoconf automake bash binutils cpio cygwin diff file fileutils findutils flex gcc grep less login make mingw patch (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi all, I currently use legOS on my linux machine. I want to be able to use it on my laptop, so i'm not always tied to my desktop. I purchased a Serial USB adapter since my laptop does not have a serial port. $80!!! I decided that it would be much (...) (22 years ago, 13-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Details regarding release content, download instructions and how to provide feedback are at (URL) change detail specific to 0.2.5.2 see the file: ChangeLog Highlights: Added missing file TODO Repaired slow-mode IR comm. for Linux We look forward to (...) (22 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I had a similar problem using RoboLab. I had a task that looped and checked the light sensor once in each loop. If the light sensor changed within the loop but NOT at the time when the check was made it would be missed. I replaced it with a (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I’ve never had any problems with the light sensor reading fast enough, and I have a robot that runs pretty fast. How are you trying to follow the line? Maybe there’s a problem with your conversion between NQC and LegOS. I’d be glad to offer (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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The hardware can get a light sensor reading every 1 mS. Is the process that is reading the light sensor at a high enough priority? Kevin "Nathan Nesbit" <natenez@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Gu7zno.41A@lugnet.com... (...) issue (...) motor (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Try replacing the batteries -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Nesbit Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 8:25 PM To: lugnet.robotics.rcx....lugnet.com Subject: Light Sensor help (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'm a new legos user and I'm trying to get my first app working. The issue appears to be that the light sensor value isn't getting updated as frequently as I expected. When I slow down the motors my line tracking program works fine. I speed it up (...) (22 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Have you tried the lnp checksum optimization patch? This could help, too Mike (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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"Michael Obenland" <obenland@t-online.de> wrote in message news:Gu9BHq.BEv@lugnet.com... <snip> (...) control. (...) influence (...) have (...) But I (...) Mike, I had experienced intermittent problems with downloading programs until I changed the (...) (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) dll doesn't work with serial tower in slow mode. In util/dll-src/rcxtty.c please fix the line setting the ios flags to: ios.c_cflag = CREAD | CLOCAL | CS8 | (highspeed ? 0 : PARENB | PARODD); Mike (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) When you use firmdl3, changing anything inside the lnp handler won't do anything useful! The code resposible for fast downloading is the small assembly code transfered before the legOS download starts. (...) Don't do that! legOS 0.2.5 ran on (...) (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Wow! I am so glad this worked. I entered a bug for the program.c changes earlier today (on sourceforge) and will enter one for the readme change. (However, we could solve the problem by updating dll as well... to find the parameter in any location) (...) (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Fine to hear you are up and running. (...) No, I don't think so. In fact, using dll with the right parameters does the trick. Sorting out what you have written, I think you downloaded all your programs to slot 0, your old program was deleted (...) (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I tried doing "dll -pX prog.lx" instead of "dll prog.lx -pX" and it works! Thanks. It would be good if Joe Wooley's alteration to program.c could be included in the next version of legOS because it does the trick with the "keeping alive" and "error (...) (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Well, I am sorry to say that I don't have a solution for that problem. I haven't experienced this before. I am glad to hear that the program download doesn't fail anymore; and I will request that 0.2.6 contains a similar fix. Ok, another suggestion: (...) (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I don’t know if it makes any difference, but I always put the destination before the name of the program. Ex: “dll -p1 hello.lx” Steve (...) (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Sorry, no. That's the one difference; it no longer says error deleting program and I don't get any errors when downloading to the RCX. I always use firmdl3 -s because using just firmdl3 on its own never works for me. I still have the problem that (...) (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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After making the change, do you still get "Error deleting program"? or other errors while downloading the program? Your assumption is correct, it will only switch to a program slot if there is a valid program there. I had problems sending programs (...) (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I just tried this and it has no effect. By the way, I'm using Cygwin B20 under Windows 98 with a com port IR thing, and LegOS 0.2.5. The same thing happened using WinLegOS and 0.2.3. Pressing the PRGM key has no effect in any situation - I assume it (...) (22 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I had similar problems when using legOS with CONF_TM defined in boot/config.h What I found was that the lnp handler was not getting enough processing time and was missing some data at times. Try the following fix and let me know if it helps. If so, (...) (22 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I quote from the original readme: "Type "dll demo/helloworld.lx". If all is well, it should be automatically relocated and transmitted to program slot 0. Press the RUN key to run. The program stops automatically. Type "dll demo/rover.c -p1" to (...) (22 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | MD5 available (was: RCX as a PGP engine)
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I just put my java MD5 port for lejos on the web: (URL) for the popups, Tripod....) It's a terrible hack, but thanks to that memory footprint is low and it does not leak! Let me know if you find it useful. Have fun, Bart. (22 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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Hi All, I've been trying to send data to my PC using WinLNP and the USB tower. Now, I've modified WinLNP to use the USB tower and it seems to work. I can get the demo RCX program to run and it recognizes I've sent it a byte. I can also get the RCX (...) (22 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Release candidate legos-0.2.5.1 avail for testing
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Details regarding release content, download instructions and how to provide feedback are at (URL) look forward to hearing from you regarding how it works for you and/or what needs fixing before we release it as 0.2.6 Regards, Stephen for the legOS (...) (22 years ago, 6-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Using legos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net VS posting at lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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Joseph Woolley <jwoolley@spamblock....ht.rr.com> wrote in message news:Gtw6sr.DC9@lugnet.com... (...) [snip] (...) the (...) next (...) Joseph, How did you sign up? I looked around but found no solution to this. I even tried the old subscribe in (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Using legos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net VS posting at lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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"Ed Manlove" <emanlove@ieee.org> wrote in message news:Gtw4Gt.421@lugnet.com... (...) is (...) idea (...) to (...) this (...) I understand and agree with you here. However, I was able to sign up for the maillist with no problems. It appeared to be (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Using legos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net VS posting at lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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As mentioned in the RLS doc ((URL) there is mention of communicating with the sourceforge maillist legos-devel@lists.so...forge.net. I don't think this is the greatest idea for a couple of reasons. One it is tough to get signed on. Luis (for (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: "Want to get started with legOS" needs help again
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Max, I believe the source of this is (URL) as you said should not really be there because of B20 (which is actually what I have been using for reasons below) and because these instructions have been superceded by (URL) problem here is the different (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Aaagh! Cygwin B20! That's about 4 years old, IIRC. The current version is 1.3.10, soon to be 1.3.11. Get it from www.cygwin.com - and where did you manage to find B20 ? That site should either remove it or mark it as of historical interest only. (...) (23 years ago, 30-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) It means very little. The first time you run Cygwin, it complains about the missing tmp directory. In order to get around this, create a directory 'tmp' from within Cygwin's bash shell using the command: mkdir /tmp This will get rid of that (...) (23 years ago, 30-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I have followed all the stuff on the webpages but when I click a Cygwin B20 in the start menu it says bash.exe: warning:-coukd not find /tmp. please create! BASH.EXE-2.02$ what does this mean and how do I fix it (23 years ago, 30-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Idiotic listserver! Here's the patch inline: diff -ru cvs-legOS/Makefile.common work-legOS/Makefile.common --- cvs-legOS/Makefile.common Sun May 27 18:01:56 2001 +++ work-legOS/Makefile.common Thu Mar 28 21:26:06 2002 @@ -11,15 +11,14 @@ # # -# (...) (23 years ago, 29-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Proposals, Bug Fixes, etc and tracking them with SourceForge
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(...) Please, post your diff file on sourceforge: (URL) Paolo. --- "If you don't care, your customers never will." - Marlene Blaszczyk (23 years ago, 30-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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<snip> > > I retrieved the latest from CVS and had problems building. I had to remove > the "\" from the end of some #define statements. I guess the gcc version I > have doesn't support (multi-line) #defines using "\" or isn't configured to > allow (...) (23 years ago, 30-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Russel. I've just added Paolo's writeup of the installation instructions for the windows platforms. Please let me know of any corrections needed to these pages and how you fared. Good luck, Stephen legOS release manager -- stephen@debian.org (...) (23 years ago, 30-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Russell, This link is to the legOS Documentation: (URL) Instalation instructions are in the How to section a few pages in. Happy trails Chris (...) (23 years ago, 30-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Want to get started with legOS
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I right now program in NQC but I want some thing better and I heard that legOS is really good. I,m runing windows 95 and I want to get started with legOS. I heard that you need something called "egcs" which is a "cross compiler" and I also need (...) (23 years ago, 30-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) remove (...) I (...) to (...) Yes, I had. With newer gcc versions and Cygwin on win32. I fixed #defines problem with a dos2unix text file conversion. (...) I've posted a Bug on sourceforge for printf.c. Same problem happens to older GCC (...) (23 years ago, 30-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) patch (...) invoked by (...) and (...) just (...) Please, post your patches on Sourceforge: (URL) Paolo. --- "I suggest a new strategy, let the Wookie win." - C3PO (23 years ago, 30-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi - the makefiles don't work at the moment for legOS on cygwin - this patch fixes that. It also stops a dependency generation command from being invoked by make clean, and, in the util directory, instead of compiling firmdl3, dll, and others in (...) (23 years ago, 29-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I posted this msg. about 10 days ago but as my server was set up wrong it didn't work. sorry for the delay. At the time of posting this i have already seen the movie thrice so I'm about ready. I've recently (a month ago) created a RSA (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, Joseph Woolley writes: <snip> (...) <snip> Ok, so I was wrong about this. I double checked the standard task scheduler, and sure enough, it cycles through the high priority tasks, until all are P_WAITING, then moves (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Final RFC on next legOS release (would have been legOS 0.2.6)
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Concerning the name change, call for ideas and a vote, I would suggest that a NEW thread entitled similar to "Call for legOS name change" be created in lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos. The details when worked out and as outlined in the rlswork doc should (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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"Stephen M Moraco" <stephen_moraco@agilent.com> wrote in message news:GtKIM4.Gws@lugnet.com... (...) <snip> (...) Sounds good. Now, who would like to provide a second opinion? BTW, as far as intended purpose of the task scheduler... I can see how (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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That would be great. Thanks Mark! Obviously, it will be prudent to make some or all of these optional at compile time... but I believe at least half of them are useful for most users. Anyone have an idea of priority on this addition? Should it be (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, Joseph Woolley writes: <snip> (...) This is exciting... <snip> (...) Good work on this! Since you have the config and simple swap we'll need to prove that both versions are still working and I'd like a 2nd opinion (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Sounds good to me, I'll fix them up and put them in as patches. As far as keeping things small they will be able to be excluded at compile time, much like everything else in LegOS. It is probably also a good idea to have all 3rd party sensors (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I created a user space program which does some of this. I call it "inspector" as it mostly inspects the values of sensors. It also shows the current battery reading and how long the RCX has been on. The UI is pretty simple to use. It also (...) (23 years ago, 25-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Final RFC on next legOS release (would have been legOS 0.2.6)
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(...) Since there has to be a name change, perhaps keep the numbering for continuity? Unless you think we should go direct to 0.3.0 :-) Max. (23 years ago, 25-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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And another option would be: 3.5) View/Set RCX ID for lnp. <snip> (...) <snip> - Joe (23 years ago, 25-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Stephen, My SourceForge id is emanlove. And a few comments ... - Although you say the idea of a distribution shape is minor, it might be useful to start off using this so that we can be consistant from the beginning. And it sounds like a good (...) (23 years ago, 25-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Deleting Programs
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Per message: (URL) there be a way to delete programs via the RCX buttons? Or perhaps just a dll -delete option? I have concidered adding a simple menu (using the view button or something in program.c perhaps) Could provide these functions: 1) View (...) (23 years ago, 25-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Another LegOS Feature - Combo Sensor
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With the latest surge of interest in updating LegOS, I’d like to offer an idea that I think would be nice to add. A few months ago, someone posted some sensor code that allowed a light sensor and a rotation sensor to be connected to the same port. (...) (23 years ago, 25-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RFC: smaller task scheduler
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I have been working on some changes to the task scheduler (and therefore execi, kill, killall) and have reduced the size/complexity a bit. I think it is ready for use (although I am going to continue to test it). Here is a bit of info. about it: (...) (23 years ago, 25-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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"Stephen M Moraco" <stephen_moraco@agilent.com> wrote in message news:GtIG2u.7Gy@lugnet.com... (...) I believe the firmdl application could load the .srec, look for a tag and replace the tag with the user selected RCX ID. Then transmit as it always (...) (23 years ago, 25-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Thanks for reading it. (...) I'll need time to play with this. It seems to me this is not the first time this has been mentioned in this news group. Has anybody thought of using the downloader as a means for setting the RCX id? Seems to me it (...) (23 years ago, 25-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Final RFC on next legOS release (would have been legOS 0.2.6)
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We are now actively deciding what the next release of legOS will be. (yes there will be a name change and, likely, the numbering will change but -for now- let's call it legOS 0.2.6) I've put together a more formal description of what we know today. (...) (23 years ago, 25-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Proposals, Bug Fixes, etc and tracking them with SourceForge
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I read over the proposed release changes for 0.2.6, just a few ideas. I recently picked up a second RCX and found it quite difficult to do development using legOS on two RCXs. I might just be missing something, but I had to maintain two seperate (...) (23 years ago, 24-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Proposals, Bug Fixes, etc and tracking them with SourceForge
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This looks good so far Stephen. I agree with the time-to-release remarks (although I love to dive in to new code 8-) Also, I like the idea of not updating to a new compiler (as I just got this machine setup and the compiler working well). I am (...) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Name suggestion
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I think I suggested this before, but how about Leg-OS. This isn't easily confusable with Lego, and allows us to keep saying "leg os". mark (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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And don't forget: We need a new NAME!!! There is no reference to legOS on the LEGO MINDSTORMS homepage. I understand their reason for this but it would be good for brickOS (formerly known as legOS) to get more popular. Mike (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Proposals, Bug Fixes, etc and tracking them with SourceForge
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(...) Here's my first cut at more detail. Thanks to a couple of you for providing some hint of your desired direction and for making my day by your showing of interest. I've more to add but you can get a feel for what I've been thinking to date. (...) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I guess I should check the documentation on sourceforge as well, but I would like to know: What are the design goals for legOS at this point. By this, I mean, with the current set of people involved, what are the goals that everyone wants to work (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Actually, gcc 3.0.3-1 is available for the Hitachi. I'm running gcc with the new 2.12 binutils on my SuSE Linux machine without a flaw. Gcc only complains about some depricated styles at kernel compilation and has some problems with the c++ (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'm interested in helping out with legOS as well. So here's a brief write up of my applicable qualifications. ~7 years of C/C++ programming ~3 years of embeded C programming ~5 years of distributed programming (CORBA, RPC, RMI, homegrown stuff) (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Well, I am definitely interested in participating! I am actively seeking developer status on sourceforge for the legOS project. I had concidered volunteering to coordinate the release, but had doubts/concerns about the time I would be able to put (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Stephen, I am interested in helping out with the legOS project. I can contribute to the development on Windows OS and general project development and assitance. For some background on my experiences I have - BS and MS in Electrical Enginnering with (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Mark, I am sadly guessing that Luis is mourning the loss of Duke to Indiana last night and thus has not responded. I hate to see a supportive and excited fan see their team loose. Ed (...) [snip] (...) [snip] (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Mark, (...) I'm the Debian GNU/Linux Maintainer for legOS and am a current member of the sourceforge legOS project. I've been talking with Luis (albeit, given his response times it feels rather one sided [to be fair he said this would happen...] ;-) (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Well, I certainly have been thinking about this myself. I am planning on getting an account on sourceforge and volunteering for development... however, I would not be able to take a leading role in administration. I sure hope someone can take up (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I think the main problem with legOS right now is lack of consistent maintenance. As Luis Villa noted back in February, he can no longer devote enough time to legOS to support the upkeep. He also made a call for new volunteers, and listed what's (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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ROSCO, Well, I was wrong about the inline function. I sure am learning a lot these days 8-) I tried it both ways (inline func and macro)... turns out the macro produces less code by about 50 bytes. (that will be the last time I post without trying (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Since getting interested in legOS a couple months ago, I have been checking out the various parts of this software project. I see the central sites as being Markus Noga, creater of legOS, web site (URL) www.lugnet.com and the newsgroup (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Request for comments: I moved the visualization code for the man_stand / man_run out of the task_scheduler and put it in the tm_idle_task. Performance is enhanced at the expense of the display not updating when the processor load is at or near 100%. (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I know it is fairly trivial, but it is a start. I am working on some other things... hopefully to be included either in patch form or in 0.2.6 (if/when it comes about). I like the idea of the inline function best, but will leave that up for debate. (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I've thought about this before but never did anything 8?( I think I'd prefer a macro, thus removing the need for #ifdef. Although you wouldn't want the #ifdef anyway, as you need to call it in the kernel, and #ifdefing it out would be rather (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I have noticed several places in the kernel where nb_tasks is used to see if a program is running. Currently, nb_tasks > 3 means that a program is running and <= 3 means that just the kernel processes are running. I would like to propose that the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Here are some prehaps useful links (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Definitely post it! Better than that, how about sending me the code and I'll add it to our robots section as a unique demonstration. (...) Shouldn't be a problem. Most of the source code in the official Sun package is easy to port to leJOS. (...) (23 years ago, 19-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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(...) I just 'ported' (euphemism for minor modifications) some code lingering on the web for fun and voila: MD5 on RCX is up and running (lejos). If anyone's interested, I can post the code. It allows for authentication (PC sends random challenge, (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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(...) This applies to the red 2x2 micromotor, not to the mini or power motor found in the RIS. I vaguely remember (try searching in LUGNET news) that the way to save a power motor, if at all possible, is to apply power in the right way, and not to (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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According to a book by Ferrari brothers ("Building Robots With Lego Mindstorms") here's what you can try: --- How to release a Jammed Micromotor A micromotor jams so easily, you should know what to do when it occurs. The following list should help: (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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just give Lego a call at 1-800-363-2140 they'll have the new stuff in the mail the next day. you don't need to send in the broken parts either ...although for the sake of all Lego enthusiasts please don't take advantage of that. good luck "Jeremy (...) (23 years ago, 17-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Thanks for the follow-ups. Well, he's still a "friend" - after all he did give me the stuff for free and with no guarantees that it would work. I guess it'll just be a chance to crack open one of these babies! I think the stuff is pretty old, and (...) (23 years ago, 17-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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You may also be able to return them to Lego for free and get replacements, it depends on how old they are. I would try before you have to buy a new motor, they aren't the cheapest. Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benton Jackson" (...) (23 years ago, 17-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Jeremy, The motors that come with Mindstorms are geared internally, and it's probably jammed gears that are causing you woes. Your "friend" gave you some broken motors. I've never taken one apart-- it snaps together in a way that looks easy to break (...) (23 years ago, 17-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I recently inherited an RCX 1.0, a serial IR tower and a few motors from a gracious friend. After many headaches, I finally got legOS 0.2.5 running on RH 7.1 and am able to compile and DL programs to the RCX. There is one odd thing, however - of the (...) (23 years ago, 17-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) this must be char test4 = 'a'; I think. Otherwise, you won't sent an 'a' anyway. But I can't imaginge why you want to do this. Michael Ash has shown a way to fiddle the strings into a contigous data area ready to be sent. But why do you want (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) That's wrong. You should write "char test4 = 'a';", otherwise you are implicitly casting the character 'a' to a pointer to store it in test4 (the compiler should warn you about this; use -Wall to catch these errors). (...) Then this line (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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This is really more of a general C question than an lnpd question. Anyway, the problem is with serialization; you want to take a structure in memory, and turn it into a stream of bytes, either to store in a file, send over a network, or whatever. (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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hi all. im using legOS 0.2.4 and using lnpd to communicate with my linux box. now then, here is my problem. lets imagine i have the following: foo{ int test; char *test2; void *test3; }; char *test4 = 'a'; char *test5 = 'b'; struct foo bar* = NULL; (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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