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(...) Nope, shorting the motors has no effect on the batteries actually.. when you spin the motor, it acts like a generator... by shorting out the motor you are actually using the motors own reverse emf (electromotive force) to brake system. I (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) To ansswer my own question. The problem was caused by memory corruption. In this case the memory corruption was caused by downloading a very large program in slot 1, and a small program in slot 7. The loading of the program in slot 1 seems to (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I checked out the head of the CVS tree last night and was trying out some of the new stuff. I noticed something quite odd and wanted to see if anyone has any ideas. When I run programs, and the motors aren't turned on they make a stange clicking (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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No, sorry if I was confusing. EGCS is now obsolete. See (URL) and (URL) Original Message ----- From: "Samuel Winchenbach" <swinchen@eece.maine.edu> To: <lugnet.robotics.rcx...ugnet.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 3:24 PM Subject: Re: Lingo (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) EGCS was an offshoot of GCC, with the only difference being how the developers worked together (the bazaar vs. the cathedral model). Eventually, EGCS was declared the victor as most developers switched to it and it became the official GCC (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Kenneth, (...) I wrote it so I'm biased... (...) I'll get to the ttasker in a minute, but pbForth is the only alternative firmware with native support for SERVOS if you use the simple circuit I developed here: (URL) The newest version 2.1.3 has an (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) once (...) site for it anywhere. gcc 3.0.4 was ubdated earlier this year... This whole relationship between gcc and EGCS is very confusing, especially when www.freshmeat.net doesnt even have egcs available! (22 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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anyone tried pbforth ? im doing a comparison between the different possibilities here and looking at pbforth i was somewhat intrigued, until i discovered that you cannot multitask(more than 1 thread of execution). anyone here tried pbforth and can (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) A mailing list without any posts isn't much use :-) (...) gcc is the compiler, and it uses the binutils tools. The build script just automates the several commands you would otherwise have to type. (...) Yep. You need a compiler that creates (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I forgot one.... arg #9) What do the patches do that come with the build script? there are two of them.... (...) scripts... (...) cross (...) together, (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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