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(...) I'm running legOS from Linux, so I don't know Ultraedit. But if its suitable for your needs and free it seems to be a good choice. Regards, Michael (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I didn't want to have to write my programs for LegOS and then type a ton of commands only to find that I made a mistake. So I downloaded UltraEdit-32 9. It allows unix type file to be saved (This will replace the carriage return and line feed (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello David, (...) What would it help? (...) Have you ever tried legOS? First, if you are running legOS from Linux, you don't need cygwin and that kind of things. They are only needed to resemble a UNIX enviroment under DOS. And the UNIX system is (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) That is why we search for a new name. The LEGO group said that they don't like legOS and all possible deviations. If you look on the official mindstorms webpage, legOS is not mentioned. On the other hand, they where so kind only to ask for a (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: **** legOS new name poll starts now ****
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(...) I'm wondering, has anyone asked LEGO for permission to continue calling it 'legOS' (emphasizing the unique capitalization)? What was the response? -- David Schilling (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) It really WOULD be nice if someone created a simplified way of getting up and running for legOS, even if it didn't actually contain a GUI interface for programming (though I by no means would discourage someone from providing THAT as well!) or (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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There isn't a GUI for LegOS. I have my Visual Studio set up to do all the stuff I need to do when writing programs with LegOS. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "scott davis" <rcxman2@msn.com> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 18:02:42 GMT To: (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Is there a GUI for legOS like Bricx CC for NQC? If there is, is it easier to use and do you lose features useing it? Thanx scott (22 years ago, 15-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Well, actually not :) If users don't want proportional timeslicing the patch is completly useless, but if they do, it might be usefull. /Joel (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Do you have some examples where your patch could be useful? Eric (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Joe I'm happy you found my patch quite interesting! I, just as you, think the kernel could be simplified quite alot. Actually my goal was initially to reduce size and overhead but I when I decided to add proportional timeslicing the goal changed. (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Joel, I have found your work to be quite interesting! I made quite a few modifications in the kernel starting with ver 0.2.5 and had hoped to have some of the modifications included in ver 0.2.7 My goal was to reduce size and overhead which is quite (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello! I've been doing some changes to the legOS scheduler. Now execution-time of user tasks are proportional to priorities. See (URL) are made to legOS 0.2.6 and I didn't manage to get a working diff file, so just download the following files and (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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"Ed Manlove" <emanlove@ieee.org> wrote: <snip> (...) When you install from the net, setup.exe actually still d/loads and saves files locally, in a subdirectory with a long funny name (containing the name of the host you d/load from) in your "package (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Lack of time. But everybody is welcome to work on it. (...) No problem, the bricks are identical for all practical purposes (actually that's what I do all the time). Jürgen (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi all, Does anybody know why legoUSB effort is inactive since 09 January of 2002.I have a RCX2.0 brick and I would like to try with the legos. I'm not interested in any MS Windows host development platform solution while I find linux alternatives (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: seting up legos 0.2.6
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Scott, I only downloaded the ones listed and got it running for the most part. I did come across a few errors which seemed to be easily solved by downloading one or two packages other packages. But I am not sure if it was just user error as compared (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Full setup of cygwin = very large You certainly need not get the XFree86 and texmf packages unless you are interested. Max. (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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when installing cygwin is it best to download all the components or just the ones listed. scott (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) (URL) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hey, Does anyone know where to find a schematic of the RCX, or at least know what output ports map to the sensors and motors? Thanks -Brent Talley (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Funny, I just posted an article here about something similar. I started using LegOS a few days ago, and had the following problem a few times: after a power off period (of several hours) the power on did not produce any visible effect, and the (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, (I'm new to Mindstorms and new to LegOS so excuse me if this is a stupid/obvious question.) I'm using LegOS 0.2.6 on w2k. I built a simple rover robot, and a program to control it (2 touch sensors, a ligth sensor, 2 motors) in C, and upload it (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: problem using emulegos
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First off what OS are your running on? I do all emuLegOS development under Linux (Mandrake 8.1, not that it should matter), so if you are on any other platform you may run into issues. Of course emuLegOS should work on just about any Unix as long as (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | **** legOS new name poll starts now ****
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Let us start the "new legOS name project". The procedure is the following: 1) send your name proposals (10.06. - 22.06.) Please mail me your name ideas. Do this with a personal e-mail to: legOS-namepoll@gmx.de The subject line should read (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Recently, I went to use a couple RCXs that were loaded with LegOS. These two had both been used previously (about 1 to 2 weeks ago) but should have both had plenty of battery life remaining. I found that they both had drained the batteries (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Well, I've just volunteered to give a presentation on LegOS at Brickfest 2002. I don't think I'm the most qualified person to present LegOS, but I am willing. And that seems to be the only real requirement! First, I'm a programmer (VB), and I've (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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hi all, im having problem using emulegos 1.2.5.0 with legOS 0.2.4 i have used legOS 0.2.4 for over 1 year now withouth any problems (including lnp), but for some reason when i type make in ~/hovedfag/emulegos/...ples/rover i get: makefile:8: (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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And, you'll probably hate my reply... "Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should." The very idea of a discontinuous array of bits representing a network address in something as rudimentary as LNP makes my hair stand on end. The idea (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello all I am looking for C code for legos, to do the same as the below in NQC psksvp SetSerialComm(SERIAL...MM_76KHZ); SetSerialPacket(SERI..._DEFAULT); // Set the first unit two message bytes and send them SetSerialData(0,MANA...0x10+em1); (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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// Thread Class for Legos // By Pongsak Suvanpong // psksvp@ccs.neu.edu // use it anyway you'd like as long as this comment is here #ifndef __THREAD_CLASS___ #define __THREAD_CLASS___ #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/dsensor.h> #include (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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you'll probably hate me for being a nitpicker.... (...) technically, you should not do any bitshifting at all. There is always the odd case when someone decides to be clever and have a hostmask with interleaved zeros. for example, a hostmask of (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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You are correct in stating that I shouldn't have restricted you to 16 nodes X 16 ports. I did however, want to normalize the host address in the visible API and user interfaces to be a small 0..N number instead of a random hex byte value, properly (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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include/lnp/lnp.h (from the cvs repository) 114: file://! set new LNP host address 115: extern inline void lnp_set_hostaddr(unsigned char host) 116: { 117: lnp_hostaddr = ((host << 4) & CONF_LNP_HOSTMASK); 118: } Why is host bitshifted by 4? This (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: help with setting up legOS 0.2.6 on Windows XP
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Scott, I suggest you start by following the instructions by Paolo Masetti found at (URL) He has written a pretty thorough set of instructions that should get you started. I do suggest that you read it over once BEFORE starting so you don't miss (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | help with setting up legOS 0.2.6 on Windows XP
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I'm new to legOS and would like help setting up legOS on my computer thanks scott (22 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Ed, Thanks, I was familiar with that thread. Unfortunately not much useful info came out of it. I was hoping for a report from someone who was ultimately successful in building legOS and its tools, as well as building the cross-compilers on a USB OS (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I went over to the colibri.org website, and while they mention that "colibri currently supports one hardware platform - the Lego RCX brick", they also say that putting it in an RCX is "not useful", and actually tell people to use legOS (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Brian, Someone recently asked the same question. Check out (URL) am not sure the results of their efforts so good luck! Ed (...) (22 years ago, 1-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, Has anyone had any success with building the legOS system under Mac OS 10.1.4? I downloaded version 0.2.6, put it in my user application folder, and then just typed make. Here is the result. [tw3rakitin:~/bin] rakitin% cd legos-0.2.6 (...) (22 years ago, 1-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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