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(...) Thanks. Too bad it doesn't work, but at least now I know it's not me :) Please let me know if I can be of any help. BB (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I know that this won't help, but I tried your program (and the lnptest.c program from the lnp distribution) and got the same errors. No message came through, only frame errors. Will have a closer look at this. Regards, Michael (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) You are right, that would have probably given me a segfaut if the handler would have ever been called, but it isn't. Even a single, static printf in the handler doesn't work. What worries me are the error messages lnpd reports: (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) What about ptr = (char *)&temp; Regards Michael (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, I'm just getting started using LNP, read the howto and tried to play around with the examples therein. However, somthing goes wrong. I have a little programm on the RCX increasing a counter every second, displaying it's value on the lCD and (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, I would like to get your patches to make the tower and lnpd to w ork. I already have the tower working but I would like to see if did an ything different. So can you please send me your patches? (X) the patch to legotower.c to get the (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(i had a few problems to post, so this msg is a little too late...) Hi, i am new to brickOS, (since christmas) and i have one of those fancy RCX2.0 bricks with an USB IR-Tower. I am using debian and have little experiences with usb and (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, I got the USB IR-tower to work under linux using the same patch Florian used. I also sent an updated patch that applies to 0.2.6.09 to the original author of the patch. However I have to caution that the said patch only works with UHCI hubs that (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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...Problem Solved #include <lnp/lnp-logical.h> lnp_logical_range(1); I set the IR transmission range to far and everything works fine. It seems the issue was that the RCX's are not facing eachother and depend on bouncing mesages off a wall. I'm (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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While attempting to build brickOS under DJGPP I noticed a few discrepancies across the makefiles using the variable makedepend. Under the directories boot, demo, demo/c++ for the .depend rule it uses the variable $(MAKEDEPEND) while the makefiles in (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello Everyone, I have been working on a dual RCX robot for quite some time now, and have just recently upgraded to BrickOS. At first I attempted to used the LNP communication functions, such as lnp_adressing_write. I am not an expert, and I got (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Good! (...) I posted via the web-interface, I guess one needs a javascript browser for that. I like the navigation of the webinterface within threads. (...) Ah, very good! Does it also support the high-speed mode ? (...) Sounds like a good (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I just got the USB tower to work. At least, for downloading the BrickOS.srec kernel. I think I have to hack some more today to find a way to let 'dll' work with the /dev/tower0 device. I used the devicedriver at (URL) (22 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) For most brick projects I can think of, it is. If you want to travel your robot around, you will have to deal with sin, cos, tan and square root. First thing you can do is working with tables to avoid "on the fly" sin calculation. Second, you (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I'm doing a seminar at BricksWest on fixed point notation and simple algorithms for square root, trig, etc for BrickOS and pbForth users. The focus will be on the mechanics of the algorithms, the actual code implementation will be a "exercise (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Mabie Fixed Point is an answer. I dont know how it works but I have a book that suggests that a decent Fixed Point library can be faster than Floating Point if there isnt an FPU available. (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) You should look in the gnu gcc compiler documentation for this. Float support is not OS but compiler specific. As I recall, gcc uses IEEE float format, the specification should be found somewhere in the net. But doing float with the brick is (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) int is 16 bits, big endian, signed. It goes from -32768 to 32767. unsigned int goes from 0 to 65535. char is 8, long is 32, long long is 64, with the standard limits. Floats and doubles are emulated in software, as the H8/300 processor has no (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Does anyone know what the maximum and minimum size of integer which can be stored is? Likewise, what is the floating point accuracy of BrickOS for variables of type "float" and "double" (is there such thing in BrickOS?) ? Both of these questions (...) (22 years ago, 29-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I have seen some past messages in this forum regarding the support for the USB IR tower in the Linux version of BrickOS. However, it seems that nothing have been added recently to the CVS tree at SourceForge. Is somebody working on this project (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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