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(...) The delay was added a long time ago after a bit of discussion on this newsgroup/list. A search through old newsgroup posts will turn up a brief series of three posts with subject "Rom sensor read routine" from Apr/May 1999. The explanation (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Patches on SourceForge? A good/bad way to get changes into brickOS?
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I've just posted (URL) note that there are 4 other patches lingering from as far back as September. Will my patch be looked at because it has been posted there? For info, here is the patch description The last version of binutils that brickOS works (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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This was a terrific analysis. It's not surprizing that current implementation hogs so much CPU time. If all four A/D channels are scanned every 150 us then the A/D interrupt is occuring every 37.5 us since each A/D channel generates its own (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) This would be my favourites. If one builds a fast moving robot, main concern will be how fast the robot reacts to light sensor changes or how small the structures could be that the light sensor will "see". If one builds a thinking robot, for (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Mark, ANOTHER great find! You are pushing BrickOS to new heights! Ok, so what can we do about this? 1) Provide a constant to set the update frequency at compile time. 2) Provide a variable to set the update frequency at run time. 3) Optimize the (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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