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(...) Well, the compilation process would give up everytime, despite just trying to install just the suggested packages. (Also, given the unintuitive Cygwin install program, I decided it was easier to say everything - I have access to a nice fat (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Thats broken at the moment, but the workaround is to simply not rebuild the dependencies. i.e., just do "make clean all", and don't do "make depend". Max. (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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hi everyone, I have been trying to get everything configured for brickos, and keep getting stuck at make depend command, as shown below: makedepend: not found make[2]: *** [.depend] Error 127 make[2]: Leaving directory (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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[Ian: I realized I'd forgotten a sentence just after pressing send. So this is not quite a duplicate of my previous message.] (...) It may be worthwhile trying the latest brickos testing release, 0.2.6.09, IIRC. (...) Everything under Cygwin is a (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | I cannot send more than 6 bytes with lnpd
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I'm trying to send some data from the RCX to my computer, using lnpd, but I have the following problem: it seems that I cannot send more than 6/7 bytes, because after this limit I have a lot of errors from lpnd (see the log below). The tower and the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi everyone, I've been struggling to get legos 0.2.6 working for a few days now, and I'm beginning to make a little progress. Using the insturctions at this site: (URL) finally got the thing installed under XP (Dosn't seem to want to go under win98 (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Sensor Sampling; Progress?
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The Lego firmware cuts power for about 200uS, with a period of 3mS. So most sensors have to have enough capacitor based power storage for the full 200uS and be able to run on about 93% duty cycle. (The rotation sensor is one of the devices on the (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Sensor Sampling; Progress?
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(...) Yes. (...) individually (...) That's right. (...) I agree. With the current firmware, power gets cut off to all 3 sensors for ~85us (sometimes longer). With the scheme I mentioned, power would be cut to only one sensor for ~25us. The sample (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Sensor Sampling; Progress?
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(...) What OS are you using? How far have you got? Max. (22 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Sensor Sampling; Progress?
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I have been following this thread with great interest for two reasons. One day, someone will be persuaded to provide me with direct help and assistance in getting BrickOS running on my laptop - perhaps at BW or BF. I have built quite a few prototype (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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