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(...) They're both 8-bit microcontrollers with a roughly similar set of peripheral functions (timer, ACD, serial port, etc). But the similarity ends there. The programming model for the H8 is compltely different from the 68xx series. (...) I don't (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Handy Board software
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Over the past few months, I've been reading with great interest many of the exciting things people here have written about the Handy Board... (10 URLs) I'm really starting to think that one of these would be a great addition to my LEGO collection. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: egcs download problem
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I got it from luis' site, but the version there doesn't support c++, and legos needs c++, doesn't it? John Bauman wrote in message ... (...) compiler (...) (25 years ago, 8-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | egcs download problem
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Has anyone else had this problem?I went to download the linux egcs compiler from the legOS site.I downloaded right, but it only downloaded ~2 megs, while the page said it was supposed to download ~3megs. Later, when i tried to bunzip(with bunzip2, (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP - lets get coding.
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(...) Regarding where to go from here, if you step up to do the coding, I believe where to go is up to you. I don't know if that is how it usually works, but I certainly wouldn't want to be coding up something I am not happy with, so I would expect (...) (25 years ago, 1-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP - lets get coding.
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(...) I have just grabbed a copy - will have a look! Where do you suggest we go from here? I'm up for creating an initial API and getting some code cut (Within my limits - I know little/nothing about Linux & MacOS, and as yes LegOS). However, I'm (...) (25 years ago, 1-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP - lets get coding.
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(...) No, you didn't - I just didn't wanted to make sure I wasn't :) (...) This has already been done, for Librcx at least; don't know if anybody took a look at the code I put at: (URL) mentioned wanting to maybe take a look at that; porting to (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LNP - lets get coding.
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(...) Hi, Didn't mean to come across as arguing - sorry if I did! As you say, lets get coding LNP (My assumption is that the coding bit hasn't started yet, if it has, please accept my apologies & let me know how it is going!). I guess the things (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | emulegOS: quick bug fixes
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I received this message by Mark Falco: (...) The site is now updated and emulegOS_unix.zip contains the new patched versions of ir-rover.cpp and irclient.tcl. The URL is: (URL) Mark Mario (URL) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: LNP Repost
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(...) I think Kekoa means that we should calculate the CRC16 and use only the high byte in the message, to save space. If we then tag the low byte on later, the old code expecting only the high byte won't break.... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Repost
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(...) I'm not sure you can construct a sensible CRC16 that has a CRC8 as one byte. Cheers, Ben. -- (URL) grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Repost (Me banging on about checksums)
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(...) You will miss about 1 in 256 errors that you do not catch earlier using collision detection. I think your error rate per message will be much less than 1 in 256 if you (can?) get the collision detection code right. But we shouldn't argue the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Repost (Me banging on about checksums)
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(...) With much respect, I would suggest that CRC8 is probably not sufficient, especially if we go for a broadcast (Ethernet) solution, where lots of collisions, and hence errors, will probably occur - with CRC8 you will probably miss about 1 in 256 (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Repost
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(...) My only thoughts are that not everybody will need or want the generality of port support in the protocol. I would suggest reordering the first four bytes, moving the payload length up toward the front, and defining it to explicitly include the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS and Markus in Forbes
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(...) Me, too ;-) Markus. (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Repost
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(...) As am I - it looks interesting, but looks like it may have died. Hopefully not! (...) election process. I had wondered about this. My big suggestion is for us to come up with a software API for both the RCX end and PC (or whatever) end. This (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Repost (Checksum algorithm)
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This has little (Err... nothing in fact) to do with Lego, but worth noting as it is handy when you need a good SW checksum! (...) Indeed, as you say the standard I mentioned does use mod 255 (See Annex C ISO/IEC 8473-1 : 1994 [(URL) As far as I can (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | New pbFORTH 106 release
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This is a bulk mailing of notice of the new pbFORTH 106 release. If you don't want to be on this list, please email me so I can take you off. The latest and greatest pbFORTH is now available. Enhancements include: 1. Fixed issues with timers (thanks (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS and Markus in Forbes
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This was my reaction too. In fact, I was gleefully skipping around with a printout! Congrats and thanks to those involved. -Suz. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Repost
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I am coming into the middle of this (or at the end considering the posting dates), and am hoping I don't sound like a fool putting out these ideas (since I don't yet know how legOS works). Is the RCX# used as a sort of ethernet MAC address? If you (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS and Markus in Forbes
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Yahoo! Maybe we adult lego enthusiasts can finally come out of the closet & say, "were here, we like lego's, GET USED TO IT!!!" : ) Michael Aaron (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: legOS and Markus in Forbes
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(...) That's kind of only a tiny mention. I meant that it didn't really talk about it in-depth. That's what's so cool about the new article, IMHO -- it's a first step toward a larger awareness. --Todd (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: legOS and Markus in Forbes
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It does talk about the " using an open architecture system. " "MindStorms robot developers were creating code in a variety of languages like Visual Basic and C on their PCs and uploading the code to the RCX units. " John A. Donaldson (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: legOS and Markus in Forbes
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(...) (I guess I should have posted, instead of going to lunch! ;-) But there *IS* a URL...they just didn't put http:// in front of it, so your browser may have missed it. They mentioned Markus' site ((URL) in that same paragraph. (They mention (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: legOS and Markus in Forbes
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(...) This is BIG NEWS and GREAT exposure for Markus and friends!!! -- a major business magazine recognizing the pursuits and achievements of adult LEGO fanatics on the net to extend the RCX technology toward greater heights! In May, Forbes also had (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: LNP Repost
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(...) I remember that! But aren't you supposed to do it mod 255 for maximum effectiveness? Cheers, Ben. -- (URL) grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Repost
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Hi, I'm kinda new to LUGNET, so if I get this wrong - sorry! I'm interested in this LNP idea that seemed to be floating around a few months ago. Is it still alive, and if so what state has it got to? I would be grateful if someone can post or e-mail (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | legOS and Markus in Forbes
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Check it out here- brief, and unfortunately no URLs, but... (URL) (who is only slightly hurt that his documentation wasn't mentioned :) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | better test value for touch sensors
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FYI: The simple-rover example uses an unsafe test value for touch sensors. Touch sensor should be tested against <0xf000, NOT <0x2000 (e.g. simple-rover.c) Reason: Not pressed has a constant value >0xf000. Pressed varies depending on battery change, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | The IR FIX -- was: Re: Is IR considered broken?
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(...) I had the same problem. (...) Here's the fix: enclode the old handler code in #ifdef TRASH, use the new #else part. I'll say a few things about the motivation below. (If you prefer to patch, download (URL) it's based on LegOS 0.1.7 but should (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Rotation sensors?
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Thanks Mark, those changes got rotation-sensor.c working for me. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: emulegOS: a new release
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Just a note about a small bug. The supplied sample program ir-rover.cpp doesn't work on the real RCX. I think this may be due to IR complications under legOs. I'm working on a version which will work on both the emulator and the real system and will (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | emulegOS: a new release
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Mark Falco improved his Tcl/Tk version of emulegOS with tons of cool features. This version is now considered the "official" version of emulegOS, and we hope to release a Tcl based Windows version soon. The new features include: - IR support: (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Rotation sensors?
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(...) [snip...] If you want to have more info about the sotry of this problem search this newsgruop for "rotation sensor bug found". Mario (URL) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Rotation sensors?
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Yep, others have reported having these problems. Here's a fix I came up with, but has also only been tested on my system. There have been reports that the existing code works for some, and not for others, so you may need to customize this. just (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Rotation sensors?
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Hello, Rotation sensors appear to be broken in the 990330 snapshot. Here's part of the code I'm using: ds_active(&SENSOR_3); ds_rotation_on(&SENSOR_3); ds_rotation_set(&SENSOR_3, 0); while (!PRESSED(button_state(), BUTTON_VIEW)) { (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Barcode Reader on LegOS page
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Here is alex's webpage taken from the Legos page: (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Barcode Reader on LegOS page
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What is Alex's page? (25 years ago, 19-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: is IR considered broken?
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(...) For all who are interested, I copied the source to: (URL) porting hints, e-mail me directly. -Kekoa (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: is IR considered broken?
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Yes I would be interested in seeing the libRcx implementation of the IR functions. thanks, Mark (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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