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(...) Try Bricklink: (URL) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Problem with lego pneumatic parts
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Hi, I am looking for some lego pneumatic parts, such as the pistons, cylinder and the T-connectors for connecting the tubes. First of all, pistco does not sell the T-connectors separate from the kit (~$100). Neither do they sell the pistons, or the (...) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | WinLNP is gone
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Hi all, I'm working on stuff in BrickOS, and it'd be really helpful to be able to use LNP to communicate with my brick and get data from it. Unfortunately it seems the WinLNP site is gone. Does anybody have suggestions where I could get WinLNP, or (...) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: USB tower/Linux/Firmdl not working nicely together
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(...) I have a working USB-tower in linux 2.4.21 using the cvs legousbdriver and nqc2.5r3. I use nqc for brickos installation 2.5.09 and dll included for lx uploads. I think I patched the brickos source with a usb patch from either (...) (21 years ago, 9-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: NEW LEGO USB Driver
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(...) Someone who's name I forget (you know who you are!) said definitely that hyperthreading cannot be simply disabled in BIOS - that Windows has to be reinstalled with a non-hyperthreading kernel. And to answer your musings in the first (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | RE: NEW LEGO USB Driver
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As Mike pointed out, it is a hyper-threading problem. The reason for winXP not working, but W2K works, may very well be that W2K does not support hyperthreading feature, but WinXP does. I wonder if Mike or anyone does indeed disable the (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: LegOS USB Support (for RCX 2.0)
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Could you please send me all your files? (21 years ago, 8-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: USB tower/Linux/Firmdl not working nicely together
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(...) Sounds promising. I can do some testing for you is you want. Is the code where you are working on available via CVS, perhaps I can do some coding too. Cheers Bart (21 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: USB tower/Linux/Firmdl not working nicely together
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Definitely interested in helping you test when it's working. Regards, Mark. (...) ---...--- The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. -- Christopher Morley Mark Syms <mark@marksyms.demon.co.uk> (21 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: USB tower/Linux/Firmdl not working nicely together
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Bart, (...) The problem is that USB tower on linux is not supported by firmdl3/dll at the moment. I'm working on that capability now. If I can, my intent is to have it work for 2.4 (user added driver) and 2.6 (built-in driver) kernels. The USB tower (...) (21 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Where is prototype definition of packet_producer( ) ?
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Thanks to those who have responded to my queries. Your info has been very helpful. Now I am trying to modify # of arguments to packet_producer() in program.c, but I am unable to find prototype definition in any .h files. Can someone tell me where it (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Respondre el missatge: Use of lnp_addressing_write() in an RCX program.
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You must send the packet to port 0 of the destination. The dest address is conformed by the address in the upper 4 bits and the port in the lower 4 of the char. So if you put address = 6 you are saying -> host=0 port=6 and you must send to host=6, (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Spurious bad readings from sensors
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(...) Could it be noise getting into the analog power supply? If you're switching between brake and full power with the motor ports, it seems possible that some spikes could get through to the A/D converter. You might be able to test this by (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Spurious bad readings from sensors
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Hi Mark, Thanks for the help. In Steve's legway code he reads from LIGHT_1 and LIGHT_3 (even if there is no sensor hooked to LIGHT_3). When I was running his code with instrumentation for both sensors, I had nothing hooked to SENSOR_3, and I still (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | USB tower/Linux/Firmdl not working nicely together
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Hi, Delighted I was to see that the USB lego tower driver was accepted into the Linux kernel tree, so I downloaded linux 2.6.2 and installed the lego driver with it. It checks in perfectly, no problem with the driver. But, when I try to upload (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Spurious bad readings from sensors
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(...) Because of the way BrickOS uses interrupts to handle active sensors, it's possible for sensors to be deprived of power for 300us or more, though typically the interval is only 30us or so. This is due to long interrupt latencies in BrickOS that (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Spurious bad readings from sensors
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Hi, I instrumented Steve Hassenplug's legway code so that after it falls over it can dump sensor data and motor control valiables out to a PC. One of the things I noticed in this process is that aperiodically, the sensor inputs give a sensor reading (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | cannot install brickOS
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Hi, When I'm trying to install the Hitachi H8 cross compiler (on win2000), I have some errors during the installation like : sys/types.h: No such file or directory But at the end it says : GCC install end Done. :---...--- End Wed Feb 25 14:05:50 (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Use of lnp_addressing_write() in an RCX program.
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Hello all. I wrote a small program using lnp_addressing_write() to remotely change the host address of one RCX from another. It doesn't work. I get an occasional flash of IR icon on receiving unit - that's it. Please take a look: int main(int argc, (...) (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | How to send button cmd or run pgm remotely from one RCX to another ?
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I am trying to use lnp_addressing_write() or lnp_assured_write() to send commands (e.g. CMDdelete, CMDsethost) from one RCX to another. This seems to be the way it is handled in loader.c of the DLL utility. I am not having any success. Is there an (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How to get RCX to display/change its LNP host address ?
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In program.c, you will find: cputw(lnp_hostaddr); This is used by the program manager to display the current host address (use the View button on the RCX)... while displaying the host address, if you hit the Program button on the RCX, it will (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | How to get RCX to display/change its LNP host address ?
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1) I am trying to write a small program which will change the host address of the RCX to something else. I am making a call to lnp_set_hostaddr(). But I would like to verify the change, so: 2) I am also trying to get the RCX to display its current (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Solved my problem with lnpd
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Hi, I've solved my problem that RCX didn't receive correctly from tower. I've posted the patch at the brickos project site at sourceforge. (URL) it doesn't work try: (URL) and click on the link " View and post Patches at brickOS project site" (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Release candidate brickos-0.2.6.10.6 AvaIl. for testing
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Thanks go to Michael Obenland for pointing out a problem with compiling under the new gcc versions. This caused me to recognize that I failed to include 5 of the latest file versions in 10.5. If you've started to work with 0.2.10.5, please download (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Sending messages using LNP
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Does anyone know where I can find some sample code or demos explaining how to send simple messages back and forth between RCXs using LNP ? (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Release candidate brickos-0.2.6.10.5 available for testing
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The brickOS team is pleased to announce our next test release. (Can you believe we are days shy of a year since our last?) We will likely do one more before our formal brickos-1.0.0 release. Our plan is to release 0.2.6.11 followed by a testing (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS: No rule to make target
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(...) Try to substitute the line PROGRAMS=helloworld.lx rover.lx linetrack.lx robots.lx c++.lx sound.lx by this one PROGRAMS= and then "make helloworld.lx" I had also to modify the line in Makefile.common (included by the demo Makefile) which sets (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | BrickOS: No rule to make target
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Hi, I'm trying to build the BrickOS demo programs on windows98. I have gcc v3.2 and make v3.8 installed from cygwin. make clean and make realclean work but when I try to just do a make, the .depend files get built in both the demo directory and in (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | YAL, Yet Another LegWay
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YAL: Yet Another LegWay ===...=== (2 URLs) Allen Foster> and (URL) Harold Jarvie> posts showed me that it was possible to build a LEGO-only self-balancing robot, inspired by the famous (URL) Steve Hassenplug's LegWay>. Here are some details of my (...) (21 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Cannot receive with LNP.
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(...) Ok cool !! Can you make a report after make this work ? nanobapt (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How does?
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(...) lnp_integrity_byte is called from the function rx_handler in lnp-logical.c Bye! Gerard. (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | How does?
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Hi, How does the lnp_integrity_byte function ever get invoked? I see it defined in kernel/lnp.c, and I see it referenced in boot/brickOS.lvs. Is there some magic to the number 0x9419 (0x8000+0x1414)? Is the ROM receiving a byte and then calling this (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Cannot receive with LNP.
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(...) Hi, For the moment I've achieved that the PC can receive from the rcx. I've done it commenting some error check from lnpd and it seems to work properly both the addressing and the integrity layer. Now I'm trying to do the other way (from pc to (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Cannot receive with LNP.
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(...) I never seen the adressing message work .... Try to search if you have the good adress setup in the lnp_adressing_write function. nanobapt (21 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.7
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(...) Upon further review, it would appear that (at least on my machine and one other that I have heard about) the new release of BricxCC (3.3.7.7) does, in fact, correctly download the brickOS firmware. My previous tests were using an old copy of (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Cannot receive with LNP.
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Hi list! my name is Gerard and I'm working with BrickOS over the lego mindstorms. My problem with LNP is that it seems not to be receiving anything. After having installed the handlers on both sides (pc and rcx) no one seems to receive anything. On (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Further Adventures with Assembler
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(...) Got it. I just converted my whole program from C++ to C, and then it stopped whining. (21 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Further Adventures with Assembler
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(...) Yeah... that was me being stupid. The types are all correct in the program. I tried compiling without the .b and .w's, just to be sure and it's the same error. The arrays that cause the problem are of type const char. There's three that have (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Further Adventures with Assembler
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(...) The line above should produce an error because you are specifying a byte move into a word register. The fact that it doesn't always cause an error makes me think there's something flakey (in the assembler) in the way instruction operand sizes (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Further Adventures with Assembler
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Just wanted to thank everyone again for the help on assembler. I've been very successful and managed to greatly increase the speed of a critical portion of my program. However, I'm still having a very bizarre issue: In the middle of an assember (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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