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Hi! I'm trying to run LegOS on SuSE 9.0. I built a 2.6.9 kernel with the USB tower module. After I load the module and plug in the USB tower, the little light in the tower goes on, so I know things must be working. However, I still don't know what (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Lego remote control code for PC
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Is there a way to write programs on the PC that are controlled by the Lego remote control? Clearly the RCX can be programmed to react to signals from the remote control but I was wondering whether the same could be done for a PC. Thanks, Ralph (20 years ago, 23-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS on OSX
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(...) Try the proceding links: (URL) (20 years ago, 19-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Can't "make" BrickOS
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(...) Hi, looks to me like you didn't install the "make" package when you installed cygwin. The install doc here (URL) lists the packages you need to install with cygwin to build brickos. Hope this helps ROSCO (20 years ago, 18-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Can't "make" BrickOS
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I've been solving this problem for almost a month. What I do is delete cygwin and download again and again. Why? Here's the problem: $ ./configure; make Welcome to the BrickOS Makefile configurator. Attempting to find the Hitachi gcc compiler.(This (...) (20 years ago, 17-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | rcx to rcx
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Hi, Last weekend thanks to Ross Crawford’s crane2.c code (URL) figured out how to use The Lego Remote With BrickOS. Now I was hoping to find example code of rcx to rcx communication. I want to send the value of a Rotation sensor to a second rcx for (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | BrickOS on OSX
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Hello, I was wondering if anyone has compiled BrickOS to run on OS X with the USB IR Tower. I am able to successfully compile the GCC cross-compiler but I am unable to get the USB Tower to function correctly. Any help would be greatly appreciated. (...) (20 years ago, 14-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: remote
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(...) Hi Chris, The remote control code now resides in remote.h (URL) basically comes down to defining a callback function which gets called when any remote key is pressed or released. I haven't kept up with the development, but there is an early (...) (20 years ago, 8-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | remote
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Hello, I’m just recently getting back into playing with Legos. I bought my first house and had to fix it up before I could play. BrickOS was a lot easier to get into this time around thanks to BricxCC. BrickOS itself is better documented and has new (...) (20 years ago, 8-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | remote
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Hello, I’m just recently getting back into playing with Legos. I bought my first house and had to fix it up before I could play. BrickOS was a lot easier to get into this time around thanks to BricxCC. BrickOS itself is better documented and has new (...) (20 years ago, 8-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Can't make dllx - anyone else had this problem?
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Ok, thanks for that. I've got it compiling now - I didn't realise liblnp had to be compiled before dllx! (20 years ago, 29-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Can't make dllx - anyone else had this problem?
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(...) The linker is looking for the file liblnp.dll (Not 100% sure of the extension might be .a or .so). The -L arguments specifies a place to look for libraries and is probably where liblnp.dll is expected. Check this directory for the file. I have (...) (20 years ago, 29-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Can't make dllx - anyone else had this problem?
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I am trying to make all the LNP stuff at the moment. Having followed the instructions for installing dllx according to the readme on the legos.sourceforge.net website, I have come to the part where I type: make depend make in the dllx directory. (...) (20 years ago, 29-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Help installing brickOS
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(...) Sure. The configure script tries to find the gcc cross compiler toolchain for the brick's hitachi processor. This chain is needed to compile brickOS to a program that can be run by the RCX. But it seems that you did not install the tool chain. (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Help installing brickOS
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(...) I believe that I had the exact same problem a few weeks ago, but I found that using a pre-built package takes a lot of the hassle out of installing BrickOS. The pre-built packages can be found at: (URL) hope this helps, Timothy (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Help installing brickOS
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I'm trying to install brickOS 0.2.6.10.6 on WIN NT. After unning "configure" it's busy for along time, and terminates with the message -"No Hitachi gcc compiler found. Please install compiler and try again." Any suggestions? Thanks, Jordon (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | use of single features of BrickOS
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Hi, I am working for the university of Stuttgart. And like universities are, they always need to do something special. That's why my task is to use Micro C/OS-II with the Bricks. There ist just a problem: Micro C/OS-II does not contain methods to (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | BrickOS Installation on OS X
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Hello, I was wondering if anyone has a step-by-step installation guide for installing BrickOS on Mac OS X 10.3. I recently tried but was not able to get it working properly. I did this by first installing libusb-0.1.8, binutils-2.15 and gcc-3.4.2. (...) (20 years ago, 20-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP: No connection between PC and RCX
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Nobody, who can help me??? I wondered if it could be a problem that I used gcc 3.3 (Suse Linux 9.0) to compile everything, and made the crosscompiler with a gcc2.95 packet, because the egcs packet doesn't work. There were errors during the (...) (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LNP: No connection between PC and RCX
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Hi, I want to send some data between my PC (Suse Linux 9.0) and the RCX-Unit (Brickos 0.2.6). I thought LNP would do the thing, and so I downloaded and installed it. When I start the LNPD daemon the LED on my Serial-IR-Tower lits up for a few (...) (20 years ago, 16-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Odd sensor, perhaps?
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Okay, I've trimmed down the program to try to figure out what is wrong, I have attached the working version. The problem is, if I change the TouchSensor from S3 to S2, the program will build and download fine, but it will not do anything when run. (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: help building gcc cross-compiler (long)
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(...) I think the variable sys_time was replaced with the function get_system_up_time between V2.6.09 and V2.6.10 So, I suspect the patch is for V2.6.09 Just guessing. Steve (20 years ago, 12-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: help building gcc cross-compiler (long)
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(...) Great idea, thanks! Now I'm trying to apply Mark Riley's DCC patch to the brickos-0.2.6.10 source. When I try: patch -d ../kernel <kernel.diff I get: patching file dmotor.c patching file systime.c Hunk #6 FAILED at 332. 1 out of 6 hunks FAILED (...) (20 years ago, 12-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.trains)
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| | Lego.NET: An MSIL front-end for gcc
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We are pleased to announce our first release of the LEGO.NET package, which allows to execute Microsoft IL code (as generated from C# and other languages) on the Lego Mindstorm hardware. This environment has a GCC front-end as its core, which (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: help building gcc cross-compiler (long)
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(...) You must not compile the gcc by your own. Why don't you use a ready-to-run rpm? You can find all you need at: (URL) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | help building gcc cross-compiler (long)
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I'm following Matthias Erhmann's excellent BrickOS Linux Installation HOWTO, and I've hit a snag. When executing the "make" command in step 2.2 to make the gcc cross-compiler, I got the error below. I commented out the first three lines of the (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Respondre el missatge: LNPd problems
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(...) ... (...) ... I uncommented that and recompiled, but nothing different happened. (20 years ago, 10-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Respondre el missatge: LNPd problems
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I also had a problem with lnpd and solved it. In my case was a problem with the configuration of the serial protocol, but the simptomes seemed like yours, thats I could receive from RCX but not send. I solved it modifiing the file rcxtty.c (or (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNPd problems
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Can anybody help? If not I'll have to think of an alternative :s (20 years ago, 6-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiling problmes 2
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(...) I had the same problem when going to newer binutils and gcc. Look at the patch brickos-gcc33.diff at (URL) first part of that patch changes the linker script slightly to avoid this error. (...) I think with the default linker-script the (...) (20 years ago, 7-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiling problmes 2
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(...) Hello Jochen, hello everybody, thank you very much. Both of your hints helped a lot. As it were 271 linker-errors before your help, there are just 40 left now. Maybe someone can help me and tell me where the other references are defined and (...) (20 years ago, 7-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LNPd problems
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I'm having problems with using LNP to transmit to the RCX. I wrote a test program both on the RCX and the PC. Whenever the PC program tries to transmit data, I get the following error: lnp_integrity_write(): Interrupted system call What does this (...) (20 years ago, 2-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiling problmes 2
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Hi Rudolf, (...) No. Some _are_ defined in .h-files. And the register sets come via h8300.rcx to boot/brickOS.lds. Is it possible that your compiler chain treats leading underscores different. (...) That is _not_ your problem. Take care of the fact (...) (20 years ago, 28-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiling problmes 2
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(...) Some of the functions are inline functions, that are *defined* in the header files, e.g.cputc_hex is defined in include/conio.h. With gcc you need to compile with optimization on, so that it will inline these functions correctly. Another (...) (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiling problmes 2
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Can't be that the unresolved references are from the code I want to add to BrickOS, because I also tried to compile just the BrickOS-files (without the code I want to add) and the same errors appeared. (...) I looked for some of those references and (...) (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Test
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I think my messages don't make it to the group... Test only... (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiling problmes 2
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(...) Could the unresolved referenced be from the code you are adding to brickOS? From the looks of it, some of the unresoveds are probably defined in a header file (all caps is a hint). Maybe they were implied in the GCC compiler, but I doubt it. (...) (20 years ago, 25-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | source install brickos - stdio.h: No such file or directory
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I try to install the source of brickos on debian (kernel 2.6.8) like this : ganymedes:~# apt-get -b source brickos When I do this I receive the following error. I checked if I met all the dependencies and there were no problems. make[1]: Entering (...) (20 years ago, 24-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | howto apply usb patch to brickos
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Hi, thanks to some responses from this forum I now know that I need to patch brickos in order to function with the usb ir tower. The problem is...I have no idea how to apply this patch. I already downloaded the patch from sourceforge.net: (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | compiling problmes 2
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Hi everybody, as I mentioned in my first question I am trying to use BrickOS. But I am not using the Bricx Command Center or something special for the LEGO RCX to compile it, I am using the HEW (Renases tool for the H8/300L microcontroller which is (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiling problems
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(...) Rudolf, I'm not the one to answer your question, but I can tell you this: You need to provide the list of unresolved references before anyone can help you. Unresolved references are typically because not all files are identified in the (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | compiling problems
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Hello everybody, I downloaded the source files of BrickOS and tried to build them. During the compiling process there are no errors, but during the linking process over 270 errors are appearing. All errors are "undefined reference" errors, which (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | firmdl3 usb error linux
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Hi, I'm running brickOS(0.2.6.10.6-1) on my debian (kernel2.6.8) using the /lib/modules/2.6.8-3...sbtower.ko driver for the usbtower(robotics inventions 2.0 - RCX2.0). Adding this driver gave me the following kernel message: Sep 22 18:51:46 (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Remote Message Buttons
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(reviving an old thread...) (...) I have exactly the same problem. I receive every keys except the three message keys (see sample code below - the final target will be to use the remote to control several motors on several RCX). Any idea ? Thanks in (...) (20 years ago, 1-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: OS X Complier problems solved--now struggling with BrickOS
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(...) I got brickos working on a windows box (no joy with either gentoo linux on a PC or winXP on Virtual PC for my Mac). I transfered the compiled demos to the windows box and tried to download them to the RCX. All it did was lock up the RCX (I had (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | BrickOS improvements
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Hello, I have created some patches to improve brickOS and set up a web page: (URL) the link above doesn't work try the long version: (URL) patches are against latest CVS version. I see no reason, why the first two patches should not be applied: The (...) (20 years ago, 17-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | program_run
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Does the program_run function still work in BrickOS? static void program_run(unsigned nr) I've been trying to get it to work, but it doesn't seem to do anything. If anyone has used this lately, I'd love to see what you did. Thanks Steve (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: OS X Complier problems solved--now struggling with BrickOS
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(...) How did you do this? Since I can't get firmdl3 to download it, I wanted to try this, but had no success (renamed it as brickOS.rcx--but that's probably not right). (...) OK, I've got a cross compiler that SEEMS to work with both C and C++. At (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LNP Woes (RCX-to-RCX)
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So, I'm trying to get LNP working for RCX, and I haven't exactly been able to get it to work. More precisely, thanks to the smaple code here: (URL) gotten it to SEND messages just fine (or so I assume, since when I run the sending program, the (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How to turn LEDs on/off ?
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(...) I was not referring to the IR LED. I was referring to LEDs that can be connected to one of the motor ports. I believe Ross' initial response gave me the information I need. Thanks for everyone's help. -Brian (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How to turn LEDs on/off ?
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(...) Well could you please be a little helpful and describe how you turn that LED on and off? I'm not familiar with communications from the RCX and there's no info on Dave's command reference, and I figured it was highly unlikely that's the LED (...) (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How to turn LEDs on/off ?
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(...) Sure it does. They emit infrared light -- they're part of its IR communication system. (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How to turn LEDs on/off ?
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(...) What LED are you talking about? The RCX has no LED build in. If you mean the LCD display, you can use the cputc_native_*() functions described here: (URL) you mean a LED connected to a motor output, just use the motor_* functions described (...) (20 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | How to turn LEDs on/off ?
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What is the command to turn an LED on or off ? I've looked through the kernel files and I don't see anything that seems to do this. (20 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: OS X Complier problems solved--now struggling with BrickOS
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(...) Periodically I pick up this project again, get frustrated and give up. Then a few more months pass and I pick it up again... I seemed to have more success with the cross compiler this time around. BrickOS gave me a little trouble (strange (...) (20 years ago, 8-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Multi-RCX Communication
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(...) legOS allows this with a networking protocol. leJOS allows this if you're willing to work with Jini. Both of these require replacing the firmware with either C or Java. You can build your own networking protocol in any language, really. (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, FTX)
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| | Multi-RCX Communication
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I see a lot being done with communication between 2 RCX units. I was wondering if anybody had done anything with RCX communication with more than just 2 RCX. (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: OS X Complier problems solved--now struggling with BrickOS
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(...) I have reached the same stage as Rich had about a year ago: demos behave exactly as above. I couldn't find any further follow-up of this thread - I would appreciate any hints where should I look for ideas. I use cross-compiler and (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Updated BrickOS Command Reference
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(...) Dave, This is good to see. You may have done this intentionally, but 'sleep' and 'msleep' are both listed twice. Also, under cputs and cputw, it says '(only forst 5 characters)' and should be '...first 5..' I've never been able to get the (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Updated BrickOS Command Reference
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Hello, Cleaned up the LegOS 0.2.4 Command Reference that I'd written like almost 4 years ago (has it been that long?!!) at the BrickOS site so that it is now current with BrickOS 0.2.6.10. Find it here: (URL) let me know if there are any errors, (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Full IR packet networking
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When I was looking over version 0.2.0, I saw that one of the features was Full IR packet networking. My question is what exactly does Full IR packet networking do. Does this capability allow individual RCX to be networked, meaning they can (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Kernel size
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Hi Andreas, (...) It is about 22cm x 12cm for the two dimensional kernel. (couldn't resist) Actually, the size of the kernel is sort of unknown until you built it. It depends on your preferences and to some degree of the compiler version you build (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Kernel size
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Hi, I've got a really small question. What's the size of the LegOS Kernel which you have to load on the RCX? Andreas (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problem
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Trent, Make sure the following files exist in the paths listed below (within the main BrickOS folder): boot\brickos.srec util\firmdl3.exe If those do not exist, then you need to run the configuration routine and MAKE to build the firmdl3 application (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problem
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(...) You'd be up and running already without a hitch if you used my pre-built installers for cygwin & brickOS. Downloading the firmware using BricxCC is very simple as well. (URL) Hansen (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problem
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(...) Are you sure you typed "ln"? That should be "LN" but lowercase. It can be easy to confuse "l" with "i". ROSCO (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problem
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(...) (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problem
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(...) Hi, try to use this command to install brickOs on your RCX: ./firmdl3 ../boot/brickos.srec Andreas (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Problem
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Hey all, I have winXP and have installed Cygwin and all and have everything i need to install brickOS on my RCX. Althought when i try to install brickOS on my RCX i type the command into the cygwin bash shell and it returns a error. The command is: (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: brickOS v1?
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(...) doesn't it do that already with kernel 2.6? I have a serial tower, so I wouldn't know, but it sems logical (as nqc requires that driver and it's just there for me : fc2) Thomas (20 years ago, 24-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Communication Speed, PC -> RCX, LEJOS!
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(...) Hi Roger, Thank you for your help, it is a bit strange that you dont see any problems, since it is the same protocols we are using. I dont think the joystick is the problem since I have the same problem with inputs from keyboard or mouse, but (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.lego.dacta, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, FTX)
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| | pneumatic trouble
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Kevin- I am trying to build a heavy duty automatic truck transmission, and I have a few questions concerning pneumatics. 1) I did a few rough sketches of what the transmission would look like (the main part of it is the valve, which I originally (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Communication Speed, PC -> RCX, LEJOS!
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(...) I could not repeat your experiment exactly because I don’t have a joy stick. So instead I wrote a pair of programs that send single byte messages between the PC and the RCX. The RCX adds 1 to the incoming byte and immediately send it back. The (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.lego.dacta, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, FTX)
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| | Re: Communication Speed, PC -> RCX, LEJOS!
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From the picture (d1_p31) it looks as though all 4 RCXs can see the tower. I don't know anything about pcrcxcomm.jar or rcxf7port; and not much about lejos, however, if all 4 RCXs try to respond to the tower, you will have collisions. Try covering (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Communication Speed, PC -> RCX, LEJOS!
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Hi everyone, Im working on a project with controlling a large Container Crane by 4 RCXs. I have implementet some controlling and a lot of functions in the model, including a userinterface made in Java for a laptop. The crane is controlled by a (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.lego.dacta, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, FTX)
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| | brickOS v1?
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Hi, I'd like to know if the v1 of brickOS with the support of the usb tower for linux (without patch) is going to come soon or not. Actually I have tried many things but without success. Thank's Nil (20 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | WinLNP has been found!
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(...) WinLNP among other tools can be found here: (URL) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi all, I am working on my graduation project and I am stuck at one problem. I want to send commands to my rcx from a win32 aplication(Visual C++ 6.0). Firmware is Brickos. The only way I colud find was lnp. But for the Pc side there is no solution (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: brickos with suse 9.1
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(...) download the packages from debian and use alien to convert thenm to rpm. That was the only way it worked on my fedora box. (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lego pneumatic
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(...) Good reasearch..... Using the mindstorm motors, who's torque is a good match for the small pump, the small pump gets to a static pressure faster than a large pump using hte same kind of motor. The small pump does not keep up with the total (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.technic)
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| | RE: lego pneumatic
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Hi , According to the (URL) a mini-compressor (using a single small pump) is actually more efficient than using double pump. It said more efficient, but not generate higher output though, correct??? (URL) produces a more persuasive test. However, (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: lego pneumatic
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(...) Interesting project. Will your car have a pneumatic engine? Pneumatic steering? The large pump can run the engine with no externally controlled switches. Steering on the other hand would require control of two switches. Both pistons expanded (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jun-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.technic)
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| | RE: lego pneumatic
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Hi Kevin, Thank you very much for the info. I'll purchase the book and visits those sites for info. I am trying to build a pnematic car capable of turning by reacting to light and touch. My current problem is to automate the valve switch by (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jun-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Hi Liz, One of the books I co-authored in has a Mindstorms based adding machine that performs arithmetic using pneumatics. Since the printing of that book, pneumatics design has advanced quite a ways. I build a lot pneuatic things, and would (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jun-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.technic)
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Suggestion on a good book which focus on more penumatic construction with LEGO? -- thanks, Elizabeth Mabrey (20 years ago, 5-Jun-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: brickos with suse 9.1
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Hi, I tried to install brickOS-0.2.6.10.6 in SuSE 9.0 machine and faced the same problem. You can install an older version of brickOS (like brickOS-0.2.6.10) and it works fine with SuSE 9.0. Mohammed (...) (20 years ago, 3-Jun-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lego fiber optics light unit
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For the "Fiber Optics Element" only, try: (URL) fiber optic related items, try: (URL) are a lot of elements for sale, as well as cables, and even some sets with the FOS. (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, By any chance that anyone knows where I may be able to find the fiber optics light units? -- thanks in advance E (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | brickos with suse 9.1
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I'm tying to get brickOS started on a Suse 9 System, Did anybody install brickOS and the gcc-hitachi on Suse 9 System? After I download the brick.srec to the RCX it crashes. thx KHL (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: table brickos light to percent
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In my opinion, the best way to approach this is the following: When the program starts, begin a Calibration, by first activating the light sensor, then reading the value. You can either wait a specific amount of time or have the user press a button (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: table brickos light to percent
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(...) Hi Thomas, Here's the formula used in the dsensor.h include file: #define ds_scale(x) ((unsigned int)(x)>>6) //!< mask off bottom 6 bits #define LIGHT(a) (147 - ds_scale(a)/7) //!< map light sensor to 0..LIGHT_MAX This maps the raw sensor (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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i there a table or converter from brickos light readings to light percentage ( and vice versa ) Thomas (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: issues with 6-legs bot
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(...) Your approach is pretty common. As it turns out, you can (should) remove the wait time, also. Many people think they need to tell the robot how long to turn, or how long to go forward. It's like driving down the road in a car. You don't look (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | RE: issues with 6-legs bot
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Hi Steve, Thank you very much for your put! (...) Can't take the credit. I got the idea from the Sato book, instead of 4 legs, I thought the 6 legs are much more stable. (...) That's pretty much what I did initially, except I used to put in "wait" (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: issues with 6-legs bot
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What if you were to make a small platform for the light sensors in between the legs that rest on the ground and has a slide somewhere so when the robot moves up or down it stays touching the ground. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | How to increase address range in brickos ?
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Does anyone know a way to increase the address range in brickos beyond 0 through 15 ? When I cycle through the address range via View + Prgm it stops at 0xF0. The port is always set at zero. What if I modify the port value ? Or does that affect (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: issues with 6-legs bot
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(...) Am I correct in thinking the two front, and two back legs don't move, only the middle two? That's a nice, simple design. And you have two light sensors, and your goal is to keep them on either side of the line, right? (...) If I understand (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | issues with 6-legs bot
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Hi, I built this 6-legs bug for a black line tracking test. The construction: It is a walker with 2 motors, one for 3-left-legs, another one for the right. Middle leg on each side is connected on an 8-tooth gear and attach an 40-tooth gear. This (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Problem with lego pneumatic parts
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Very helpful info... thanks all for the info. "Mike" <kbg17[nospam]@[nosp...tzero.net> wrote in message news:Hxqu55.23Az@lugnet.com... (...) cylinder (...) does (...) they (...) They (...) T, one (...) by (...) I.D. (...) sold (...) just (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: problems with creating arrays of larger sizes
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(...) Need to understand the difference how array and pointers are being allocated ... And char is usually one or two bytes, depending on type of procesor; and pointer is usually 4 bytes, unless you go to 64-bit processor ... If you wish to utilize (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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