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John, I'm interested in how you got the USB tower working... I've got a Tcl package that talks to the LEGO USB tower driver under Windows, but nothing for FreeBSD yet. I'm willing to share the Tcl script with you if I ever get the tower working (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Errors while installing brickOS 0.2.6.10
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(...) These two installers offer the brickOS beginner an extremely easy way to get Cygwin and the necessary cross compilers installed on a Win32 system as well as all the brickOS files (and LeJOS files also). If you download and run these two (...) (20 years ago, 28-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: brickOS port to FreeBSD
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Hi Jarod, (...) Ok, you can get it from ftp://ftp2.za.freebs...d-usb.diff I haven't been able to get the fast mode to work yet. I guess firmdl needs something different from NQC because it do work in NQC. I have tried to make the changes so that (...) (20 years ago, 27-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Errors while installing brickOS 0.2.6.10
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(...) Sorry for the late reply! I am wondering if the two installers are required, and what they are for. (20 years ago, 27-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: brickOS port to FreeBSD
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(...) Hi John, I would be interested in the patches to firmdl and dll. If you could please post them somewhere or email them to me. Thanks, Jarod (20 years ago, 25-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: brickOS port to FreeBSD
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(...) Thanks, I'm up and running using binutils-2.15, gcc-3.4-20041217 and your gcc-3.3 patch to the cvs version of brickOS. I also have the USB Tower working. Would the brickOS guys be interested in FreeBSD patches to firmdl and dll? John (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Wire communication
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(...) Hi, yep it does. Regards Ronald (20 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Wire communication
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A few questions and another answer: I don’t have my nqc ref to hand, but does the one external output on the cybermaster support float? I also have the suspicion that a more efficient (fewer ports tied up) solution might be achieved by wiring two (...) (20 years ago, 14-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: brickOS port to FreeBSD
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(...) I think the latest official gcc-binaries for brickOS are still 2.95.x. However, I have binutils-2.15 and gcc-3.4.0 running under linux and had only minor problems. Make sure you compile gcc without the stdc++ libraries or just ignore the (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Wire communication
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(...) I think all you really need to do is switch the motor port between "float" and "brake". That's the same as opening and closing a touch sensor. I've used that for simple signals, and it seems to work fine, but I haven't tried more complex (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Wire communication
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Hello, I am currently trying to implement a communication protocol between two bricks using just one of the copper wire given with the brick. The protocol is based on manchester encoding, using a well-timed alternation of up and low signals. My (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | brickOS port to FreeBSD
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Hi, I'm looking at porting brickOS to FreeBSD. I guess the first step is to get the crosscompiler etc. going. Which version of gcc and binutils is the best to use? I searched a bit but it isn't very clear which version to use, except that lots of (...) (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Code Archive, Links or Send Me Email Attachment/s
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Hi I am a newbie. I have Extreme mindstorms, Lego Mindsorms Robots books, but was wondering if there is/will be a code archive available, or can anyone please direct me to where I can get lots of example code?, even email me some (zip file?)if they (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Errors while installing brickOS 0.2.6.10
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(...) I highly recommend that you use my cygwin and brickOS installers. If you use them you will more than likely be up and running with brickOS in a matter of minutes. See my BricxCC page at (URL) are links to the two installers: (URL) Hansen (20 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Errors while installing brickOS 0.2.6.10
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Hi, I am a newbie. I have encountered some errors while installing brickOS 0.2.6.10. (URL) anyone encounter the same problems before? 1. When I just start cygwin, it gives me an error message like this: This application program can not be executed (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.cybermaster, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | rcxtty for usb
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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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