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Hi I am a Software Engineer with some spare time to contribute. My specialty is Real-Time Embbeded Operating Systems and drivers. Mostly in the Telecommunications World, about 6 years. About 4 years in imige processing. I would be willing to offer (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Ben> Re: the bloat you mention on your web page, perhaps if you're Ben> going to write a lot of C++ for legOS you should integrate Ben> the libc++ and wrappers++ libraries into your kernel so that Ben> all programs can share them. That would (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) It's a common problem! :) Well, it is like this: right now I have some time, and wouldn't mind to use it for taking care of the docs. But I don't have time to write or edit myself a lot - this is why it would be a good solution to just let (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I really wish I had time to maintain the docs. Heck, I wish I had time to pay with the toys. :| Unfortunately, the professor who basically gave me credit to write the docs and mess with everything has left Duke for private research in New Jersey (he (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Re: the bloat you mention on your web page, perhaps if you're going to write a lot of C++ for legOS you should integrate the libc++ and wrappers++ libraries into your kernel so that all programs can share them. That would double (!) the size (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Cool! I wish I could try it, but I'll wait until someone gets it running on Windows... :-) Les, I like the way you said: "I don't really know what I'm doing with this stuff. I just hacked 'till things worked." 8^) /Vlad (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi All: I've got the C++ cross-compiler working for LegOS. I can write & download C++ programs with simple classes, objects, inheritance & polymorphism all working. See this link for details: (URL) find it hard to believe this has not been attempted (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) for creating some documentation on legOS. Sorry that I didn't think about this earlier, but the easiest way would be to just build upon Luis Villa's excellent HowTo!!! The problems are then if he agrees with it, and how to set up the whole (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) well, you could count on me as note-writer for lnp and maybe other stuff. I feel i won't have time to help in the 'orderly fashion thing', as of my experience this kind'a work can get really time-consuming if one want's to get it well done. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I looked closer at the readings, and the readings are okay for light backgrounds. For a dark one, however, the value is only half of the time the right one - for the other half 0x1F0 gets added to it... Anyone ideas why this is happening? (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Not many, I just begun to think about it. My first idea is to have a site where people could get in and write notes, comments or ideas aboiut each API or module. And have a small team that will gather all the information and write it down in a (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Hello Vlad, maybe i could help a little, do you have any ideas about the actual format and how we could organize things ? BTW, is seems to be impossible to email you directly -- is that intentionally ? --Martin (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Vlad (...) Yes I am interested in there being some documentation. Unfortunately I am just starting out with legOS so will not be able to help at present. Hopefully in the next few months I will be up to speed and would be more than happy to help (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi! Just my 2-pence thoughts about the topic... I suppose nobody will argue with me that legOS isn't well documented, as it is now. Considering that legOS is still rather user-unfriendly, documentation is very important. someone said Markus is (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Why don't you use the system timer (sys_time)? With one timer is enough. Use relative times instead of absolute timers... Toni Vlad Dumitrescu <vladdu@NOSPAM.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Fp1BJI.E4M@lugnet.com... (...) timers? (...) handlers (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Mmm, yes. I was thinking about things like SetTimer and GetTimer, so that wakeup handlers can be used... as things are now (if I am not wrong) one has to directly work with the ROM... /Vlad (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) You nicer than msleep() and sleep()? --Ben (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LegOS does not work on 1.5 RCX
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Before anyone replies to my previous message, found the problem. I have a light over my desk and this was interfering with the IR transmission. Turned the light off and moved the RCX a little closer to the tower and hey presto, all OK. Does legOS (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi I installed the win version of legOS and downloaded the firmware legOS.srec to both my RCX's. The older RCX from a 1.0 set seems to accept .lx files OK the first time after the firmware is downloaded. The new version will not accept any .lx (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I did some more experiments last night. My conclusion is that the majority of apparent 2-state transitions never actually occur (that is: the sensor does not actually travel through 2 states between two consecutive sensor readings). The order of the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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