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RE: light sensor problem?
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:24:42 GMT
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> Maybe I will finish with a reminder that the firmware is very well
> documented, although at a very low level. If a feature of LegOS is ever
> broken or strange, you can always look at the firmware docs if you like to
> see how things are "supposed to be done" so you can at least compare to
> something that is known to work.
And I'll add the reminder (for all the newbies) that without Kekoa's efforts
in doing the low-level documentation, we would not be where we are today....
Thanks again, Kekoa.......
As a side note, I wonder how the power to the LCD controller is managed.
Maybe this has something to do with it...
3692 = void init_port_6_bit_3 (void), nobody knows what port 6 bit 3 does
Cheers,
Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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| (...) I remember wondering what port 6 bit 3 did and so I think I tried setting it on and off and not noticing anything broken either way. Maybe I didn't test enough though. Somebody might want to try repeating the experiment. Some extra evidence is (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) I personally forget the numbers of the lugnet posts. The gist is that the firmware and LegOS were, at the time, different in a critical way. I don't know the current status of LegOS. At the time, LegOS cycled through the 4 A/D sensors, reading (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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