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Re: Does anyone have the updated 0.2.4 source?
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Sat, 21 Oct 2000 00:37:53 GMT
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Luis,

Kernel seems to Make just fine as do .dll modules.  All my programs are
running pretty much like before, except as noted below:

Scaled sensor inputs like LIGHT_2 seem to be more stable and reasonably
ranged than in previous versions.  Wonder what's changed.

Powers off after idle for 15 minutes as advertised.

Rotation sensors work just fine.

Multitasking working just fine.

Still getting the occasional "Can't Erase Program" error that recovers
by turning the RCX on and off.  Seems more stable than previous versions
as this takes care of the problem whereas before it would occasionally
crash the whole Kernel and you have to cold boot/load the Kernel again.

All seems well, will play with it more.

Dave

Luis Villa wrote:

There is no 0.2.5 as of yet- there may be within a couple of weeks. There
really aren't many substantial changes (mainly C++, two very, very small
bugfixes.) If you are interested in testing what is in CVS right now I've
posted a tarball here:

http://marvin.adsl.duke.edu/~louie/legOScvs.tgz

Please let me know if you have any problems with that- it is what I intend
to release as 0.2.5 (well, that plus lots of new docs) so if there are any
bugs in there the sooner I know about them the better :)

Thanks for testing ;)
Luis

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, David Chen wrote:

BTW, just got a copy of "Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics"
by Dudeck and Jenkin (Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN 0 521
56876 5). It is a Upperdivision/Graduate level book on Robotics
sensor/navigaion/ mapping/pose maintennance that is quite a good
survey.  The math is a bit beyond me, but it looks like they cover
some algorithms that may be possible to implement on the RCX for
mapping and navigation.  Other books have focused on the mechanics and
building of robots more, this one is pretty much all about the
algorighms for problem solving and navigation.  A good matrix
calculation library in C would be handy too as they present ALOT of
the calculations as matrix transformations...anyone got a C library
for that handy?

You might want to check it out (about $30.00 via an on line bookstore).

Thanks,

Dave

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There is no 0.2.5 as of yet- there may be within a couple of weeks. There really aren't many substantial changes (mainly C++, two very, very small bugfixes.) If you are interested in testing what is in CVS right now I've posted a tarball here: (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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