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Subject:	RE: Lego Network Protocol questions
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics
Date:	Mon, 7 Jun 1999 12:55:09 GMT
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> Given this new information, and assuming that eliminating the complements is > turns out to be fairly robust under other lighting conditions, I would > scrap the low-level format I mentioned yesterday for another one - no > suggestions yet, though. I'll back you up on this. My pbFORTH sends a simple character stream and it seems to work fine. No complements are necessary. I sure would like to be able to keep the RCX tower alive, though. I wonder if it's the character going through that keeps the tower alive, or if wiggling RTS or other control line up and down would be enough..... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng -------------------------------------------------------- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: <http://www.bmts.com/~rhempel/lego/pbFORTH/default.html> -------------------------------------------------------- Reply to: rhempel at bmts dot com ------------------------------------------------------

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		Re: Lego Network Protocol questions
Ralph Hempel wrote in message <000001beb0e4$f9d0df...pro150>... (...) I'll back you up on this as well. I did some experiments using two towers connected to two different PCs, and found that I could send raw bytes from one PC to the other without (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)

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		Re: Lego Network Protocol questions
(...) So of course I was curious about getting rid of the complements. Apparently, they are not necessary, or so my testing so far seems to indicate. Under the several lighting conditions I tried, and for distances of up to 27' (the farthest I could (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)

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