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(...) USB/SERIAL you mean. (...) Yes, if it works like the PC once it's plugged in the drivers tell the OS that there is a "Serial Port" for it. Then it works just fine. (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Great info! USB IR tower sounds good, I want to use my IR tower with my iBook, but I'm too lazy to buy an USB/Parallell port... I'm planning to use MacNQC then, but AFAIK, MacNQC doesn't "know" that there is a USB port on my computer... Or will it (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I don't think RcxCC supports Scout. You may be able to get it working by setting the environment variable NQC_OPTIONS to "-Tscout" (add an appropriate set command to autoexec.bat). Another option would be to use NQC directly from the command (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I'm new to NQC, but buit the tag robots from the bvandam site. The download to the RCX went ok, but the one to the scout doesn't seem to work. What are the steps required to download and run a program on the scout? I've been using RcxCC, is this an (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I think that should work. I have only two teams, that means I could use the same coding system you used for two robots (they just need to know they are in the same team) so I have a lot of bytes available to transmit a message. If the (...) (24 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi Giancarlo, I had a similar situation but only with two RCXs which had to exchange information with another constantly. Since both of them were sending and transmitting via their IR interface, the messages had to be identified and assigned to the (...) (24 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) should (...) rushing (...) teams. (...) work, (...) Hi Giancarlo. I think you can't avoid phisical interference between the IR messages of the two teams, because there's no way to change the carrier frequency of the IR. With the RCX 2 firmware (...) (24 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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We are trying to make 4 robots play some kind of football game. There should be two different teams (2 robots per team)and they shouldn't communicate with each other. Is it possible to have a robust communication system relying on a different (...) (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Setting NQC_OPTIONS to Trcx2
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Thanks Dave. I am running Win98 and I added the statement to the Autoexec.bat. It worked fine. -- Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net The Shop (URL) Baum" <dbaum@spambgoneenteract.com> wrote in message news:dbaum-AD175E.15...net.com... (...) (24 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) You need to set the environment variable NQC_OPTIONS to the desired set of default options (in this case -Trcx2). The specifics for setting environment variable depend on the operating system and/or command shell you are using. If you're using (...) (24 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I am working my way through "Extreme MindStorms". Page 55 indicates that I might be able to set the NQC_OPTIONS to default to Trcx2 and allow me to use RcxCC with Version 2 firmware. I cannot figure out how to tell NQC what I want. How can I (...) (24 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) vectorh.h is part of the C++ standard library. Apparently some systems don't have it installed by default. There was some discussion on this a while back... (URL) think the conclusion was that with ManDrake 7.1 you need to install the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Thanks, I'll look at that tonight (didn't really get chance yesterday). (...) Unfortunately the versions of gcc on both my Amiga and Thinkpad (running Mandrake 7.1) bomb when trying to compile nqc: both complain that vector.h - in g++-2 on my (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I've started writing an RCX simulator in Java. A very early alpha version is available: (URL) isn't ready for prime time yet. I'm releasing it primarily in case other programmers want to start working on GUI applications that wrap around the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) The format is described in rcxlib/rcxifile.h in the source distribution. (...) Assuming you have a reasonably modern C++ compiler (gcc is ideal), then the port is rarely more complicated than creating a special subclass of the PSerial class (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Nope, I've written a program to send messages to the RCX (like the send.c program on RCX Internals) for the Amiga side - I can boot into LinuxPPC or AmigaOS - and that works fine. If I can work out the format of the image files nqc generates (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) This may not be a driver bug - it may be a hardware limitation. AFAIK, parity is most commonly used with 7 bit words - support for a ninth bit (8 data plus parity) is poor or non-existant on some UARTs. Dave (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) This helped me track down the problem - the minute I add the odd parity bit the serial driver changes the word length from 8 to 7. Doesn't look like I can do much about it from the Linux side either. :( Thanks for the help everyone, looks like (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Perhaps timing is a problem. Try: nqc -t 1000 -raw 10 This forces a longer (1 second) timeout per packet instead of the dynamic retry timing. Is the output any different? Echo is coming back from the tower, which means communication between (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Have you tried using setserial to set the correct baud rate and other options? Also note that when using "su" it sometimes doesn't take over all the settings from the user account that you used to log on. Perhaps the sudo command would work (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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