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| In lugnet.trains, Chris Phillips wrote: snip (...) I'm just going thru my mind (which is always a bad idea), and this would be, as stated, very easy-- My DCC chip has motor out, and 2 light wires out. Connect 'em to a electric plate and we're good (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Trains, DCC, and pbForth
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| In lugnet.trains, Chris Phillips wrote: snip (...) snip (...) I know that I was one of those 30, Chris--sorry about not getting back to you. I d/led it but never actually used it yet :( So busy just getting a layout up and running--making buildings, (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Trains, DCC, and pbForth
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| (...) I have been working on a different project toward the same end-- improved train layout automation, and I have had similar questions as to whether it is worth the effort for the small number of people who might actually benefit from it. Since (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, FTX)
| | | | | RE: Trains, DCC, and pbForth
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| (...) Dave, don't take ALL the fun out of driving your trains :-) How about being able to focus on just one train that you control, but automate things so the OTHER trains don't hit yours? Your description was great, except that it involves MANY (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | Re: Trains, DCC, and pbForth
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| In lugnet.trains, Ralph Hempel wrote: <snip> (...) Now here's a thought--a truly automated layout, such as the following-- The RCX has sensors (either light or magnetic/light (as Jeff Elliot made up) to detect the trains as they pass) connected to (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | Trains, DCC, and pbForth
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| All, As I've mentioned before, I have a version of pbForth firmware for the RCX that allows you to control trains modified with DCC controllers. The benefit of pbForth is that you can write, test, and debug your application interactively using (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | Re: Multiplexing 4 touch sensors on an RCX input port
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| (...) (apologies for delay - my server decided to stop talking to lugnet for some reason, hopefully now fixed) (...) Errm, probably 2.1.0 (but I don't have it immediately to hand at the moment - that's the name of the directory on my computer with (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | Re: USB tower fast firmware download
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| Trés bien! (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | Re: USB tower fast firmware download
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| (...) Here's a picture showing BricxCC parsing pbForth (with syntax highlighting, of course): (URL) I'm still working on the console and script downloading. John Hansen (URL) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, FTX)
| | | | | Re: leJOS & BricxCC news
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| (...) Yes, it would be nice, plus the two or three unused sensors... I'm happy enough with the LDCC firmware as a DCC encoder (pleased as punch, really). But it "would be nice" if it were implemented as a library or patch to an existing brick OS (...) (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
| | | | | RE: Multiplexing 4 touch sensors on an RCX input port
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| (...) Ian, Great to see that you are having success with pbForth! I have a couple of questoins: 1. Which version are you using? 2. Are there any features you REALLY wish were available? 3. Do you have any stories or code to share? Ralph ---...--- (...) (21 years ago, 10-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | RE: leJOS & BricxCC news
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| (...) OK, I've looked at your wish list and have the following comments with respect to how I see the pbForth implementation of DCC. 1. How important is it to have more than one port with DCC capabilities. The reason I'm asking is that it "would be (...) (21 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | Re: leJOS & BricxCC news
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| (...) Hmmm. I was seriously considering writing a leJOS package to support the LDCC IR Protocol. (Here's why: (URL) ) What capabilities were you going to add? Depending on your timeline, you might convince me to try FORTH. (21 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | RE: pbForth & ROLL
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| (...) John, As always, it depends. ROLL can sometimes be recovered gracefully, but not always. If you ROLL more than the stack depth, you'll shift some RAM that you probably don't want to shift - like the pbForth image itself. In that case, there's (...) (21 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | pbForth & ROLL
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| (...) While testing my console the other day I kept getting pbForth to hang (or so it appeared). It turns out I was passing ROLL a number that caused it to do bad things. I'm wondering whether it should error out with "aborted stack underflow" or (...) (21 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | RE: leJOS & BricxCC news
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| John, Thanks for continuing to work on this. It's one of the things that keeps me motivated to continue supporting pbForth. Now, there has not bee much traffic there lately, and I have not done much with it becuase as far as I know, things are "just (...) (21 years ago, 5-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | Re: leJOS & BricxCC news
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| In lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, Mark Riley wrote: [snipped] (...) I have incorporated the changes made to firmdl in the leJOS distribution into my BricxCC firmware downloader code. Now I can successfully download all the firmwares I have access to (...) (21 years ago, 5-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | Re: Current state of pbforth
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| (...) BricxCC is making some progress with respect to pbForth support. I've got a terminal emulator of sorts that is working. I just need to get it hooked into the rest of the application and add XModem downloading to it. By late next week it might (...) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | RE: Current state of pbforth
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| (...) Yeah, I haven't quite got around to implementing cut-and-paste... You can use Hyperterminal or any other similar teminal emulator set to 2400,n,8,1 once the firmware is loaded. Unless you have a USB port. OK, if you really need this, then I (...) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | Re: Current state of pbforth
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| (...) Ralph Further to my original question I've generated the appropriate words to decode the dictionary. My second question is how to print out the contents of the tcl consol windows as I dont seem able to do a cut and past from it thanks. Dave (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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