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While I was dwelling on the fundamental interconnectedness of all (...) I'm running 2.5.3 already. Not aware of it being beta, though. (...) Too bad. A bug database would save lots of time duplicating efforts, and would also be a good educational (...) (22 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Events in Robolab
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Thanks for the response. I've been to that web site before and looked through it for event-driven programming. There is very little event-driven programming there, and what there is doesn't use events very extensively or in a very complex way. (...) (22 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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While I was dwelling on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things on Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:52:00 GMT, "Dick Swan" <dickswan@sbcglobal.net> wrote: <snip> (...) It doesn't happen most of the time, so the conflict would have to have more (...) (22 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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While I was dwelling on the fundamental interconnectedness of all (...) Thanks - that's what I thought - only necessary to cancel monitoring when an event has not happened. <snip> (22 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | RE: Events in Robolab
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Don, Here is great site known for providing great examples of Robolab coding. (URL) will see several examples of event coding in this Web site. Bill -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf (...) (22 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Don, Here is a link that hopefully will help you: (URL) contains the latest patch levels including the beta patch to Robolab 2.5.3 for the Mac and PC. There is not a public bug list. Part of the problem with a public bug list is the Robolab by Tufts (...) (22 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Don't know specifically about Robolab, but usage might be. "I want to monitor a bump sensor for the next 100 milliseconds for an event; if the event doesn't happen in this time, then stop monitoring for the event." One way to program this is define (...) (22 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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I don't use Robolab, but I can offer some insight into how the RCX firwmare operates with subroutines (and events) that may partially explain your problems. RCX firmware supports 8 (eight) subroutines per slot. Internally they are numbers 0 to 7. (...) (22 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Is there a bug database for Robolab? Unless it's the first perfect program ever written, there have to be bugs. Is there a procedure in place to report suspected bugs? Are they being cataloged, hopefully in a searchable database? (22 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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After dozens of hours of experimentation, it is my conclusion that event-driven programming in Robolab is unreliable. Eventually, the RCX stops responding to events. This does not always happen at the same point in a given program, nor is it (...) (22 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Following up my own post with more information: I found in the Minnesota FIRST League's Software Training Manual the statement: "Local subroutines are identified and called by number (1-8)." This suggests that unlike containers and most other (...) (22 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Does RoboLab have a maximum subroutine number? Also, what is the maximum number of subroutines which can be defined? Referring to real subroutines, not SubVIs. I have a program which defines 5 subroutines, numbered zero through 4. It seems like when (...) (22 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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The Robolab manual says "This command stops the program from watching for events" and gives an example which is essentially identical to the example for the "Start Monitoring for an Event" icon except it adds a "Stop Event Monitoring" icon after the (...) (22 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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What exactly does the Robolab "Reset Event" icon do? Under what circumstances would or should it be used? The Robolab manual gives only a Microsoft-esque useless restatement of the name of the icon: "Event This command resets monitoring for an (...) (22 years ago, 27-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Just to verify the verdict... yes, it did work with w2kpro installed on this laptop. One note is that w2k vanilla does not support wireless 802.1g device, which is what comes with this toshiba satellite p25. It requires service pack 4. -- emabrey (22 years ago, 8-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Nathan, I have done this trouble shooting step, ie. changing the timing. Unfortunately, it did not work. But, thank you though. Well, the a W2Kpro virtual machine approach did not work either... I guess my only alternative will be getting the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) Disagree. It's a matter of habitudes. Once you're familiar with the whole environment, you may write extremely complex programs without getting lost. For example, in our recent "Mars-mission" telerobotics project the complete programming -the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) They do work! But they are usually used with two quadrature outputs (hence the name), while on RCX only one wire is used and the 4 states are encoded as 4 voltages levels. (URL) (Image courtesy Michael Gasperi) The sequence (clockwise) is (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, FTX)
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(...) The way I understand it, it's really not the sensor's fault. The RCX and firmware together either can't or doesn't deal with the ambiguous voltage levels sometimes returned during two of the four transitions. If the RCX were fast enough that (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Could someone explain to me technically why this sort of of problem with the rotation sensor occurs? I know how quadrature shaft encoders are _supposed_ to work, and I can't see why this sort of thing should happen in the first place. >> Mark (22 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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