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Hi, I am a newbie and would appreciate some help. My 11 year old has just joined his school robotics club. He will be using set 9794 (Mindstorms for School with ROBOLAB 2.5.4) and has to prepare a robot for a Tug-of-War competition (based on FLL (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Getting Serial IR Tower To Work With RoboLab
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(...) Thank you Claude. I will get a USB RS232 and go forward. I did find that now I cannot select the com4 port in "select Com" within RoboLab. I will try to get to the bottom of this and slowly work on what works. Tom (20 years ago, 4-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Getting Serial IR Tower To Work With RoboLab
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(...) try GPS8.vi hat you can download at www.convict.lu/Jeune...amera8.llb I added a small sub.vi to GPS8.vi that allows you to find your USB converted serial port. Probably you have it on Com4. You can run this search...vi alone and determine the (...) (20 years ago, 3-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Getting Serial IR Tower To Work With RoboLab
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I am trying to interface a serial IR tower RoboLab 2.5.4 B. The serial tower is connected to com4 via a PCMCIA RS232 1 port card. I can select the com4 port in "select Com" within RoboLab. "Interrogate RCX" does not work. No green light on the (...) (20 years ago, 3-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: robolab 2.9
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(...) Thanks for the information, guys. Joseph (20 years ago, 25-May-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: robolab 2.9
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(...) Just a quick correction. You do need to own a previous version of ROBOLAB. Version 2.9 is just an upgrade. -j. (20 years ago, 24-May-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: robolab 2.9
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(...) No, you do not need an earlier version. (...) No, it will not work with the 9753 Technic Control Center. But it works with the 9751 Control Lab Interface if that's what you are meaning. CSSoh (20 years ago, 24-May-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Looking for Serial IRTower Drivers
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I am running a program that uses a serial tower but I cannot find a serial IR Driver. To get this program to work I have made a RS-232 com4 port out of my PCMCIA slot for the serial tower but in all the disks I have I cannot find a serial IR Tower (...) (20 years ago, 9-May-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: robolab 2.9
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(...) Only two questions today... 1) Does 2.9 require an earlier version of Robolab? 2) Will 2.9 work with the 9753 Control Center? TNX * 10**6 Joseph (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: robolab 2.9
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(...) Now in the database: (URL) 9797 LEGO MINDSTORMS Education Base Set> (URL) 9798 Rechargeable Battery> -Suz (20 years ago, 3-Apr-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.year.2006, FTX)
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| | robolab 2.9
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LEGO just announced Robolab 2.9: (URL) last version of ROBOLAB is designed to support RCX users and east the transition to the NXT system. This upgrade enables you to program the NXT brick with ROBOLAB. In addition, ROBOLAB 2.9 features new firmware (...) (20 years ago, 2-Apr-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Robo Soccer From Convict
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(...) Dear Robo Soccer Fans, I've ordered the IR serial tower and the card for the laptop to accept the tower. After three years it will be a great thrill to see the communications. (URL) (20 years ago, 1-Apr-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Robo Soccer From Convict
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(...) Dear Claude, I cannot thank you enough for your support. I posted this to Lugnet in hopes there was another who could help me. Would you not know that the serial tower vs USB tower was a question I had? I will get a serial tower and continue. (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Robo Soccer From Convict
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(...) Hi Tom, You selected one of our hardest ROBOLAB projects. The journal shows you many things, but perhaps is not explicit enough to help you through what you intend to do with it. However note that the Soccer communication only works with the (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Robo Soccer From Convict
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I am working on learning RoboLab by making this program work. (URL) then GPS7.vi & LEGO_Soccer.lib then SOCCER5.VI WHAT HAPPENS: 1. SOCCER5.VI downloads into the RCX several tasks and subs. 2. Once running GPS7.vi it does not seem to send (...) (20 years ago, 27-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: communication between NXT and RCX!?
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(...) The NXT has a new sensor control bus. That allows many ways to interact almost anything you want. From Hear-say i have heared that HiTechnics is building an NXT - IR converter in the size of a NXT sensor.. Daniel Wittenaar Brickbash Robotics (20 years ago, 5-Mar-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Power down time
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In The administrator section you can set the power down time - the time that the RCX will stay on, unattended. The range is 0-255 with 0 meaning always on, and the rest in minutes. No matter what time I choose, I can't make this work all the time. (...) (20 years ago, 16-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | communication between NXT and RCX!?
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Since the NXT does not have IR capability, it will not be communicate with the RCX brick. If there is no such plan from LEGO to build in the new NXT such capability, I am afraid they are going to put RCX brick in an obsolete track!? O, no! ---...--- (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | The NXT generation version
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from the lego press release... ...The heart of the new system is the NXT brick, an autonomous 32-bit LEGO microprocessor that can be programmed using a PC, or for the first time in the retail offering, a Mac. After building their robots, users (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | The NXT generation version
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Approved: emabrey@storming-robots.com from the lego press release... ...The heart of the new system is the NXT brick, an autonomous 32-bit LEGO microprocessor that can be programmed using a PC, or for the first time in the retail offering, a Mac. (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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