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Can someone help? There are some great sample ROBOLAB programs at this location: (URL) The first section on 'beeps' shows beep icons with a random number modifier or message modifier or 'value of container' modifier. But they don't download. A (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Anybody tried ActiveX for Control Lab?
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Hello, I have just bought a Dacta Control Lab without software, so I use an ActiveX from (URL) I am having a bit of problems when I use "mindstorms" touch sensors. The ActiveX control wont registrer when I press it. Any hints? Lars Gertsen - Denmark (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.technic)
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| | ROBOLAB catalog info clarified...
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For anyone intending to purchase ROBOLAB, here is a minor clarification of the catalog material. I hope the Pitsco-LEGO Dacta service rep does not object to me posting it here. Thanks for the prompt reply... Jerry ***...*** Thank you for your (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Lego Dacta/Robolab control with 8 I/O
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If you're interested in creating your own applications, take a look at: (URL) (select Research) There's both a paper describing the PC protocol in great depth ((URL) and (best of all) an ActiveX component ((URL) that you can compile and use from (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Lego Dacta/Robolab control with 8 I/O
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I forgot to mention that LEGO Engineer 2.0 currently runs on top of ROBOLAB 2.0. So ok, its not *free* :) You have to spend the $25 or so on ROBOLAB first. But its still better than LOGO I think because the programming is graphical. And unlike (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Lego Dacta/Robolab control with 8 I/O
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Just to clarify, this serial interface box that you've been given doesn't have much to do with ROBOLAB. ROBOLAB is the software for the RCX. What you want (free) is LEGO Engineer, which looks and smells a lot like ROBOLAB. (URL) Right now only the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Lego Dacta/Robolab control with 8 I/O
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I bought one of those four years ago (long before Mindstorms). It's an absolutely wonderful unit - considerably better than the RCX, Scout, etc. The only downside is that it must be tethered to a PC (though you could buy a wireless serial (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Lego Dacta/Robolab control with 8 I/O
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(...) Hi, I believe that the unit you are describing is the interface for the Lego Dacta Control Lab. I have been using these for several years in schools where I have worked and also for control of my Lego trains. I like the unit because it offers (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Lego Dacta/Robolab control with 8 I/O
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If you pickup the intelligent house from Dacta you may have some luck, Pitsco?Dacta would be my best guess. Legomaster@gobi.com (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Lego Dacta/Robolab control with 8 I/O
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Hello, I have been offered a Lego Dacta/Robolab control unit which must be attached to the serial port on a PC. The unit has 8 input and 8 output. There are no software with this unit. Anybody know what software I need to use this unit and if any of (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Delphi to Robolab
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(...) Delphi is a pascal based object oriented development system, similar to Visual Basic and Power Builder. To my knowledge most of the programming environments for the RCX including Robolab were not designed to be used with these specific object (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Delphi to Robolab
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Hello! We have a project in school, and are going to make a lego robot. Is there anyone out there that can tell me how we can program in Delphi 4, and get the program to robolab? Is this posible? (25 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Data capture
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Great tip! Thanks Ben!! (25 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Data capture
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You need to use level 5 and use the "write data point to set" command. Any command other than this one includes the time stamp as well, which takes up memory. let me know if this works for you. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Data capture
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Since this is a RoboLab newsgroup, he is probably using RoboLab. Level 4 is a RoboLab term as well. But I am sorry, I have no experience with the data logging stuff, so I can't help Phil. --Jack Gregory RoboLab volunteer Bernd Frassek (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Data capture
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(...) What is a Level 4 program? Are you using NQC? With NQC I collected 1400 data points with a temperature sensor - it worked fine. Best regards Bernd (25 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Data capture
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I'm trying to capture data over a period of time that requires more data points than what seems to be the default (approx. 1026 points). I've tried building a level 4 program and increased the data buffer beyong this number, however, I can't seem to (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Bugs in RoboLab?
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The WAIT FOR ROTATION and WAIT FOR ANGLE icons do reset the angle sensor before they do their wait. However, there are several other programming constructs that will not require the angle sensor to start at 0 every execution. The LOOP WHILE ANGLE (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Bugs in RoboLab?
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The text displayed is a mnemonic representation of the generated LASM code. In the case of the Motor function, it appears the mnemonic is incorrect but the generated LASM code is correct. I compared the motor function to RIS and earlier versions of (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Bugs in RoboLab?
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I thought I would pass on what I have learned. Robolab sends very different code to the RCX than you might assume. For example, "Wait for Rotation" will always clear the rotation sensor first! There are a number of other anomalies, such as the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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