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(...) Just to report my initial findings using the rear LED and light sensor for proximity detection: Overall results are unsatisfactory. Even under the best circumstances, it could not reliably see the LED reflected against my blue leather sofa. I (...) (22 years ago, 24-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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Thanks for the reply, André. I've read that the IR emitters are "low-power". Does this mean the red LED on Spybot would have a longer range than the IR emitters if used in proximity detection? Since the LED is recessed, I guess is would have a (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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I tried, but I've reached the limit of my ability and patience (I'm not sure which ran out first). This much I know: the Spybot can do proximity detection if what it is detecting is a well-defined IR-emitting object such as a Spybot controller or (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | NQC spybot API submission
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Here's an addition to the NQC Spybot API that lets you write programs like this: #include "spy.nqh" task main() { int x = 0; int t = MIN_BOTID; while (t < MAX_BOTID) { SetTargetID(t); SetTargetNote(x); SetWorldNote(t, x); x = Target(SPY_SHORTID); x (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Use of audio output as servo control?
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"Jean F. Soucaille" <jean.f.soucaille@free.fr> wrote in news:HA475x.LGo@lugnet.com: Are you speaking of the VLL port or the actual IR emitter? I was not aware that the IR emitter could be used in such a way yet. (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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Rather to use sound I'm thinking about using the IR port at back of Spybotic to interface with an IR receiver and then using an I2C bus to control a serial to parallel interface. It's just a concept right now. I haven't much time to work on that. If (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Use of audio output as servo control?
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Hello, I have a slightly different idea, I have read where the duration/freq of the sound output from spybots can be controlled, has anybody determined the granularity of this control? My idea was to harness this via handyboard/PIC to control futaba (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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Hi, all, I release new version of the JoyBricx. (URL) I make the program named JoyBricx for remote control (...) The new version support RCX/SCOUT, too. It can export the NQC program. Enjoy ! -- mac (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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Hi, all, I make the program named JoyBricx for remote control Spybot and RC Fighter (#8539 Manas.) using USB LEGO Tower. You can remote control the robots, playback, save and load operation by this program. Before, I made the LTremo76, but it was (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | Re: 3806 Gigamesh $35 WalMart Bradenton Florida
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(...) yep, thats where I got my shadow strike which is soon going to become a remote control light switch (22 years ago, 3-Feb-03, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: How to use TowerApi.dll without TowerApi.lib
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Hi, again ! I am sorry. I uploaded the imperfect file. I changed the USB LEGO Tower setup and have examined in the state where it is not a standard. Already, I fixed the bug, please download again. (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | growing API file for Spybot/NQC/Brickcc
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Hello all, I append all the API information wich I found into one file and a little more functionality gets available ! Have fun ! //API Spybotics to program in NQC/BrickCC // A part "borrowed" from Mark Ferris,André Koopman #if defined(__SPY) // (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Led display on Spybot
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(...) #if defined(__SPY) //LED display effects (0 to 7) #define displayLedNone -1 #define displayLedScan 0 #define displayLedSparkle 1 #define displayLedFlash 2 #define displayLedRedToGreen 3 #define displayLedGreenToRed 4 #define (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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Hello all, After a few hours I now understand a little bit about the ROM routines inside the Spybot. To reach the 7 LED's on top of the bot you have to call sub 42. There are 8 different way's the Led's will blink. To program the bot in BrickCC you (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | How to react to controller with NQC?
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Hi all, I'm looking for a way to react to Spybots IR controller using NQC. When I scan through the spybot.h in \Program Files\LEGO Software\Products\Sp...cs\Include I find many lines containing "message". However, looking at the NQC documentation (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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"Ralph Hempel" <rhempel@bmts.com> wrote in message news:CAEBIOGHPFFJALB...mts.com... (...) forwards on (...) the (...) Groan..... Yep your right Ralph. I hadn't set it up as anything and now I have it works fine. The others behaved OK straight out (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | RE: Shadowstrike back to front
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(...) Hmmmm, I wonder if you have set the type of the Shadowstrike correctly. Check the Spybot type in the Spybot Status display when you first connect it. I'll bet you have it configured as a SnapTrax..... Cheers, Ralph ---...--- Buy "LEGO (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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I have three Spybots and I notice that Snaptrax and Gigamesh run forwards on pressing the two upper buttons on the remote (buttons nearest the red button). However Shadowstrike is the reverse of this, upper buttons pressed moves the Spybot (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Spybotics to RCX message
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(...) If you use BricxCC to compile your MindScript code it is very easy to get LASM output. On the Compilers tab of the Preferences dialog just add -TRACE=15 to the Switches field on the LCC page. Also set your include path to C:\Program Files\LEGO (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Spybotics to RCX message
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Ok, I give up. How did you get the LASM output from the Mindscript? I installed the SDK, but didn't find any way to get the LASM output, which is what I'd like to see. (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | 3806 Gigamesh $35 WalMart Bradenton Florida
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Reg $65 on sale $35 USD five boxes #3806 Spybotics at Walmart, SR70 at US301, Bradenton, Florida, USA. Sorry, cannot shop for you. (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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I have attached to the end of this message the spyutils.nqh file I've been compiling. It's not got a lot in there yet, just the routines defined as "utility" in the Lego Spybotics ROM SDK plus the SendRCXMessage. I'm aiming toward this file being (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Spybotics to RCX message
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Just erased 3 lines of reply now that I've remembered my basic assembly stuff ... boy it's been a while. Yes, that sounds like the right thing to do. Just curious, I haven't installed the Mindstorms SDK since I try to minimize what all I've (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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Hey cool, Mark, this is really going to be useful! I've noticed that when MindScript generates a call to the SendRCXMessage subroutine, it always pops the calling parameters off the stack. For example, this MindScript code: SendRCXMessage(5) (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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The following NQC code will define a routine to send a message to the RCX or Scout: // Sends an RCX PBMessage to RCX or Scout // nMessage = 1 - 255 __nolist void SendRCXMessage (const int nMessage) { asm { 0xe3, &nMessage }; asm { 0x17, 37 }; } I'm (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Spybots missoins (was Re: Packaging!)
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(...) Mark is correct. I would be happy to begin a Spybotics Mission Trading Area on BimP. I am a fan and would love to see what types of missions could be created by the community. To begin, I think we need to provide mission objectives, mission (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.lego)
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| | SpyVLL was released
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Hi, the VLL freaks. I released a programming tool named "SpyVLL", which program the MicroSCOUT via the Spybotics. Neither RIS2.0 nor your own made hardware isn't required. Please refer to the following URL: (URL) ! -- mac (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.microscout, lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics.vll)
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| | Spybots missoins (was Re: Packaging!)
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(...) Last week some time I looked there and found pretty much nothing. I raised the issue of creating our own missions and what not and bricksinmypocket.org owner (sorry, I've forgotten your name) has kindly offered space there to trade missions. (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: Can't run software
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(...) Thanks again Matthais, I have downloaded and installed this driver. But unfortunately there is no change. Bill Lane (22 years ago, 11-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Spybotics Internals
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(...) Sure...that would be a good reference for the page as well. I'll try and do that next week. Steven (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) the (...) led (...) you (...) motherboard (...) here we go: Windows 95, 98 and Me will automatically recognize and load a driver for the Tseng Labs chip sets on all of the Ultimate VGA boards. All of the resolutions and color depths that the (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Sorry I was off the point I haven't been able to find the original context of this question. I hope there is another way to access them because I don't have enough COM ports to connect to the Spybot and the internet at the same time. If I try (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.lego)
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(...) The Display Adapter is a Tseng Labs ET4000/W32 PCI. It didn't come with the PC. I had trouble trying to run something a while back. Some research led me to this driver and it solved the problem. I must say I find the whole Display Adapter (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Thanks for the thought Andy, I definitely have 320 MB of RAM. Yes it is a bit overboard. But when I had a hard drive replaced last year RAM was very cheap so I bought up. Yes, I understand I will have other bottlenecks that will diminish the (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) You mentioned earlier that you had 320MB of RAM. That seems a little high for a Windows 98-era computer and its motherboard. Are you sure you actually have 320MB and not just 32MB, which was standard for many Windows 98 computers? If you have (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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"Bill Lane" <lane@pipeline.com.au> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:H8H91D.ABw@lugnet.com... (...) have (...) came (...) Display (...) for (...) no (...) It is very unlikely that MS has the latest driver for Ur display adapter (that's the item we looked (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Packaging!
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"Bill Lane" <lane@pipeline.com.au> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:H8H7vn.6xL@lugnet.com... (...) you (...) Software\Products\Sp...Operations (...) extension) (...) any (...) downloaded (...) 20 (...) Thanks for the tip with the FaQ. That'll be a nice (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.lego)
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| | Spybotics API in NQC
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I'm attempting to extend the API that Dave Baum started with 2.5a4. Particularly, I'm working on getting access to the ROM library of subroutines. I'm not sure if I'm going about it wrong or not, but I'm posting this to see if others are looking in (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Can't run software
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(...) I've been looking in: Settings > Control Panel > System > Device Manager I definitely don't have any listing for Graphics Card. But I do for Display Adapters. Could this be what you mean? If so I have run Windows Update for this driver and it (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Packaging!
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(...) It isn't necessary to access the internet to share missions files. When you create a mission through Special Operations and save it is saved to the following folder (assuming you used the default install): C:\Program Files\LEGO (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.lego)
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