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Hi All, April's Circuit Cellar magazine has an article I wrote on one method of hacking the Spybot. I emulated the I2C EEPROM with a PIC. I then mapped the upper 128 bytes of the EEPROM variable space (locations 0x80 through 0xFF) for use as an I/O (...) (21 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: RCX to Spy messages thru IR communications route
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(...) Hi John, I think the low nibble of the first byte contains the Link ID of the Spybot. It is zero if the Spybot is not linked to a controller. 1 if it is linked to controller 1, 2 if controller 2, etc. This should be easy to double check with (...) (21 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: RCX to Spy messages thru IR communications route
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(...) Okay, after banging my head against this for WAY too long I think I have finally figured out (somewhat) a few things that were previously completely lost to my understanding. If you want an RCX (running RCX2 firmware) to simulate a Spybot Ping (...) (21 years ago, 24-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: RCX to Spy messages thru IR communications route
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(...) very astute info. You folks, and you J.H. are 'right-on' once again! Yes it works, but SPY seems to react only to very specific code strings (message A: byte 0=0x92, byte1=0x23; message B: byte 0=0x92, byte1=0xab; ... etc.), and immediately (...) (21 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: RCX to Spy messages thru IR communications route
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(...) Mark Riley wrote a program quite a while ago that sends IR messages to a Spybot from an RCX ((URL) The receiver side of this (running on the Spybot) is implemented in his post in MindScript. I just posted a message a few minutes ago which (...) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Spybots communication
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(...) To send and receive IR or VLL messages using NQC and Spybots you would write a program something like this: #define VLLEvent 1 #define MessageEvent 2 void DebugOut(const int &x) { SetLED(LED_MODE_ON, (x & 0x17) | ((x & 8) * 4) | ((x & 32) / (...) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | RCX to Spy messages thru IR communications route
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Has anyone got messaging from the RCX2 to Spybotics working? Would be great to hear if you have! (21 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Spybots communication
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Hello, how can I establish communication between Spybots. I’ve found “SendSpybotMessage” function in extended John Hansen‘s spybot api, but I don’t know how to use it. I want to use two spybots to build one robot, so I need two way communication (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | BricxCC home page is moving!
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At the end of last year I finally signed up for high speed internet access from Comcast. Included in the agreement (with my wife) is that I would get rid of my long association with AOL. I've had the JohnBinder AOL email address for many, many years (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics.scout, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | NQC & Spybot subroutine code generation bug
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I have just received a report from a user that NQC programs containing subroutines do not execute correctly against the Spybot platform. I have confirmed that this is a problem with all versions of NQC which support the Spybot brick. This program: (...) (21 years ago, 11-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Spybotics VLL & NQC
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Hi, I'm having a frustrating time again! I've given up on trying to read the Spybotic controller and have turned my attention to the VLL cable. Can anyone help me with setting up comms between an old laptop PC and a Spybotic pBrick, all I want to do (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.7
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(...) Upon further review, it would appear that (at least on my machine and one other that I have heard about) the new release of BricxCC (3.3.7.7) does, in fact, correctly download the brickOS firmware. My previous tests were using an old copy of (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: NQC's future
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(...) Very! I don't expect to use the game data often, but it would be nice to have the option of having it available or not. thanks for the great work! (21 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Reading Spybotic controller
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Thanks Steve, I was having some trouble with MindScript, but I'll give it another try. Thanks again John (21 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Reading Spybotic controller
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(...) I seem to remember in Mindscript, there is a way to disable the RC messages. I think it was something like "setRCDisable" I'm not sure if that is implemented in the latest verson of NQC. (and I'm not sure if that's the right command) But I (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Reading Spybotic controller
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Hi, I've been trying some experiments with Spybotic communications using Bricxcc and NQC. I have been able to send and receive messages using 'SendSpybotMessage()' and 'RxMessage()' However, when I try to read the controller, I am only able to (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.7
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(...) Unfortunately, BricxCC is still not downloading the brickOS firmware correctly. I will look into this problem and try to fix it. In the mean time, you can use firmdl3 which works correctly. John Hansen (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | BricxCC release 3.3.7.7
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I've released version 3.3.7.7 of BricxCC today. It adds a Spybot EEPROM tool window. It adds a new configurable watch tool window. It adds a new generic set source value tool window. It adds a hot key (F2) for the pbForth console. The position of (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.6
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Hi John, Thanks to your pre-built BrickOS tools, I have finally installed it on my Windows 2000 machine (I tried several times in the past... no luck !). The installation was really fast and easy, the only problem I got was that the default BrickOS (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: NQC's future
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"Brian Davis" <brdavis@iusb.edu> wrote in message news:HrB87H.17p1@lugnet.com... (...) future one) for NQC (...) I think your question probably meant "can I use FastTimer in defining events because I want better resolution than is possible with (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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