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(...) Brian, Could you send me a copy of the file that is causing the problem. I can see what is causing the problem in MacNQC. If you are having any other problems with MacNQC I would like to hear from you. What version of MacNQC are you using? Rob (...) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) And first, thank you (& Mark, John, and others) for figuring all this out! I'm trying to program a Spybot using NQC (via the MacNQC GUI), and without support like this & Dave's NQC, I'd never get anywhere. Again, THANK YOU to the community. (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) example code I think that adding a form of RF communication via the PIC is well possible and the PIC can oeprate as 'communication front end' for the spybot. I believe that Jay's work can boost considerably the capabilities of the spybot. (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) You are not the only one! I am wondering if this could be used to add RF communications to the Spybot? ... and of course additional sensors / motors. // Joe (URL) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) I probably botched the DOS serial driver, but you could give this build a try. (Requires at least a 386) (URL) had the djgpp version of gcc lying around from a previous DOS project, so I thought I'd give it a shot. Don (21 years ago, 3-Apr-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) I'm not likely to ever attempt such thing. Sorry about that. Maybe someone else will. John Hansen (21 years ago, 2-Apr-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Jay, Ok thanks. First of all: Good Job!! I have not read the article but I think the idea is very good. Can you comment a bit on the performances in a scenario in which the PIC would take care of data acquisition from a variety of sensors? (...) (21 years ago, 2-Apr-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Call me kooky, but I'd like to see actual DOS support (ie, non-Win32s specific code) for the serial port. I have an old, trusty Win3.11 laptop that I want to use when taking my RCX out to events, for last minute fiddling. I've found version (...) (21 years ago, 2-Apr-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Yes, I will at some point. Since the magazine just came out, I won't be posting anything right away. That wouldn't be fair to the publisher, would it? In the meantime, I'm more than happy to answer specific questions about the project. --Jay (21 years ago, 2-Apr-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Jay, Can you post the details relative to the spybot somewhere? that would be very useful to the community... (21 years ago, 2-Apr-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Hi John, It does work. The RCX appears in the Spybot's World Table. The Range is set to Anywhere. Pretty cool... --Jay (21 years ago, 29-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Boy, this RCX to Spy IR comm thing is sure going the right way! The SPYBOTICS are a little known and hidden LEGO gem. Gramps Eddie & Grandson CJ (21 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I presume that somewhere that data is being dropped. It isn't showing up as data the tower reports to the operating system. I haven't actually tried the function I posted the other day so it is entirely possible that a Spybot will not (...) (21 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I'm a little surprised that the Spybot doesn't need to see the packet header byte - the byte containing the range/orientation bits preceding the 0x8n Ping byte. The header is deliberately generated with the stop bit cleared to force a framing error. (...) (21 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Yes, that is what another person told me via email yesterday. So a ping simulation function for an RCX running the RCX2 firmware could be: // nLinkID = 0-7, where 0 = no link, 7 = pc link, 1-6 = controller link // nMyID = 8-255 (minBotID = 8, (...) (21 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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