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(...) Never mind I got it now! It's a 2 step process. 1) Use the instructions you provided to set the "variable" in Windows XP. !!!RESTART THE COMPUTER!!!! !!!RESTART THE COMPUTER!!!! 2) When you start BrixCC select RCX2 from the drop-down list. (...) (12 years ago, 1-Feb-12, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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<<snip>> (...) Thanks ROSCO I did that and it does work when I am using the "command line" of NQC. When I do either: nqc -Trcx2 -d counter.nqc or nqc -d counter.nqc However in BricxCC when I hit compile I get an error saying Undefined function (...) (12 years ago, 1-Feb-12, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Hi Ahui, You can set environment variables on XP by going to Control Panel / System, click Advanced tab, and click "Environment Variables" near the bottom. You can add it to either system variables (available to all users) or just for the user (...) (12 years ago, 1-Feb-12, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) ???? Still a bit confused on this? I am running WinXP and not sure where to use the SET command? Opening up a DOS windows via CMD does show that I have this: NQC_OPTIONS=-Trcx2 along with a lot of other windows variables but when I go and (...) (12 years ago, 1-Feb-12, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) he,he,he... I'm going to bring back a 12 year old thread. I'm using Windows XP and cannot figure out how to set the NQC_OPTIONS=-Trcx2 option. Any idea? -Ahui (12 years ago, 1-Feb-12, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Or... avoid both stock relays and chip-based switching. For a linear motor you want to trigger each electromagnet in a series, you ideally you might like a "push-pull" system, where you aren't just turning a magnet on and off, but reversing (...) (12 years ago, 31-Dec-11, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Iain, How much power do you want for the electromagnets, and how rapidly do you need to switch them on and off? Old-fashioned relays will give you the least power loss, but can't be switched very quickly. They also have a limited life (between 10 (...) (12 years ago, 24-Dec-11, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi all, It's been a while! A long while ago, while in elementary school, I used LEGO to build a manually-operated Linear Synchronous Motor (LSM) for a science fair project. I want to revisit this as an adult and built a full test track with a couple (...) (12 years ago, 24-Dec-11, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) been updated. New for this update are patches 43 and 44 43: Per the report from SourceForge user bollinge, Cygwin no longer has a problem building printf.c. A Cygwin-specific (...) (12 years ago, 15-Nov-11, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: MacNQC 4.05b, RCX 1.0 and OS X 10.4.6 can't program the brick
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(...) Funny I'm tripping over this just today... (...) The most weird thing happened to me today on my iMac - I've only dug out the old Mindstorms stuff last weekend and went through reviving cybermaster and Spybotics - and guess what, the RCX and (...) (13 years ago, 10-Mar-11, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Has anyone found a solution (other than using the serial tower or Virtual PC). Is anyone else interested in creating a 64-bit driver for Windows 7? Steve Putz steve@RoboticsLearning.com www.RoboticsLearning.com (13 years ago, 6-Jan-11, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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An earlier thread [ (URL) ] touched on changing the baud rate of the USB IR tower. Based on what information I have been able to find, it appears that at one time the Lego USB driver for Linux did include the ability to change the baud rate and (...) (14 years ago, 10-Sep-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Greetings, I would suggest comparing this code with other programs that make use of rotation sensors, such as the following: * LDCC - (URL) particular, dccdemo.c uses a rotation sensor as part of a DCC throttle. * Power Functions - (URL) this thread (...) (14 years ago, 17-Jul-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Re: Power Functions: There is an older thread on the topic of Power Functions at [ (URL) ] which includes links to some BrickOS-based code for Power Functions. Be sure to follow the thread to the end, as some of the links mentioned earlier on no (...) (14 years ago, 17-Jul-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I don't normally bump things, but this has been unanswered for over two weeks, so I think it deserves it. I really can't believe that rotation sensors would be this broken, and yet, I can't see anything wrong with my code. It really is odd... (14 years ago, 24-Jun-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello Yann, 2010/6/15 Yann Vernier <yann@algonet.se>: (...) I really would prefer to see the interrupt code running to disabling all interrupts for several milliseconds, loosing several ticks and disabling all sensors during this time. Did you apply (...) (14 years ago, 15-Jun-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I've recently mucked about with the Power Functions protocol, and got a proof of concept running on the RCX using brickOS. The main problem is that it's quite timing sensitive, so this code only worked reliably with interrupts disabled (...) (14 years ago, 15-Jun-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, I've tried using the latest BrickOS and the latest BIBO with patches (from here: (URL) both with the same result. I don't know if nobody's really used a rotation sensor in 4 years (unlikely), or if my code just fails (likely), but every time I (...) (14 years ago, 12-Jun-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Art Making Robot and Erik¡¦s Plotter
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(...) Thank you for Ultimate RoboLAB. This is the last piece of the puzzle for my next art robot. When I started this project, my first decision was what platform to use. RoboLAB 2.9, Ultimate RoboLAB and Eric’s plotter vi’s had all the parts (...) (14 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Art Making Robot and Erik¡¦s Plotter
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(...) site was discontinued. You may download the latest UR version 151 from: www.convict.lu/ULTIM...UR_151.zip Good luck, -Claude (14 years ago, 14-Mar-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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