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(...) Well, here's one: don't buy a Dynex USB-to-serial adapter. The packaging and web site both claim it's Mac compatible, but I tried it on two different machines (a G4 Powerbook running 10.2.8 and a dual G5 desktop running 10.3.9), and two (...) (19 years ago, 2-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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(...) Heh -- if robotics required a PC, I'd take up knitting instead! (...) No need; MacNQC seems to run great and looks like a really nice environment. It goes beyond just compiling & downloading NQC code, and includes various interactive panels (...) (19 years ago, 2-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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(...) Best way to get started would be to buy an RCX and a PC! ;) Seriously, if you can't get NQC to run on your Mac, you might be able to find a decent Windows Emulator that does and use that. Or buy or be given an older PC- doesn't take a lot of (...) (19 years ago, 2-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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(...) What limited Spybots programming I've done has been based on two things. First, this site: (URL) to off the .spybotics frontpage is a great resource as far as it goes (with some examples in NQC even). Second, digging through and testing the (...) (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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I got a surprise birthday present of a Spybotics set #3808 (is my wife cool or what?). I don't have a Windows machine, but I dug around on the CD-ROM, found the building instructions, and got it working. I'm able to drive it around with remote (...) (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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(...) Steve, I think your right. A quick look into the ROM documentation shows "Sub Index 83 (p.139) TurnAway_Bead - Tries to turn the Spybot away from the target. If there is no target, or if the target is in the Anywahere zone, the bead exits (...) (19 years ago, 18-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) I can't find it right now, but I thought I read somewhere that if the direction is "anywhere", it will not have a direction. I believe that's consistant with what you're seeing. Steve (19 years ago, 18-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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Sorry, I forgot to mention I am using nqc 3.1r4 Allen (...) (19 years ago, 18-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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John, perhaps you can help me with the directional capabilities. I have attached a copy of my code below. I am reading the direction to another spybot/beacon and putting it through a simple least squares adjustment. I find over short distance (HERE (...) (19 years ago, 18-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) I have found a copy of the MindScript code for the default program (sort of) and I have ported it to NQC. Here's the default program in MindScript: program SpybotDefaultProgram { main { start 0 } } And here is its NQC equivalent: #pragma (...) (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) There was a bug in the code generated by NQC for the find opcode prior to version 3.1r2. If you are using a version of NQC older than 3.1r2 then that *might* explain why Brian's beacon.nqc program fails to work sometimes. I will try to find a (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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Hi Daniel, I can't really help you all that much, but some thoughts on my own experiments regarding the use of direction/range with the Spybot. I have found the direction readings to be very poor when the object is in zones there or anywhere. Once (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Nobody who can help us out on this one?? I'm looking for the NQC comando's that can control (readout) the sensor on the rear of the spybot.. This can be used as told above to determen if the beacon is in front of the spybot.. Or behind the (...) (19 years ago, 1-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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Hi, (...) Sorry, I don't have an RCX so can't really help you there. The NQC Guide is pretty good. The best way to find out is to try lots of combinations. (...) Here are a couple of programs where two Spybots send messages to each other. Another (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Well We are trying to get Spybotics following an IR emitting Ball.. This ball will be emitting the same data as the Controller does on blinking mode.. But somehow the program above (as said before) Will not work propperly and send the spybot (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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Hello everybody, This is my first post, I hope someone can help. I've recently started programming my Spybot with NQC and BricxCC. I would like to know how to send and receive serial data from the RCX to a Sptbot and vice versa. Also, is serial the (...) (19 years ago, 15-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) The Spybot LASM Opcode documentation for this opcode is just plain wrong. It says that the command structure is 6 bytes. The first byte is the opcode 0xd5. The second byte is the variable number. The third byte is the "find source" (relation (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Nope. NQC is definitely generating bad code. My apologies. I will fix it right away. John Hansen (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) The code generated by NQC appears to be correct. I've had reports over the years from lots of people who have had great success with using the world relation table information in the Spybot so I doubt that the firmware is buggy in this respect (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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I'm checking out the function FindWorld() [with BrixC and nqc version 3.1 a1 (built Mar 8 2005, 07:33:11)] and run into problems. The call int t = -1; ClearWorld(); FindWorld(t, SPY_RANGE, REL_GT, RANGE_NOWHERE); seems to work quite well. However if (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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