Lego RCX-morph and SQLego stability

Bergel Alexandre bergel at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Aug 15 10:09:24 UTC 2002


Hello Edmund,

Some pratical questions :
Which OS do you use ?
Which release of LegoMindstorms do you use ? Actually, there is *no* support for USB, so, only system below 2.0 could be used.

Alexandre


On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 06:45:52AM +0200, Edmund Ronald wrote:
> Hi Ned and others interested in Lego + Squeak -
> 
>  I cannot manage to load in Ned's  RCXMorph file, with or without
> Alexandre's classes loaded into a 3.2 Squeak. I was interested in Ned's
> code as Alexandre's stuff seems to work *sometimes* and often puts up an
> error notifier.
> 
>  Error notifiers are OK for interactive work but a nuisance
> if you are using a learning algorithm ...
> 
> Anyway, my questions are 
> 1. Is there a *stable* version of the comms routines for the RCX ? How do
> I debug the error notifiers I get intermittently ?
> 2. How do I figure out the loading problems for RCXMorph ? I am a newbie
> albeit a middle-aged one :)
> 3. What is the state of play on Lego and Squeak ? Shall we form a SIG ? :)
> 4. How does one work around error notifiers at run-time - ie catch the
> notifier with a different process and fail gracefully - without having to
> rewrite complex existing code like the RCX  comms stuff ?
> 
> 
> Edmund
> 
> 
> 

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