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Comment on Spybotics FAQs by Doug

Doug — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 18:37:17 +0000

Michiel,

Would you be able to send me the software as well?

Many thanks!

Comment on Spybotics FAQs by Doug

Doug — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 18:36:22 +0000

Michiel,

I’m glad I checked back here (after 4 years!) Thank you!!

Comment on Configuring the LEGO USB Tower on Linux by TFevrier

TFevrier — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 08:50:37 +0000

This tips works for me
Thxs

Comment on Why? by Ray

Ray — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 20:55:07 +0000

This Website of yours is great! Please keep it up. I have an RCX from an RIS 1.0 that I received in 1998, a Scout, two Microscouts, and an NXT. Since the original software for the RCX won’t work on newer versions of Windows, I’ve been trying to find a way to program the RCX; and thanks to you, I now have a means whereby I may program my RCX. Thank you so much for your website.

Comment on Scout Software Developers Kit by Paul

Paul — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 18:52:37 +0000

I just want to thank you for keeping these programs up.
I got the SDK to work and it is a helpful tool!

Comment on RCX Firmware by William dash

William dash — Sat, 02 Jan 2016 01:33:31 +0000

Can the Lego firmware be sent to the rcx brick from a phone?

Comment on Configuring the LEGO USB Tower on Linux by Christian

Christian — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 13:35:12 +0000

@Justin … just ran into the same error and found the solution:

1) unpack and patch everything as described above and then run make until the error occurs.

2) Then edit the file compiler/lexer.cpp on line 1860 which looks like :

extern int isatty YY_PROTO(( int ));

and change this to

extern “C” int isatty YY_PROTO(( int ));

save and quit your editor.
3) run make again

Should now produce a workin nqc binary.

Hope this works for you as it worked for me, regards

Chris

Comment on Configuring the LEGO USB Tower on Linux by Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 02:55:36 +0000

Thanks for the instructions. I found a similar set on another blog (likely based on these instructions) for setting up nqc on my Raspberry Pi (running NOOBs). After years of neglect, I decided to try to reinvigorate my old Mindstorms set (once I cleared out the leaky batteries). It seems to work, and the green light on the tower lights when I try to communicate, but he RCX 2.0 just ignores it (no numbers appear on the screen when I download firmware, nqc just stuck waiting). Has anyone else had trouble getting the RCX to communicate?

Comment on Configuring the LEGO USB Tower on Linux by Michiel

Michiel — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:49:07 +0000

Really helpful – I didn’t know there was an Ubuntu package for NQC
Thanks Jack!

Comment on Configuring the LEGO USB Tower on Linux by Jack Foust

Jack Foust — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 19:27:55 +0000

Michiel –

Thanks for the helpful instructions. I would like to pass along one suggestion – it may be a quirk of my particular set-up, but I eventually found that the only way I could get nqc to communicate with the tower was to rename /dev/usb/legousbtower1 to /dev/usb/legousbtower0. Presumably the package I am using (nqc_3.1.r6-1_amd64.deb) has a requirement for that hard-coded in somewhere. That solved the problem. It may be worth a try to anyone who has a loaded tower driver and a working nqc, has already tried chmod 666 and changing file ownership, but keeps getting the message (as I did) “could not open serial port of usb device.”

BTW – I had trouble compiling nqc, so here’s the link to the package, in case anyone wants to try it: http://packages.ubuntu.com/uk/precise/amd64/nqc/download

Cheers,
-Jack