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In lugnet.org.us.laflrc, David Koudys wrote:
> And I like the ability to have 10 motors in 1 bot using 1 RCX. When John
> develops a multiplexor to sell for the NXT so I can have more than 1 motor
> connected to one output, maybe I'll look into buying one. As it stands (and as
> I can afford), I'll stay with the RCX's (for now) :)
So, I'm wondering about the NXT's ability to command the RCX. How possible is
the following: I know that I can hook up motors to my RCX sensor ports and vice
versa. They might not work doing anything really practical but they can be
hooked up. If I hook up an rcx motor to a sensor port on the rcx, and tell the
sensor port that it is really some kind of sensor, and then spin the motor, I
think I remember the rcx being about to tell that there is something at the end
of the line generating some current. Yeah, my details are fuzzy but I'm sure
someone has done this too.
So, why not tell the nxt to use an 'old rcx motor' block (or whatever it is
called) and use that to send information down one of the nxt wires, into a
conversion wire, into a port on the rcx. Then the nxt could tell the rcx what
to do.
Yeah, I haven't tried it, but I'm sure there is some combination of output from
the nxt that could be interpretted by an rcx.
Now, I have no idea why anyone would want to do that, but that's not my job
here.
In keeping with what is becoming common practice,
Rafe "All you have to do swim inside, jam a pebble in the fan, and swim out.
Once you do that, this tank is going to get filthier and filthier, and the
dentist will have no choice but to clean the tank himself. He'll put us in
individual baggies, then we roll out the window, down to the ground, across the
street, and into the ocean. It's foolproof!" Donahue
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At 12:22 PM 1/12/07, Rafe Donahue wrote:
Nemo,
> So, why not tell the nxt to use an 'old rcx motor' block (or whatever it is
> called) and use that to send information down one of the nxt wires, into a
> conversion wire, into a port on the rcx. Then the nxt could tell the rcx what
> to do.
I think this is possible, and would work, at least as well as it did
on the RCX.
A simple conversion cable could be connected to both. I believe the
wires that would be connected would act just like connecting two RCXs
together.
So, of the six wires in the NXT cable, two are (more or less) exactly
the same as in the RCX,. Those are the two that are connected in the
conversion cable.
Steve
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