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Re: mindstorms NXT
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 7 Jan 2006 02:31:11 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Timothy Carl Buchheim wrote:
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In lugnet.robotics, Timothy Carl Buchheim wrote:
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It would be cool to have an external unit with its own battery pack and
motor ports to supply extra motors. (It could be connected through the
motor or sensor ports, or through USB, or through bluetooth.. of course,
for those willing to spend a lot extra, you could probably use an extra NXT
for this by having a master NXT send commands to a slave NXT over bluetooth)
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I was just thinking .. the rumors about this year’s trains are that they’ll
be remote controlled battery-powered units (probably so LEGO can use cheaper
track without the metal conductors) .. those would fit the bill exactly.
Bluetooth controllable battery packs capable of driving motors. That would
be the best way to handle both trains (for compatibility with existing train
motors .. just attach it to the studs normally used for attaching light
bricks) and old technic motors.
This is just speculation, of course. And if LEGO hadn’t already thought of
that.. well, go ahead and steal my idea. Please. :-)
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Well, I am pretty sure the control for the trains is IR. That’s what Jake said
and that is what the little black bump is on the side of the trains. I am sure
TLG will do their Manas type IR serial interface, with message packets at
different rep. rates with different address bits to accomplish a similar
multi-channel control thing.
JB
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| (...) I was just thinking .. the rumors about this year's trains are that they'll be remote controlled battery-powered units (probably so LEGO can use cheaper track without the metal conductors) .. those would fit the bill exactly. Bluetooth (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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