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On 5/23/05, Larry Pieniazek mylastname <larry.@ascentialsoftware.dot.com> wrote:
> In lugnet.events.brickfest, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
> >
> > Suz,
> >
> > While it's not exactly a 'simulation', there is a community project for the
> > robotics/technic areas this year. More will be announced soon, but you can
> > get
> > started by looking here:
> >
> > http://www.teamhassenplug.org/GBC/
> >
> > Steve
>
> Right, but haven't you and your cohorts (Hi Brian!) been busily proving that
> there hasn't yet been a mechanism that NEEDED an RCX? Most of the GBC modules
> are (brilliantly, elegantly...) purely mechanical except for the train ball
> return, and Brian was claiming that a sufficiently clever mechanical engineer
> could do that one without an RCX either....
Not having an RCX does not necesarily make it irrelevant to robotics.
I consider automatons fairly relevant - and the technique of getting a
single motor to do many things is a very valuable one, especially
considering the IO limitations of the RCX compared with say a PIC
based controller.
Orion
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