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On Mon, October 17, 2005 2:42 pm, David Koudys wrote:
> I'll let you know tonight what my findings are with regard to the motor-to-senor
> thing.
>
> I know that you guys were talking about it when you were buidling all your C$
> 'bots--bout I think Derek or somoene said the RCX sensor port can register the
> difference between motor off and motor float and use that in a program as a way
> of conveying info from one RCX to another--it gets rid of the IR communication
> issues.
Just like with LDCC, polarity DOES matter.
One thing I played around with before C$ was connecting two sensor ports together,
and switching them between active & passive modes. That means to send messages back
and forth, you only use two sensor ports, instead of two motor ports, and two sensor
ports. I don't think I was getting very reliable results.
Steve
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| In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Steve Hassenplug wrote: <snip> (...) Oh I've blown up RCX's before--once when I (erronously) thought that the wall wart that comes with the LEGO 9v train controller was actually putting out 9 volts and plugged that into (...) (20 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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