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Re: Standardizing Car Designs, etc.
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Wed, 2 May 2001 01:25:29 GMT
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I'll have one RCX (coincidently I only have one) for the turntable.
Jeff VW
In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Jeff Elliott writes:
> Hey folks, (esp. Iain...)
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> So, we're talking about doing some nifty automated stuff at Train1.
> Cool. I think we're going to need to talk about some common
> standards if we want to be able to interoperate, though:
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> 1) Freight boxes: Okay, we talked about this: 4x8x4 bricks, the
> standard Lego freight container. Don't assume that there are sides
> to it, though!
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> 2) Freight cars: I saw Calum's prototype, and it seems to me that
> a robot is going to have trouble landing boxes precisely enough for
> that car - the positions of the crates are fine, but we might have
> to work on lowering the sides and making more error-firendly cars.
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> 3) Gravel/Whatever hopper cars: Side tip or bottom-unloading? I
> don't care; I just put stuff in the cars. Someone care to step up
> to the task of designing a standard hopper car?
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> 4) Car coding: Do we want to put labels/plates on the sides of the
> interactive car types so that our automation can discern an engine
> from, say, a freight car or hopper? Wouldn't require too much work,
> but I want to know if it's been done before. Mean time to failure
> is important here - it'd be nice to have a dependable solution that
> would only fail once in a hundred cars or less, and adapt to light
> conditions, etc.
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> 5) RCX commo protocols: I'm bringing RCXes to the show, and they're
> going to be talking to one another a lot. I can do one of three
> things: Put them all in a cave or a box so that they can
> intercommunicate without interference; I can use a robust multi-
> message transport layer (and mess up anyone else...) or those of us
> who are bringing multiple RCXes can chose messages which don't
> interfere. So who is bringing RCXes?
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> Jeff E
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