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I've been wondering if anybody has any ideas why they chose to go with IR as opposed to RF? The substantial limitations of IR make it highly impracticle for robotics. The only two reasons I can see would be cost or power limitations. I can't imagine (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) What makes this REALLY difficult is that the communications medium is error prone - it's all too easy for two robots to get out of IR contact with each other when they are moving around. That makes all the usual protocols very difficult. In (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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I have thought about those methods as well, the only problem is when you don't work with the RCX's for just one robot. When you want to try a little bit with AI and interactions between different robots you can't have a master that requests, unless (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That's actually what my 1xRCX + 4xScout system uses. Another way to think of it is "Don't talk until the person before you has finished speaking". If each machine has a number, you can send that number embedded in the message somewhere. The (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Which version of Windoze do you have - Win95 doesn't have USB drivers for example. It seems unlikely that Mitsubishi would build a PC with a USB port that Windoze can't recognise - so it's probably just some ugly Windoze installation problem. (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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I have a notebook mitsubishi, Amity CN wich has a USB port and an IR port. Does anybody know how can I use it to program RCX. Windows doesn't recognize the USB port and I don't know if installing the Lego software would. I could probably use the IR (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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There's one way for solving the problem with multiple IR communications at the same time. The method used for old computer networks is called a "token" wich is passed from PC to PC giving each one a chance to "speak". This could also be used for (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hello - In the past I have burned out serial port towers, so I recently acquired the USB version of the IR tower. I did not realize that NQC makes use of the lego driver - it is looking like I have to purchase an entire RIS just to get Ghost. Is (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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A simple nslookup also reveals this is a lego site: i:\>nslookup www.spybotics.com *** Can't find server name for address 192.16 *** Default servers are not available Server: UnKnown Address: 192.168.1.1 Non-authoritative answer: Name: lego.com (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Keep tuned in to a website I just came across. Looks like somethings going to happen in a couple of days (there is a countdown timer running)... www.spybotics.com If you don't think its Lego, just look at the source code. -Rob (23 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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