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RE: Palm Hardware Interface idea? + other stuff
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 2 Nov 2000 19:30:10 GMT
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Craig Martin <craig@craigmartin.com#AntiSpam#>
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yes, cool idea.
I have a learning curve to
go through, but I'd be interested
in pursuing this.
Incidentally, it was that palm
kit mentioned on slashdot (actually
I got there via Wired.com)
that I'm waiting on...
acroname.com have created a kit
under licence from MIT as described
I've ordered but it's early days
and they haven't begun shipping yet...
(and off-the-wall again,
I read about different OS/firmware
for the brick, is anybody
pursuing porting embedded linux
or am I being dumb even asking?)
I'd still appreciate feedback on
the radio-control feature of the
cybermaster if anybody
has experience with it
I also found a reference to an O'Reilly
book on mindstorms that seems
to cover a lot of ground in detail
anybody have it? worth ordering?
sorry if this is turning
into "newbie-stream-of-consciousness-stuff"
but I was reading an article about
"swarm computing" (yeah, yeah, I hear you say...)
( http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-10/lw-10-futurecomputing.html
)
and got to thinking about what could be achieved
with a number of rcx bricks, maybe,
to come back to your comment,
co-ordinated by a palm or pc...
kind of semi-autonomous but
"project managed"
Finally, though I'm late to the party
I gather the mindstorms kits
have been around for a couple of
years? What are lego working on?
What's the "next generation"?
Craig
> --- Original Message ---
> From: David Chen <dcchen@pacbell.net>
> To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
> Date: 11/2/00 6:51:03 PM
> Craig Martin wrote:
>
> > I'm a mindstorms newbie, just got
> > a set last week (I decided I couldn't afford
> > a cye to start messing with robotics
> > and I'm still waiting for delivery of
> > a palm-based robot kit...) • <snip>
> > I have a palm program from the list
> > website that allows me to use the
> > palm to control a 'bot, I guess
> > I could build or find one for the pc too
> > but IR obviously has certain key limitations...
>
> Hmmm...I was thinking about this after I saw the Palm Pilot • based robot
> kit on Slashdot. How about a modified interface board that • connects
> with the Palm Pilot via the serial port and then it has an array • of
> RCX compatible Inputs and Outputs that communicates with Mindstorms
> Motors/Sensors and other things. Seems like the the controller • board
> for the Palm Pilot robot is pretty powerfull:
>
> Serial Servo Controller (SSC) Board:
> Pontech’s SV203 board was used to connect the Palm Pilot to • servomotors
> and infrared rangefinders. The board can control up to 8 servos
> simultaneously and has 5 analog-to-digital inputs. All communication • is
> done by sending and receiving short strings. For example:
> "SV1" selects a servo number 1, "M128" - moves selected servo • to
> position 128. Sampling of sensors is done by sending a request • to sample
> a desired sensor ("AD1\r"), and then receiving a value of the • sensor
> followed by ASCII 10 and ASCII 13.
>
> Maybe you could modify it to have servo and RCX Motor compatible
> outputs?
>
> Interesting project, wonder if there would be an interest?
>
> Dave
>
> --
>
> dcchen@pacbell.net
>
>
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