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| | | While pondering the merits of various schemes for adding more I/O to the RCX, and having already built a few different schemes myself just to be able to test drive them, I was struck by the interesting possiblity of seriously extending the RCX my (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | RE: Old idea or new idea? —Ralph Hempel
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| | | | | (...) Sounds like the MIT "Cricket" to me John.... As an embedded guy yourself, you know this means distributing power to each brick with its own battery, unless you want a wire in which case you might as well use a standard serial link :-) Maybe (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: Old idea or new idea? —Rik Bos
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| | | | | "John Barnes" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> schreef in bericht news:4.2.0.58.200011...lserver... (...) but the problem is , Lego doesn't used a standard IR-protocol but a carier-based IR-communication. And that means filters demodulation and a lot of (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: Old idea or new idea? —Pete Sevcik
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| | | | | | (...) idea (...) Lego uses standard TV remote control technology, but passes ASCII serial data instead of TV REMOTE commands. Before Mindstorms was around, I built (and sold a few) battery operated control units for use with Lego motors. This (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | RE: Old idea or new idea? —John Barnes
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| | | | Ralph Hempel wrote: >Sounds like the MIT "Cricket" to me John.... >As an embedded guy yourself, you know this means distributing >power to each brick with its own battery, unless you want a wire >in which case you might as well use a standard serial (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Old idea or new idea? —J Austin David
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| | | | (...) 3 things: sensors, actuators/motors, controllers. Sensors: measure the environment actuators/motors: chance the environment controllers: input, output, software. If you want your zoo of bricks, it's really a set of sensor/controllers or (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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