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RE: Old idea or new idea?
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 2 Nov 2000 23:14:36 GMT
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John Barnes <barnes@sensors^nospam^.com>
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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 link :-)
>Maybe now's the time for you to learn pbForth, so you can send
>arbitrary byte messages from 1 RCX to another....
The method to this particular madness was that it could retain the
pre-existing Lego infrastructure of RCX's already equipped with the
IR links, battery boxes, for power distribution, because I don't fancy
having batteries in every sensor and motor brick, and standard
Lego wires.
Although there are a few of us ;) who might relish the thought of
happily scattering bits of our code throughout a small zoo of oddly
shaped semi-intelligent bricks, it can become quite the handful to
tame. And I'm not sure it's everybody's idea of fun.
By rather arbitrarily suggesting that all a remote sensor can do is
sense, or a remote motor can do is go forward, reverse or stop, the
opportunites to get thoroughly lost in a sea of autonomous processes
is greatly reduced.
I think ...
JB
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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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| 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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