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Re: Old idea or new idea?
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Thu, 2 Nov 2000 21:48:49 GMT
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"John Barnes" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> schreef in bericht
news:4.2.0.58.20001102143849.00c77c80@mailserver...
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 means of the IR link.
Stop me now if this a deja vu all over again, 'cos I missed it the first
time.

Only becasue I've spent the last few weeks getting a single "multiple
RCX" thing to work, by means of the message transmit receive function,
did it cross my mind that you could build little smart bricks which
communicate with the RCX via this function. This cannot be a new idea,
but as I said, I must have missed it the first time. I assume that you
could have sensor bricks and motor control bricks which are addressed
by some simple message byte convention and which would hang off of
a daisy chain of wires from a 9v battery pack.

Now why wouldn't I want a bunch of those. I do!    ME TOO !

Any thoughts? Whose already done it?

JB



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 programming , but the idea
is tempting.
Who makes and publishe it ?

Rik



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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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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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