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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
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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 means of the IR link.
> Stop me now if this a deja vu all over again, 'cos I missed it the first
> time.
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> 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.
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> Now why wouldn't I want a bunch of those. I do! ME TOO !
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> Any thoughts? Whose already done it?
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> JB
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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 (...) (26 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 (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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