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Re: Agenda Palmtop (was: Very Newbie Question regarding remote control)
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Date: 
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 05:19:02 GMT
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This looks like an incredibly capable little device. Have you already built
anything with it? Pictures?

Steve Baker wrote:

I'm using an Agenda Palmtop (www.agendacomputing.com) which runs Linux and
can *easily* be programmed much like a desktop computer.  It weighs just
a few ounces and is the ame size as the RCX but less than a half inch thick.

It can communicate with the RCX quite easily over IR - and since you can design
the robot such that the two IR sensors are facing each other, you won't have
communications problems.



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  Re: Very Newbie Question regarding remote control
 
(...) Well, the RCX (the computer "brick" that comes with the $200 Mindstorms set) has Infrared communications with the PC. The amount of RAM in the RCX is rather limited for fancy AI stuff - but plenty for taking simple commands *from* the AI (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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