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Re: Searching for alternatives
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 3 Feb 2001 00:32:43 GMT
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Tim Hatch <vbq@myrealbox.com+AvoidSpam+>
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Would you not lead him off-topic please!!?? There is no Springboard, nor
any in the works for large quantities, that remotely allow you to control
Legos from a Visor. The closest you can get is attaching the IR tower to
its not-quite-serial port (no pun intended. Honest) and using LRemote or
BrickRemote to send rudimentary commands, but until the OmniRemote 2.0 for
Developers is released, we have no hope of using the built-in IR on
Palm-style devices (WITH the exclusion of the Agenda, which you (if you know
C) can program yourself, writing ASM hardware controls).
The Springboard is a good idea, but Handspring products do not warrant a
wide enough user base to seem viable to TLG. Someone here or there might
build their own (but that invalidates their warranty), but it's not feasible
for any company to sell them (I imagine the electrical connector is
copyrighted).
Sorry to sound so negative, but that's the truth. You either gotta be a
hardcore programmer, be an EE, or have no advantage over the UAS remote.
Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: Dean Husby <nntp@akasa.bc.ca>
To: <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: Searching for alternatives
> Patrick Hui wrote:
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> > check the http://www.handyboard.com
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Patricio Valarezo
> > To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
> > Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 1:02 PM
> > Subject: Searching for alternatives
> >
> > Hi, my question is as follow:
> > The RCX´s main components are the CPU and the i/o interfaces. Do you
know of someone working to make a common computer ( using linux) with some
hardware for i/o than works like the RCX?
> >
> > I would like to learn more about this kind of solution.
>
>
> Your best bet would be a Handspring Visor with a Springboard that has • inputs and outputs on it...
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> I figure one of them will be along soon.
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> (Waiting for NQC on palm os...)
> Dean
> --
> Coin-Op's For Sale!: http://www.akasa.bc.ca/tfm/coin-op.html
> Dean's Lego Workshop: http://www.akasa.bc.ca/tfm/lego_wr.html
> Vancouver Lego Club: http://www.akasa.bc.ca/vlc
>
>
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| (...) Right now you can use a spring board module that can is compatible with the Mindstorms IR. True it can only mimic what you can capture. But that's a start. I'm waiting on buying a hand held until one of them can use NQC and upload programs and (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Your best bet would be a Handspring Visor with a Springboard that has inputs and outputs on it... I figure one of them will be along soon. (Waiting for NQC on palm os...) Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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