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Re: Searching for alternatives
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Sat, 3 Feb 2001 04:49:14 GMT
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Tim Hatch wrote:
> 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).
> I'm thinking that because a company is selling the bits to make a standard
> PALM power robot. (That stupid things with wheels) that someone would make and
> sell a standard input/output device. I'm not saying it's going to have LEGO
> connectors or be made by LEGO. It's just a natual evolution of the Springboard
> port.
> 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.
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 firmware.
It's got to be coming... There's nothing worse then being at a show and the
battery falling out... There goes the brick... Ugg...
Dean
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| (...) The device drivers for the CIR port are being written right now - once those are done, you won't need assembler to drive the port. Since it's mapped onto /dev/ttyS<something>, it's pretty likely that NQC will need nothing more than a recompile (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| "Dean Husby" <nntp@akasa.bc.ca> wrote in message news:3A7B8DCA.918084...a.bc.ca... (...) the (...) start. (...) Ah, but you can! With my Hewlett-Packard 320 LX, I can connect my Mindstorms IR Tower. I write NQC programs with Microsoft Pocket Word, (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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