Subject:
|
Re: Searching for alternatives
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.robotics
|
Date:
|
Tue, 6 Feb 2001 03:10:21 GMT
|
Original-From:
|
Steve Baker <sjbaker1@SPAMLESSairmail.net>
|
Reply-To:
|
sjbaker1@airmail=spamcake=.net
|
Viewed:
|
1672 times
|
| |
|
|
John Barnes wrote:
> I would appreciate a link to some in depth info about the "Agenda" device if
> there is one.
All the 'good stuff' is on www.agendacomputing.com - check out the 'developer'
links.
> I also have a question;
>
> If you are proposing replacing the compute capability of the RCX by something
> else and if you are going to have to get out a soldering iron to make
> "something" which allows your "alternative" to talk to the RCX, it's presumably because
> you want the RCX's motor output and sensor input capabilities.
I wasn't proposing to replace the RCX - but merely to use the Agenda to provide
*MUCH* more intelligence for the robot. I want to use the Agenda to run fancy
AI routines and to control the robot by sending IR commands to the RCX.
The Agenda is small enough and light enough to carry on the robot so it's still
fully autonomous.
> So why throttle your new scheme
> by the 3+3 limit of the RCX? It seems to me that a simple interface box which
> connects to the Agenda (wish I knew more about what "connects' means in this
> instance) and which hosts a useful number of motor outputs and Lego compatible
> analog inputs would be a lot more appropriate.
Well - I guess that's pretty tricky. The only outputs from the Agenda is the
RS-232 and IR ports...interfacing those to motors and such is not going to be
an easy proposition.
I still maintain that the best way to do this is to build a MODULAR system
based on something like the I2C bus...but that's a different problem.
What I think the Agenda solves is the "Serious computer on a Robot with
useful battery life" problem.
--
Steve Baker HomeEmail: <sjbaker1@airmail.net>
WorkEmail: <sjbaker@link.com>
HomePage : http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
Projects : http://plib.sourceforge.net
http://tuxaqfh.sourceforge.net
http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net
http://prettypoly.sourceforge.net
http://freeglut.sourceforge.net
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Searching for alternatives
|
| I have been following this thread with great interest - as an avid seeker of alternatives. I would appreciate a link to some in depth info about the "Agenda" device if there is one. I also have a question; If you are proposing replacing the compute (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
|
31 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
Active threads in Robotics
|
|
|
|
|
|
