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Re: Robotics beginner question
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Fri, 23 Mar 2001 00:12:08 GMT
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What kind of programming do you do with the RCX?
~Adam
In lugnet.robotics, Dean Hystad writes:
> In lugnet.robotics, Adam Murtha writes:
> > Hi there, I recently picked up a 9748 DDK. I think it is a pretty fun set,
> > for the limited amount of things that it does. I was wondering if someone
> > who knows more about the Mindstorms stuff can answer a few questions for me.
> > What are the expansion sets for? Do they work with 9748? Or is 9748 a
> > 'stand alone' type set? What is RCX and what does it do? Thanks.
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> The expansion sets are meant to work with the Robotics Invention System
> (RIS), and to a (much) lesser extent the Robotics Discovery System (RDS).
> They don't integrate well with systems based on the micro-scout.
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> The RCX is a big lego brick that has a CPU which you program from your PC or
> Mac. It has three input ports for attaching sensors (touch, light,
> rotation, temperature, etc...) and three output ports for driving motors.
> It also has an infrared (IR) sensor and transmitter that can be used to
> communicate with other RCX's, scouts (a limited RCX like thing that comes
> with the RDS), or with your computer through the IR tower (which attaches to
> your computer through a serial port, or more recently a USB port). I think
> it can even communicate with the micro-scout to a limited degree.
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> Using software on your PC, you write programs that run on the RCX brick.
> These are downloaded to the brick using the IR tower. This allows you to
> create robots/machines that behave in the way you want them too. Today the
> RCX can be the heart of an RC car, tomarrow a line following robot, or a
> slot machine, or a tic-tac-toe playing robot, or a ..... The possibilites
> are limitless.
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| Any kind you want, there are a myriad of available languages to use with it, whether its the out of the box lego, paint by number language ;) , or the down and dirty full C/C++ legos language, and many others in between, forth, python, java, to name (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) The expansion sets are meant to work with the Robotics Invention System (RIS), and to a (much) lesser extent the Robotics Discovery System (RDS). They don't integrate well with systems based on the micro-scout. The RCX is a big lego brick that (...) (26 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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