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Re: RC enabling mindstorms
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 21 Oct 2001 18:26:01 GMT
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Steve Baker <SJBAKER1@stopspamAIRMAIL.NET>
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Ben Firshman wrote:
> This is a VERY bad idea...
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> You could get a standard RC kit from a model shop and some how make the
> servos (motors) to activate a touch sensor.
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> Told you it was a bad idea - it would have to have four batteries as
> well as the 6 in the RCX... It was also be costly - a 4 channel RC kit
> costs about £100 (approx $140).
I wouldn't approach the problem like that at all.
I think you could take the servomotor pulses and feed them into a sensor
port of the RCX - it might take a little analog signal conditioning - but
I doubt it's hard to do. The RC reciever could be run from the RCX's
batteries (again, you'll need to mess with the voltage levels to get them
right).
Certainly, 4 channel RC gear is expensive - but the two channel kinds they
use for cars are *VERY* much cheaper.
I don't think this is an unreasonable project for someone with a little
electronic skills.
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| This is an interesting thread, in as much as I have a couple of RCX R/C evaluation units currently being tested. Having already built a UHF extender to sit between the PC and the RCX IR communications interface, I can say that it is of doubtful (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| In message <LPBBJCMJLFMGKMEJLJE...c.rr.com>, Sean Watson <SeanWatson@ec.rr.com> writes (...) This is a VERY bad idea... You could get a standard RC kit from a model shop and some how make the servos (motors) to activate a touch sensor. Told you it (...) (23 years ago, 21-Oct-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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