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Re: Question about RIS version differences
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 6 Nov 2001 14:49:35 GMT
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Hi all!
I'm a newcomer to the list and the world of Lego Mindstorms so please excuse
any inaccuracies. In late September I was allocated my Honours Project for my
BEng in Electronic and Communications Engineering - To Design and Build an
Ultrasound Sensor for an RCX Robot.
Since begining my research I have become immersed in Mindstorms and yesterday
purchased an RIS 1.5. I chose this over 2.0 as I wanted a serial IR tower.
After reading this thread over the last couple of days I was surprised to see
my RCX had 2.0 written on the side! Software was 1.5 as far as I can tell, and
the firmare is the original (3.0.9???). Anyone got any theories as to whats
going on?
Cheers,
Lee
In lugnet.robotics, Juergen Stuber writes:
> lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Steve Baker) writes:
> >
> > Since the old programming environment didn't know about the USB tower,
> > and the new programming environment doesn't have to deal with the old
> > serial port tower,
>
> It has to, if you buy the 2.0 upgrade for a RIS 1.5 .
> The software asked for the type of tower, so I suppose
> the new software works with the old tower (but not vice-versa).
>
> USB tower:
> + no batteries needed
>
> Serial tower:
> + you can change the baud rate and increase the speed
> + supported under Linux
>
> Jürgen
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| (...) It has to, if you buy the 2.0 upgrade for a RIS 1.5 . The software asked for the type of tower, so I suppose the new software works with the old tower (but not vice-versa). USB tower: + no batteries needed Serial tower: + you can change the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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