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RE: More RCX's controled by one tower ?
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 18 Jan 2002 18:52:26 GMT
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Nathan Nesbit <NATHANN@WINDOWS.nospamMICROSOFT.COM>
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LegOS is supposed to have a communication protocol that can send a
message to a specific RCX. This could be handy if you want to run the
exact same program on the RCXs. You just give them different IDs when
you compile Legos.
http://legos.sourceforge.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Baker [mailto:sjbaker1@airmail.net]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 9:54 AM
To: Rene Virsik
Cc: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
Subject: Re: More RCX's controled by one tower ?
Rene Virsik wrote:
> Sorry if this was discused before but is it possible to control or
> program for example two RCX bricks with one tower from one PC so they
> work indifferently from eachothers in ONE model ?
Sure - if the programs in the two RCX's are slightly different, one of
them could be programmed to (say)ignore message bytes containing odd
numbers and the other RCX could ignore message bytes containing even
numbers. Then the PC can talk to whichever one it wants by sending
appropriate messages.
Whether those two RCX's are in one model or not is irrelevent.
I've built models containing one RCX and four Scout's (it could have
been five RCX's) with eleven motors and eleven sensors using the RCX to
send messages to each of the Scouts to tell them what to do - and with
the scouts sending back their sensor readings to the RCX for processing.
It worked out pretty well - although the low speed of the IR link starts
to become quite noticable when you have that much traffic.
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