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Subject: 
Scout and Cybermaster (WAS: Re: New MOC: RoboArm I
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 11 May 2002 04:24:17 GMT
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Russell C. Brown [RR-1] <RCBROWN@AUSTINspamcake.RR.COM>
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I've used a collection of four Scouts driven by IR commands
from an RCX
to drive a total of eleven motors.


The program to decode this is small enough to fit into a scout's megre
memory - and all the intelligence can then go into the RCX.


This is a bit of a tangent, but...

How much memory does the Scout have? I've heard 32K RAM for the RCX but have
never heard a number for the Scout.

I picked up several Robotic Discovery Sets insanely cheaply about 18 months
ago and use them first, falling back to one of my RCXs when I need more than
the Scout can do (usually that third motor). I like the Scout, but its MSRP
was so close to the RIS that it really didn't seem to make sense to me
marketing-wise.

Ditto Cybermaster, which I also like (except for the juvenile styling). Was
the Cybermaster a contemporary of Mindstorms or an ancestor?

--Russ



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  Re: New MOC: RoboArm I
 
(...) I've used a collection of four Scouts driven by IR commands from an RCX to drive a total of eleven motors. Just program the scouts to read simple 1-byte messages sent from the RCX - use the top two bits to select which Scout you are talking (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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