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Re: Spybotics - A great disappointment
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 20 Jul 2002 02:55:55 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Dave Baum writes:
> In article <GzFA1y.J73@lugnet.com>, "John Barnes" <barnes@sensors.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > After that, it's a microscout all over again, except rather than choose a
> > program number, you have to download one of half a dozen preprogrammed ones.
> > That's it!
> 
> The Spybotics brick is actually pretty powerful and uses bytecodes quite
> similar to the RCX.  I'm working right now on updating NQC to inculde
> Spybotics support.  I have been able to download simple programs, now I
> just have to clean up the download code a bit, then work on tweaking the
> API file.  At that point (perhaps early next week), a subset of the
> stuff from RCX2 will be available on Spybotics.
> 
> A future release will deal with adding things that are specific to
> Spybotics.
> 
> Dave

Thanks for the work, Dave!

Does this mean that I will be able to program Spybotics thru the USB (RIS
2.0) tower, instead of the serial tower that comes with Spybotics while
using NQC?

Dave K.



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  Re: Spybotics - A great disappointment
 
(...) Spybotics doesn't really have a tower, just a cable with a serial connector on one end and led/phototransistor on the other (which snaps into the back of the spybotics brick). It transmits using visible light, not IR (and I don't think it has (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Spybotics - A great disappointment
 
(...) The Spybotics brick is actually pretty powerful and uses bytecodes quite similar to the RCX. I'm working right now on updating NQC to inculde Spybotics support. I have been able to download simple programs, now I just have to clean up the (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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