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Re: Positioning of 2 RCXs
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:16:10 GMT
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Laurentino Martins <(lmartins@)StopSpammers(marktest.pt)>
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At 13:49 30-12-1998 Wednesday , you wrote:
I'm currently working on a robot that uses 2 RCXs.  They will obviously need
to communicate with each other, so I need to know the proper way to position
them.  Will it work if I stack them one on top of the other? (The top one
would have to be upside down, of course...)

My other thought was to position them a few inches apart, but with one at a 45
degree angle to the other one.  Would this work?


I don't know if it works with IR like it works with visible light, but you could try to use some fiber optics to interconnect the I/O LEDs of the RCXs.
This way you could put them in *any* position and as far apart as you want.


Laurentino Martins   *<||:-)

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  Re: Positioning of 2 RCXs
 
You could use a mirror and then flip the one robo on top of the other. Maybe something like a child's hand mirror or something (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Positioning of 2 RCXs
 
I'm currently working on a robot that uses 2 RCXs. They will obviously need to communicate with each other, so I need to know the proper way to position them. Will it work if I stack them one on top of the other? (The top one would have to be upside (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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