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Re: A Generic Idea
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 5 Jan 2003 20:54:55 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmailSPAMCAKE.net>
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Henrik Erlandsson wrote:
> With the images and sound being put directly into the PDA "brain", the only
> communication that needs to be transmitted to/from the RCX has to do with
> the "feet", i.e. the wheels/bumpers/grippers.
Yes - using the RCX as a fairly dumb motor controller and sensor input device
makes a lot of sense. I've been doing that with the (even more primitive)
Scout computers using the RCX as the 'brain'.
http://www.sjbaker.org/steve/lego/master_slave/
A modern PDA would make an excellent 'brain' - with the latest gadgets, you
can get a camera and a cel phone in the same box. The only thing I wonder
is how easy it is to program the PDA to make use of those things.
Do people like Palm provide API to access the camera and cel phone?
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| (...) That struck me just as I left to visit my father - someone's gonna have to program the thing ... ;) Well, I guess you'd just have to buy the PDA with the most open architecture. And the first (maybe only!) language you'd see would most likely (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) "All ideas are stupid until someone proves they work." :D No, I've been thinking the same thing. (So it can't be stupid haha). A PDA with built-in webcam (and mike) + hotwiring an RCX input to a serial port on the PDA would probably be the (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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