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| (...) 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'. (URL) modern PDA would make an excellent (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Speaking of PDAs, specifically Pocket PC's, the HP iPAC 5450 has Consumer IR, will that automatically take care of the comm thing with the RCX? Then I guess that would be ideal, tho expensive ($700 in Sweden). But that's provided there is a (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) To clarify, I should say that the software with the cam would probably not even install on a PPC, since it doesn't even install on XP... (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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