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Re: A Generic Idea
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Mon, 6 Jan 2003 03:45:26 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net> writes:
> Do people like Palm provide API to access the camera and cel phone?
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 be a command-line Gnu C compiler :) But usually these gadgets have
emulator written for the PC, and a compiler for the PC, and a download cable
(unless the PDA has a drive of some sort of course.)
To get back to the generic idea: you complain that the picture format is
unhackable, well you can do more with the phone. Essentially, all your PC's
functions are at your disposal if you just whisper modem noise in its ear.
And all the phone's functions.
It could take pictures whenever sth exciting happens and store them til you
get home. And if you can capture video off a TV set, you can scan a cel
phone display :P
It could also be audio-only, essentially working as a "smart speaker". For
example, the bot could ask the PC for a word, and the PC would play that
word thru the celphone speaker. Instant speech without wasting more than a
few bytes of the precious 32K in the RCX!.
To make dual tones the simplest way would be to press a number key when
connected. On all the cel phones I've had, a Dual Tone comes for each press.
A single (sound-controlled) interface could be developed in "normal"
languages on a standard PC and everybody could use it. They'd program any
function they want as an external program and plug it in to the right slot.
2 buttonpresses would give 100 functions.
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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