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Re: RCX & RIS, a fading glory?
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:56:24 GMT
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PeterBalch <peterbalch@compuserveAVOIDSPAM.com>
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What about DACTA?
The eductaion market must be huge.
> *BUT*...
> If we could build our own RCX, what's stopping us from building our own • motors?
> "doom"...what a depressing application of the word...
As an aside: I have a simple and successful design for a motor interfaced
to Lego - total cost is around $1. But I'm not a Lego purist ...
> If Lego designed a SMALL computer which had an external bus onto which • could
> be plugged ROM chips ... with different and "interesting-to-kids" • programs in them
> ROM-bricks with
> flow-chart elements printed on them that could be stacked to build
programs...
That is an absolutely fantastic idea. Have you written anything down that
you'd be prepared to share with all of us?
How would the ROM chip know what sensors were attached? Say I built a robot
with two wheels and two antennae and the ROM chip made it back-up and turn
when it bumped into something. How does the ROM know which "port" the
motors and antennae are plugged into?
How do I say "this is a tank and must back up for 4 sec whereas that is a
fast buggy that backs up for 1 sec" - maybe the ROM brick has a "fast/slow"
knob on top.
Now I add a two light sensors. The light sensor ROM has a program to head
towards the brighter light.
How do I combine those two ROM programs? Exactly as Roger Brookes says I
should: I use subsumption architecture.
I love it!
Peter
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| (...) I've considered this in the past. The downside that made me look for something else, is that if you start actually 'porgram' the creation through the different combinations of bricks, then very quickly the physical shape, design, and (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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