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Kyle (...) Plug-And-Play works well under Windows (at least, it does under XP). The chip on the sensor or motor can say what it is - an ASCII string that says 'motor' or 'servo' - and who it is - a unique id like 2908347525. (...) The cpu "brick" (...) (22 years ago, 4-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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From: PeterBalch [mailto:PeterBalch@c...serve.com] (...) motor. You plug it into (...) You select the PC menu (...) the cpu talks to the bus and (...) themselves. The PC sees the new (...) you want to call it'. You (...) tell the PC 'It's called (...) (22 years ago, 4-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Andy, This won't happen if the Device_ID to Device_Friendly_Name mapping is as generic as "motor1", "motor2", "light1", "lightsensor1", "irdar1", "rotationsensor1", "rotationsensor2" and so on... Then, the *specific* Device_Friendly_Name to (...) (22 years ago, 4-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Marco, Yes, I agree that logical mappings will help the problem. But consider this example: You have motors with the friendly names of motor1.. motor20 You write a program and specify the associations: left arm = motor1, right=motor2, etc. I believe (...) (22 years ago, 4-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) You mean 'plug and pray' don't you?? ;) (...) This is one way. Yes. I never claimed that this was an impossible problem to solve. And I agree that for you and I who have experience in the computer programming field (I know I work in that field (...) (22 years ago, 4-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) hmmm... I prefer the method using a High_Level map in the source code or as a .h file ///.../// #IFDEF _TWINROBOTA_ #INCLUDE 'TwinRobotA_devmap.h' #ENDIF #IFDEF _TWINROBOTB_ #INCLUDE 'TwinRobotB_devmap.h' #ENDIF #IFDEF _TWINROBOTC_ #INCLUDE (...) (22 years ago, 6-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Marco thought: (...) map in the (...) From a code writing point of view, defining macros that identify the motor is much nicer than having to list out the path to the motor. However, when you have to replace a dodgy motor on an individual, you'll (...) (22 years ago, 6-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes, you're right. :) The alternative would be to tweak the Device_ID/Friendly_Device_Name table in real-time, updating the new Device_ID. Then, the compile-time table with the Friendly_Device_Name...cific_Name would still valid. (...) Seconds (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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