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Re: Serial Infrared Tower
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:37:58 GMT
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Hi List,
Thanks to the many who replied with ideas and offers of a tower for
sale. I eventally bought one, although not in time for the robot
competition where I needed it.
Thanks for the tips to look at http://www.bricklink.com/ and
http://www.pldstore.com/
As for making my own - some day, perhaps.
> If you have a free PCMCIA slot you may want to get a PCMCIA to USB adapter
> that can support multiple peripherals for a song.
I actually tried to do this - I went to a local electronics store and
they had lots of USB adapters. However, they were CARDBUS adapters, not
PCMCIA, and my older laptop (IBM Thinkpad P-150) only has PCMCIA. I saw
two USB PCMCIA adapters for auction on e-bay (going for about $35 or
more), but I could just as easily get a serial tower for less and in the
same amount of time. I also wanted to keep the USB tower on the desktop
machine in my son's room.
So we entered in the robot rally without a tower, but I brought the
laptop anyway. Thirty minutes prior to the start of the competition,
the bot fell off a table and lost all programming. I borrowed a serial
tower from another hobbyist, installed mindstorm software, and rewrote
the programming. The results of the competition for "Smasher" in the
Mini-Sumo and Open-Contest (line follower) can be found at:
http://www.botlanta.org/rally2003/index.html
Best Regards,
Steve
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| In the spirit of too much too late here are a couple of sites from Japan: Simple Microchip based serial tower: (URL) just to prove there is no kill like over kill check out the number of IR emitters on this one: (URL) Karg" <steve@kargs.net> wrote (...) (21 years ago, 17-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| If you have a free PCMCIA slot you may want to get a PCMCIA to USB adapter that can support multiple peripherals for a song. That way you could use multiple towers, or a tower and the LEGO Vision camera. - Mike Steve Karg <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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