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Re: RCX 2.0 -- ideas.
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 1 Jan 1999 13:24:16 GMT
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Laurentino Martins <lau@mail.telepac.pt+IHateSpam+>
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> There are already various ideas and designs for running multiple sensors
> on a single input port. Three touch per port seems VERY workable and
> more is no doubt possible.
You forget that there are many of us (if not the majority) that neither have the means to build hardware, nor have the knowledge or know-how to build it.
I personally know how good I am at destroying hardware. Is not uncommon to try to fix something and ending up destroying it even further, specially when a soldering iron is involved.
More that 3 sensor inputs should be accessible to everybody, not only to an elite.
Returning to the RCX 2.0, I think they should integrate a slot for accessing the internals of the RCX, much like the ZX Spectrum had. That should open the possibilities of expansion to their limits.
Since the default firmware already have the possibility to receive direct orders that are executed in the moment, I think it should be easy for LEGO to create a hand-held mini-keyboard (connected by IR to the RCX) with direction buttons for controlling the 3 outputs, run/stop program, etc. That way one could control a bot around the house much like a radio controlled car, but much better.
Laurentino Martins *<||:-)
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | RCX 2.0 -- ideas.
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| In article <4.1.19990101123359....lepac.pt>, Laurentino Martins <lau@mail.telepac.pt> writes (...) Would it be worth my while to make some 4-into-one adaptor bricks and offer them for sale? It would consist of an 8 x 2 peg brick (for 4 bump sensors) (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: RCX 2.0 -- ideas.
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| (...) I'll agree that many people don't have ready access to a soldering iron, but the concepts are pretty simple and the plans for such "extensions" to the RCX are available on the web. I'm a software-type. Odds are 50/50 that I'll burn myself with (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RCX 2.0 -- ideas.
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| Here are some things I would like to see changed for RCX 2. (if there is even one) 1. More connections. At least 4 outputs and 4 inputs. The way it is right now, a robot that drives around can't really do much else, given that there is only one (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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