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RE: Palmtop as accessory brain...
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Sun, 3 Jan 1999 23:54:41 GMT
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Eric Eilebrecht <ERICEIL@MICROSOFT.avoidspamCOM>
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I am currently working on an RCX interface for Pocket Scheme
(http://www.angrygraycat.com/scheme/pscheme.htm), which should work on your
Velo. This will allow you to program the RCX from your palmtop, and will
also allow you to directly control the RCX. Basically, anything you can do
with spirit.ocx or NQC, you will be able to do with my (as yet unnamed)
Scheme library.
Unfortunately, though, I haven't found a way to use the IR port on these
devices to communicate with the RCX (due to incompatibilities between IrDA
and consumer IR). I have had to resort to plugging the Lego IR tower into
my palmtop's serial port.
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Ingram [mailto:swingram@gte.net]
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 1999 12:24 PM
To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
Subject: Palmtop as accessory brain...
Hello,
I'm fairly new to this list and this is my first post. I'm just
getting
started with the RCX, but had a question since I like to integrate the
hardware I have at my disposal. I have a Velo 1 palmtop which does have an
IR port and wondered if there was a way to use it as an accessory "brain"
for the RCX, something that would allow 8M of storage and a modest amount
of processing power. The only information I have found to date about
integrating a palmtop with the RCX (actually using the palmtop as a
controller) made us of a HP 100lx. My goal isn't so much to use the
palmtop as a controller, but as a device to receive the variable/sensor
data from the RCX and operate on it on the palmtop then return the
information to the RCX for execution. I don't know if these is reasonable
or feasable, but I thought I would drop the question to see if anyone else
is attempting to do anything similar. Any suggestions, links, or thoughts
are welcome.
=Steven
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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| (...) There is someone working on a programmable remote interface for Windows CE, but it only works on a limited number of devices so far, and they are all handheld machines, not palmtops. Check out (URL) they'll make a version compatible with my (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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