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Disclaimer: I'm not into LEGO robotics yet, so I am quite likely full of baloney. I hope you'll humor me anyway. Preamble: I'm thinking ahead to when I might get into LEGO robotics, and the sorts of projects I'd like to do. I'm a software engineer (...) (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Lego Dacta Control Lab has 8 input and 8 output ports. Still not a lot for all the actuators for both arms and legs. But still, it's more than the RCX. (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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Joe, I have spent time building LEGO robots, and there are a few things that you should know about LEGO while you are doing preliminary planning in your thoughts. Here is a link to comparison information about the LEGO motors. (URL) don't think they (...) (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) ordinary PC (...) guts (...) simply (...) of (...) You can do the same thing, but much less bulky by using a PIC. The 16F877 for example will cost about 8 dollar, and has 33 I/O pins. Each pin can either be an input, or two of them can control (...) (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well, it's not the same thing -- I'm talking about applications involving machine vision, for example; a single 640x480 32-bit image is 1200 Kb, which would exceed the entire RAM of most microcontrollers several times over, even assuming you (...) (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) It's pretty challenging to build such a thing out of Lego. Having all of those degrees of freedom down at the hand tends to push you to solutions where the motors and sensors for those things are a long way out on the arm - that means that (...) (20 years ago, 21-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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