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Subject: 
RE: RCX 2.0 -- ideas.
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 20:43:25 GMT
Original-From: 
Tim McSweeney <tim@NOSPAMams.co.nz>
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How about an I2C bus, AFAIK an industry standard, low-cost serial,
daisy-chain bus (connect one piece to the next, from there on to the
next etc) on which you can address a large number of devices
(input and
output), including displays, keyboards, other RCX units, PCs (via the
parallel port) etc etc...

This is a brilliant idea, I had wondered about the practicality of something
like this myself, but it has to be done by lego to satisfy us purists.

Make the batteries an optional add-on in a lego-style brick, in case
you use a power supply. Even better would be a Lithium battery, of
course.


You could have a whole range of lego "bricks" that plug together to form the
RCX, batteries, input devices, output devices, processors,  a totally
modular computer.... how about a hard drive brick? expanded memory bricks? a
SCSI brick? USB? weeeeheeeee look the nice men in the white coats are here
to take me for a picnic!


--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics



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  Re: RCX 2.0 -- ideas.
 
(...) As a first step, how about simple 2 *4 s with logic gates in them? one of the connectors below for power, one output below, and two inputs on top :) Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: RCX 2.0 -- ideas.
 
(...) How about an I2C bus, AFAIK an industry standard, low-cost serial, daisy-chain bus (connect one piece to the next, from there on to the next etc) on which you can address a large number of devices (input and output), including displays, (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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