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Re: Mini-RCX
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Mon, 25 Oct 2004 05:56:26 GMT
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Original-From:
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T. Alexander Popiel <POPIEL@WOLFSKEEP.spamcakeCOM>
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In message: <I63uB4.1yqM@lugnet.com>
"Andrew G. Meyer" <agmlego@yahoo.com> writes:
> Hi,
> My brother and I have been tossing the idea around of a mini-RCX. We have
> narrowed our idea down to a two sensor, two motor brick that would be
> approximately 4X6 studs on top, and about two bricks high. We were just
> wondering if anyone out there thinks something like this would even be
> possible.
Oh, it's possible (if you put the batteries someplace else)...
there's more smarts than an RCX in a high-end wristwatch, and
that's a smaller footprint than you specify. The trick is that
to do it, you'd have to build it from the chips up, probably
with surface mount and custom chips. All in all, it would be
extremely expensive...
- Alex
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| (...) I don't see a problem with the computer side of things - what concerns me is battery storage and power management. You can get *tiny* computers that would easily fit in this kind of tiny space - but the RCX motors need 9 volts - you would need (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Mini-RCX
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| Hi, My brother and I have been tossing the idea around of a mini-RCX. We have narrowed our idea down to a two sensor, two motor brick that would be approximately 4X6 studs on top, and about two bricks high. We were just wondering if anyone out there (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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