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Re: Looking for the Mindstorms software.
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:21:55 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, John Hansen wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics, tmassey@obscorp.com wrote:
> > I can't speak about bricxcc, but I was under the impression that NQC
> > required the Mindstorms software to be loaded, in order to use certain
> > Minstorm DLL's to communicate with the RCX via USB tower? I know under
> > Linux it does not, but I thought at least under Windows it did.
> >
> > Is this incorrect?
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> No it is not incorrect. You do have to install the USB tower drivers in order
> for NQC and BricxCC to use the USB tower to talk to the brick. That is not the
> case for the Serial tower.
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> You can get the tower drivers (along with the firmware) by downloading and
> installing the MindStorms SDK 2.5:
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> http://mindstorms.lego.com/sdk2point5/LEGOMindstormsSDK25.zip
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> Alternatively, you could get the tower drivers from the link included in
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> http://news.lugnet.com/robotics/?n=22119
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> Another source for USB tower drivers is via the Robolab for LabView page:
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> http://www.ceeo.tufts.edu/robolabatceeo/college/robolabforlabview/default.asp
When you say USB tower, do you mean the IR transmitter which you use to ransfer
your program to the RCX?
I have RIS v 1.5, will the drivers above work with that version as well?
-Elf-
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