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My current setup use's two IR towers, one serial, one Usb, to communicate to two Rcx's. The usb setup is contained inside a cardboard box to prevent clashing of the IR. I'd like to swap the serial tower for a Usb version so I don't have to keep on (...) (19 years ago, 2-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) When you use VB, I assume you have a function something like this to find & open the port: -- Public Function FindTower() On Error GoTo FindError Dim strPort As String Set Me.LEGOcom = New LEGOVPBrickLib.VPBrick Me.LEGOcom.FindPort strPort (...) (19 years ago, 2-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I don't, but I will have soon. All I have/need at the moment is the line: form2.PhantomCtrl1.InitComm (...) It looks straightforward enough. I can't do anything tonight as it's too late but I'll report back soon. Thanks Steve (again) :-) Steve (19 years ago, 2-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) You could buy two rechargeable 9V batteries and a charger for not too much money. Just a thought! Tim (Smith) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That's a perfectly reasonable suggestion. The reason I haven't done that (although I did consider it) is because I leave my robot running for quite a while and it uses the tower almost constantly, so it burns through batteries quite quickly. (...) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) There are, if you are a little daring, power supplies with a 9v battery output connector on them relatively easily available. You could always use one of those. Off topic - I use the gmail spell checker - although I notice in your post you say (...) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That's correct. I will admit that phrase is a bit old-fashioned now (and I'm only 29) but it comes in handy, occasionally. Steve (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) It's English-english (as opposed to American-english) and it means roughly: "tiresome effort". It's also slang for cigarette. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- HomeEmail: <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkEmail: <sjbaker@link.com> HomePage : (URL) : (4 (...) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I decided not to start work on this problem until my second Usb tower arrived. It came a few days ago and now I've found the time to work on it, but I've hit another problem. I haven't got any code like that above, because (as I've only just (...) (19 years ago, 15-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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Just as a point of reference -- My latest creation has 7 motors, requiring 3 RCX's. All the high-level logic is written in Python and runs on my laptop. I communicate with the bricks through a single usb tower, using simple file I/O. The open call (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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