Robotics : 2482


Robotics / 2482

RE: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —David Colomer
Let me propose a set of commandments for "Lego Good Style Construction" (blames and riots are allowed): 1.- "You should love your Lego's in the same way you Love your life" 2.- "Any damage to a Lego part is completely forbidden. The home-brew (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

	Ethernet for RCX? —Tony Toyofuku
	Hi, Has anyone put any thought into getting the RCX to output to an Ethernet interface? Of course, what I'm really interested in is an entire TCP/IP stack- Ethernet hardware, RCX Ethernet driver, IP stack, TCP stack, and a BSD sockets API, but I (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

		Re: Ethernet for RCX? —Ben Laurie
		(...) When I saw mention of Lisp, I began to suspect I was in the comany of lunatics. This definitely confirms it. :-) Cheers, Ben. -- (URL) grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

		Re: Ethernet for RCX? —Ben Williamson
		(...) Let me guess... you want to run Apache on the RCX and serve digital camera images, so that people can drive your bot around from the web? :) Here's a piece of Zen for you: Q: How do you fit a mountain in a teacup? A: Dig for the diamond, then (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

		Re: Ethernet for RCX? —John A. Tamplin
		(...) I don't know how you would get to it without hacking hardware and putting an Ethernet controller in external address space, and then writing the code for it. One problem: Ethernet needs a far amount of buffer space to keep up with packets and (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

			Re: Ethernet for RCX? —Simon Brooke
			(...) I really don't think you'll do this in 32k and still have space for application layer code (mind you, if I'm wrong, I'll be the first to cheer...) (...) This looks a more promising start. Use a very simplified protocol over the IR link, have (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

	Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —Linc Smith
	David Colomer wrote in message <000f01be3a59$0bdebe...oup.cl>... (...) This is a good set of "good Style" ideas, but a Lego Purists would only agree with one of your statements... (...) The rest, well.... (...) We like the idea of damaging (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

		RE: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —David Colomer
		This is almost Ok with me! If you allow to mutillate Lego parts, this will be against the 1st statement. I think that a MB brick, multillated in order to build (or help to build) a Lego part will be released from the original sin of MB and converted (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

		Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —Mark Tarrabain
		Geeze... all this because I mentioned popsicle sticks and rubber bands??? Actually, I've never had occasion to use a popsicle stick in any model, I was just trying to make a point. I have used rubber bands, though... and I have used pens or pencils (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

			RE: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place? —David Colomer
			"Excusatio non petita, acusatio manifesta" (A not requested 'sorry' is like a true 'my fault'). We are not speaking about use pecils (in a Lego structure) or cartridge (in another Lego structure). This is much more religious stuff than that. Join (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

	Re: Ethernet for RCX? —Peter Ljungstrand
	(...) Have a look at this site and I think you are on your way! It's an embedded 10BaseT Ethernet controller using a PIC16C74. (URL) Ljungstrand; PLAY Research Group, Viktoria Institute (URL) Mobile: +46-(0)708-302251 Fax: +46-(0)31-7735530 ICQ: (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)