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| | | 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)
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| | | | | Re: Ethernet for RCX? —Ben Laurie
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| | | | | (...) 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)
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| | | | | Re: Ethernet for RCX? —Ben Williamson
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| | | | | (...) 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)
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| | | | | Re: Ethernet for RCX? —John A. Tamplin
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| | | | (...) 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)
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| | | | | | Re: Ethernet for RCX? —Simon Brooke
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| | | | (...) 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)
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