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Integrating RCX with Control Lab
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 11 Jan 1999 20:52:15 GMT
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Hi ho,
Well, I'm having a lot of fun with Spirit.ocx and the RCX.
However, I'm also the proud owner of a 9v Lego Dacta Control
Lab. That's the 8-sensor, 8-output serial-port Lego control
system that preceded the RCX.
I'd really like use the Control Lab in conjunction with the
RCX, but sadly the software that came with it is highly
unstable on a PC faster than about 386 speed. Does anyone have
any info on alternative software platforms for the Control Lab,
or even on the communication protocol it uses?
I'm not afraid to write my own drivers for it, but I'd hate to
duplicate the effort if someone else has done so already.
Just imagine - a fixed base station with 8 sensors and 8 motors,
and an RCX with 3 sensors and motors, coupled with a digital
camera. Much mischief...
Jeff
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Integrating RCX with Control Lab
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| LEGO Engineer (for the Control Lab Serial Interface Box [Interface B if you are British]) download it at: (URL) (5MB) LEGO Engineer is "open" -- so you can see the LabVIEW code that was written to create it, and modify it too. someone else has the (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Integrating RCX with Control Lab
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| In response to my own question, and in addition to Ben's suggestion, I found the following: (URL) is a research paper in which the author develops a Windows OCX control for the Dacta Control Lab. In it he also discusses the protocol for the (...) (26 years ago, 12-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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