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| | | The Lego Control Lab (peeron #9751) connects to a PC through a serial cable. Since most laptops don't have a serial port I was wondering if anyone knew how I might connect a Control Lab to a laptop. Would a USB converter work (will RoboLab recognise (...) (18 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB —Doug Eaton
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| | | | (...) I do not have a Control Lab but I do have two USB->Serial converters and have tested them on a variety of devices at work and have not had any issues yet. These come with device drivers that create serial ports on your machine. As long as the (...) (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB —linmix
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| | | | | I have Robolab 2.5.4 so I guess I'll be using that. I still need to find out what other apps there are (Windows and Linux) that I might use as an alternative. linmix (...) (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB —Jordan Bradford
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| | | | | | | (...) I've been working on a .NET-based class (in C#) to communicate with the Control Lab. It will eventually be a miniature API providing methods to poll sensors and change output port values. It will be kind of like how leJOS does things, except (...) (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB —linmix
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| | | | | | | | (...) I know lejos exists... but I'm still getting to grips with NQC (if you know any good advanced tutorials except for the one Dave Boum wrote I'd be really interested). Would what you are developing be in any way like using NQC (possibly from the (...) (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB —Jordan Bradford
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| | | | | | | | (...) Yes, you can compile C# programs on the command line using the .NET Framework SDK. You can also install Visual C# 2005 Express Edition and use Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE. The API I'm designing won't be quite like NQC, though. NQC is (...) (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB —Erik Amzallag
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| | | | | | (...) I'm currently finishing an API in Java for the Control Lab (well, the missing part of code is for the temperature sensor...) My first project using it was the automatic control of a train yard during our last train show in Paris. (URL) For (...) (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB —linmix
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| | | | | | | (...) That's great news! It's good to have confirmation about the USB-Serial converter. Also, virually the only reason why I still use Windows occasionally is because of some LEGO apps that won't run on anything else. Have you made a gui, or in what (...) (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB —Jordan Bradford
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| | | | | | (...) I'd be interested in seeing it, if you don't mind. I also was going to use the Control Lab to control big train layouts, now that I actually have more than one LEGO train to control. :) (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB —linmix
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| | | | | | (...) I finally found a USB to serial converter (several shops either told me they didn't have it or that it didn't exist) but even though the packaging claims it will work with e.g. modems (so its bidirectional) RoboLab won't run with the CLI I (...) (17 years ago, 3-Jun-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB —John Brost
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| | | | (...) I'm in the same boat as Doug, not having a control lab, but using several USB-> serial converters. I have had mixed experiences. Some converters have worked on everything I've tried (like my trusty Belkin F5U103-- no longer in production) (...) (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB —linmix
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| | | | (...) I've tried two different converter cables (both say they work with modems, PDA's etc) but no luck with the CLI under RoboLAb. Before I run the program (which I have tested on my desktop PC and there it works) I select the COM port (which does (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jun-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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