To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.roboticsOpen lugnet.robotics in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Robotics / 27601
27600  |  27602
Subject: 
Re: How to get a RCX1.0 working these days?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:50:12 GMT
Viewed: 
11186 times
  
In lugnet.robotics, Ardjan Besse wrote:

But I just discovered Robolab, from TLG itself. Does that work (RCX1.0
on XP or Vista), and if yes, does it have Firmware coming with it?
A few years ago I worked a bit with LabView at the laboratory, and so
I think this will be more easy for me. Also, I'll have to explain my
son (5.5y) what I am doing. With drawings it will be easier, I
think... :-)

Robolab comes with the RCX firmware and I agree it will probably be a lot easier
to grasp for your son than NXC/NBC. The advantage of the latter though is that
it is completely free.

Since you have a serial tower you'll need to load whatever software you want to
use in Windos XP since Vista doesn't support the serial port.

Regards,
Jetro



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: How to get a RCX1.0 working these days?
 
(...) Thanx for your answer, I'll definitely look into that. But I just discovered Robolab, from TLG itself. Does that work (RCX1.0 on XP or Vista), and if yes, does it have Firmware coming with it? A few years ago I worked a bit with LabView at the (...) (16 years ago, 23-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics)

4 Messages in This Thread:

Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR