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Subject: 
RCX with Visual Studio
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:10:31 GMT
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Mewes, Philip <[philip.mewes@siemens]AvoidSpam[.com]>
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Hi,



I was wondering, if it's possible to program a RCX with Visual Studio (either
with C# or with C++(using something like SDL as an interface)). I kind of a
newbie with mindstorm, so what I imaging is the following: Actually I plan to
attach a camera to a RCX robot and to move the robot depending on the camera
images. I would need a way to influence the robot movement in real-time from a
GUI, that I'm coding myself with C++ or C#.



I suppose that I need to write a separate program that runs on the controller
and to integrate some code in my image processing software to interface with the
robot. Right?



I found some project
(http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2006/10/26/877499.aspx
<http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2006/10/26/877499.aspx> ) that is
dealing with RCX Programming with visual studio, but it seems quite outdated.



Can anybody give me a hint?



Thanks a lot in advance



Philip



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  Re: RCX with Visual Studio
 
It won't be easy to write a program with Visual Studio that runs ON the RCX. It should be pretty easy (for a programmer) to write a program that runs on a PC, and uses the IR tower to send commands to the RCX, telling it what to do. Also, you can't (...) (15 years ago, 11-Sep-09, to lugnet.robotics)

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