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Re: multi-device output controller (fwd)
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:12:57 GMT
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Joel Shafer <joel@*IHateSpam*connect.net>
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Has anyone tried out the Muscle Wire or electronic pistons from this site?
Seems like a good alternative to pneumatics.
At 10:34 AM 3/26/99 -0600, you wrote:
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> ----- Forwarded message from Bill Flanagan -----
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> From: "Bill Flanagan" <bflanagan@mediaone.net>
> Subject: Re: multi-device output controller (fwd)
> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:26:31 -0500
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> How about an RCX to RS232 connection to use off the shelf components?
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> Check out this link.
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> http://www.sbsi.net/bin2/hazel.exe?client=59089090&action=serve&item=electro
> nics/motor_driver_interfaces.html
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> MondoTronics sells a simple serial servo contol that services up to 8 motors
> via an rs232 port ($49.95). I have seen a simple version adapted for a Palm
> Pilot for $89.00 that services 8 servos as well.
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> To get the multimotor control that you want and MANY other other devices,
> all you need is a way to drive an RS232 port on the RCX. Has anyone thought
> about how this might be done?
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> ----- End of forwarded message from Bill Flanagan -----
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> It's actualy pretty easy. Take the analog RCX output, integrate, S&H, A/D,
> serialize and then send to a MAX232 devices and wallah, RS-232.
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> If you were to pair the output and the input (assuming both 8-bit) you could
> then have 3 bi-directional RS-232 channels.
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> This has some interesting possibilities in that you load 3 images of a
> serial protocol handler onto the RCX and then you could use the IR link in
> real-time to handle data bidirectionaly to a normal PC. In effect you turn
> the RCX into a communications controller.
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| ----- Forwarded message from Bill Flanagan ----- From: "Bill Flanagan" <bflanagan@mediaone.net> Subject: Re: multi-device output controller (fwd) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:26:31 -0500 How about an RCX to RS232 connection to use off the shelf (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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