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Re: Windows CE
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 2 Jun 1999 21:13:30 GMT
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Jim Karkanias wrote:
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> William Carrel <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message
> news:199906021536.IAA26541@lister.acm.wwu.edu...
> > >
> > > And justification for why is that I already have a RCX and
> > > I already have a Palm Pilot. I do not have an embedded wince bot. :)
> > > So I want the parts I already have to talk to each other. Of course,
> > > anything that can be done with the Palm's IR port is probably also
> > > applicable to your handheld wince devices.
> > >
> > > -Paul (pspeed@progeeks.com)
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> > A similar thought that I have been having lately is that an RCX could be used
> > to implement reflex behaviors while more complex behaviors could be managed by
> > the higher brain functions of the Palm Pilot. If a Palm 3 could be linked to
> > an RCX it would essentially be a $170 (Costco) 2 MB RAM/CPU upgrade. Adding
> > that upper level of control could allow the RCX to do much more complex things
> > than it is currently capable of, such as mapping terrain. A WinCE device could
> > also be linked to do this sort of thing, or for those lucky enough to own one a
> > good laptop could provide all the thinking power and memory an RCX could ever
> > possibly use, well unless you had endless battery power...
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> It might be nice to try this model with a PC also... the obvious advantage
> of the palm/wince/whatever handheld is that it would be mobile of course
> (it'd be nice if the RCX had some sort of hardwire interface onboard - oh
> well, an improvement for the next rev)... nevertheless, it would be
> interesting to have the RCX change it's behavior based on a larger program
> running on some other device; so for example in the typical PC setup you
> could have something like:
I am very interested in the PC work. The HP 200LX palmtop is a DOS machine with
2MB of memory and a PCMCIA port - I have a 10MB card in mine now. These devices
are still available and can be found at very reasonable prices (1MB 1000CX @
$159 -
this is a 200LX w/o built-in apps. ALL mem is free for app usage, 5 MB 1000LX
@279,
64MB 1000LX @ $835, 200LXs are a bit more than the 1000s). I have found the HP
devices to be VERY durable and reliable. They have a serial AND an IR port.
'nuf said.
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> 1. code executing on the rcx
> 2. rcx informs pc of it's state periodically via the messaging functions
> (through ir - pick your flavor of OS)
> 3. pc program evaluates input and either sends message data to rcx (change
> behavior via change in data - eg, blackboard model) or sets up a *new*
> program (from a set of programs or jit) and sends it to the rcx to be run
> (thhis could cause processing delays though - not sure if the rcx can keep
> chugging along while its receiving data, and you have timing issues for data
> transfer/receipt queueing up to use the ir ports...)
> ...
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> ...seems possible from the stuff I've seen in just the native (lego
> provided) OS and the (lego provided) VB control... I'm sure variations on
> the theme can be implemented in any of the othe environments that are
> available as well....
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