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Re: Multi-RCX Dreaming
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:52:29 GMT
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Jonathan Woodward <woodward@guesswork.[ihatespam]com>
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At 07:31 PM 6/17/99 GMT, Luis Villa wrote:
> 1) Has anyone actually gotten two RCXs to communicate reliably via IR?
> (LNP folk (if there actually are any) are solicited here!)
-Lots of people (not myself, though I do own 2 RCXs now).
> 2) What about other forms of communications? I know several people have
> used two RCXs to construct bots of various forms- have they communicated
> in any way? Or have they operated independently?
-Besides the built-in "message" function, there are several other ways
RCXs could communicate. RCX A could shine a light into RCX B's light
sensor. RCX A could start a motor that would tap RCX B's touch sensor.
For an extreme example, RCX A could run a motor, monitor its rotation with
a rotation sensor also connected to RCX A, and have another rotation
sensor, connected to RCX B, on the same axle. It would certainly be an
interesting way to transmit data.
> 3) The big one: What would you do with six RCXs?
-Me personally? My interest would be purely software: Develop a
protocol to allow any two RCXs in the group to transmit arbitrary strings
of bytes to each other unambiguously, without the others getting confused.
-JW
Jonathan Woodward woodward@guesswork.com http://www.io.com/~woodward/
"Were you always this stupid, or did you take lessons?"
"I took lessons." -G. Davis & S. Jackson, _The Long Kiss Goodnight_
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| (...) I should have clarified on this one: in LegOS :) Windows is, for better or for worse, not an option. (...) I was thinking of this. I wondered (more for curiousity's sake) whether or not this has actually been done. (...) Hmm... That would be a (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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