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Re: Lab View
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 19 Jun 1999 01:24:02 GMT
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Thanks for the info Rob.
I have acces to both labview 4.1 and 5. This is also the only code I can program
in at the moment, and starting to use it quit a bit at work now. I have done C,
assembly, and Pascel but that was years ago. I guess this would give me a reason
to learn them again.
robkc wrote:
> As far as I can tell Robolab is really a slightly trimmed version of Labview,
> with the bulk of the standard Labview VIs removed.
> More important however, is the fact that since the RCX is a remote device, you
> don't really make use of it in the same way. That is, you build VIs which the
> Robolab based application interprets into byte code that it downloads into the
> RCX, as opposed to running locally. Once the byte code is downloaded into the
> RCX, the robolab application stops running (& you can continue editing the
> VI). There is very little, if no, interaction with your PC or Mac.
> I would suspect that the Robolan VIs could be run under Labview, since my
> suspicion is that the VI itself does the downloading , however I am not 100%
> on that.
> If you are interested in a direct PC connection to Lego equipment you might
> want to consider getting a Lego controller instead, which has a serial
> interface to a number of IO ports. You can then use a free extension to
> Robolab (you still need it or a version of Labview). called Lego Engineer,
> which uses Labview/Robolab to drive the Lego IO in "real time".
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> Finally, there are a plethora of altenative languages/interpreters out there
> that do similar things, some much more powerful than Mindstorms or Robolab.
>
> regards,
> rob cairns
>
> Sean McInnis wrote:
> >
> > Hello I'm new to this group, and I don't have a RCX yet, I'm still
> > saving, and reading as much as I can.
> >
> > And I have a couple of question.
> >
> > I see that RoboLab is an an interface over Lab view. Has anyone written
> > anything is just Lab view 5 or is there a compiler built in to RoboLab?
> >
> > Does anybody out there have RoboLab? if so how do you like it.
> >
> > TKS
> > --
> > Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
> --
> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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