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I have be thinking of the next step up to take after the lego rcx. It seems like the more I use it the more I want more sensor inputs and more motor controls ect. I was looking at the MIT handy board it looks like a good way to go but what about (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: MIT handy board or laptop..
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(...) The handyboard is lighter, cheaper, and has I/O ports designed for robotics. With a laptop you would have to interface some sort of I/O card for your sensors, mostly likely through the parallel port since it is the easiest device to interface (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Perhaps, but you'll find that there aren't that many more ports available easily. With effort yes. (...) Indeed. Handyboard, Botboard, Fingerboard, and LOTs of other HC11 as well as 8051 stuff is out there. Your programming environment gets a (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That would be great if you could show me a 8086 or 286 that ran Linux. You can get Xenix (or could get Xenix) for 286 machines, but you probably can't write the low-level device drivers to run the I/O ports that you'll be custom building for (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | [ANN] pbFORTH 1.0.5 for RCX
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Finally, I have got pbFORTH to where I can release it again. It now has: - A simple cooperative tasker - A marker word so you can erase things easily - Support for poweroff - High res (10msec) count down and stop timers - Various and sundry fixes (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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