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Re: MIT handy board or laptop..
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 19 Jun 1999 22:09:16 GMT
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alex wetmore <alex@phred.SPAMLESSorg>
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On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Patrick Lawrence wrote:
> 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 just using somthing like a small pent 100 laptop.
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 with on most laptops.
If I were doing this I'd probably try and find an old 8086 or 286
laptop and write DOS software on it. Then you'll have better low
level control of the parallel port, and they are much cheaper too.
alex
--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-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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| 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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