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Re: MIT handy board or laptop..
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 20 Jun 1999 02:17:45 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Alex Wetmore writes:
> 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.
Perhaps, but you'll find that there aren't that many more ports available
easily. With effort yes.
> 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.
Indeed. Handyboard, Botboard, Fingerboard, and LOTs of other HC11
as well as 8051 stuff is out there. Your programming environment gets
a lot more complex though.
> 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.
DOS! Phah! Use a real OS like Linux. Why get a more powerful computer
and then make it stupid and unreliable? 8^()
DLC
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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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| | 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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