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RE: MIT handy board or laptop..
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Mon, 21 Jun 1999 13:42:21 GMT
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Original-From:
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Jim Thomas <JIM.THOMAS@spamlessTRW.COM>
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Well, as far as I/O with a laptop, use a PCMCIA/PCcard I/O unit -- there are
some full feature cards available which make the aforementioned controllers
look lame in comparison. They are not cheap but neither is the Handyboard.
As far as Linux on a laptop, I wouldn't do it until the PCMCIA support is
ready.
JT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Clark [mailto:dlc@verinet.com]
> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 7:18 PM
> To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
> Subject: Re: MIT handy board or laptop..
>
>
> 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
> --
> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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