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Re: Interactive human-controlled bots
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:03:14 GMT
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I haven't tried it myself, but I've heard that you can make your RCX program
respond to three of the buttons on the RCX remote control. You can also (if you
need more than three commands) use a second RCX as a remote control. I've run
across a couple web sites where people did that. That means for a battle-robot
competition you would need at least 4 RCX's.
Since that's kind of expensive, and since you mentioned controlling it from a
PC, you might want to try sending messages to the RCX through the IR tower.
(This limits how far your RCX can travel). The following program:
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~kekoa/rcx/send.c
shows how to send data to the RCX. You want to send a "set message" opcode,
which is described here:
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~kekoa/rcx/opcodes.html#set_message
It's two bytes, the opcode and the message. Other relevant information is here:
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~kekoa/rcx/
and if this looks too complex, you probably shouldn't bother trying to control
your battle-robot from a PC this way.
- Robert Munafo
In lugnet.robotics, Todd Lehman writes:
> [...]
> OTOH, if there were a system which directly connected a host computer's
> keyboard to the RCX via a dedicated continuous link, and if the key-commands
> mapped to convenient motor controls, then I bet some really fun interactive
> combat stuff could be done... (Has anything like this been done yet?)
> [...]
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| (...) [snip] Or, you could get the RCX remote control available at S@H and see what kind of stuff that will transmit to your RCX - its got a lot more buttons on it! Or, since you are supposed to be running a robot, you could just program the darn (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Interactive human-controlled bots
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| (...) you (...) Check out the description and pictures of the recent "Robogladiator" event: (URL) wasn't there, but it looks like it was fun. The site shows pictures of 6- button controllers made up of two RCXes (not counting at least one to control (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Interactive human-controlled bots
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| At a local toystore last night, they had a big setup of Rokenbok (a pseudo-LEGO-compatible construction toy system) with a bunch of radio- controlled dump-trucks, ramps, bridges, balls to move around, and so forth. OK, Rokenbok certainly leaves a (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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