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Re: I/o's expansions for the mindstorm ?
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Date: 
Fri, 6 Aug 1999 21:51:21 GMT
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Jacob Schultz <ANNE.JACOB@GETspamless2NET.DK>
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Philippe Jadin wrote:

Rcx has only 3 i/o's. I was wondering if anybody had made a real
expansion board (not fake tricks with 1 light+1switch sensor on the same
port. I'd be very interested byt something more complex...) with IR
comunication ? This could add a lot of io's and could be cheaper than
buying a complete new mindstorm brick...

Yeah, I would really like to see such an expansion too!
Someone was talking about an I2C bus interface, but the thread appearently
died out - Is someone working on this?. I could also think of a "dummy RCX"
which cannot be programmed but will respond to IR signals and have inputs and
outputs. In this way the number of I/O could be improved (like Philippe
suggested). Does anyone have a link to a specification of the RCX IR
protocol? If someone does I could imagine myself puzzling with this subject.

Jacob Schultz

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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics



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  Re: I/o's expansions for the mindstorm ?
 
The mindstorm internals (very very good pages...) : (URL) has a section called "Communication". Here is the beginning : "The RCX uses a 38kHz carrier, which is pretty typical for TV remotes. As for the sampling rate, the RCX runs at 2400 bps, which (...) (25 years ago, 8-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: I/o's expansions for the mindstorm ?
 
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  I/o's expansions for the mindstorm ?
 
Hi! Rcx has only 3 i/o's. I was wondering if anybody had made a real expansion board (not fake tricks with 1 light+1switch sensor on the same port. I'd be very interested byt something more complex...) with IR comunication ? This could add a lot of (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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