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Re: Robot lab
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 28 Sep 1999 06:42:31 GMT
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The spirit.ocx[*] can be consider as a LEGO's official API for programming
the RCX and CyberMaster. Still wondering why the RoboLab won't use the
spirit.ocx.
Howbout the RIS. It compiles the visual statements and expressions to
byte-code and stores them to a file. This file is then downloaded to RCX.
Spirit.ocx however downloads directly after compilation. There seem to be
some functionality in spirit.ocx what LEGO has hidden. Why?
Will there be a new firmware release with the RIS 1.5?
--
et
[*] With Automation you can easily integrate the spirit.ocx with many
applications. For example you could build a robot to analyze and act based
on the data located in some spreadsheet or database. Or have a web interface
to control yours (or somebody else's) RCX in real-time.
Laurentino Martins <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message
news:4.1.19990927161534.00a2f100@mail.marktest.pt...
> At 15:32 27-09-1999 Monday , Ensio Tammi wrote:
> > So it seems that the spirit.ocx can't utilize the full potential of the
> > firmware. Have any idea why LEGO didn't that way? What is the main
> > functionality that the firmware provides but the spirit.ocx won't • support?
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> The Spirit OCX is a set of libraries that easily integrate with the • Microsoft Windows operating systems.
> With it you can remotely control the brick (real-time) and also create • standalone programs and also download them to the brick.
> You can also query the status of most of the variables, sensors, • communications, etc.
> I'd say the SPIRIT.OCX can take full advantage of the firmware, and the
only exception I now is that it cannot send the same commands (byte-codes)
as the LEGO Remote Control, although the same can be accomplished by other
means.
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> Laurentino Martins
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> [ mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt ]
> [ http://www.terravista.pt/Enseada/2808/ ]
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